Justin Vellucci stories, Page 4

Independence Day revelry will be moved, yet again, out of Downtown Pittsburgh and into the city’s North Shore neighborhood — and city police Thursday said they’re ready for the crowds. Construction at Point State Park is forcing event organizers, as they did last year, to stage the Fourth of July...

Mystery continues to surround the investigation into the death last month of a Troy Hill woman, whose homicide was acknowledged only Thursday by Pittsburgh police. Patricia Kachinko, a lifelong homemaker and grandmother of three, died June 24 from respiratory complications caused by blunt force trauma to the chest, the Allegheny...

Authorities have ruled a Troy Hill woman’s death last week was a homicide. Patricia Kachinko, 73, died June 24 in an area hospital, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said Wednesday. Her cause of death was respiratory complication from blunt force trauma of the chest. Pittsburgh police are investigating, the...

Pittsburgh police have filed charges in two incidents of unruly behavior on the South Side — one involving gunfire and the other physical violence — that punctuated a chaotic few days in the city’s busiest, most heavily patrolled entertainment district. In the first, police said a Forest Hills woman fired...

Slow-moving thunderstorms are predicted to drop up to 3 inches of rain and trigger potential flash flooding in parts of several Southwestern Pennsylvania counties, a National Weather Service meteorologist said Tuesday. By 11:30 a.m., first responders were reporting flooding on Allegheny River Boulevard in Pittsburgh; Freeport Road near UPMC St....

Neither Isiah McCarthy or Tyrant Sutton ever led a football huddle as a high school team’s star quarterback or scored a game-winning touchdown to clinch a playoff berth. But the two teens killed in a shooting in Pitcairn were remembered Friday for how they wore the Clairton Bears’ jersey with...

Border guards seized more than a dozen knockoff Rolex watches and 12 pairs of counterfeit, designer-imitating sunglasses — with a street value of $573,000 — that arrived at Pittsburgh International Airport, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said Thursday. The suspect shipment, whose contents were labeled “Empty poly bag...

Two Brighton Heights men Thursday pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 5 to 10 years in prison for their role in a 2022 shooting on Pittsburgh’s North Side, where a barrage of dozens of gunshots killed a 40-year-old man and injured three others. Dayqual Allen, 22, and Andre Allen, 23,...

Family members from both sides of a fatal domestic dispute appeared in a Pittsburgh court Thursday to speak on behalf of their loved ones. Charlotte Hill, an East Hills woman who fatally shot her boyfriend in 2023 after a fight, has always been a kind, honest, and empathetic mother of...

A North Hills man who an Allegheny County Jail corrections officer taunted while shocking him with a Taser last year will receive $50,000 in a settlement of his federal civil rights lawsuit, officials said Tuesday. “That feels good baby,” the lawsuit claims a corrections officer said to plaintiff Brian Estep,...

Nine Royal Canadian Air Force pilots wowed crowds Sunday when they shot and twirled their Snowbirds through the air during the Shop ‘n Save Westmoreland International Airshow 2025. Aerobatics aficionados pointed fingers — and cellphone cameras — toward the sun as members of the U.S. Military Academy dramatically parachuted, with...

Craig Monstrola sat in the shade beneath a military plane’s 95-foot wingspan — and watched a bit of history unfold on a seemingly unending stretch of tarmac. Monstrola was anxious to catch the Royal Canadian Air Force make its Snowbirds pirouette in the sky Saturday above Arnold Palmer Regional Airport...

A man was hospitalized in critical condition early Saturday after being shot in Pittsburgh’s Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar neighborhood, authorities said. Pittsburgh police were dispatched to the 7000 block of Churchland Street shortly before 1:30 a.m. for reports of gunfire, a police spokeswoman said. Police found a man in the driver’s seat of...

Two people were treated at local hospitals late Friday after a shooting in Wilkinsburg. County dispatchers sent police to the 800 block of Wallace Avenue around 10:10 p.m. after a report of a shooting, an Allegheny County Police spokesman said. Responding officers found one spent bullet casing on the ground...

Quay Simmons, a Juneteenth vendor sporting a “Strong As A Mother” T-shirt, wasn’t going to let a little rain on Thursday get her down. For the fifth year now, the Pittsburgh native has left her day job driving trucks to haul a booth’s worth of quirky bracelets and colorful purses...

A 2-year-old girl died Thursday afternoon after drowning in an East Pittsburgh pool, police said. Police and first responders were dispatched to a pool in the 500 block of Howard Street shortly after 1 p.m. Kehlani Russell was taken to UPMC Children’s Hospital where she later died at 2:22 p.m.,...

Sheriff’s deputies Thursday arrested a man and a woman, both wanted for violating probation, at a Bell Acres home. Eric Bosh, 43, of Ambridge, was named a fugitive a month ago after he violated his probation for a guilty plea of fleeing a police officer, a sheriff’s spokesman said. Moon...

Two men and one woman pleaded guilty Thursday in connection with a 2022 shooting on Pittsburgh’s North Side, where a barrage of dozens of gunshots killed Stephone Drayton and injured three others. Hezekiah Nixon, 19, of Pittsburgh; Andrew Johnson, 29, of Coraopolis; and Tylajae Allen, 24, of Pittsburgh, stood separately...

Authorities have identified the teenager killed Wednesday in a Wilkinsburg shooting. Deglin St. Clair, 18, of Pittsburgh’s Larimer neighborhood, was shot in the 1700 block of Wilkinsburg’s Wesley Street shortly before 5:30 p.m., the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said Thursday. The victim was taken to UPMC Mercy hospital, where...

Two Pittsburgh-area U.S. House members on Wednesday blasted President Donald Trump for opening the possibility of thrusting the U.S. into war in the Middle East without congressional approval. Social media posts by some of their Republican counterparts, meanwhile, did not mention the ongoing missile strikes between Israel and Iran but...

A Downtown Pittsburgh stabbing left a man hospitalized in critical condition early Wednesday. Pittsburgh police found the man, who they did not name, lying on the ground and screaming around 5 a.m. near the intersection of Liberty Avenue and Smithfield Street, a spokeswoman said. He had been stabbed multiple times...

Police on Tuesday arrested a Duquesne man in the killing of Tywone McClain last weekend inside a city bar. Marvin Harpool, 51, shot McClain, 26, once in the head last Friday at the Safari Club bar, according to a criminal complaint. Harpool had stepped between McClain and an unnamed woman...

Two Pittsburghers — one a Jew who lived for a decade in Israel, the other an Iranian-American with family in Tehran — offered starkly differing views Friday about Israel’s preemptive attacks on Iran less than 24 hours earlier. “This isn’t Israel attacking and beginning another war, this is a war...

An understaffed medical team at Allegheny County Jail was “deliberately indifferent” in 2023 to an inmate’s opioid withdrawal, which ended in the Beaver County man’s death, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday. Zachary J. Sahm, 27, of Glasgow, died in the Downtown lockup on Sept. 13, 2023 — four days...

Allegheny County and a McCandless police officer have settled a lawsuit by a Hampton man who claims his civil rights were violated when an Allegheny County Jail corrections officer handcuffed and shocked him with a Taser last year, officials told TribLive on Thursday. “That feels good baby,” the lawsuit claims...