Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Friday, April 3, 2026:
Chatham taps Heinz History Center CEO as commencement speaker
Chatham University this week announced that Andrew E. Masich, president and CEO of the Senator John Heinz History Center, will serve as its commencement speaker this year.
The university’s ceremony is scheduled for May 3 at Highmark Stadium on the city’s South Side.
Masich has led the history center — and other museums linked to it, like the Fort Pitt Museum and Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village — since 1998. He also is a commissioner of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, an author and an adjunct professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University.
He will receive an honorary degree from Chatham during the ceremony.
Last month, Point Park University announced that Pittsburgh Mayor Corey O’Connor will serve as the featured speaker during its ceremony. Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, will offer the keynote speech at Carnegie Mellon University’s commencement.
No joke: 2 Pa. Lottery tickets win big on April Fool’s Day
Two Western Pa. lottery tickets may look like April Fool’s Day pranks — but the Pennsylvania Lottery says they’re genuine winners.
A pair of jackpot-winning Cash 5 with Quick Cash tickets worth a combined total of more than $1.4 million sold April 1, according to lottery officials.
The winning tickets — sold in Westmoreland and Beaver counties — each matched all five balls drawn to win prizes of over $727,000 each.
Both tickets were sold at Coen Markets locations — one on Mount Pleasant Road in Mount Pleasant and the other on Duss Avenue in Ambridge.
The retailers will each get a $5,000 bonus for selling the lucky tickets.
More than 30,700 other Cash 5 tickets also won prizes of varying amounts, lottery officials said in a news release.