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Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato on Thursday signed an executive order creating a “federal disruption response team” to provide support for people impacted by President Donald Trump’s job and funding cuts or other rapid changes. “We’ve seen so many times this year, the Trump administration seems committed to chaos and...

Primanti Bros. has permanently closed its restaurant location along Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Garfield neighborhood. A notice of the closure was seen posted on the door of the eatery Wednesday, according to TribLive news partner WTAE. The location first opened in 2017, at the site of the former Verde restaurant....

A Penn Hills man faces a dozen criminal charges after he allegedly assaulted the mother of his two children, and the children, outside of the Family Court Center in Downtown Pittsburgh on Wednesday. Charges against Marlon McMillan, 36, include aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person and endangering the welfare of...

The U.S. Department of Labor is pausing Job Corps operations across the country, including in Pittsburgh. Job Corps is a free residential career training program for low-income teenagers and young adults. Federal officials said the pause was spurred by a financial analysis and reports showing the program didn’t achieve its...

Janice Olson considers herself living proof that it’s possible to have fun at a concert while sober. But for people in substance-use-disorder recovery, the heavy presence of drugs and alcohol can take the focus away from enjoying performances by a favorite musician. Olson, director of operations at Hempfield-based recovery nonprofit...

Pittsburgh police Tuesday arrested the third suspect in the fatal shooting in September of a Woodland Hills High School graduate and former football standout. Zion White, 21, of Garfield, was charged in the killing of Gavin Yarbough, 21. Police said Yarbough was shot multiple times during a late-night meeting in...

Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey’s wife, Michelle Gainey, and a member of the mayor’s security detail were injured in a crash Tuesday evening. A city vehicle carrying Michelle Gainey and driven by an unidentified Pittsburgh police bodyguard was struck at the intersection of Fifth and Hamilton avenues at the border of...

Medics transported a man to the hospital early Wednesday after he showed up at a store in Pittsburgh’s Knoxville neighborhood with a gunshot wound. According to Pittsburgh Public Safety, city police were called after the man ran into a UniMart store in the 700 block of Brownsville Road. He was...

Early June in Pittsburgh traditionally finds thousands of people heading to the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival. But the annual event looks a little bit different this year. From June 5-8, the Arts Festival, a production of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, will brighten the Strip District with creative spaces,...

Bishop Mark A. Eckman has been appointed the 13th bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, succeeding Bishop David A. Zubik. The Holy See announced Wednesday that Pope Leo XIV appointed Eckman, who has served as an auxiliary bishop with the diocese since 2022. The pope accepted the resignation of Zubik,...

A Pittsburgh woman is dead following a shooting Wednesday morning in the city’s Crafton Heights neighborhood. According to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office, Samantha Tabitha Howells, 52, was found with gunshot wounds to her upper torso after city police responded to a two-round ShotSpotter alert shortly before 4:30 a.m....

A Pittsburgh councilman is warning that the city’s land bank will be broke by the end of next year unless a future funding source is found. “It’s an immediate concern,” Councilman Bobby Wilson, D-North Side, told TribLive Tuesday. Wilson, a member of the Pittsburgh Land Bank’s board, is looking to...

The man who was shot dead in an alleged gunfight outside a Lawrenceville gas station early Tuesday evening in Pittsburgh has been identified. The Allegheny County Medical Examiners Office identified the victim as Michael Ehlinger, 56, of Pittsburgh’s Stanton Heights neighborhood. TribLive news partner WTAE reported that two men were...

Rae Corrado walked into a room at UPMC Mercy hospital expecting to find her mother. But instead of her mother, Gloria, she came face to face on Friday with a stranger lying in the hospital bed. A nurse insisted the unknown woman was her mother, Corrado of Oakmont told TribLive....

Pittsburgh’s North Shore is losing a pub. After a final night on Tuesday, Voodoo Brewing Co. will shut its doors. The pub made the announcement Sunday on its Facebook page thanking the North Shore and patrons for business over the almost three years its been in operation there. “What a...

The Senator John Heinz History Center will soon be even more accessible to children and students. On Tuesday, the History Center announced a gift of $11.5 million from philanthropists Daniel G. and Carole L. Kamin. The longtime supporters of the History Center and other Pittsburgh institutions have offered the monetary...

One Pittsburgh man is charged with fatally shooting another early Saturday in the city’s Northview Heights neighborhood. Pittsburgh police have arrested Cory Lavelle Carter, 41, a resident of Bedford Dwellings, on a charge of criminal homicide in the death of Laron Harrison, 38. Harrison was shot multiple times while visiting...

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security list that classified Pittsburgh and Allegheny County as “sanctuary jurisdictions defying federal immigration law” has been removed from the department’s website. DHS last week said each jurisdiction would receive formal notification of “its non-compliance with federal statutes,” but city and county officials on Monday...

An Ohio man who police said last month drove more than two hours to throw antisemitic flyers out of a golden Dodge SUV in the Pittsburgh neighborhood most densely packed with Jews could face nearly $50,000 in fines — for littering. Police in Pittsburgh issued more than 160 traffic citations...

The organizer of a large annual Juneteenth celebration in Pittsburgh is taking the city to court over a delay in permits for the event, which is scheduled in less than three weeks. William “B” Marshall on Thursday filed paperwork in the Allegheny County Common Pleas Court to compel the city...

Pittsburgh police have charged a school van driver with child endangerment and driving under the influence for allegedly fleeing the scene of a crash on Friday with five students aboard the vehicle. Jeffrey Irwin, 66, also is charged with reckless endangerment, reckless driving and failing to stop and render aid...

It’s not easy work to search for a person trapped in a smoke-filled basement or hallway, as local legislators recently discovered. But it’s something Pittsburgh firefighters are prepared to do on a daily basis. It was all part of a Fire Ops 101 training experience May 22 at the Allegheny...

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Saturday, May 31: Man killed in Pittsburgh’s Northview Heights A man was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds in Pittsburgh’s Northview Heights neighborhood early Saturday morning. Public Safety spokesperson Eliza Durham said officers were dispatched shortly before 1 a.m....

A school van driver was arrested by Pittsburgh police on Friday afternoon after they say he fled the scene of a crash with a half-dozen children in the van. Pittsburgh Public Safety officials said an initial report came in describing a collision on the north side of the 16th Street...

Mia Cody fears that the diverse student environment she has grown to love in her two years at Carnegie Mellon University is under threat. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that the Trump administration will aggressively revoke the visas of some Chinese students studying at colleges and universities throughout...