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Pittsburgh police arrested a man who they say attacked a mail carrier Wednesday and then barricaded himself in a home, sparking a SWAT response. According to a criminal complaint, a mail carrier was parked at the intersection of Tarragonna and Alice streets in the city’s Bon Air neighborhood around 2:30...

Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a measure that will mandate businesses provide additional paid sick days for workers. Under the city’s existing Paid Sick Days Act, which went into effect in March 2020, employers with 15 or more employees must give workers up to 40 hours of paid...

A man who tried to shoot a Homestead police officer in an alley two years ago after fleeing from a traffic stop was sentenced last week to serve 35 years in federal prison on gun and drug charges. Erik Addison, 29, formerly of Homestead pleaded guilty in February to four...

Pittsburgh is hosting a series of city-sponsored events to commemorate Juneteenth, a holiday observing the day the last slaves in the United States were emancipated. The city this year is hosting a series of events throughout Pittsburgh. Last year, the city contracted with an outside company to host a city-sponsored...

Here are some of the latest news items happening this morning, Tuesday, June 10: Suspect arrested after 2 sexual assaults in Oakland Pittsburgh police on Monday announced a suspect has been arrested after two separate sexual assault incidents in the city’s Oakland neighborhood. Tyree Jackson, 24, of Pittsburgh turned himself...

Pittsburgh Police are asking for help in locating a missing 12-year-old boy with special needs. Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz said Kiemoni Thompson was reportedly last seen Sunday on a green bicycle with black lettering. He was wearing a black sweatshirt with black sweatpants. Kiemoni was described as standing 5...

Several Pittsburgh union organizations gathered in Downtown Pittsburgh on Monday to protest the arrest of Service Employees International Union California leader David Huerta and the Trump administration’s immigration policy. SEIU Local 32BJ, along with 1Hood Media and nonprofit Casa San Jose, organized Monday’s mid-afternoon protest. Organizers said it reflected the...

Shawn Martin stood before the judge and kept his head down. The 31-year-old man didn’t lift it when the prosecutor described the scene at his Northview Heights home the night his baby stopped breathing. He didn’t lift it as she described the brutal injuries Martin inflicted on the 5-day-old boy....

Carnegie Mellon University alumni and faculty had a strong presence at this year’s Tony Awards, which recognized excellence in Broadway theatre for the 78th year in a row. Throughout the night, two CMU alumnae received a Tony. Natalie Venetia Belcon received one for her role in “Buena Vista Social Club”...

Pittsburgh’s Independence Day celebrations this year will be moved to the North Shore Riverwalk and Emerald View Park’s Grandview Bandstand in Allentown. The city can’t hold its annual 4th of July festivities at Point State Park this summer as it usually does because of ongoing upgrades at the park. Pittsburgh’s...

Here are some of the latest news items happening this morning, Monday, June 9: Shooting reported at water steps on Pittsburgh’s North Shore Pittsburgh police responded to reports of a shooting Sunday in the area of the water steps on Pittsburgh’s North Shore. Police were called to the 200 block...

A 47-year-old man faces criminal charges after, state police say, he set off a firework in a bathroom inside Rivers Casino on Pittsburgh’s North Shore early Sunday morning. State police say they took Jeremy Allen Hartman, of Martinsburg, Blair County, into custody at 5:41 a.m. for allegedly trespassing in a...

The war in Gaza has triggered a war of words over antisemitism in Allegheny County. Western Pennsylvania’s largest Jewish group recently rebuked a County Council member for endorsing a pro-Palestinian activist’s comments on social media. “Another week of watching people burned alive in Gaza and we’re still required to be...

Pitt Panthers quarterback Eli Holstein, his teammates and coaches are doing their part to boost the spirits of Julia Espinosa. The 13-year-old patient at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh has complex health issues that prompted her to decide to shave her head after she lost most of her hair. Her...

Two of Southwestern Pennsylvania’s largest Republican committees are refusing to back Tony Moreno, the GOP nominee for Pittsburgh mayor, as part of a widening split with a fractious candidate they view with suspicion and distress. The heads of the Pittsburgh and Allegheny County GOP committees told TribLive on Friday they...

A new Bruster’s Real Ice Cream location is opening up this summer at the border of Shadyside and Bloomfield. Owner Chad McWreath said the new location at 4815 Centre Ave. is anticipating an opening in mid-July. McWreath, 53, of Mt. Washington, already owns one Bruster’s location at 4584 Browns Hill...

Dick Skrinjar, who served as a spokesman for former Pittsburgh Mayor Bob O’Connor and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, died Thursday. He was 74. “The thing about my dad is that he was ultimately just a very loving person,” Zach Skrinjar, one of his sons, told TribLive Friday. “He loved...

U.S. Job Corps centers around the country, including a site in Pittsburgh, will remain open — at least for now. A federal judge in New York City on Wednesday issued a temporary restraining order that bars the U.S. Department of Labor from eliminating the Job Corps without congressional authorization. The...

A Pittsburgh police officer fatally shot a man after he stabbed a different city officer Friday morning in the Brighton Heights neighborhood, according to Allegheny County Police. The incident unfolded shortly before 6 a.m. as city officers arrived to serve an emergency protection-from-abuse order at a home in the 200...

If you’re in search of a more lowkey day out and want to avoid the Arts Festival crowds, there’s still plenty to do around town this weekend. Here are five events to check out instead. ‘The Shark is Broken’ at barebones productions “Jaws” was the original blockbuster film in the...

The Dollar Bank Pittsburgh Three Rivers Arts Festival may have shifted its point of view, but that doesn’t mean it’s lost its color or long-time contributors and attendees. Set up along the riverfront lots at the 15th Street Plaza in the Strip District, the annual celebration of art and music...

Point Park University has promoted Shari Payne to provost and senior vice president of academic affairs after she served in the role on an interim basis. She has been serving in the interim role since January, after joining Point Park in 2023 as dean of the new School of Continuing...

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....