It’s ‘Mystical Magical:’ Benson Boone to kick off 2026 world tour in Pittsburgh
WASHINGTON. PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR THIS MORNING STARTS NOW. WELL, GOOD SUNDAY MORNING TO YOU. IT IS 9:00 ON THE DOT. I’M AVA RASH AND WE WANT TO KICK THINGS OFF WITH METEOROLOGIST JILL SZWED AND YOUR CERTIFIED MOST ACCURATE FORECAST. JILL. IT’S GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT WARMER TODAY THAN YESTERDAY. WARMER TODAY. WE’RE REALLY DAY BY DAY THROUGH THE END OF THE MONTH. WE LOVE TO HEAR THAT. AND YESTERDAY WAS BEAUTIFUL. BUT WE COULD HAVE HELPED OUT THE TEMPERATURES A LITTLE BIT MORE. MARCH GOING OUT LIKE A LAMB FOR US. THINGS ARE RELATIVELY QUIET, DRY AS WE MONITOR THOSE. SPRING TEMPERATURES ARE MAKING A COMEBACK. BUT JUST AS WE FLIP THE CALENDAR OVER TO APRIL, GUESS WHAT SHOWS UP? APRIL SHOWERS WILL BE ON PARADE STARTING ON WEDNESDAY THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK, AND POTENTIALLY EVEN INTO YOUR EASTER WEEKEND. SO MORE ON THAT HERE IN JUST A MOMENT. UP TO 38 DEGREES. RIGHT NOW WE’RE SEEING MORE CLOUDS AND SUNSHINE, NOT JUST OVER THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH, BUT REALLY AREA WIDE. AND DESPITE THE CLOUDS, REALLY TEMPERATURES SHAPING UP NICELY AS WE GO THROUGH THE AFTERNOON, 60 FOR THE CITY ALSO CONTAINING INDIANA AND NEW CASTLE LIVE, 63 SHOWING UP FROM WASHINGTON TO BEAVER, MONROEVILLE AND GREENSBURG. TAD WARMER INTO THE MID 60S, CLOSER TO THE WEST VIRGINIA BORDER. SO INTERVALS OF SUNSHINE AND CLOUDS ON A MILDER SUNDAY AFTERNOON 64 TOMORROW ABOUT TEN DEGREES WARMER THAN THAT. AS WE WRAP UP MARCH ON TUESDAY WITH SOME ISOLATED RAIN SHOWERS WILL COME INTO THE MIX. A BETTER CHANCE STARTING ON WEDNESDAY. THAT LIKELY IS THE WETTEST DAY OF THE UPCOMING WEEK. A FEW MORE SHOWERS ON DISPLAY BY FRIDAY. THAT’S THE PIRATES HOME OPENER AND EVEN THROUGH NEXT WEEKEND. TO GIVE YOU AN EARLY PREVIEW WHICH DAYS YOU’RE REALLY GOING TO NEED THE RAIN GEAR COMING UP IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. THANKS SO MUCH, JILL. WE’RE FOLLOWING LOTS OF BREAKING NEWS FOR YOU RIGHT NOW. A MAN IS DEAD AFTER BEING SHOT IN THE CITY’S SOUTH SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD. IT HAPPENED JUST BEFORE 230 THIS MORNING NEAR SOUTH 18TH STREET AND CARSON STREET. NOW, IF YOU KNOW THIS AREA, THAT’S RIGHT. BY FATHEADS. PITTSBURGH PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIALS SAY OFFICERS RESPONDED TO TWO SEPARATE SHOTSPOTTER ALERTS TOTALING EIGHT ROUNDS. OFFICERS FOUND A MAN DOWN ON THE STREET WITH MULTIPLE GUNSHOT WOUNDS. THEY DID TRY TO HELP HIM UNTIL EMS TOOK HIM TO THE HOSPITAL, WHERE HE LATER DIED. SO FAR, NO WORD ON ANY SUSPECTS. MORE BREAKING NEWS. A MAN IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION FOLLOWING ANOTHER SHOOTING ON PITTSBURGH’S SOUTH SIDE JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT. OFFICERS RESPONDED TO SOUTH 15TH STREET AND BINGHAM STREET AND FOUND A MAN SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL. CHIEF JASON LANDO SAID THIS WAS A ROAD RAGE SITUATION AND A SUSPECT WAS ARRESTED. CHIEF LANDO SAYS THESE TWO SOUTHSIDE SHOOTINGS ARE UNRELATED. OF COURSE, WE’LL KEEP YOU UPDATED ON BOTH OF THEM HERE AND ONLINE@WTAE.COM. EVEN MORE BREAKING NEWS FOR US, THIS TIME IN PENN HILLS, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, WHERE CREWS RESPONDED TO THE SCENE OF A FIRE THAT BROKE OUT JUST BEFORE ONE AT A DUPLEX ON PAUL AVENUE. COUNTY DISPATCHERS TELL US NO ONE WAS INJURED. THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY FIRE MARSHAL IS INVESTIGATING THE CAUSE THIS MORNING. AN INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY IN TRAFFORD. WESTMORELAND COUNTY. THIS WAS THE SCENE AROUND 1030 LAST NIGHT ON WESTMORELAND ROAD. YOU CAN SEE THERE WAS A PRETTY LARGE POLICE PRESENCE IN THAT AREA THIS MORNING. WE’RE WORKING TO LEARN WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED. SO MAKE SURE YOU STAY WITH US. ALSO NEW THIS MORNING, PITTSBURGH POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A CRASH AT THE RIVER’S CASINO. PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIALS TELL US IT HAPPENED ON THE FOURTH FLOOR. AND THE CASINO’S PARKING GARAGE. THEY SAY A VEHICLE CRASHED THROUGH THE GLASS DOORS BY THE ELEVATOR. A MAN AND WOMAN WERE INJURED AND TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL IN STABLE CONDITION. THAT VEHICLE LEFT THE SCENE. EVEN MORE NEW THIS MORNING. SEVERAL PEOPLE WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOLLOWING AN EARLY MORNING CRASH IN DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH. IT HAPPENED AROUND FOUR THIS MORNING AT THE 13 EAST BUSWAY NEAR THE PENNSYLVANIAN. DISPATCHERS TELL US SEVERAL PEOPLE WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, BUT COULDN’T CONFIRM HOW MANY. OUR PHOTOJOURNALIST WAS BACK AT THE SCENE A FEW HOURS LATER AND SAW POLICE STILL INVESTIGATING. THIS MORNING WE KNOW THE ROAD IS OPEN AND BUSSES CAN GET THROUGH. WE’VE REACHED OUT TO PORT AUTHORITY POLICE FOR MORE INFORMATION. TIME NOW IS 904. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN MORE THAN 3000 CITIES MARCHED IN PROTEST YESTERDAY AGAINST THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. THE SO-CALLED NO PROTEST DREW THOUSANDS HERE IN THE PITTSBURGH AREA. PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR REPORTER FELICITY TAYLOR JOINS US FROM THE SITE OF THE AREA’S LARGEST GATHERING ALONG GRANT STREET IN DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH. ORGANIZERS ESTIMATE THAT 15 TO 20,000 PEOPLE FILLED THE STREETS HERE AND THEN MARCHED TO MELLON SQUARE, SHARING THEIR MESSAGE OF NO KINGS, NO KINGS TORI THE PEOPLE. THE PEOPLE. YEAH. THOUSANDS OF PITTSBURGHERS SAY THEY’RE FED UP WITH DONALD TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION’S POLICIES. THEY DECIDED SINCE THEY CAN’T VOTE HIM OUT OF OFFICE, THE BEST WAY TO SHOW THAT IS THROUGH THEIR VOICES. I’M TAKING A STAND AND BE HERE WITH MY FELLOW PROTESTERS TO MAKE A STATEMENT ON, YOU KNOW, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. WE WANT TO SEND A MESSAGE TO DONALD TRUMP THAT HIS CHAOS AND HIS DIVISION, HIS HIGHER PRICES, ARE JUST NOT GOING TO BE TOLERATED ANYMORE. THEIR MAIN POINTS NO KINGS DECIDING ON WARS, HEALTH CARE OR SENDING ICE AGENTS INTO THE STREETS. I DON’T AGREE WITH, YOU KNOW, THE WAY ICE WORKS AND THE WAY THEY’RE MILITARIZED AND THEY’RE PUSHING PEOPLE AROUND. I JUST THINK IT’S WRONG. AND THAT’S NOT THE AMERICA THAT I HAVE LIVED IN ALL MY LIFE, AND IT MAKES ME KIND OF REALLY WORRIED. SO I HAVE TO SPEAK OUT BECAUSE I HAVE A VOICE. DOZENS OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS PARTNERED TO ORGANIZE THE PROTEST, INCLUDING INDIVISIBLE, PITTSBURGH, THE ACLU AND CASA SAN JOSE STATE REPRESENTATIVES AND LOCAL POLITICIANS LIKE MAYOR COREY O’CONNOR SPOKE. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR AUSTIN DAVIS EVEN JOINING, CALLING FOR ACTION FROM THE PENNSYLVANIANS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. OUR LOCAL LEADERS IN WASHINGTON NEED TO STAND UP FOR THE PEOPLE WHO SENT THEM TO WASHINGTON TO REPRESENT THEM, TO HELP LOWER COSTS, TO PROTECT OUR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, AND TO MAKE SURE EVERY AMERICAN HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE FOR THEM. OFFICIALS SAY SATURDAY’S PROTEST WAS ALSO A GOOD TIME FOR GROUPS TO ORGANIZE AHEAD OF THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS IN NOVEMBER. COVERING ALLEGHENY COUNTY IN DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH, I’M FELICITY TAYLOR, PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH, FELICITY. MORE THAN A DOZEN NO KINGS RALLIES WERE HELD ACROSS THE AREA YESTERDAY. MORE THAN 3000 PEOPLE BROUGHT THEIR MESSAGE TO THE WESTMORELAND COUNTY COURTHOUSE, CALLING ON PEOPLE TO REGISTER TO VOTE AND DEMAND CHANGE IN WASHINGTON. THEY SAY THEY PLAN TO GATHER EVERY SATURDAY TO KEEP THEIR MESSAGE GOING. WE WANT A LEADER, A PRESIDENT WHO IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE AND DOESN’T GO ABOVE THE LAW. SO RIGHT NOW, CONGRESS, THE SUPREME COURT, NONE OF THEM ARE ACTUALLY SEEM TO MATTER TO THE PRESIDENT. AND IN FAYETTE COUNTY, PROTESTERS MARCHED FROM THE COURTHOUSE TO GEORGE C MARSHALL PLAZA IN UNIONTOWN, DIFFERENT CITY, SAME MESSAGE. THEY’RE CALLING THIS THE NO. KINGS 3.0 PROTEST, CALLING ON THE PRESIDENT TO BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS ACTIONS AND TO NOT GO ABOVE THE LAW. AND NO KINGS RALLIES TOOK PLACE FROM COAST TO COAST YESTERDAY. THESE ARE SCENES FROM PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON, CHICAGO AND SAN DIEGO, MANY PROTESTING THE RISING COST OF LIVING. THE WAR WITH IRAN AND THE ECONOMY. THE FLAGSHIP EVENT WAS HELD IN MINNEAPOLIS, WHICH HELD THE FIRST NO. KINGS EVENT IN JUNE OF 2025. POLICE SAY YESTERDAY’S PROTESTS WERE LARGELY PEACEFUL. NOW TO PITTSBURGH’S KNOXVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD, WHERE A SWAT STANDOFF ENDS IN AN ARREST. POLICE WERE CALLED TO A HOME ON BOSMAN STREET LAST NIGHT. THEY TELL US A MAN WANTED ON A WARRANT WAS BARRICADED INSIDE. OFFICERS CALLED SWAT AND THEY REMAINED ON SCENE FOR SEVERAL HOURS. PITTSBURGH PUBLIC SAFETY TELLS US THE MAN EVENTUALLY SURRENDERED TO OFFICERS AND WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY WITHOUT INCIDENT. RIGHT NOW, THE SEARCH CONTINUES FOR A MAN MISSING FOR THREE WEEKS IN DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH. 30 YEAR OLD CHAZ SIMMONS WAS LAST SEEN ALONG PENN AVENUE ON MARCH 8TH. FAMILY AND FRIENDS SPENT YESTERDAY CANVASING DOWNTOWN IN AN ATTEMPT TO FIND HIM. THIS IS NOT LIKE HIM. EVERYBODY HAS PROBLEMS IN LIFE. HE WAS GOING THROUGH THINGS AND WE WANT TO LET HIM KNOW THAT WE’RE HERE. HIS FAMILY IS HERE FOR HIM AND THAT WE WANT TO HELP AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. FIND HIM. HIS SON IS MISSING HIM. WE’RE MISSING HIM. CHAD SIMMONS HAS BLACK HAIR, A GOATEE, AND A TATTOO ON HIS NECK THAT SAYS YOLANDA. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS ASKED TO CALL 911. NOW TO BEAVER COUNTY, WHERE A FIRE COLLAPSED PART OF A HOUSE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. CREWS WERE CALLED TO SECOND STREET IN THE OAK HILL NEIGHBORHOOD OF NEW BRIGHTON. THEY FOUND THE ROOF OF THE HOME HAD FALLEN IN AND PART OF THE FRONT OF THE HOME HAD COLLAPSED. THERE’S NO WORD IF ANYONE WAS INSIDE AT THE TIME. WE ARE TOLD ONE FIREFIGHTER WAS TAKEN FROM THE SCENE TO BE TREATED FOR SMOKE INHALATION. NEXT FOR US THIS MORNING, A PITTSBURGH REGIONAL TRANSIT WORKER HAD TO BE PULLED TO SAFETY AFTER FALLING INTO A CONCRETE TRENCH YESTERDAY MORNING. IT HAPPENED AT THE SOUTH HILLS JUNCTION IN THE CITY’S BELTZHOOVER NEIGHBORHOOD. ACCORDING TO PR, THE WORKER FELL INTO A 12 FOOT DEEP TRENCH AND WAS PINNED AT THE BOTTOM. THEY SAY THE TRENCH WAS PARTIALLY FILLED WITH OIL AT THE TIME. THE WORKER WAS HOISTED TO SAFETY USING A ROPE SYSTEM. HE HAD ARM AND SPINE INJURIES AND WAS LAST REPORTED TO BE STABLE. TIME NOW IS 909. PEOPLE’S GAS HAS FILED A REQUEST WITH THE PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION TO RAISE ITS RATES. THE UTILITY SAYS IT NEEDS THE EXTRA MONEY TO MAKE CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS. IF APPROVED, THE INCREASE WOULD MEAN AN EXTRA $16 A MONTH PER CUSTOMER. PEOPLE SAYS THAT’S ABOUT $163 MILLION A YEAR FOR THEM. THE PUC IS GOING TO REVIEW THE REQUEST. THEY COULD APPROVE ALL SOME OR NONE OF IT. THE REVIEW PROCESS TAKES ABOUT NINE MONTHS BEFORE A DECISION IS ANNOUNCED. ONE OF THE BEST VIEWPOINTS OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH IS A LITTLE BIT CLEANER THIS MORNING. VOLUNTEERS FROM THE EXPLORERS CLUB OF PITTSBURGH RAPPELLED OVER THE HILLSIDE OF EMERALD VIEW PARK ON MOUNT WASHINGTON YESTERDAY TO CLEAN UP THE TRASH. THIS IS ALL PART OF THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION. EFFORTS TO CLEAN UP THE CITY BEFORE THE NFL DRAFT, BUT ORGANIZERS SAY THE IMPACT WILL LAST LONG AFTER THE DRAFT IS OVER. WHAT’S GOING TO LAST BEYOND THE DRAFT IS ALL THESE CONNECTIONS THAT WE’VE MADE WITH COMMUNITY GROUPS AND VOLUNTEERS WHO HAVE COME OUT AND DONE THIS WORK AND SEEN THE NEED, BUT ALSO SOME OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WE’VE GOT STARTED GETTING 50 MILES OF OUR STATE HIGHWAY CLEANED UP ON A REGULAR BASIS WILL CONTINUE BEYOND THE DRAFT. NOW, SINCE SEPTEMBER, MORE THAN 400 TONS OF LITTER HAS BEEN COLLECTED FROM NEIGHBORHOODS AROUND THE CITY. AND OF COURSE, THE DRAFT IS JUST 25 DAYS AWAY. CRAZY TO THINK ABOUT. DON’T FORGET PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR IS YOUR HOME FOR ALL THINGS NFL DRAFT. WE’LL HAVE SPECIAL COVERAGE BE
It’s ‘Mystical Magical:’ Benson Boone to kick off 2026 world tour in Pittsburgh
Updated: 1:34 PM EDT Mar 29, 2026
“It’s Mystical, Magical”– Benson Boone announced his world tour on Sunday, with his first stop being in Pittsburgh. VIDEO: Top Stories on Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 According to a release, the U.S. Wanted Man Tour kicks off with its first show at PPG Paints Arena on July 7th, 2026. The tour announcement comes after the GRAMMY-nominated artist recently concluded his sold-out global American Heart Tour.Fans can register for presale access now at Bensonboone.com. Artist Presale Begins Wednesday, April 1 at 11 a.m. local time. Fans can also access Local and Spotify presales on Thursday, April 2. The general public on-sale starts Friday, April 3, at 11 a.m. local time.Looking for more news in your area | Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel
PITTSBURGH —
“It’s Mystical, Magical”– Benson Boone announced his world tour on Sunday, with his first stop being in Pittsburgh.
VIDEO: Top Stories on Pittsburgh’s Action News 4
According to a release, the U.S. Wanted Man Tour kicks off with its first show at PPG Paints Arena on July 7th, 2026.
The tour announcement comes after the GRAMMY-nominated artist recently concluded his sold-out global American Heart Tour.
Fans can register for presale access now at Bensonboone.com.
Artist Presale Begins Wednesday, April 1 at 11 a.m. local time. Fans can also access Local and Spotify presales on Thursday, April 2.
The general public on-sale starts Friday, April 3, at 11 a.m. local time.
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