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Murrysville delayed a vote Wednesday night on the two-year renewal of an animal-control contract with Hoffman Kennels. Gary Hoffman, who owns and operates the Delmont-based business, proposed a $10 hike on individual calls as well as his monthly service fee. Hoffman also proposed reducing the number of days he patrols...

A woman was hospitalized in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle Wednesday night in Pittsburgh’s Point Breeze neighborhood. Authorities said city police responded to the area of Penn Avenue and Linden Street shortly after 8:30 p.m. for a report of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle. Officers found...

Plum officials unanimously approved forming a new stormwater management task force to address and prioritize flooding issues in the borough. However, its members have not been selected. Several residents at Wednesday night’s meeting, including Bill Chapla, implored council to allow more than just elected officials and administrators take part in...

A South Park man admitted to stealing $1.2 million from an Upper St. Clair church that he and his wife used on vacations, Pittsburgh Pirates tickets and other expenses, Allegheny County authorities say. David Reiter, 50, a former administrator at Westminster Presbyterian Church, pleaded guilty Wednesday before Allegheny County Judge...

A North Side man apparently fueled by road rage is accused of chasing after and pulling an AK-style gun on two women early Wednesday outside the Rivers Casino parking garage. Jamal Dailey, 24, faces several charges tied to an incident that began while driving in his home neighborhood of Manchester...

Pittsburgh police said a 9-year-old boy who went missing in Pittsburgh’s Homewood South neighborhood Wednesday afternoon has been located. Terik Smith Jr. was safely located that evening, according to Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz....

Pittsburgh’s elected leaders should own up to historical barriers as well as persisting structural and institution-driven ones that contribute to the city’s drastic racial inequities and poverty-based segregation between whites and blacks, several residents told city council on Wednesday. “We demand reparations,” said Khalil Raheem, founder of the New Afrikan...

Whitehall Council candidates say they want to keep the municipality operating in a fiscally responsible manner while focusing on improvements to the sanitary and storm sewer systems and borough parks. Five candidates, including three incumbents, will square off on Nov. 5 for three open four-year seats on borough council. Incumbents...

Two Penn Hills children were struck by vehicles in as many days. Police Chief Howard Burton said a 6-year-old boy was hit by a car at a bus stop at Frankstown Road and Erhardt Drive early Wednesday morning. Burton said the bus was headed eastbound along Frankstown Road and boy...

A Pennsylvania appeals court on Wednesday overturned a ruling issued earlier this year that barred key evidence in a pending rape case against a Hempfield man. In January, Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court Judge Tim Krieger ruled prosecutors could use statements the alleged victim gave to Greensburg authorities after she...

Bedbugs have been found at Penn Middle School in the Penn-Trafford School District. District officials alerted parents Wednesday that a student was found with bedbugs on their body. No additional bugs were found in the student’s belongings. When a professional exterminator and the district’s maintenance director began searching classrooms frequented...

A Penn Hills man whose vehicle ran out of gas allegedly had 29 marijuana plants stuffed in multiple bags stashed in his car when North Huntingdon police arrested him early Wednesday morning. Lamar D. Kincaid, 55, is accused of having several large garbage bags of marijuana plants about 3 feet...

A former employee of Redirections Treatment Advocates was sentenced in federal court this week to home confinement and probation for illegally prescribing a drug used to treat opioid addiction. Michael Anthony Bummer, 40, of Sewickley, also was fined $20,000 and ordered to pay roughly $157,000 in restitution, prosecutors said. U.S....

Westmoreland County prosecutors said Wednesday they have evidence that the man accused of killing New Kensington police Officer Brian Shaw was an armed drug dealer who sought to avoid arrest when he fired the fatal shots. According to court documents presented during a pretrial hearing in preparation for the capital...

A Cincinnati area man was killed Wednesday when his can hit a parked tractor-trailer on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near the Somerset-Bedford border, state police said. Justin Drew, 34, of West Chester, Ohio, was driving a 2019 Dodge Caravan eastbound when it went off the road and hit the tractor-trailer parked...

Deer Lakes School District officials said it made sense for them to partner with Wesley Family Services to offer Alle­gheny County’s only public school-based partial hospital program for students with severe mental health and psychological issues. The program had been based in Highlands School District for more than a decade,...

Ligonier Valley police this week responded to a domestic disturbance in Ligonier Township only to find themselves involved in a struggle with the property owner, who they subdued with a Taser. Michael Podboreski II, 62, ordered officers off of his Autumn Leaves Road property, according to court documents. “Get the...

A Monroeville charter school is celebrating its 20-year anniversary by hosting several events throughout the school year, including an electronics recycling drop-off. Spectrum Charter School, a nonprofit at 4369 Northern Pike, will hold an e-waste drive from Oct. 21 through Nov. 9. Items can be dropped off at Monroeville Public...

Pittsburgh City Council will host a public hearing before voting on a land swap necessary for construction to begin on a $50 million retail and office complex on the site of the former Penn Plaza Apartments in East Liberty. Council on Wednesday postponed a preliminary vote on the land swap...

An Irwin motorcyclist accused of leading police on a high-speed chase for 5 miles Tuesday between West Newton and Rostraver was arrested on multiple criminal and traffic charges, including illegal possession of cocaine and stimulants. Anthony E. Faloona, 29, was arraigned before District Judge Charles Christner on seven counts of...