Forum to discuss Market Square, public safety as tensions rise in Pittsburgh
An advocacy group is holding a Downtown Pittsburgh forum about public safety Tuesday night — just days after city officials put temporary restrictions on juveniles in Market Square and hours after a man succumbed to gunshot injuries in the first homicide in 2026 in the city’s central business district. Rise...
Man dies after Market Square shooting
A man hospitalized in critical condition after being shot Monday night in Market Square has died, a Pittsburgh police spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victim Tuesday afternoon as Terryll Little, 19, of Duquesne. Police said they were dispatched around 11 p.m. following a report...
Shotgun threat erupts in Fayette home; man charged after firing at brother during overnight confrontation
A Fayette County was charged last weekend with storming into his ex-girlfriend’s house and firing two shots from a 12-gauge shotgun — one while aiming at his own brother. Pennsylvania State Police said Sebastian Kozakovsky, 23, of Connellsville, arrived uninvited around 1:50 a.m. Saturday at his ex-girlfriend’s house in Dunbar,...
Millvale showdown fizzles fast after police post Facebook warning
High noon looked like it was set to arrive an hour early Tuesday in Millvale. Millvale police Chief Timothy Komoroski took to social media Monday afternoon to give three unidentified people an ultimatum: Call his detectives by 11 a.m. the next day about a vehicle they “brutally damaged” on Sheridan...
Cash, code words and contraband: Guards charged in Fayette prison drug ring
State corrections officials have fired two jail guards they say ran a drug ring at a Fayette County prison, fueled by code words shared over jail phone calls and packages mailed from nonexistent addresses. Pennsylvania State Police said a former inmate at State Correctional Institute-Fayette helped corrections officers Beau Thomas...
2 injured in South Side stabbing on East Carson Street
Two men were injured in an early-morning stabbing Sunday in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood, police said. The incident comes amid an uptick in crime in the city’s largest entertainment district. Pittsburgh police said they were dispatched shortly after 3 a.m. for a fight near the intersection of East Carson and...
From rye whiskey to hearth-baked bread, West Overton market blends history with craft
Little dust gathered Saturday morning on the $50 bottles of freshly bottled rye whiskey — a concoction clear as water but packed with a 100-proof punch — that Patrick A. Bochy served and peddled during a spring market at West Overton Village. It turned out a second drink — the...
‘We were given nothing’ Relatives of North Side shootout victims feel robbed of justice
Bridgette Mehalic settled wearily into the wooden chair of a Downtown Pittsburgh courtroom in January expecting justice. Instead, she got heartache. Mehalic was sure jurors would convict the man charged with killing her daughter Jacquelyn, 33, at a North Side bus stop during a wild shootout more than three years...
‘We were given nothing’: Relatives of North Side shootout victims feel robbed of justice
Bridgette Mehalic settled wearily into the wooden chair of a Downtown Pittsburgh courtroom in January expecting justice. Instead, she got heartache. Mehalic was sure jurors would convict the man charged with killing her daughter Jacquelyn, 33, at a North Side bus stop during a wild shootout more than three years...
‘She was not alone’: Stranger comforted Fort Duquesne Bridge crash victim after fatal wreck
Danielle Jackman’s hand was still warm Wednesday when a stranger reached into what was left of the Churchill woman’s car — its hood smashed and doors mangled in a five-car wreck — to grab hold of it. Jackman’s face was covered in so much blood, one couldn’t tell if she...
Police charge 6 teen girls with beating woman inside Sephora store in Shadyside
Police on Tuesday arrested six teenage girls for trapping a woman inside a Shadyside beauty supplies store while they punched, kicked and beat her with a metal sign. The Shady Avenue store said the vicious attack left behind about $30,000 in damages. Pittsburgh police said they were dispatched around 5:45...
Police accuse Luzerne County man of luring Whitehall girl over Discord app
A 27-year-old Luzerne County man has been charged with using the online chat forum Discord to lure a South Hills teen to his eastern Pennsylvania home for sex. Christopher P. Jones, of Nanticoke, a small suburb about 25 miles southwest of Scranton, was arrested Monday on six felony charges, including...
Man convicted in deadly East Hills shooting
A jury has found a North Versailles man guilty for fatally shooting a 44-year-old man in Pittsburgh’s East Hills neighborhood. Jerome Thompson, 45, was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder in the killing last year of Conrad Rozier, court records show. The jury also found Thompson guilty of conspiracy to commit...
School bus driver charged with DUI after ‘erratic’ ride with Bethel Park volleyball team
A school bus driver faces DUI and other charges after police say she drove the vehicle into oncoming traffic, swerved between lanes and rolled through at least one stop sign while shuttling student-athletes late last month to Bethel Park High School. Police said Jeanne Bennett, 68, of Bethel Park had...
Victim identified in fatal Hill District shooting
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified a 38-year-old man as the victim fatally shot last month in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. Pittsburgh police said officers were dispatched around 2:30 a.m. April 18 to the 2500 block of Chauncey Drive in the Bedford Dwellings housing development. The gunshot detection system...
Police charge 4 in brazen gunpoint heist at Wilmerding vape shop
Four suspects have been charged — but only one apprehended — for armed robbery after stealing $25,000 worth of merchandise from a Wilmerding vape shop earlier this month. Police said the group — Israel Creath, 19, of North Versailles; Jaamayl Crosby, 20, of Pittsburgh; Jaamar Crosby, 17, of Dayton, Ohio;...
Teen charged in late-night knife attack outside Downtown Pittsburgh police station
A teenage girl has been charged with repeatedly stabbing another juvenile in front of the Pittsburgh police Downtown Public Safety Center late Thursday. It was one of three stabbings, including one that was fatal, that occurred across the city in a two-day period. Surveillance video footage showed De’Love Henderson, 15,...
Man critically injured by tow truck on Pittsburgh’s South Side
A man was in critical condition Wednesday morning after being struck by a tow truck in Pittsburgh. The truck was towing a vehicle in the 2000 block of Wharton Street in the city’s South Side neighborhood around 7 a.m. when the man ran in front of it and tripped, Eliza...
Last defendant sentenced in stabbing death of mentally ill man in Pittsburgh
A judge Tuesday sentenced the last of three defendants in the fatal 2024 stabbing of a mentally ill man at an abandoned Pittsburgh house. Carlena Wells, 20, was sentenced to 2½ to 5 years in prison on a conspiracy to commit aggravated assault charge in the March 2024 death of...
Police find human remains in Clairton home
Police found a dead man inside a Clairton home Monday night but do not suspect foul play. Allegheny County Police said they were dispatched around 11 p.m. Monday to the 400 block of 5th Street after someone called 911 about finding “human remains.” Police said early indications show “no obvious...
Away from the main stage, a different kind of Draft day unfolds in the Hill District
The NFL Draft remained free to enter Friday but thousands who flocked to Pittsburgh’s North Shore dug into their wallets to snatch up Draft-themed T-shirts featuring the city’s iconic bridges ($49.99) or down an ice-cold IPA beer ($21.25 a can). Ra’Dale Taylor was less interested in celebrating the Draft with...
NFL Draft opens to packed crowds, bright skies and strong start in Pittsburgh
The 2026 NFL Draft turned the eyes of the world toward Pittsburgh on Thursday — and the City of Champions did not disappoint. Thousands of football fans filled Point State Park and packed the draft’s massive footprint in the city’s North Shore neighborhood. They were greeted with unseasonably warm temperatures,...
Machete-wielding man charged after chasing kids from Pittsburgh taco shop
A Penn Hills man was arrested last weekend after chasing a group of kids out of a South Side store with a machete. Neal Sims, 33, told police he “attempted to remove the kids” out of La Bodega Taqueria — a popular, bodega-style taco shop in the city’s largest entertainment...
Could Pittsburgh shooter face homicide charge after victim dies nearly 7 years later?
Allegheny County prosecutors are considering whether to file a homicide charge in the case of a man who died last week after being paralyzed nearly seven years ago in a Pittsburgh shooting. A North Side woman — Judith White — pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and gun charges in the...
Pittsburgh police union raises alarms about staffing ahead of NFL Draft
On Thursday, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to start flooding Pittsburgh for the 2026 NFL Draft. But even as the city’s police force prepares for what could be the largest public event in Pittsburgh history, it’s clawing back from its worst staffing crisis in a generation. That worries...
