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Highmark Health CEO David Holmberg’s total pay climbed to $7.49 million last year — up about 35% from the year before, for a nearly $2 million boost in compensation, federal tax forms filed Monday show. The nonprofit health system’s leader joined senior executives across Highmark Health and Allegheny Health Network...

Pittsburgh physician and health care analyst Lindsey Shultz, a Connellsville native, will be featured on Wednesday’s “Jeopardy!” Tournament of Champions telecast. Shultz finished second to record-setting champion James Holzhauer in the quarterfinals broadcast Nov. 6. But she scored high enough among the week’s non-winning players to earn a wild card...

Authorities were surprised to learn that a woman involved in a crash along Broadway Boulevard on Nov. 4 died four days later in the hospital. Nicole Hilla, 41, died Nov. 8 at Forbes Hospital while being treated for injuries she got in a crash along the 2800 block of Broadway...

Being in a relationship is tough, especially when you’re working together 60 hours a week in an 8-by-10-foot kitchen on wheels. After running The Coop Chicken & Waffles food truck for three years, Nicki Cardilli and Justin Fitzgerald are flying the mobile cage and opening a brick-and-mortar restaurant in the...

It may not be curling the way it’s played in the Olympics, but what’s being billed as the Pittsburgh area’s first “competitive, bar-style ice curling rink” is opening in Millvale. Sliders Curling, a seasonal offshoot of popular axe-throwing business Lumberjaxes, is opening its rink on Nov. 27 and will operate...

A Pittsburgh police officer was sent to the hospital after a wrong-way driver, who was later charged with DUI, crashed into his vehicle Sunday. The incident happened at about 6:40 p.m. along Jacksonia Street, a one-way street on the city’s North Side. The officer was driving the correct way along...

A boy missing since Nov. 8 from Pittsburgh’s Knoxville neighborhood was found Monday, public safety spokesman Chris Togneri said. Authorities took to social media to ask for help to locate the boy, Haji Abdi, 12. He was safely located and returned home, Togneri said....

A male pedestrian was struck and killed by an eastbound CSX train on Pittsburgh’s South Side on Saturday, authorities said. The victim’s name had not been released as of Sunday afternoon. Pittsburgh Public Safety Spokesman Chris Togneri said first responders were called around 4:45 p.m. for a report of a...

Much has changed in U.S. sports betting since Jamie Shea’s days as a 22-year-old Las Vegas oddsmaker in the 1990s. Shea, a Florida native who grew up around horse racing, quickly discovered she had both a passion and a knack for working in legal sports gambling. She went on to...

The streets were lined with onlookers Saturday for the 100th anniversary of the Pittsburgh Veterans Day Parade on Liberty Avenue. Dr. David Blinky, a member of the Military Vehicle Preservation Association, puffed a cigar as he sat behind the wheel of a WWII-era Jeep prior to the start of the...

An Allegheny County judge on Friday found a former priest and school superintendent of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh guilty of several counts of child sex abuse related to an incident involving an altar boy 18 years ago. Hugh Lang, 89 — who retired from serving as an active...

Police are searching for a man who robbed a PNC Bank in Pittsburgh’s North Shore district on Friday afternoon, officials said. Shortly before 5 p.m., the suspect walked into the bank’s branch on Federal Street near Isabella Street across from PNC Park, Pittsburgh public safety spokesman Chris Togneri said. The...

Pittsburgh’s connections with Ireland may not seem apparent at first, but they are deep and ongoing — well beyond the late Pittsburgh Steelers President Dan Rooney’s stint as U.S. ambassador. An Ireland Institute of Pittsburgh event at the Duquesne Club in Downtown Pittsburgh on Nov. 6 provided an introduction to...

A reputed Penn Hills gang member was ordered to spend more than five years in federal prison for having a gun when he was selling illicit drugs, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Pittsburgh. Jaamiyl Dean, age 43, of the 100 block of Quail Drive, was sentenced Friday morning...

Interstate 376 will be reduced to a single-lane in each direction in various locations between the Fort Pitt Bridge and the Squirrel Hill Tunnel next Monday through Thursday nights. The restrictions will be in place from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. on those nights. Crews will conduct barrier repairs, delineator...

Volunteers will spend Black Friday working to pack 1 million meals for the Pittsburgh area’s homeless and food-insecure at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. The event, called Amen to Action, is in its third year. The aim is for volunteers to shrug off the usual consumerism of Black Friday...

Legislation passed in response to attacks against the Jewish community, including the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, was signed into law this week by Gov. Tom Wolf. The new law establishes a $5 million fund designed to assist nonprofit groups, institutions and individuals considered possible targets...