The week in photos: April 20, 2025

Wildlife rescue volunteer Karissa Murphy holds up “Jake the Snake,” a rescued ball python, at the Humane Animal Rescue of Pittsburgh’s Wildlife Baby Shower at their East Side Shelter in Homewood on Saturday, April 12, 2025. The event, which included children’s activities, rescued turtles, rats, and a python, benefited the HARP’s wildlife rescue program. (Sebastian Foltz/Post-Gazette)

Pedestrians walk through the rain on North Shore Drive on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Sebastian Foltz/Post-Gazette)

Brewery co-owner Nate McLaughlin fills kegs at Velum Fermentation Brewery on the South Side on Thursday, April 17, 2025. (Sebastian Foltz/Post-Gazette)

Travelers line up for the TSA security checkpoint at Pittsburgh International Airport on Friday, April 18, 2025.

Paul Orient and his partner, Susan Volkar of Nottingham Township, walk down an empty hallway to the alternate TSA security checkpoint, upstairs at Pittsburgh International Airport on Friday, April 18, 2025. The couple said they have been using the alternate checkpoint because of shorter lines. (Sebastian Foltz/Post-Gazette)

Cyclists ride the Three Rivers Heritage Trail at Point State Park on Friday, April 18, 2025. (Sebastian Foltz/Post-Gazette)

Roberto Clemente Jr.’s sons, Leo, left, and Roberto Clemente III, wait for their parents after the Pirates and the Clemente Foundation’s celebration of the 70th anniversary of Clemente Sr.’s Major League debut along General Robinson Street on Thursday, April 17, 2025. They are standing on the spot where the pitcher’s mound once stood. (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)

Duane Beachy, back left, and Jamie Clevinger, both of Meadville, forge hot steel into tools at Channellock Inc. in Meadville on Tuesday, April 14, 2025.

Sparks fly as Jim Kuhn of Conneautville polishes pliers made at Channellock Inc. in Meadville on Tuesday, April 14, 2025. (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)

Catholic Bishop David Zubik performed a Holy Thursday mass for prisoners, including a washing of feet of 12 inmates, representing the 12 apostles, at the Allegheny County Jail on Thursday, April 17, 2025. (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)

Catholic Bishop David Zubik wipes the feet of an inmate during a Holy Thursday mass at the Allegheny County Jail on Thursday, April 17, 2025.

The Construction project replacing the Commercial Street Bridge on I-376 Parkway East can be seen on Friday, April 11, 2025, in Swisshelm Park. (Benjamin B. Braun/Post-Gazette)

Kelly Comperatore Meeder, Corey Comperatore’s sister, left, and Tim Shaffer, a firefighter from Corey’s station, hug at Laube Hall on Saturday, April 12, 2025, in Freeport. Corey Comperatore passed away on Saturday, July 13, 2024, after he was shot in Butler during President Trump’s assassination attempt. His family hosted a blood drive in his memory today. (Benjamin B. Braun/Post-Gazette)

Jillian Ludwiczak and her husband Philip Call sit inside Jillian’s Restaurant on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in New Kensington. (Benjamin B. Braun/Post-Gazette)

Boys race in the one-mile race at the Butler Invitational Track Meet on Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Butler. (Benjamin B. Braun/Post-Gazette)

Mohamed Gamel Homamed Elyamany Fathelbeb, from Egypt, looks at his American citizenship document during a US citizen’s naturalization ceremony at the Heinz History Center on Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Downtown. (Benjamin B. Braun/Post-Gazette)

Tim Markowitz, of South Park, rides mountain bike trails on a slag heap by Les Getz Memorial Park on Friday, April 18, 2025, in Rankin. (Benjamin B. Braun/Post-Gazette)

Bishop David Zubik led a Palm Sunday mass at St. Paul Cathedral in Oakland on Sunday, April 13, 2025. (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)

Pictured, from left, Shon Thompson, Antonio Moreno, Robert Gallic and Ron Gallagher, all employees of LA Sebastian Painting Inc. of McKeesport, took advantage of the balmy weather to paint the brick walls on St. John the Evangelist Orthodox Church in Beaver Falls on Monday, April 14, 2025. (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)

Dr. Brian Johnson, MD, President of West Penn Hospital talks with Kelly Swanlek, Quality Coordinator, West Penn Hospital about a section of the Core Donor quilt during a program designed to recognize National Donate Life Month with a flag raising ceremony in front of the West Penn Emergency Department, Monday, April 14, 2025. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

A person leaves the DMV Driver License Center in Bridgeville Park on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Sebastian Foltz/Post-Gazette)

John Osborn, of Philadelphia, plays with his son, Jonny, 10, inside Randy Land on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in the North Side. The family is in town to see the Pittsburgh Pirates play the Washington Nationals tonight. (Benjamin B. Braun/Post-Gazette)