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Body found in river at Point State Park ID'd as Munhall man
The body found Wednesday morning floating in the Ohio River near Point State Park was identified Friday by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. Brian Foster Greenhow, 27, of Munhall, was found at 8:30 a.m. just off the point. The cause of death was drowning, the medical examiner said. Greenhow...
East Liberty man acquitted of homicide and robbery charges in 2017 Pitcairn case
An Allegheny County jury Friday acquitted a 31-year-old East Liberty man of most of the charges he faced for his suspected role in a 2017 Pitcairn robbery-turned-homicide. “We are obviously pleased with the jury’s verdict,” said defense attorney Randall McKinney. McKinney represented Jamal Darnell Pamplin in the case that was...
Mt. Oliver man is 3rd arrest in connection with Carrick double-shooting
All three men accused of being involved in a Nov. 14 double shooting in Carrick after a robbery are in custody. Allegheny County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Steven Hill, 25, of Mt. Oliver on Thursday. Hill faces two counts of robbery and one count of conspiracy for his suspected role in...
Retired astronaut talks to Pittsburgh students at Carnegie Science Center 
Mike Foale’s home movies are out of this world. Foale, 62, is a retired NASA astronaut, and Thursday he was in Pittsburgh to celebrate the opening of the Bosch Soundsee Research and Test Facility in the Strip District. He also made a stop at the Buhl Planetarium in the Carnegie...
Pittsburgh man confesses to 2015 homicide that had bothered him for a while
A North Side man confessed to a 2015 killing in Pittsburgh’s Northview Heights neighborhood because he’s been bothered by it for a while, police wrote in a criminal complaint. Randy Johnson, 25, provided a handwritten confession last week to the Nov. 16, 2015, killing of Deron McCray, 23, at a...
Police: Pittsburgh man found hiding in hollow log after chase in stolen car
A Pittsburgh man accused fleeing a traffic stop in a stolen car Saturday afternoon on Route 22 in Indiana County was found two hours later hiding in a hollow log in the woods, state police said. Andrew Lamont McCrommon, 28, was driving the 2016 Audi A4 on Route 22 in...
Handler of slain Pittsburgh police K-9 Rocco promoted to sergeant
The newest Pittsburgh police sergeant proved his ability as a leader on Jan. 28, 2014, when his partner, the police K-9 Rocco, was killed in the line of duty. Mayor Bill Peduto swore in Sgt. Philip Lerza on Tuesday. “The one thing I will always remember is your compassion,”Peduto told...
Aliquippa football coach Mike Warfield tapped as feds' new law enforcement coordinator
The leader of Aliquippa High’s storied football program has a new day job. Mike Warfield recently completed his second year as the Quips head coach. On Monday, U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady tapped Warfield, 50, of Center, to be the law enforcement coordinator for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the...
Coast Guard still investigating cause of barge crash into Smithfield Street Bridge
There are no long-term impacts after empty barges hit the Smithfield Street Bridge late Sunday night on the Monongahela River, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Investigators have yet to determine how many barges hit the bridge at about 11:20 p.m., Ensign William Russell said. There were 15 empty barges...
Court denies new trial for man convicted of 2014 murder of East Liberty sisters
A state appeals court has denied a Pittsburgh man’s request for a new trial in the 2014 killing of two sisters who lived next door to him in East Liberty. Allen Wade, 48, is serving consecutive life sentences, one for each victim, plus three consecutive terms of 10 to 20...
Police: Man shot with BB gun after fight between East Liberty neighbors
A man was hurt after being shot with a BB gun Saturday afternoon during a dispute between neighbors in East Liberty, police said. Pittsburgh Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz said police were called at about 12:45 p.m. to the 500 block of North Negley Avenue and the found a man...
Alle-Kiski Valley shoppers turn out to support small businesses as Christmas season begins 
The sounds of Christmas music and the sights of holiday trimmings abound at the Hole in the Wall on Leechburg Road in Lower Burrell. The store was filled with shoppers on Small Business Saturday, browsing the items for sale at one of the businesses in the Alle-Kiski Valley that depend...
Thousands pack 1 million meals at Pittsburgh convention center 
More than 4,000 people spent Black Friday morning packing meals in Downtown Pittsburgh instead of shopping among a crowd of strangers. They sang, laughed and prayed together as they packed more than 1 million meals of apple cinnamon oatmeal and chicken rice soup during the third Amen to Action, a...
PWSA: Upper Lawrencville boil water advisory lifted
Residents who live in Upper Lawrenceville no longer need to boil their water before using it, the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority said Friday. A precautionary flush and boil water advisory had been in effect since Wednesday after a water main broke on McCandless Avenue. The advisory was issued as...
PWSA: Boil water advisory issued for Upper Lawrenceville
A Wednesday morning water main break in Upper Lawrenceville has prompted the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority to issue a flush-and-boil water advisory for its customers in the area. PWSA was working to repair the break on McCandless Avenue, which was reported at about 6:30 a.m. Because the lines lost...
Harris Theater to remain open; lawsuit details fiscal woes at Pittsburgh Center for Arts
The Harris Theater in Downtown Pittsburgh will remain open through at least the end of the year, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust spokeswoman Robin Elrod said Wednesday. Programming at the Liberty Avenue theater was suspended on Monday, as part of extensive cuts and layoffs by the Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media,...
Feds bust 'Hustlas Don't Sleep' gang members from Pittsburgh's eastern suburbs
Federal drug charges were filed against 18 people prosecutors say sold drugs as part of a gang that operated in Pittsburgh’s eastern suburbs from September 2017 until this week. One of the men, Jason Jackson, 26, of Pittsburgh, remains wanted by the FBI. Jackson, whose nickname is “Action,” according to...
State police arrest 5, find 14 kilos of cocaine in Pittsburgh-area bust
An unnamed informant tipped state police about a cocaine operation in the Pittsburgh area that resulted in the arrests of five people at a parking garage in the area, according to a complaint filed in federal court. Authorities found 14 kilogram-sized bricks of suspected cocaine in hidden compartments in the...
2 buildings condemned after fire in Pittsburgh's Market Square 
Market Square restaurant owner Sergio Muto had been looking forward to one of the busiest days of the year — Light Up Night, when droves of people fill Downtown Pittsburgh. Instead of cooking Friday morning, Muto was inside his condemned restaurant, La Gondola Pizzeria, lamenting Thursday’s lunchtime fire at neighboring...
It wouldn't be the holidays in Pittsburgh without sinkhole bus gingerbread houses 
This year’s Christmas is filled with visions of … buses in sinkholes. It’s not as festive as the traditional sugarplums, but the infamous sinkhole in Pittsburgh’s Downtown figures prominently in the 2019 Pittsburgh Gingerbread House Competition. The annual competition is displayed this year at the City-County Building in Downtown. This...
Police: Armed robbery in Beechview leads to standoff in Mt. Oliver; suspect in custody
An armed man who police believe robbed a discount store in Beechview at about noon Wednesday was taken into custody after a short standoff in Mt. Oliver Borough, a Pittsburgh police spokesman said. The standoff closed a section of Brownsville Road for about an hour, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety...
Former altar boys sue Pittsburgh diocese alleging years of sexual abuse
Two former altar boys have accused a priest of almost daily sexual abuse for more than three years in the 1980s, according to a 27-page lawsuit filed against the Diocese of Pittsburgh, Bishop David A. Zubik and St. Alphonsus Catholic Church in McDonald. The diocese has yet to be served...
Police: Oakmont native confessed to killing Bethel Park woman in Nevada
An Oakmont native who confessed to killing a Bethel Park woman in the Nevada desert two months ago will remain in Allegheny County Jail without bail, a judge ruled Tuesday. But John Matthew Chapman, 39, of Oakland, Md., has yet to be charged with the death of Jaime Mae Feden,...
Judge: Trust fund can't be used to pay victims of clergy abuse in Pittsburgh diocese
The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh can’t use an $8 million trust fund intended to help needy boys to pay victims of clergy sexual abuse, an Allegheny County judge has ordered. Judge Lawrence O’Toole issued a three-paragraph order last week dismissing the diocesan request to use the 120-year-old Toner Trust that’s...
Police: Carrick man wanted in double shooting remains at large
A 23-year-old Carrick man remained at large Monday, wanted on charges in connection with a Thursday shooting of two teens during a robbery in Carrick, police said. Cody Smith, 23, is wanted on charges including attempted homicide, aggravated assault, robbery. Another man, Desmond Michael Jones, 20, no address listed, is...


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