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Looking to get out of that rental and buy your first home? Pittsburgh might be the right place for you. The city took the top spot on a list ranking U.S. cities on how affordable and welcoming they are to first-time homebuyers. Livability ranked Pittsburgh first and said that “most...

A Pittsburgh man was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh Wednesday to almost six years in federal prison for trafficking drugs and having a firearm. Senior U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab imposed the sentence on Daelon Hill-Johnson, 21, for possession with intent to distribute the synthetic painkiller fentanyl...

Carnegie Mellon University plans to send a robotic rover and an arts package to the moon in July 2021. The four-wheeled robot is being developed by a CMU team led by William “Red” Whittaker, a professor in the Robotics Institute. Whitaker described the rover as a “shoebox with wheels.” It...

Multiple downed wires knocked out power to Duquesne Light customers across five communities Thursday morning. Initially, about 1,600 customers in the Wilkins, Monroeville and Penn Hills areas were affected. The cause of the downed wires was undetermined, Duquesne Light spokeswoman Niki Campbell said. Duquesne Light was reporting about 600 customers...

A Ross hotel was robbed early Thursday. Police said they were called to the Comfort Inn on McKnight Road around 3:30 a.m.. According to police, a man went into the hotel through the front door and confronted the clerk. The man said he was robbing him but did not display...

It’s that time of year again. The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh on Sunday will host its annual Summer Reading Extravaganza in the Oakland neighborhood. The free, family-friendly event kicks off at noon and includes five hours of discovery for kids of all ages. Among the activities: • A bouncy house;...

Kathy Coll still has trouble processing how the Catholic Church responded two years ago when she reported she had been raped in 2016 by a Nigerian priest who was studying at Duquesne University and assisting in her North Hills parish. Coll, a retired high school English teacher and Eucharistic minister...

Pittsburgh police vehicles will again sport rainbow decals throughout June to show support for Pride Month, a month intended to celebrate the LGBT+ community. The decal is one in a series of decals put on vehicles over the course of the year that “symbolize our focus on inclusiveness, community police...

The once-vibrant Century III Mall is now boarded up, with the exception of JCPenney, the only store now open on the 90-acre property. West Mifflin officials had closed the mall in February, deeming the property “unsafe and uninhabitable” due to a broken water and fire suppression system. Las Vegas-based Moonbeam...

Two Republican candidates for Allegheny County offices pulled off successful primary write-in campaigns to challenge Controller Chelsa Wagner and County Councilman John Palmiere, both Democrats, in the November election, according to the county elections office. Brooke Nadonley, 42, of Mt. Washington received 1,887 write-in votes in her campaign for county...

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto wants city pension fund overseers to pull investments from companies dealing in fossil fuels, firearms and for-profit prisons, a strategy financial experts say could weaken the funds and result in lower annual returns. Peduto last week penned a letter to the Comprehensive Municipal Trust Fund board...

Penn’s Corner Farm Alliance, the Pittsburgh region’s only farm cooperative, is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a farm-to-table dinner on July 31. The event will be held at the Whitfield Ace Hotel, 120 S. Whitfield St., Pittsburgh. Tickets are $100 and are being sold at showclix.com. Penn’s Corner is a...

A Frazer woman was sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for fatally shooting her husband after a drunken argument involving money, sex and a burned tuna casserole more than two years ago. Teresa M. Drum, 40, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the death of her husband,...

Matthew Lambert spent months harassing, stalking and threatening his ex-girlfriend, telling her it would be her fault when he killed her new boyfriend, police said. He allegedly installed a tracking device on her car. A day later, her boyfriend Tre Valorie was dead. A criminal complaint filed Wednesday against Lambert...

Maintaining the hundreds of vacant or foreclosed properties in Penn Hills is a full-time job, and then some, according to the municipality’s code enforcement director. “(The work) doesn’t end,” said John McCafferty, code enforcement director. As of January, however, McCafferty’s team of five officers has a job that is a...

UPMC said Wednesday it will drop a controversial prepay rule aimed at Highmark-insured Medicare Advantage patients when the competing health giants split insurance networks. The decision means that more than 100,000 senior citizens and people with disabilities enrolled in Highmark’s Freedom Blue and Security Blue Medicare Advantage plans will not...

Kaylie Meininger wasn’t really Taylor Price’s big sister, but that’s what she called her friend anyway. She called Meininger’s fiancé, David Bianco, her brother-in-law and referred to the couple’s 2-year-old daughter, Annika, as her niece. Price said she last spoke to the young family via video chat the morning of...

First-grade teacher Laura Roth went above and beyond to make sure a Shaler Area School District student got a visit from the Tooth Fairy. Roth, a teacher at Burchfield Primary School, wrote a letter to the Tooth Fairy on Tuesday verifying that a student lost her tooth at school and...

A night of drinking and smoking ended early Tuesday with gunfire in an apparent robbery gone wrong in Wilkinsburg, according to charges filed against the alleged gunman. Triq Peek Price, 39, is charged with homicide in the death of David Herbin. Price was not in custody as of late Wednesday...

A former Donora resident accused of conspiring to get drugs from China via the internet has pleaded guilty to violating federal narcotics and firearm laws. Christian B. Drennan, 28, currently of St. Clairsville, Ohio, pleaded guilty to two counts before Senior U.S. District Judge Joy Flowers Conti. Authorities said from...

Former Treasurer Secretary Paul H. O’Neill is the 2019 recipient of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Public Service. O’Neill, 83, of Pittsburgh, was awarded the medal because of his “demonstrated personal and professional qualities,” according to President Ford’s son Mike, who serves as chairman of the...

Highmark’s attorneys will be allowed a seat alongside Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s legal team during next week’s Commonwealth Court showdown with UPMC, a judge ruled Tuesday. Highmark — which sides with Shapiro in his broader quest to force UPMC to contract with any willing competitor — seeks to testify...

A baby raccoon dropped off at the Humane Animal Rescue Wildlife Center in Penn Hills last week has tested positive for rabies, the Allegheny Health Department said Tuesday. The health department is urging the person who dropped the raccoon off to call the department at 412-687-2243 as soon as possible...