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Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Free radios available at Oakmont allowing golf fans to keep tabs on play around the course
If you're walking around the Oakmont Country Club golf course this week during the U.S. Open tournament, or watching it on Channel 11, you might catch a glimpse of fans around the course wearing a little blue earphone. This is actually a radio that is live streaming the play on the course — helping fans keep up with play on different holes than the one they might currently be watching. Advertisement If you're coming out Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, head up to the American Express tent — there are a few in the different fan zones of the course. There you can get the radio — and a reusable water bottle to fill up around the course while you're there. 'It's like eyes on every single hole,' said Massimo Locicero of Toronto, Canada. 'You get to know where everyone is, what everyone's shooting, where they're at, on the green or on the fairway, it's really good.' 'It helps instead of just flipping through your phone, right?' Channel 11's Andrew Havranek asked. 'Yeah, it can be kind of delayed on the phone, so when it's on the broadcast, it's right away,' Locicero added. You can pick up one radio per day, and one water bottle per weekend. Download the FREE WPXI News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Channel 11 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch WPXI NOW
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Artificial Intelligence helps analyze golf fans' swings at U.S. Open
Aside from watching the U.S. Open tournament itself, there's so much for fans to do at Oakmont Country Club this weekend. 'It was a Pebble Beach simulator. It was really cool,' said Matt Hillebrand of McMurray, who attended the U.S. Open practice round on Wednesday. Advertisement The Pebble Beach simulator is part of the Fan Central area in the 'Drive By Lexus' tent. Full Swing, a virtual golf company, has the simulator set up where you can hit a ball against a screen, and then technology does the rest! They also partnered with Sportsbox AI to analyze your swing. They let Channel 11's Andrew Havranek try it out. All you have to do is step up to the tee, swing, and the artificial intelligence takes over. 'We're taking a swing video of every fan that comes by, it processes it in about 15 seconds, and then what it's doing is it's converting their golf swing into 3D data, which is basically a fancy way of saying we're quantifying how much of certain movements they're doing,' said Nick Vecellio of Sportsbox AI. Advertisement Those different movements show things like pelvis rotation, chest rotation, and more. 'In two minutes, we can give these guys enough impactful data that they want to use our software and come back to see us again in the future,' Vecellio said. There is also a putting green that employees can alter to give steeper slopes and angles in the tent. Aside from these types of fan experiences, golf fans will be able to go up to the American Express tent starting Thursday to get a free radio. That will allow fans to listen to the golf broadcast while out on the course watching the golfers to get real-time updates around the course and from different groups. Advertisement Fans we spoke to on Wednesday had some tips for anyone coming out to Oakmont in the next few days. 'Leave extra time because if you leave later in the morning to get here, you're going to run into a lot of traffic,' Hillebrand said. 'So leave extra time and just enjoy the experience. Don't have too many expectations because there's a lot to see here and it's a great time.' The U.S. Open Trophy is on display for fans to take pictures with throughout the week at the Driven By Lexus tent. It will be taken away a little early on Sunday so that the winner of the U.S. Open will get their chance to hoist it. Download the FREE WPXI News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Channel 11 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch WPXI NOW
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Greensburg Bishop, parishioners, and non-Catholics weigh in on day one of Papal Conclave
Just 16 days after his death, Cardinals in the Catholic Church have sequestered themselves inside the Sistine Chapel to elect Pope Francis' successor. 'I, like Catholics around the world find today and the days that are following as days of great anticipation,' said Bishop Larry Kulick of the Greensburg Diocese. Some Catholics and Non-Catholics in Greensburg tell Channel 11's Andrew Havranek the next Pope has big shoes to fill. Several hope it will be someone who is in touch with a technological world, someone who can help bring more youth to the church, and one who can help bring peace and unity. 'The way that Pope Francis had guided us is really a blessing to the world and to the country,' said Rosalinda Castillo. 'I'm hoping it'll be somebody rather like Francis, in sort of the attitude and humility and care for the poor and those who are downtrodden and someone who is as gutsy as he is,' added Steel Halling, who isn't Catholic. 'I'm hoping that the next Pope will be brave enough and courageous enough to handle all the problems that may come from all the chaotic parts of the world,' said Frank Castillo. Channel 11's Andrew Havranek was with Bishop Kulick as the first black smoke came from the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday. No new Pope has been elected yet, but he encourages everyone to pray for the Cardinals. 'As any priest, bishop, or the Holy Father, we are called to live the example of Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ gave us that example of great humility and also service. I'm very confident the Holy Father will exhibit both a sense of humility but also a sense of pastoral care as he governs the people as our spiritual leader,' Kulick said. 'I think we're all looking forward to welcoming the new Holy Father, to respecting him, looking towards him as our spiritual father, and really being open to the spiritual guidance and truly the leadership he is going to offer for all of us.' Download the FREE WPXI News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Channel 11 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch WPXI NOW
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Climate
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Murrysville residents fight to save food from spoiling, push through another day without power
Hundreds of people in Murrysville remain without power Friday evening, more than three days after storms caused widespread damage on Tuesday. A cooler inside Gertrude Laughrey's home is filled with milk, yogurt, Ensure, and eggs. 'At $5 a dozen, I guess you better save those,' Laughrey said to Channel 11's Andrew Havranek. She and her husband have been without power since Tuesday's storm. She's tried to save as much as she could from the fridge and has another bin full of ice with waters and meals. Those meals were sent from her husband's health insurance on Thursday. He's been in and out of the hospital and nursing homes. 'It'll have to do,' Laughrey said. She's had to cancel nurse visits for her husband because she doesn't have power for them to hook things up. They also run water from two wells. Because they don't have power, they don't have running water. 'We can't even flush our commodes,' Laughrey said. 'This morning, I took a hanger and fished out the toilet tissue and put it in a bag and put it in the trash. I can't let them fill up like that. I'll never be able to flush them.' She's not alone. Homes all around her neighborhood off of Sardis Road are dark, including a home where a tree snapped. The homeowner didn't want to share his name or show his face on camera, but he showed Channel 11's Andrew Havranek his basement, where he has a cooler hooked up to a generator to keep 300 pounds of meat fresh. 'There's turkey, there's deer, [my son] buys from the farm market all kinds of beef,' he said. He was able to get the last generator at a local store in Murrysville on Tuesday night. On Friday, crews with First Energy were working on a substation in the woods between his house and Laughrey's. 'The transmission line was damaged, and we've been working very hard to get that back on,' said Todd Meyers, spokesperson for First Energy. Meyers said First Energy has crews from all over the region and other states helping out, and say power should be restored to most people in the Murrysville area either by the end of Saturday or by Monday. Laughrey can't wait. 'It's like living in a primitive world,' she said. Download the FREE WPXI News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Channel 11 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch WPXI NOW
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Business
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Users express frustrations with local tax collection company's website on Tax Day
According to the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, nearly a third of all tax districts in the state use Keystone Collections Group for local taxes. On Tuesday, Tax Day, their website has a message reading, 'An unrecoverable error has occurred.' It then directs the user to go back to the homepage. Channel 11′s Andrew Havranek called Keystone and got that same message over the phone. 'Keystone is currently experiencing higher than usual website traffic. If you encounter filing or payment issues you may remit by mail to ensure timely filing,' said an automated message. The office for Keystone Collections in Westmoreland County is closed to the public. Havranek spoke with a man off-camera who said he works there, and that the website had a temporary issue but was working. But emails to Channel 11 and posts online say otherwise. One email from a viewer just after 3 p.m. Tuesday said, 'As the deadline for local tax filings approaches, the site has become nearly unusable—locking out users, crashing, and failing to process filings properly. Keystone Collections needs to be held accountable for this failure, and more importantly, they need to publicly clarify whether affected taxpayers will receive a courtesy extension due to their system's outages.' Posts on X, formerly Twitter, show frustrations. One person responded to Pennsylvania Treasurer saying 'How much money have you wasted on that piece of garbage platform?' Another person said the Keystone Collections Group should be shut down. Havranek called several other numbers for Keystone Collections, but those calls did not go through, saying 'User Busy.' Channel 11 is continuing to work to get more information from Keystone on what this could mean for you if you're unable to file or pay on Tuesday. If you're mailing your taxes, they have to be postmarked by the end of Tuesday unless you file for an extension. Download the FREE WPXI News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Channel 11 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch WPXI NOW
