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Part of a road on the border of Pittsburgh’s Mount Oliver and Arlington neighborhoods was closed Tuesday morning because of a water main break. Parkwood Road was closed between Otillia Street and Mountain Avenue, Tribune-Review news partner WPXI-TV reported. Pittsburgh Public Safety described the break as “substantial.” WATER MAIN BREAK...

A man was burned in a fire at a Wilkinsburg apartment early Tuesday morning. The fire in the 900 block of Wood Street was reported shortly after 2 a.m., an Allegheny County 911 dispatcher said. It was reported under control just over an hour later, but Tribune-Review news partner WPXI-TV...

Pittsburgh police were looking for a man after an attempted carjacking in the Hill District Monday night. Police said officers responded to a report of shots fired around 8:30 p.m. in the 600 block of Hollace Street. Offices found shots had been fired during an attempted carjacking. The two victims...

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto is scheduled to join municipal and local leaders from around the world taking part in Tuesday’s 2021 Mayors Summit Against Anti-Semitism. The summit is designed to bring the world’s mayors together to eradicate hatred and prejudice. “Mayor Peduto is honored to be opening the summit with...

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto is joining more than 1,400 mayors in supporting legislation to help DACA recipients — non-citizens brought by their parents to the U.S. as children — become citizens. The bill, called the American Dream and Promise Act, includes provisions of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), a...

A former Pittsburgh police officer who’s been in trouble dozens of times throughout his career will not return to the force. An arbitrator recently upheld the termination of Paul Abel Jr., who was fired after an incident involving a homeless man on the North Side in December near Heinz Field,...

Comfort food, Asian cuisine, fresh pasta and burgers will be cooked up at the new Bakery Square food hall, slated to open in May. Galley Bakery Square is being developed by the same company that launched Smallman Galley in Pittsburgh’s Strip District in 2015. The new East End location has...

Giant Eagle’s mass vaccination clinic at Heinz Field was again extended, this time for all PreK-12 teachers in Western Pennsylvania. The chain will be holding clinic hours, by appointment, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, and between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. As with...

A man was killed Saturday night after he was struck by a car in Downtown Pittsburgh, according to police. The incident happened about 9:30 p.m. near the intersection of Stanwix Street and Penn Avenue, said Pittsburgh police spokesman Chris Togneri. First responders arrived and found the man pinned under the...

Ronald Jaye Krauth, a longtime fixture in Pittsburgh broadcast news, known on the air as “Ron Jaye,” died last week in his Allegheny County home. A spokesman for WPXI News, where Krauth spent the better part of three decades on the air, said the news staff there is mourning the...

The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank will benefit from the second Feed the Need Radiothon, which is meant to help those in the region who are using drive-up food distribution sites and food pantries during the covid-19 pandemic. Entercom, a leading media and entertainment company, is hosting the Giant Eagle...

Shoppers can buy items out of the trunk of someone’s car next month at a parking garage in Downtown Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership is hosting “Car Bazaar,” a flea market of makers, artists, retailers and people selling second-hand items. Vehicles will be parked on several floors of the Sixth...

Many organizations have had to reinvent themselves since the start of the pandemic one year ago and the City of Pittsburgh Department of Parks & Recreation is no exception. While Citiparks recreation and senior centers have been closed to activities during the pandemic, many have been repurposed as safe sites...

A woman was hospitalized after being mauled by dogs in Pittsburgh on Saturday morning. Pittsburgh Police, EMS and Animal Care and Control responded to a report of a dog attack on the 1000 block of Blackadore Street in the Homewood North neighborhood around 9:10 a.m. Police officers found a woman...

Firefighters were battling a fire Saturday afternoon at a home in Pittsburgh’s Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood. The three-alarm blaze was reported on the 2800 block of Shadeland Avenue, according to a tweet from the Pittsburgh Fire Fighters. Just after 2 p.m., Pittsburgh Public Safety reported that the fire was under control. No...

About 3,500 high-risk seniors will receive their second dose of the covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic at PNC Park on Saturday. Allegheny Health Network (AHN) hosted a clinic at on Feb. 20, during which 3,500 people in Phase 1A of the state’s covid-19 vaccine distribution plan received their first...

Among the casualties that resulted from the start of the pandemic one year ago was the Carnegie Science Center’s Pittsburgh Regional Science & Engineering Fair, a tradition that began in 1940. The start of the covid-19 crisis made holding the fair, usually scheduled for March, impossible to do in person...

More than half of the Pittsburgh Public Schools’ teachers and staff will be at least partially vaccinated by the end of this weekend, following a series of clinics that started this week, district officials said. “This is the end of a pretty fantastic week,” Superintendent Anthony Hamlet said Friday. Rodney...

UPMC is teaming up with the Pittsburgh Penguins to vaccinate over 1,000 high-risk individuals during a clinic at PPG Paints Arena on Monday. The event, which will run from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., is appointment-only. Vaccines will be offered to those in Phase 1A of Pennsylvania’s vaccine rollout strategy...

Jewish, Christian and Islamic leaders from across Pittsburgh will participate in an interfaith service March 18, one year to the day after the first covid death in Pennsylvania. The Tree of Life Congregation will host the service to memorialize the more than 525,000 lives lost across the country since the...

Seven people were displaced after a fire broke out in a Hazelwood home Thursday afternoon. Crews with the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire responded to row houses on the 200 block of Glenwood Avenune around 1:40 p.m. where they were able to quickly extinguish a two-alarm fire, according to Pittsburgh Public...

An East Allegheny man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being sentenced for first-degree murder on Thursday in a 2017 shooting death. Justin Parrotte, 32, was found guilty by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey A. Manning in a nonjury trial in February 2020 of killing...