Tory Wegerski

I'm at the Allegheny County Courthouse where the attorney for Patrick Vereb just told the judge they've got a plea agreement. Discussion about how to accommodate victims at sentencing in January because the Commonwealth has 10,000+ victim impact statements. KDKA'S prior coverage:

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Here's KDKA-TV News' full report on what went down in court on Thursday. We'll be back there on January 21st for his sentencing.

You can also catch me breaking this news on Talk Pittsburgh at 3:00PM because it happened moments before we taped my hit. This story has been almost 2 years of my life. I broke it after working with a whistleblower for months. Seeing justice done for the thousands of victims is important to me.

🚨BREAKING NEWS: After he pleaded guilty this morning in Allegheny Co. court, Patrick Vereb told the judge he is NOT living in the county. The judge ordered him taken into custody and he was put into handcuffs in the courtroom. He's going to jail. We will have more at noon & tonight on KDKA-TV News.

A scoop from me: CBS-owned local stations' election coverage will be sponsored by DraftKings, a deal that has stirred concern inside the company. www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk...

It always cracks me up that viewers think we have hair and makeup people. The hair and makeup people are us! We do it ourselves! And we don't get a wardrobe stipend, and makeup is expensive, and it's yet another tax on women journalists that men don't have to pay.

The Pittsburgh Penguins say Ben Kindel is stable and alert after a medical episode that led the team to turn around the plane shortly after takeoff from Salt Lake City today.

We got Edward R. Purrow a Halloween costume

I have several questions

one time my girlfriend was waiting for a bus in Pittsburgh and looking at a martial arts advertisement and a guy in a public works truck rolled down his window and told her “don’t go to that dojo, I challenged the master and he was weak as fuck”

Bari Weiss’ handpicked foreign editor unleashed an explosive tirade at CBS News staffers, threatened insubordinate journalists with firing, and clashed with correspondent Holly Williams, according to audio we obtained. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

The University of Pittsburgh was subpoenaed by the Dept. of Labor, confirms a University spokesperson.

The Vice Pres. likely meant Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, which has previously been accused by GOP lawmakers of admitting too many foreign students, particularly students from China in STEM programs. I'm working to get clarification from VP's office. Maybe Pitt's being investigated too.

This article feels like @foiaball.com and @dinfontay.com mind-melded

Pittsburgh's biggest health system, UPMC, switched its EHR to MyChart over the weekend, and based on sitting in this waiting room at Magee for an extra 45 minutes, I don't think it's going well.

It worked out in OT. 6-5 Pens.

2nd intermission update: Pens 5, Habs 2

Dad's visiting from Kentucky so I took him to the Palestinian Oktoberfest and now he's cheering for the wrong team at the Penguins game

GOD I MISSED HOCKEY

It's like the robot knew exactly how to hurt me.

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

KDKA-TV had a great night at the Emmys in Philadelphia last night. I personally went two-for-two. I love my job.

We bought our house in Pittsburgh in March of 2020 and refi'd our mortgage at 2.1%, and I constantly have two thoughts about it: 1) we caught the last damn helicopter, and 2) we are never gonna be able to move.

This is a bad ruling for obvious reasons, but it's going to have ramifications in 2028, not 2026: "... existing law blocks most states from systematically purging voters from their rolls within 90 days of an election, the immediate impact on the upcoming midterms is likely limited."

A post-meeting update from a quick interview with HACP Chairman Wasi Mohamed: the board is unconcerned about the ethics allegations against their new Executive Director.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) joins 49 Republicans to block House-passed resolution to end further military action against Iran. Fetterman was the only Democratic senator to cross the aisle, though four GOP members voted with Democrats to advance the resolution.

Board of Commissioners for the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh just voted unanimously to appoint Ivory Mathews the new Exec. Director. Mathews is currently under investigation by the Oregon Gov't Ethics Commission for travel & spending during her time with the Portland housing agency.

Fox News’ bureau chief Bryan Boughton, chair of the TV pool consortium: "Effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President... This follows the White House’s position preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties"

The Penguins bobblehead shelf at the UPMC Sports Medicine complex on the South Side is prime Remember Some Guys material

Dept. of Justice announces UPMC hospitals in Pittsburgh will end gender-affirming care for children, pay $950K. DOJ says UPMC cooperated with their investigation, & UPMC's cooperation is ongoing with investigation into other medical entities that provide gender-affirming care.

I have a lot of Ross stories. Here's one of them: KDKA-TV's newsroom is in Downtown Pittsburgh, on a plaza with a little park. A few years back, several of us were watching through the windows as a gentleman exhibited some concerning drug-induced behavior, until the point when he was slumped over

Oh, wow, our deeply divided legislature has found something it can cooperate on: avoiding journalists!

The @votebeat.org Election Desk Slack for journalists has opened up for the 2026 election cycle and I, for one, am so grateful for their return that I gave an actual quote about how happy I am. If you're a journalist and you're even peripherally covering this election, you should join.

That Pitt game is probably not getting started anytime soon. My goodness.

Palestinian beer! Syrian street food! Irish music! I love Pittsburgh.

I'm working on a story involving medical marijuana providers and I have to use my phone for this project b/c my newsroom internet is blocking me from accessing 99% of these websites. It's so fun to be a journalist with a net nanny lmao

There's an elevated potential for yet more severe thunderstorms in & around Pittsburgh between 8pm & 1am tonight. More damaging winds & flooding are expected. Again, if you can SAFELY document any impact where you are, it's a big help to your local journalists.

Fetterman out here setting himself for the rare Reverse Arlen Specter, can he do it ladies and gentlemen