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Woman hospitalized after Penn Hills shooting, boyfriend arrested
A woman was listed in stable condition after she was shot during a domestic incident early Saturday morning in Penn Hills. First responders found the 24-year-old woman with gunshot wounds in the legs, torso and arm at around 12:30 a.m. on Hebron Drive. She was taken to an area hospital....
Verona man dies after Penn Hills shooting
A Verona man has been identified as the victim in a fatal shooting in Penn Hills early Saturday morning. Kenneth E. Dorsey, 39, died from surgery-related complications at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Oakland, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner and Allegheny County Police said. Dorsey was shot in the abdomen around...
2 sides in legal battle over fatal Bricelyn Street fire still making their caseVideo
When Greg Brown entered a plea 27 years after a fire on Pittsburgh’s Bricelyn Street killed three city firefighters, the government saw it as a victory. Though the unusual Alford plea made earlier this year allows Brown to continue to proclaim his innocence and carries no additional sentence, he took...
Lawsuit alleges improprieties in cosmetology school
A former employee is suing the Fountain of Youth Academy of Cosmetology and its owner alleging financial improprieties, defamation and retaliation. Jennifer Michael, of Hopewell, filed the complaint against the school and owner Cheri Herold on Tuesday in federal court. It also includes claims under the state whistleblower act. Herold,...
Lawsuit accuses Moon child care center of failing to take action against employee accused of abusive conduct
The families of three small children are suing a Moon Township day care, alleging that a former employee there improperly punished them, including pulling down their pants and underwear in front of other children and employees. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, includes claims for negligence,...
Abby Lee Miller sells Penn Hills ‘Dance Moms’ studio
Reality TV star Abby Lee Miller appears to have closed the final chapter on “Dance Moms,” a Lifetime network series that led her to fame, as she has sold the Penn Hills dance studio where the show began. According to Allegheny County real estate records, the studio was sold to...
Authorities identify victim fatally shot Wednesday in Swissvale as Pittsburgh woman
A woman who was found fatally shot Wednesday night inside a car in Swissvale has been identified by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. The victim has been identified as Chanel Palmer, 31, of Pittsburgh. Police said they found Palmer, and an unidentified man, shot in a car Wednesday at...
13 former Allegheny County employees sue over coronavirus vaccine mandate
Thirteen former Allegheny County employees are suing the county after it denied their requests for religious and medical exemptions to receive the coronavirus vaccine. In a federal lawsuit, the employees allege the county breached an employment contract and violated the First and Fourteenth amendments when it terminated unvaccinated employees after...
Police: Monroeville woman fraudulently rented Avis cars for heroin, cash
A former Avis Car Rental regional manager faces charges after police say she fraudulently rented the company’s cars in exchange for heroin and cash. Jackie Neubauer, 40, of Monroeville began fraudulently renting cars at the Monroeville location in October, police say. Neubauer, the manager of four regional Avis locations, was...
Unhealthy pollution levels expected in 5 southern Allegheny County communities
The state is advising young children, the elderly and people with respiratory problems to limit outdoor activities Thursday in certain parts of Allegheny County. Fine particulate matter — microscopic materials that can be inhaled and cause health problems — are anticipated in Clairton, Glassport, Liberty Borough, Lincoln and Port Vue....
Verona students show their skills in making gingerbread houses
Third-grade students at Verner Elementary School in Verona recently took part in one of their most anticipated events of the holiday season when they put together a gingerbread house display. The display has been running for eight straight years at Verner, with the third-graders designing and creating their own houses...
Sewickley woman dies in Sewickley Heights crash
A 20-year-old woman has died as a result of injuries suffered in a crash Christmas Eve in Sewickley Heights. Camden Kiggins of Sewickley died about 4 p.m. Christmas Day, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. Kiggins was a passenger in a rollover crash in the 500 block of...
Overturned tractor-trailer that tied up Parkway West traffic cleared
An overturned tractor-trailer that was causing traffic headaches on the Parkway West for much of the day Tuesday has been cleared. PennDOT traffic cameras about 4:30 p.m. showed outbound traffic flowing through all lanes near the Campbells Run Road exit. The truck overturned near the border of Robinson and Collier...
Drop-off recycling programs turn live Christmas trees into mulch
Once the gifts have been unwrapped and the ornaments have been packed away, households that celebrated Christmas with a live tree have options for disposing of their used evergreen in an environmentally friendly way. Westmoreland Cleanways and Recycling has partnered with several local communities, organizations and businesses to offer its...
Luminary lighting in Bethel Park honors victims of Alzheimer’s disease
An estimated 6.5 million Americans ages 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s disease. “It’s awful. And in the next 25 years, that number will double,” Bethel Park resident Dayna Brown said. “So if you don’t know someone or haven’t personally experienced the effects of Alzheimer’s or another form of...
Allegheny County Police make arrest in Mt. Oliver homicide
Allegheny County Police announced an arrest Monday in the shooting death of a man in Mt. Oliver in August. Daleron Newman, 22, of Pittsburgh, is charged with criminal homicide in the Aug. 30 shooting death of Timothy Coates, 20, at Dawes and Frederick streets in the borough, county police said....
Broken water line forces evacuation of North Versailles apartment building
Tenants who were forced out of their North Versailles apartment building on Christmas Day because of a water main break that shutoff the building’s electricity were hoping Monday to be able to get into their residences to get needed items even while their building remained inhabitable. Several residents living in...
1 in critical condition following rollover crash in Sewickley Heights
One person is in critical condition and another in stable condition after a crash Christmas Eve in Sewickley Heights, according to police. First responders were called to the 500 block of Fern Hollow Road just before 10:15 p.m. Saturday night, arriving to find a vehicle that had rolled over after...
$50K winning New Year’s Millionaire Raffle ticket sold in Mt. Lebanon
One of two New Year’s Millionaire Raffle tickets worth $50,000 each was sold in Mt. Lebanon, the Pennsylvania Lottery announced. The prizes are part of the sixth weekly drawing in the raffle, which features eight weekly drawings that each award two prizes of $50,000 leading up to the major Jan....
Plum telethon raises more than $57,000 for Make-A-Wish Foundation
Everyone involved with Plum Borough School District’s 22nd annual Make-A-Wish Telethon figured the 2021 event would be a tough act to follow. After a year’s hiatus, the 2021 telethon returned to an enthusiastic response that took its cumulative fundraising total over the $1 million mark. Donors’ generosity continued in 2022,...
South Hills Lights festival celebrates Hanukkah
This year’s Hanukkah celebration has a special significance for Rabbi Mendel Rosenblum and, by extension, Jewish communities throughout the world. In leading the annual South Hills Lights festival on Dec. 19, Rosenblum told a story related to him by a fellow rabbi, Eliezer Chitrik of Nuremberg, Germany. In 1938, the...
3rd suspect arrested in 2019 shooting death in Wilkinsburg
A third suspect in a 2019 homicide in Wilkinsburg has been taken into custody, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. Jeremiah Ligon, 26, of Penn Hills, was arrested Wednesday by the Marshals’ Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force in connection with the shooting death of Mager Rainey, 22, of Pittsburgh’s Homewood...
Defense accuses government of providing empty tubes for DNA testing in Tree of Life case
Defense attorneys in the Tree of Life synagogue shooting said in a court filing this week that 11 of 17 plastic tubes of evidence provided to them for independent DNA testing were empty when they arrived at the lab in England. Attorneys for Robert Bowers are asking the federal judge...
Where to find emergency shelter in the blistering cold
Anyone who finds themselves without heating, warmth or shelter this weekend as temperatures plunge into the single digits can get help and a safe place to stay at warming stations in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties. Allegheny County’s winter shelters will be open at Second Avenue Commons, 700 Second Ave. and...
One of Franco Harris’ last public appearances was at North Allegheny’s Ingomar Middle School
Just moments before Franco Harris’s surprise appearance to students at Ingomar Middle School on Dec. 12, as he walked toward the doors of the auditorium, he was warm, approachable and genuine with the few who were waiting in the lobby. Harris was vibrant and enthusiastic. And it clearly generated with...
