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A shortage of organs from deceased donors has prompted UPMC to shift its focus to transplants using live donors, a surgery some experts consider risky but others view as giving patients better survival odds. Deceased-donor transplants — once the bread and butter of UPMC’s internationally known transplant program — have...

Two people were evaluated for possible injuries sustained after their vehicle rolled over into a creek in Lincoln. Allegheny County dispatchers said the incident took place around 9:15 p.m. Friday along the 1500 block of Lovedale Road. The people were treated at the scene and did not require hospitalization, dispatchers...

A portion of Pittsburgh’s Waterfront Place, a street paralleling the Allegheny River between 11th and 21st streets, will close for more than two years beginning in January for a second phase of a $400 million residential development known as Riverfront Landing. The city’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure and The...

The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority for a second time in two years Friday threatened to shut off water at a city-occupied building for failure to pay a past due bill. PWSA posted a water shut-off notice at city police headquarters on the North Side’s Western Avenue, giving the city...

Allegheny County has chosen an East Liberty human services provider to oversee a homeless prevention project. The county’s Department of Human Services is providing Familylinks with about $1 million to prevent homelessness among families in the county’s child welfare system. “This award represents recognition of the many hears that Familylinks...

The Boyce Park snow tubing area in Plum will open for the season Saturday at 9:30 a.m. with a 30-inch snow base on what’s considered the “steepest snow tubing hill in Western Pennsylvania” by Allegheny County Parks. The snow tubing area will operate through mid-March, weather and conditions permitting. Santa...

Pittsburgh crossing guard Supervisor Elaine Alter has been dodging traffic for 43 years to safely guide children across busy streets on their way to school. But Mayor Bill Peduto on Thursday caught Alter completely off-guard when he presented her with the Mayor Sophie Masloff Employee of the Month Award during...

“Sit by the candles and listen to the story that they tell.” This old Hanukkah saying best describes the message of the menorah, said Rabbi Elchonon Friedman of Bnai Emunoh Chabad in Greenfield. Those lights will illuminate the streets for the Jewish community in Pittsburgh as it celebrates the Festival...

A pair of Pittsburgh cousins were indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in connection to an investigation into a drug trafficking ring that led to the sickening of 18 SWAT officers during a series of raids two years ago, prosecutors said Thursday. Lynell Guyton, 30, of the city’s Elliott...

When police arrested a North Versailles man in Manor on Thursday after an apparent drug deal, they found the suspect had drugs hidden in his mouth and clenched between his buttocks, according to court papers. Damian Igles, 22, is charged with drug offenses, criminal use of a communication facility and...

Three members of an international malware cybercrime syndicate have been sentenced in what U.S. authorities are calling a “borderless response” that has involved police agencies in America and Europe. Krasimir Nikolov, 47, of Varna, Bulgaria, was sentenced Monday in Pittsburgh by U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer to time served...

Pittsburgh Steelers safety Kameron Kelly fought with police after he was thrown out of a South Side bar early Friday morning when he became irate at the jukebox selection, according to charges filed against him. Kelly, 23, is charged with two counts of making terroristic threats and one count of...

Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner will go to trial again in Detroit next year on a charge of obstruction during a March 2019 incident at a hotel with her husband, according to the Wayne County prosecutor’s office. A Detroit jury last month found Wagner not guilty of disturbing the peace...

The first day of winter is Saturday. Welcome the season this weekend with a few more holiday events. Angelic Johnny Angel & The Halos take the stage on Saturday at the Rivers Casino Event Center on the North Shore. The Pittsburgh-based group performs music of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s....

Pittsburgh commuters who use the Mon Wharf will have to find another place to park Friday. The wharf will remain closed Friday, the Pittsburgh parking authority announced. The wharf flooded after heavy rain that fell over the Monongahela and Cheat river basins earlier this week. “Although the river has receded...

A West Mifflin man accused of using an apartment in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood to store hundreds of pounds of illegal marijuana pleaded guilty to federal drug charges, prosecutors said Thursday. Wayne Barker, 61, had operated what officials called a large-scale “stash house” as part of a drug trafficking ring...

Allegheny County Police said they arrested a Braddock man Thursday after raiding his home and finding a gun and drugs. James Wise, 28, was charged with illegal gun possession, possession with intent to deliver heroin and fentanyl, receiving stolen property and three counts of possession of controlled substances. Police said...

A secretary employed by Pittsburgh Public Schools is suing the district in federal court contending she’s been discriminated against for the last 12 years because she’s white. Kristen Frankovich says she’s been discriminated against because of her race in every position she’s held since 2007, when she started with the...

One person was injured when an SUV crashed into a Primanti Bros. restaurant Thursday in North Versailles. The incident happened just before 12:30 p.m. at the restaurant on East Pittsburgh-McKeesport Boulevard, according to an Allegheny County emergency dispatcher. No one inside the business was injured, officials said, but the driver...

Two people allegedly associated with a cross-country drug conspiracy pleaded guilty to charges this week in federal court in Pittsburgh. Eugene Reddick, 36, of Clairton, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine. Kaylin Lightfoot-Homa, 26, of Penn Hills, pleaded guilty to maintaining...

A man left paralyzed after a Nov. 4 assault outside the McDonald’s restaurant on Wood Street in Downtown Pittsburgh is suing the company and the franchise operator of the location for negligence. The suit was filed Wednesday in Allegheny County court by a Pittsburgh law firm on behalf of Mark...

A state lawmaker from Western Pennsylvania wants to give the Pennsylvania Game Commission the power to revoke or deny a hunting license to someone convicted of cruelty to animals. The proposed legislation was prompted by the investigation of two teenagers from Jefferson County’s Brookville area who appeared to torture an...