Mt. Oliver cop rear-ends SUV with child inside on Route 51
Danielle Staub regularly takes the same left turn off southbound Route 51 when leaving her friend’s house in Pittsburgh’s Overbrook neighborhood. Staub’s usually uneventful route turned traumatic early Monday when a marked Mt. Oliver police car smashed into her SUV from behind as her 8-year-old daughter sat in the back....
Downtown Pittsburgh assault near Kaufmann’s clock leads to 3 arrests
Police on Wednesday arrested three of four suspects charged with punching and kicking a man dozens of times earlier this month while beating him in Downtown Pittsburgh near the landmark Kaufmann’s clock. The three — Shakeem Griffey, 31, of Pittsburgh; Mateke Katzbeck, 26, of Pittsburgh; and Caleb Mitchell, 23, of...
Mt. Washington’s PJ McArdle Roadway reopens after rockfall
Pittsburgh’s PJ McArdle Roadway reopened Wednesday afternoon less than five hours after city officials closed it when rocks fell from a Mt. Washington hillside. Workers from multiple Pittsburgh departments responded to the scene around 9:15 a.m. following a report of fallen rocks, said Molly Onufer, a spokeswoman for Mayor Corey...
Wilkinsburg man to face trial on charges he held people at gunpoint in Duquesne home
A Wilkinsburg man is facing trial after police said he held a group of people captive at gunpoint at a Duquesne home in December — just days after being released from jail for a separate assault. During a preliminary hearing Tuesday in Duquesne, a district judge held 20 charges against...
Driver waives hearing, faces trial in fiery wrong-way crash on Parkway West
A man is headed to trial on charges that he was drunk in October when he drove his SUV into oncoming Parkway West traffic and struck a second vehicle before both cars burst into flames. Tristan Michael Larson, 23, of Moon on Tuesday waived his preliminary hearing on two DUI...
‘Electric personality’: Jesse Jackson left lasting impressions in Pittsburgh
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights icon who died Tuesday, stumped in Pittsburgh during his presidential runs in 1984 and 1988, and returned a generation later to rally the city behind President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign. But one retired city police officer remembered Jackson for a far more humble...
Jason Lando sworn in as Pittsburgh police chief
A childhood dream culminated Friday amid fanfare, a few jokes and a City Council chamber packed with a who’s-who of Pittsburgh public safety. Jason Lando, once a Pittsburgh boy who dreamed of becoming a city cop, raised his right hand before a standing-room-only Downtown audience as a judge swore him...
Pittsburgh police officer placed on leave after bar fight
A Pittsburgh police officer has been placed on paid administrative leave after a fight was reported at an area bar. The police bureau’s command staff “was made aware of an altercation in a bar outside of the city” that involved multiple off-duty police officers, Cara Cruz, a police spokeswoman, said...
Fatal crash ends search for suspect in McKees Rocks shooting
A suspect in a weekend shooting in McKees Rocks was found dead Monday after a car crash in nearby Kennedy. Allegheny County Police said they identified Edward Sparrow, 22, a suspect in a Saturday night shooting that critically injured a woman in the 100 block of McKees Rocks’ Jane Street....
79 stolen guns, 8 teens arrested, more than 1,400 charges
Authorities have arrested eight teenagers they say stole dozens of guns in “smash-and-grab” robberies at Pittsburgh-area gun shops last year — weapons later linked to multiple shootings, including the death of a 7-year-old boy. The suspects, seven of them juveniles, used stolen cars to travel between break-ins at gun shops...
‘She had a presence’: Fashionistas recall model Jacinta Stevens, who died in Monongahela River crash
The Pittsburgh fashion industry is mourning Jacinta Stevens, a promising model who was killed last week when her car crashed into the icy Monongahela River. North Hills fashion designer Eva Dixon will always remember the 31-year-old mother of two in a single outfit: the striking, emerald halter-top gown Dixon designed...
Shelter from the storm: Pittsburgh-area homeless community finds relief from brutal weather
A Greyhound bus dropped Drezon “Dre” Pankey in Downtown Pittsburgh two weeks before a winter storm shut down the city with 14 inches of snow. Born in Ohio and raised in Florida, the former high school football running back knew no one here. He carried everything he owned, including a...
Pedestrian hit by bus in Oakland ‘up and walking’
A 21-year-old pedestrian who was struck by a Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus in Oakland Monday night is “up and walking” and expected to be released from the hospital Tuesday, a transit agency spokesman said. First responders took the woman, who authorities have not named, to UPMC Presbyterian hospital in critical...
Veteran prosecutor who helmed Pittsburgh synagogue shooting case named U.S. Attorney for Western Pa.
A prosecutor who helped convict the gunman now on death row for fatally shooting 11 congregants in a Squirrel Hill synagogue in 2018 is officially at the helm of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Pittsburgh. U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi has appointed longtime prosecutor Troy Rivetti as U.S. Attorney for...
‘We’re devastated’: Jury’s acquittal in Pittsburgh killing enrages victim’s mother
A jury has acquitted a Hill District man who faced homicide charges after opening fire during a 2022 shootout between rival gangs on the North Side that left three people dead. Jaylone Hines, 25, was found not guilty last week on multiple homicide, attempted homicide and aggravated assault charges in...
Youth advocate who coerced teen into sexual relationship sued in Allegheny County
A social worker who engaged in a sexual relationship with a teenage client for more than a year has been sued by the victim in Allegheny County civil court. Youth Advocate Programs employee Britta Emberg was 27 when she “threatened” the teen, who was half her age, to begin dating...
Hospital staff sleep over as Pittsburgh-area facilities stay open through major snowstorm
While emergency-room traffic Sunday remained on the slower side in Pittsburgh-area hospitals, hundreds of doctors and nurses were preparing to spend the night in these facilities to ensure the injured and ailing had access to health care in the midst of the massive snowfall. It’s difficult to pinpoint how many...
PRT suspends service until Monday morning; Westmoreland Transit service halted until noon Monday
Heavy snowfall and “deteriorating conditions” led Pittsburgh Regional Transit to suspend all bus and rail service in the region Sunday at around 5 p.m., the transit agency posted to social media. Normal operations are expected to resume Monday morning. In Westmoreland County, all fixed-route bus service from Westmoreland Transit is...
‘Greenfield’s going to celebrate’: Hometown beams as Mike McCarthy takes over Steelers
As the Pittsburgh Steelers on Saturday afternoon prepared to crown Mike McCarthy their new head coach, Greenfield — the predominantly working-class community in the city’s East End where the coach grew up — glowed with “local boy makes good” narratives. “I’m an admitted fair-weather fan — but I know him...
Suicide threat thwarted by State Police at Indiana Regional Medical Center, man in custody
The state police took a man into custody Friday after thwarting an incident that could have ended in a suicide. Troopers were dispatched around 3:40 p.m. to a parking lot at Indiana Regional Medical Center in White Township for a report of “an armed, suicidal man in a vehicle,” Trooper...
Coraopolis man’s death ruled a homicide nearly a year after Butler County altercation
Nearly a year after a Coraopolis man was killed in an altercation, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled his death a homicide. It remains unclear if prosecutors in Butler County, where the fatal incident took place, will file criminal charges in the death. Donald P. Miller, 59, was...
Woman pleads guilty in deadly red-light motorcycle crash in Downtown Pittsburgh
A Greene County woman pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter this week for fatally striking a motorcyclist after running a red light in Downtown Pittsburgh on a summer night in 2024. According to a criminal complaint, Amy Robinson, 47, of Waynesburg, crashed a Ford F-150 truck into James Christopher’s Harley-Davidson motorcycle...
Man shot on Pittsburgh’s East Hills Drive, site of multiple homicides last year
A man was critically injured Wednesday morning after a shooting in Pittsburgh’s East Hills. Pittsburgh police said they were dispatched around 8:20 a.m. to the 2300 block of East Hills Drive, where they found the injured man inside a home. The man, who authorities have not named, had been shot...
Man fatally stabbed in Friendship hours after police responded to roommate dispute
Pittsburgh police early Wednesday arrested a man they say fatally stabbed his roommate hours earlier in their home in Pittsburgh’s Friendship neighborhood. Police were dispatched around 6 p.m. Tuesday to a home in the 200 block of South Aiken Avenue for “a dispute between roommates,” Pittsburgh Acting police Chief Jason...
Israeli flag vandalized in Pittsburgh, prompting antisemitism concerns
Pittsburgh police are investigating what one group called an antisemitic act after an Israeli flag was slashed in the city’s North Side — for the third time in two years. Video footage from the 1500 block of Buena Vista Street in the city’s Mexican War Streets neighborhood caught a man...
