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The Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County will ramp up its efforts this year to replace thousands of lead waterlines throughout its five-county service area. Authority officials announced this week it will use a $1 million state grant to pay for the swapping out of as many as 200 waterlines in...

Voters in Allegheny County will have more options to drop off mail-in ballots in time for April’s primary. The drop-off service is expanding from one location in Downtown Pittsburgh to up to a half-dozen across the county. Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato announced Thursday the election office will be adding...

La Roche University has named as its eighth president Christina Clark, former provost at Marywood University in Scranton, who has spent two decades as an academic at comprehensive Catholic universities. Officials announced the hiring Thursday. She takes office in July as the school’s second lay president in its 61-year history....

Following a nearly three-year process of identifying deficiencies and submitting amended water management plans, the state’s Department of Environmental Protection granted a permit for fracking company PennEnergy Resources to draw millions of gallons of water from the Big Sewickley Creek. The permit allows the Cranberry company to place and maintain...

On this date 37 years ago, the world lost its king of pop art. Pittsburgh native Andy Warhol died suddenly of complications after a routine gallbladder surgery Feb. 22, 1987, in New York. He was 58. The world knew him as pop artist Andy Warhol. But to his nephew Donald...

Allegheny County Police have arrested a Monroeville man on charges that he fatally shot the mother of their child in a Baldwin Borough apartment earlier this month. Adelin Itongwa, 22, is being charged with criminal homicide and endangering the welfare of a child in the death of Ramiah Griffin, county...

Were this any other year, the leader of Pennsylvania’s 10 state-owned universities simply might have needed to defend next year’s appropriation request and explain how it would enable a sixth consecutive tuition freeze. Instead, State System of Higher Education Chancellor Daniel Greenstein faced sharp questioning from state senators Wednesday about...

A Warren County man was arrested Tuesday after, authorities said, he tried to bring a loaded handgun onto his flight at Pittsburgh International Airport. Jeremy Snell, 36, of Warren was charged with a felony count of carrying a firearm without a license after Transportation Security Administration officers found a 9mm...

The Homer S. Brown Division of the Allegheny County Bar Association is celebrating its first children’s book, “Black Lawyers of the Burgh: An Anthology,” with the community on Saturday. The book, published earlier this month, profiles 28 local Black attorneys and judges and their career journeys. The theme for the...

Gabriella Ballock first met Chartiers Valley teacher Chuck Barber when she was a new student and couldn’t get inside the high school building. Barber, an applied engineering and technology teacher, opened the door to let her inside the school. And as Ballock entered the engineering and shop facility, she knew...

A medic from Lower Kiski Ambulance Service was seriously injured when the ambulance she was in crashed Wednesday near The Waterworks mall in Pittsburgh. According to a spokeswoman for Pittsburgh Public Safety, the crash was reported around 4 a.m. along Freeport Road near the strip mall and Walnut Grill restaurant....

A Monroeville woman died of injuries suffered in a fatal crash Tuesday evening in Monroeville. Emergency responders were called to the intersection of Haymaker and Ramsey roads around 7:45 p.m., according to TribLive news partner WTAE, for a report that an SUV had struck a utility pole. Kimberly Andonisio, 47,...

Allegheny County and Pittsburgh Public Schools officials are hoping to spur new development in the city’s Downtown to address the loss of tens of thousands of office workers the neighborhood has seen since the covid pandemic by offering 10 years worth of tax breaks to encourage growth. County Council passed...

A former Penn Hills man who prosecutors say was involved with a gang trafficking in fentanyl has been sentenced to more than 24 years in federal prison after being convicted of conspiracy. U.S. District Judge Marilyn J. Horan imposed the 293-month sentence Tuesday on Jamal Knox, 29, in federal court...

Over 70 speakers filled the Allegheny County Council chambers Tuesday evening and called for the local government body to pass a resolution supporting a ceasefire in the ongoing Israel/Hamas war. The residents and activists pressured the 15 council members to join other local bodies across the country in calling for...

Authorities arrested a woman Tuesday on charges that she and a partner held a man captive for 10 hours in a Penn Hills home, stripped him naked and tortured him. Yolanda Scott, 32, of Pittsburgh’s Larimer neighborhood was taken to the Allegheny County Jail after sheriff’s deputies found her in...

A forensic pathologist said that Mark Thompson’s heart was three times the size it should have been, and that he died as a result of “an acute cardiac event.” But Thompson’s family said he never would have died in July 2021 if a man hadn’t attacked him outside the Loose...

Veteran WPXI news anchor Peggy Finnegan’s home is on the market and contingent. It was listed at $714,900. The classic contemporary architectural style house on Ash Court in Marshall is owned by Finnegan, who announced her retirement after three decades in December 2020. The Herbert custom home was built in...

Necromancer Brewing Co. in Ross is closing. And that means Midnight Whistler Pub in Greenfield won’t be opening. The decision was announced Monday in an Instagram post. The microbrewery and brew pub was open for three years and Midnight Whistler, a second location, was planned to open in the former...

Peggy Heidish’s son, Zachary, died last June of a fentanyl overdose just two months after he completed an inpatient recovery program to combat his opioid addiction. Heidish, of Edgewood, said her 35-year-old son came back home that spring in high spirits and was ready to move on with his life...

Stephanie Ottey acknowledges that most organizations wouldn’t celebrate their 62nd anniversary. But the newly-named president knows that the 62nd anniversary holds a different meaning for Stage 62, a Carnegie nonprofit theater company. Stage 62 started in Bethel Park in 1962 as an adult education theater project, and has since evolved...

The Chartiers Valley High School dance troupe knows how to choreograph the right moves for success, even at the national level. The 11-member dance team at Chartiers Valley High School earned second place with its hip-hop routine at the national competition in Orlando, Fla.. It also advanced straight to the...

Here are a few morning news items for Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. Penn Township garage destroyed by fire An explosion and subsequent fire destroyed a garage in Penn Township late Saturday night. TribLive news partner WTAE reports that dozens of firefighters worked late into the night battling a fire which...

When Lena Bryan-Henderson was growing up in Wilkinsburg in the 1970s, her family dinner conversations frequently revolved around civil rights. “It was table talk every evening almost — about the prejudices and the injustices that people who look like me had to endure,” she said. Then, when she was about...