‘It was a big shock:’ Shop ‘n Save location in Pittsburgh to soon close
NOW ON PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR. CITY OFFICIALS ASSESSING THEIR RESPONSE TO LAST WEEK’S SNOWSTORM AND TAKING A LOOK AT WHAT THEY COULD DO BETTER NEXT TIME. THAT CONVERSATION TONIGHT. A WATER MAIN BREAK TRICKLING ALONG THIS CITY STREET FOR NEARLY TWO WEEKS HAS RESIDENTS LOCKED IN UNDER INCHES OF ICE. WE TALKED TO THOSE WHO ARE STUCK AND REACHED OUT TO THE WATER AUTHORITY. CASSANDRA GROSS WENT MISSING IN THE SPRING OF 2018. HER EX-BOYFRIEND, THOMAS STANKO, WAS CHARGED WITH HER MURDER IN 2022, AND NOW THAT TRIAL HAS BEGUN. WE HAVE THE LATEST DETAILS AHEAD. PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR AT SEVEN STARTS NOW. GOOD EVENING AND THANKS FOR JOINING US HERE AT 7:00 ON COZI TV. I’M MIKE CLARK. ALL RIGHT. GET READY FOR A RIDE ON THE WINTER ROLLER COASTER. TEMPERATURES WILL BE UP AND DOWN ALL WEEK LONG, WITH BANDS OF SNOW PUSHING THROUGH TONIGHT. CHIEF METEOROLOGIST MIKE HARVEY JOINS US NOW. MIKE, ANY CHANCE OF BREAKING THE FREEZING MARK ANYTIME SOON? IT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE IT, MIKE. LIKELY NOT UNTIL WE GET INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. WE’LL GET CLOSE TOMORROW. UP TO AROUND 30. ON FRIDAY, WE’LL GET UP TO AROUND 30 DEGREES AS WELL. THAT’S LIKELY FOR PITTSBURGH, AT LEAST AS CLOSE AS WE’RE GOING TO GET. JUST A FEW VERY LIGHT SNOW SHOWERS OR FLURRIES MOVING THROUGH THE AREA RIGHT NOW. NOT GOING TO AMOUNT TO MUCH ON THE GROUND. AND THEN WE GET INTO TOMORROW. ALSO A COUPLE FLURRIES. MOST LOCATIONS STAY DRY. BUT DOWN TO THE SOUTH DOWN TOWARDS THE MORGANTOWN AREA GARRETT COUNTY, DEEP CREEK AND POSSIBLY SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF GREENE, FAYETTE COUNTY. YOU CAN HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF SNOW ACCUMULATING SNOW BECAUSE OF THAT. WE DO HAVE A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THOSE AREAS BECAUSE THEY COULD HAVE SOME SNOW ON THE GROUND. TEMPERATURE WISE, IT’S 25 DEGREES OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW. WIND CHILL OF 17 DEGREES TOMORROW. WE’LL TAKE IT UP TO AROUND 30 DEGREES. TODAY WE MADE IT TO 28, SO WE’LL DO A LITTLE BIT BETTER. NOWHERE NEAR OUR NORMAL HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 37 DEGREES. AND THEN WE GO INTO WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. BOTH DAYS WE’LL SEE LOW TEMPERATURES DOWN TO SEVEN DEGREES. SO TWO MORE MORNINGS SINGLE DIGIT LOW TEMPERATURES. AND THEN ON FRIDAY IT’S GOING TO BE OUR DAY. WE COULD SEE SOME SNOW ON THE GROUND FOR JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY. LOOKING AT AROUND 1 TO 3IN OF SNOW ON FRIDAY. WE’LL HAVE MORE ON YOUR WEEKEND FORECAST COMING UP IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU MIKE. PITTSBURGH MAYOR COREY O’CONNOR SAYS MORE TRUCKS AND MORE TRAINING WILL HELP TO ADDRESS THE CITY’S SNOW REMOVAL ISSUES. THE MAYOR SITTING DOWN WITH PUBLIC WORKS OFFICIALS TODAY ASSESSING THE RESPONSE TO LAST SUNDAY’S STORM. PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR REPORTER KALEA GUNDERSON HAS MORE TONIGHT FROM REGENT SQUARE ON WHAT THEY’RE DOING NOW TO MAKE DIGGING OUT SMOOTHER FOR THE NEXT STORM. PITTSBURGH’S MAYOR MEETING WITH PUBLIC WORKS OFFICIALS TO TALK STRATEGY IN THEIR RESPONSE TO FUTURE STORMS AND THEIR PLANS FOR PURCHASING NEW PLOWS IN PREPARATION FOR NEXT WINTER. SAME TWO KEY GOALS OF THIS ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION BETWEEN MAYOR COREY O’CONNOR AND PITTSBURGH PUBLIC WORKS TRAINING NEWER PLOW TRUCK DRIVERS AND SECURING NEW CLOUDS. JUST LAST WEEK, THE CITY GETTING A $2 MILLION DONATION BY 15 NEW PLOW TRUCKS AND A $10 MILLION DONATION FOR AMBULANCES, FREEING UP FUNDS TO PURCHASE AN ADDITIONAL 35 PLOWS. THE MONEY JUST CAME IN LAST WEEK, BUT IF WE CAN GET THEM, YOU KNOW, 6 TO 8 MONTHS. BUT IN THE MEANTIME, I THINK SUMMER, WE REALLY HAVE TO TRAIN MORE DRIVERS SO THAT THEY’RE PREPARED. MAYOR O’CONNOR NOTED NEW DRIVERS NEED MORE TRAINING ON PITTSBURGH’S STREETS AND HILLS. WE KNOW A LOT OF DRIVERS WE HEARD ARE TRAINED AND HOW DO WE GET THEM TRAINED? WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO OVER THE SUMMER TO DO A LOT OF THOSE THINGS? SO IT MAKES THEIR LIVES EASIER. BUT THEN ALSO AS FOREMEN, AS LEADERS OF THESE DIVISIONS, HOW DO WE MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER SO THAT THE DRIVERS FEEL COMFORTABLE DOING THE TRIPS THAT THEY NEED TO GO DOWN HILLS, UP HILLS? BUT WHAT WENT RIGHT? SEVERAL PITTSBURGH PARKS TRUCKS WERE TEMPORARILY OUTFITTED FOR SNOW RESPONSE. THEY WILL CONTINUE TO BE USED THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE SEASON, AND PUBLIC WORKS ACTING DIRECTOR JOHN MCCLORY AND DPW OFFICIALS SAID A WIN WAS THE USEFULNESS OF CONTRACTORS. THEY CALLED IN TO HELP PLOW. WE HAD CONTRACTORS ON STANDBY. JOE. JOE MONITORED THEM. WE GOT THEM ALL ON LINE, TOLD THEM WE WE MAY NEED THEM. AND WE DID. WE NEEDED THEM IN SOME AREAS AND THEN GOT THEM INTO OUR BUSINESS DISTRICTS. SO THEY WERE THERE, READY TO GO. THEY WERE JUST WAITING ON OUR CALL ONE DAY, AND THEY WERE EXCELLENT, O’CONNOR SAID, PLACING AN ORDER FOR 50 PLOW TRUCKS IS AT THE TOP OF HIS TO DO LIST, COVERING ALLEGHENY COUNTY TONIGHT IN PITTSBURGH’S REGENT SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD. KALEA GUNDERSON PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR. AND MORE WARNINGS TONIGHT FROM POLICE AND EMS OFFICIALS ABOUT THE ICE ON OUR RIVERS. IT COMES AFTER SEVERAL PEOPLE VENTURED OUT ONTO THE FROZEN SURFACES OVER THE WEEKEND. OFFICIALS SAY IF YOU DO CHOOSE TO WALK ON THE RIVER, YOU’RE NOT ONLY RISKING YOUR OWN LIFE, BUT ALSO THE LIVES OF EMS WORKERS AND DIVERS WHO WILL TRY TO SAVE YOU. THOSE DIVERS GO THROUGH YEARS OF TRAINING AND CAN ONLY BE IN THE WATER FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, BECAUSE OF THE RISKS OF HYPOTHERMIA. THERE IS NO WAY TO KNOW EXACTLY THE DEPTH OF THE ICE IN ANY GIVEN LOCATION. YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT WITH THE RIVERS, THERE ARE THINGS UNDERNEATH THE RIVERS THAT AFFECT THE DEPTH OF THE ICE. SO IT’S VERY CONCERNING WHEN. JUST BECAUSE IT’S COLD OUTSIDE, IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT ALL OF THE ICE IS FROZEN. OFFICIALS SAY THE RIVER ICE IS THICKER IN SOME PLACES AND THINNER IN OTHERS, AND THAT AT ANY TIME A PERSON CAN SLIP AND FALL AND CRACK THE SURFACE. OFFICIALS SAY HYPOTHERMIA CAN SET IN AND HAVE IRREVERSIBLE EFFECTS. AFTER JUST TEN MINUTES. AFTER NEARLY A DECADE AFTER WESTMORELAND COUNTY WOMAN WAS REPORTED MISSING, HER EX-BOYFRIEND IS SET TO STAND TRIAL THIS WEEK. ACCUSED IN HER MURDER. WESTMORELAND BUREAU REPORTER WAS THE ONLY REPORTER AT THE COURTHOUSE FOR JURY SELECTION TODAY AND HAS THE LATEST FROM GREENSBURG. IN APRIL OF 2018, CASSANDRA GROSS WAS REPORTED MISSING OUT OF UNITY TOWNSHIP. HER BODY HAS NOT BEEN FOUND TO THIS DAY. NOW, NEARLY EIGHT YEARS SINCE HER DISAPPEARANCE, A JURY HAS BEEN SELECTED TO HEAR THE TRIAL OF THE MAN CHARGED IN CONNECTION TO HER ACCUSED MURDER, THOMAS STANKO. 12 JURORS AND FOUR ALTERNATES HAVE BEEN CHOSEN TO OVERSEE THE TRIAL OF THOMAS STANKO. THE UNITY TOWNSHIP MAN IS CHARGED WITH HOMICIDE, RECKLESS BURNING AND ABUSE OF A CORPSE AFTER HIS FORMER GIRLFRIEND, CASSANDRA GROSS, DISAPPEARED IN 2018. GROSS PERSONAL ITEMS WERE FOUND BURNED ON STANKO’S PROPERTY, AND HER CAR WAS FOUND AFTER IT CAUGHT ON FIRE NEAR TWIN LAKES PARK. HOWEVER, STANKO WASN’T CHARGED UNTIL 2022. PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS 4 WAS THE ONLY NEWS CREW TO SEE STANKO FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS. HE ANSWERED ONE OF MY QUESTIONS. DO YOU BELIEVE YOU’RE INNOCENT? ABSOLUTELY. 16 TOTAL JURORS WERE SELECTED. 12 WILL SIT ON THE JURY. FIVE WOMEN, SEVEN MEN. WHILE THERE ARE FOUR ALTERNATES. ALSO, ALL MEN COVERING WESTMORELAND COUNTY IN GREENSBURG AND DIORIO, PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR. ALL NEW TONIGHT AT 7:00. WORD THAT THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW, WHICH AIRS AT 3 P.M. ON WTAE, WILL END AFTER THIS SEASON. THE SHOW’S PRODUCERS SAY ORIGINAL EPISODES WILL BE AIRING THROUGH THE FALL. IN A STATEMENT, CLARKSON SAYS STEPPING AWAY FROM THE DAILY SCHEDULE WILL ALLOW ME TO PRIORITIZE MY KIDS, WHICH FEELS NECESSARY AND RIGHT FOR THIS NEXT CHAPTER OF OUR LIVES.
‘It was a big shock:’ Shop ‘n Save location in Pittsburgh to soon close
Updated: 8:56 PM EST Feb 2, 2026
A Shop ‘n Save location in western Pennsylvania posted signs in its windows, saying that it will soon be closing its doors for good. VIDEO: Top stories on Pittsburgh’s Action News 4Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 visited the store located along Brownsville Road in Carrick, where signs said “Shop ‘n Save closing our doors,” while showcasing a 50% off sale of all grocery items. Tina Speicher, of Mt. Oliver, spoke to Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 about the closure, which she said came as a surprise. “It was a big shock. I’ve been coming up here ever since I was a kid,” she said. “So, for them to close, it’s kind of a, a little blow to the neighborhood, especially because a lot of people use this store, you know, cause they can’t get anywhere else.” Now, residents will have to make a 15-minute drive to either the closest Giant Eagle in Brentwood or the closest Aldi along Banksville Road. A reason for the location closure was not immediately made clear. Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.
PITTSBURGH —
A Shop ‘n Save location in western Pennsylvania posted signs in its windows, saying that it will soon be closing its doors for good.
VIDEO: Top stories on Pittsburgh’s Action News 4
Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 visited the store located along Brownsville Road in Carrick, where signs said “Shop ‘n Save closing our doors,” while showcasing a 50% off sale of all grocery items.
Tina Speicher, of Mt. Oliver, spoke to Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 about the closure, which she said came as a surprise.
“It was a big shock. I’ve been coming up here ever since I was a kid,” she said. “So, for them to close, it’s kind of a, a little blow to the neighborhood, especially because a lot of people use this store, you know, cause they can’t get anywhere else.”
Now, residents will have to make a 15-minute drive to either the closest Giant Eagle in Brentwood or the closest Aldi along Banksville Road.
A reason for the location closure was not immediately made clear.
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