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A woman was shot in the leg late Monday in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood, police said. Police officers said they responded to a shooting in the 7500 block of Kelly Street around 10:30 p.m. and found three vehicles that had been damaged from gunfire, said Pittsburgh Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz....

Norwin High School’s show choir director has been recognized as one of the people in the Pittsburgh region who has made a difference in her community. Bridget Faulk has been named one of 22 Pittsburgh ChangeMakers in this fall’s class by the non-profit Multiplying Good, formerly known as the Jefferson...

Editor’s note: ‘What’s That?’ is a recurring feature in the Tribune-Review’s Westmoreland Plus edition. If there’s something you’d like to see explored here, send an email to gtrcity@triblive.com A small park nestled between shops lining Main Street and the bustle of the Irwin Fire Department is more than just a...

Dr. Mehmet Oz, a former TV personality and celebrity surgeon, has struggled with his approval ratings ever since narrowly winning the Republican primary election in May, and at a campaign event in Monroeville he attempted to persuade his Republican base to come out and support his campaign for Pennsylvania’s open...

Logans Ferry Road in Plum may reopen to traffic earlier than expected, a PennDOT spokesman said Monday. The heavily traveled road between Entrance Drive and Columbia Road near New Kensington has been closed since Aug. 2 while a contractor works to repair a landslide. The closure has forced the more...

Jack Shea was the face of the Allegheny-Fayette Central Labor Council when he was its president for close to two decades, speaking at labor rallies and supporting strikers on the picket line. Shea died Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. He was 79. Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald called Shea a “giant”...

Crews are busy constructing a new Life Sciences building at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg that will provide expanded, updated facilities for growing programs. The two-story, 32,000-square-foot building is expected to cost about $19.5 million and is scheduled to open with a ribbon-cutting ceremony early next year. The Pitt-Greensburg...

When it comes to identifying mushrooms, some folks get about as far as distinguishing between the little ones you slice to put on pizza and the big ones that fit nicely inside of a burger bun. Then there are the mycologists within the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club. “In general, a...

Criminal charges in three unrelated cases were dismissed against a man authorities have labeled a “person of interest” in a Unity woman’s disappearance. Charges of attempted burglary, forgery and tampering with evidence stemming from arrests in 2018 and 2019 were withdrawn against Thomas Stanko, 52, of Unity this month. Those...

An Irwin man pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor charge stemming from a 2017 fire at his former home in Youngwood. Shaun Wallace, 41, was ordered to serve two years on probation and six months of house arrest for his involvement in the second of two fires police said were...

Jurors delivered a split verdict this week in two cases against a former Westmoreland County man who was charged in connection with November 2019 incidents outside a Derry Area School District elementary school and at the Kiski Valley state police station. Justin Juan De La Cruz Martinez, 42, of Illinois,...

A woman accused of running down a man she had been dating with a car in Homewood last year pleaded guilty Monday to third-degree murder. Ausha Dakisha Brown, 27, will be sentenced by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Elliot Howsie on Nov. 28 and remains in custody. There is no...

A Garfield man was found guilty Monday of killing the mother of his child. Jason Brown, 25, will be sentenced by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Anthony M. Mariani on Nov. 16. Brown had a nonjury trial before Mariani last week. The judge returned his verdict on Monday, finding Brown...

A Spring Hill man pleaded guilty on Monday to killing a woman outside a Kennedy Township bowling alley last year. Malik Smith, 20, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and a single firearms count before Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Jennifer Satler. He will be sentenced on Oct. 26. There is...

Pittsburgh Police are investigating whether a string of business break-ins over the weekend in Lawrenceville are related to several similar incidents days earlier in Shadyside. The rash of burglaries began overnight Thursday into Friday, according to police. Two businesses on South Aiken Avenue were broken into and had goods taken...

Two Canonsburg parents that went on the run after their infant daughter died suddenly earlier this month will face homicide charges in connection with her death, according to the Washington County District Attorney’s Office. The charges were announced Monday against Shannon McKnight, 23, and James May, 31. The couple’s 3-month-old...

Blawnox Council has approved a new four-year police contract. The new deal is effective Jan. 1 and runs through 2026. It includes a 75-cent per hour raise for all officers each year. Borough officials provided contracts to the Tribune-Review following a Right-to-Know request. The council unanimously voted Aug. 10 to...

As the teenage editor of the Norwin High School yearbook back in the 1990s, A.J. Balbo was all about the details. Nearly three decades later, he continues that sharp focus as he works as a high-profile lawyer in Georgia. Balbo, a North Huntingdon native, has carved a legal practice that...

A man was hurt Friday after a witness said he tried to stop a motorist from leaving what was described as a road rage incident in a Hempfield shopping plaza, according to court papers. State police made an arrest within 20 minutes after finding the suspect in Hempfield Plaza along...

A crash involving a motorcycle in Ross sent two people to the hospital late Monday morning, according to a 911 dispatcher. The crash, which involved a motorcycle and at least one vehicle, happened just before 11:30 a.m. on Route 19 near Trion Road. The dispatcher said two people were transported...

Before a courtroom attack disrupted a Monday plea hearing, the grief between the two mothers was palpable. One woman desperately wanted the other to know her son did not intend to kill anyone. The other woman tried to forgive the young man who took her own son’s life in the...

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Pennsylvania Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, is hosting a town hall event in Monroeville tonight. Called the “Dose of Reality Town Hall,” Oz will be at Premier Automation in Monroeville. The event is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon, is running...

More than two dozen bands are scheduled to perform for the annual Band Blast at Memorial Park in New Kensington this year. The lineup consists of 11 bands performing on the main stage and 16 acoustic acts on the second stage. “This is the biggest lineup we’ve ever had for...

Aging and the Healthy Brain Monroeville United Methodist Church, 219 Center Road will be presenting a free program about “Aging and the Healthy Brain” at 7 p.m. Sept. 12. Presenting the program will be Dr. Howard J. Aizenstein, a geriatric psychiatrist and director of the University of Pittsburgh Geriatric Psychiatry...

John Fiorina remembers the first time he became aware of Kevin the Peacock. He was walking along the road where he would eventually live when he heard something that he said sounded like a pterodactyl. The flashy and sometimes noisy bird can be heard most mornings at 4 a.m. or...