‘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...
MLK Day in New Kensington highlights tech, community and the power of dreams
When Darryl Johnson talked Monday about celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. on what would have been the civil rights leader’s 97th birthday, four words came to the New Kensington pastor’s mind — a variation on King’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. “My dreams matter, too.” “It’s not just mine...
Pittsburgh police use Taser on man after domestic call
A Pittsburgh police officer deployed a Taser on a man after a domestic incident early Monday in the city’s North Side. Police said they were dispatched around 7:45 a.m. to the 2100 block of Rhine Street in Pittsburgh’s Spring Hill-City View neighborhood. A man — who police later identified as...
Woman escapes injury in Harrison house fire
Nobody was injured in a house fire Monday afternoon in Harrison. Firefighters from a half-dozen companies responded at 2:15 p.m. to the fire, which started near the rear of a single-family home at 809 Jefferson Ave. A woman who lives in the house was the only person inside when the...
Man stabbed in North Side argument
A man was stabbed in the neck early Monday following an argument in Pittsburgh’s North Side. The victim, who police have not named, was hospitalized in stable condition, police said. Pittsburgh police were dispatched to the 400 block of Mount Pleasant Road in the city’s Northview Heights neighborhood around 5:30...
Judge delays ruling on Millvale’s $2M emergency loan request
A judge Friday delayed his ruling on Millvale’s emergency request to take out a $2 million loan to fend off a potential budget crisis. Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge John T. McVay, Jr. said he needs the consultant guiding debt restructuring for the municipality of 3,300 residents to testify before...
Steelers’ former sales manager, a gay woman, sues team for gender discrimination
A gay woman who worked as a corporate sales manager for the Pittsburgh Steelers has sued the team, claiming she did not receive pay equal to her male peers and was discriminated against because of her gender and sexual orientation. Attorneys for the former employee, Allegheny County resident Chelsea Zahn,...
Judge signals support for emergency $2M loan for Millvale
A judge Thursday morning said he was “leaning toward” green-lighting an emergency request by Millvale to take out a $2 million loan to avert a looming budget crisis. Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge John T. McVay Jr. did not rule from the bench on the borough’s request but said he’d...
Century III Mall demolition nears end as potential buyer voices interest
Demolition of Century III Mall, whose decades-long fall from grace saw the third-largest mall in the world collapse into “a monument to blight,” is expected to wrap up by spring, Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said Wednesday. A potential buyer has voiced interest in developing the 100-acre...
Ex-boyfriend gets up to 60 years for killing woman at Bellevue bus stop
A Pittsburgh man is headed to prison for up to 60 years for killing an ex-girlfriend with her own gun. DeAngelo Zieglar, 29, pleaded guilty Tuesday to murdering Rachel Dowden four years ago after the 28-year-old woman walked from her job at a Cricket cellphone store to a Bellevue bus...
Man who shot Monroeville police sergeant sent to prison for attempted homicide
A Beaver County man convicted of trying to kill a Monroeville police officer is headed to prison for up to 70 years. Jamal Brooks wounded Monroeville Sgt. James J. MacDonald in the Jan. 3, 2024, shooting. Brooks, 34, of Aliquippa was sentenced Monday in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court to...
Bikers berserk: 10 to stand trial in Washington County bar brawl said to involve War Dogs, Pagans
A district judge Friday tossed out dozens of charges stemming from a violent biker brawl last year at a Washington County bar that prosecutors called part of a yearslong turf battle between “outlaw motorcycle gangs.” Authorities accused the defendants of savagely beating a bar patron from a rival gang with...
Morning roundup: Somerset County man killed in 2-vehicle crash; SWAT standoff ends with 1 person in custody
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Thursday, Jan. 8: ______________________________ Somerset County man killed in 2-vehicle crash A man was killed Wednesday night in a two-vehicle crash in Fayette County. Michael Duritsky Jr., 28, of Addison, a tiny Somerset County town 5 miles north of...
McKeesport man gets 2 life sentences for murdering his mother and her friend
Pennsylvania state law required an Allegheny County judge Wednesday to sentence a McKeesport man to life in prison without parole in the 2024 killing of his mother and her friend. Prosecutors and pair of mourning families, however, asked Common Pleas Judge Jennifer Satler to do more — and acknowledge “the...
McCandless couple charged in ‘elaborate’ food-stamp fraud
Pennsylvania’s attorney general has charged a McCandless couple with running an “elaborate scheme” to illegally buy food stamps at a cut rate, use them to purchase nearly $180,000 in food from area stores, then resell the items at their Pittsburgh deli and restaurant. Rachna Anwar, 46, and her husband, Munir...
