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A woman was shot in the leg in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. City police were dispatched around 3:30 p.m. Monday to the 2500 block of Bedford Avenue were officers found the woman with a gunshot wound. Authorities said she was transported to a local hospital in stable condition. No information about...

Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic Technology Inc. was selected Monday to develop an autonomous lunar rover with its partner, Carnegie Mellon University. The 13 kilogram autonomous rover, known as MoonRanger, is being developed to provide high fidelity 3-D maps of the moon’s surface in areas such as polar regions and lunar pits, according...

Six newborn babies and six employees at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh have tested positive for the contagious bacterial infection MRSA, hospital officials said Monday. “The health and safety of our patients, staff and visitors is our highest priority,” UPMC spokeswoman Andrea Kunicky said in a statement. “We’re doing everything...

Pittsburgh is spending within its 2019 budget projection and is headed for a larger than anticipated surplus at year’s end, the city controller said Monday. Controller Michael Lamb, who released his Popular Annual Financial Report for 2018, said 2019 revenues from all tax sources are exceeding projections and departments, with...

Two children’s programs in Pittsburgh canceled scheduled drag queen story times over the weekend after unspecified social media threats targeted the program, which is hosted at dozens of libraries nationwide. The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh and the main branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh canceled their events on Friday...

Cappy, Dodger and Zane are the newest four-legged members of the Pittsburgh police. They were full of drool and needed plenty of water at noon Monday as they panted, sniffed and strolled around the grounds of the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial on the North Shore on a bright day where...

The Heinz Endowments will offer grants ranging from $1,000 to $150,000 to artists who create work that reflects social challenges and incidents of injustice in the Pittsburgh region. The organization encourages projects that are initiated by younger people or center on youth voices. Applications are now being accepted for the...

Sharpsburg Mayor Matt Rudzki chuckled at the surveillance video of a bear cub wandering Sunday night through the borough. “It likely lost it bearings,” he joked. In all seriousness, the mayor said he could barely believe it when police Officer Dan Sciulli called to report the sighting, captured on video...

The Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute has opened a new oncology treatment center in Robinson. AHN Cancer Institute – Robinson replaces AHN’s previous clinic location on Church Hill Road in Robinson and expands the center’s patient care capacity and the number of on-site physicians and support staff. The nearly 6,000-square-foot...

State Auditor General Eugene DePasquale is hoping to leverage his tenure as the state’s elected fiscal watchdog to make a run for U.S. Congress. DePasquale made the official announcement on social media Sunday after a week of reports that he had told Democratic Party leaders he planned to run for...

Defense attorneys and federal prosecutors in the case against accused Tree of Life gunman Robert Bowers reached an agreement after weeks of consternation regarding access to witnesses, according to federal court filings. Bowers faces 51 federal charges in connection with the mass shooting at Squirrel Hill’s Tree of Life synagogue...

Acclaimed chef Justin Severino is teaming up with Pittsburgh brewer Scott Smith to open Larder restaurant inside East End Brewing Company in Larimer on Friday. “We chose the name Larder because so much of what we do is preserving food and making food such as salami or pickles as well...

A Pittsburgh-based institute devoted to the study of Cardinal John Henry Newman expects to be very busy in the coming months. The Vatican announced Monday that Newman’s canonization will take place Oct. 13. Members of the National Institute for Newman Studies, a private research library affiliated with Duquesne University, plan...

PennDOT crews will paint lines on various roads in eastern suburban communities through July 6. The painting is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day on the following roads: • Route 286 in Monroeville and Plum; • Routes 130, 30, 48 in various communities; • Route 2073, also...

Pittsburgh police are investigating the Monday morning shooting death of a 20-year-old man in Pittsburgh’s East Hills neighborhood. Ricky Deon Moultrie of Pittsburgh was found with a gunshot wound to the head shortly before 3 a.m. on Lee Way near the intersection with Sunrise Avenue, according to the AlleghenyCounty Medical...

A woman scared off a burglar who attempted to climb through her unlocked bedroom window in Oakland, according to University of Pittsburgh Police. Police said the woman was at her Oakland Avenue home shortly before 1 p.m. Sunday. She screamed when she noticed the unknown burglar attempting to get in...

Police are investigating a hit-and-run rollover crash in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood that injured two people and sent one person to the hospital Sunday morning, officials said. Police and medics responded to a report of an overturned vehicle near Penn Avenue and Beatty Street around 10:15 a.m., Department of Public...

Police are searching for a suspect believed to have shot and seriously injured another man Saturday night in Pittsburgh’s Carrick neighborhood, officials said. Officers responded to a report of shots fired in the 1500 block of Amanda Street around 7:45 p.m., Department of Public Safety spokesman Chris Togneri said. Police...

Pittsburgh police are investigating a possible shooting early Saturday near where Mt. Oliver meets the city’s Carrick neighborhood. A man with a gunshot wound to the shoulder walked into the Mt. Oliver police station around 3:15 a.m., Department of Public Safety spokesman Chris Togneri said. He was taken by medics...

Police are investigating a two-vehicle crash just outside the Liberty Tunnel that left a motorcyclist in critical condition Friday night. Officials responded to a report of the crash involving a motorcycle and another vehicle around 11:35 p.m. at the tunnel’s south end, Department of Public Safety spokesman Chris Togneri said....

Larger than a monarch butterfly but residing in the same realm of beauty, cecropia moths with wing spans of 5 to 7 inches are out and if you’re lucky, like the folks at Tree Pittsburgh, you might just spot one. Tree Pittsburgh has a distinct advantage though. The nonprofit tends...

A last-minute reprieve in the form of $3.3 million in state money has enabled leaders of the debt-ridden Penn Hills School District to scrap a plan to raise taxes for the coming school year. The boost also will allow the district to bring back six teachers and one specialist furloughed...

A 22-year-old West Mifflin woman who was stabbed multiple times inside a home in East Pittsburgh Friday has died of her injuries, state police said. Troopers said Octavia Stone died of her injuries at 3:23 a.m. Saturday at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, where she was taken by ambulance after...

David Egan is well aware of the stigma attached to priests in the wake of the Catholic Church child sex abuse scandal. “I assume that other people assume things about me, that they’re very suspicious of me now,” Egan said. “If you walk out in public with a collar on,...