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Question: I keep reading that I’m supposed to be using a special potting soil to start my seeds that’s different from the kind of potting soil I’m supposed to use to fill my patio containers. What’s the difference between different potting soils and how do I know which one I...

WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court stopped Louisiana from enforcing new regulations on abortion clinics in a test of the conservative court’s views on abortion rights. The justices said by a 5-4 vote late Thursday that they will not allow the state to put into effect a law that requires...

At least 130 Duquesne Light customers in Plum lost electric service starting at about 8:30 p.m., spokesman Gerald Lucci said. The outage was caused by an underground cable failure at Kellywood Estates. Crew discovered that the outage was caused by a fallen tree, Lucci said. He said service could be...

A Beaver County man has been indicted on federal drug dealing charges. Rickee Dawkins, 52, of Aliquippa, sold cocaine in 2016 and 2017, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady. Dawkins’ arrest is part of a long-term drug investigation focusing on Butler, Beaver and Allegheny counties. The...

DETROIT — Former U.S. Rep. John Dingell, the longest-serving member of Congress in American history who mastered legislative deal-making and was fiercely protective of Detroit’s auto industry, has died. The Michigan Democrat was 92. Dingell, who served in the U.S. House for 59 years before retiring in 2014, died Thursday...

Filling an empty seat on Tarentum Council turned out to be more difficult than its remaining members anticipated. It was not for a lack of candidates, but because of the quality of the candidates they had to choose from. It was only after much mulling by Councilman Scott Dadowski, the...

WASHINGTON — Prosecutors allege that Paul Manafort was working on Ukrainian political matters in 2018, after his indictment in the special counsel’s investigation, and also revealed that a former business associate of his who was assessed by the FBI to have ties to Russian intelligence attended President Trump’s inaugural, according...

A Tarentum police sergeant will be paid just over $17,000 under a separation agreement and general release that borough council approved Thursday. Sgt. Ryan Hanford’s retirement was effective Thursday. Hanford, 44, has been a police officer for 25 years, including 22 with Tarentum. He had been on administrative leave for...

A pair of Penn Hills residents and nurses helped save a woman trapped in her car by a tree that had fallen onto Verona Road. Joe Marron and his girlfriend, Amanda Livingston, were unloading groceries at their home along the 4600 block of Verona Road on Thursday afternoon when they...

A popular Hempfield business corridor may soon house new retail and restaurant options across Route 30 from Greengate Centre, developers said. While details aren’t yet finalized, site plans under consideration by real estate brokerage company Hanna Langholz Wilson Ellis show three retail buildings and a restaurant along South Greengate Road....

Pittsburgh police are investigating a pedestrian who was struck along the 900 block of Fifth Avenue on Thursday evening. Police say the driver did not stop after striking a man and then hitting a vehicle just before 6 p.m. The injured man apparently had a head injury. An ambulance took...

Federal investigators believe a spike in bank robberies over the past several months can be tied to the opioid epidemic, agents said Thursday. There have been 28 bank robberies in Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia since Oct. 1, a rate of about seven a month, according to Glen Galeone, a...

LOS ANGELES — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Thursday he was the target of “extortion and blackmail” by the publisher of the National Enquirer, which he said threated to publish revealing personal photos of him unless he stopped investigating how other private photos and messages were obtained by the tabloid....

A Pittsburgh gang member received a two-year prison sentence for illegally owning a gun that was used in a 2017 murder, according to the office of United States Attorney Scott W. Brady. Tre Goins, 24, did not commit the murder, but did provide the gun, according to Brady’s office. Goins...

U.S. Steel representatives told a panel of state lawmakers Thursday that operations will not be business as usual following a fire at Clairton Coke Works that heightened concerns over the region’s air quality. “I’ll take responsibility,” Chris Masciantonio, U.S. Steel director of government affairs and public policy said. “I should...

Allowing hunting on Sundays garnered some support in the past before fizzling and dying in the state Legislature. With a Senate committee’s recent passage of another Sunday hunting bill, the battle is on again, pitting hunting groups against farmers and even other outdoors enthusiasts. The state Senate Game and Fisheries...

In pictures he posted on Facebook of his country club wedding in Bucks County, Matthew Aimers is beaming in a tuxedo as he gazes over at his new bride. But the smiling photos belie the reality of his wedding day, when he was led away from the reception in handcuffs...

Authorities say a raid at a house in Monroeville on Tuesday netted illegal drugs with a street value of about $62,000. Allegheny County and Monroeville police and the FBI on Tuesday searched a house in the 2500 block of Monroeville Boulevard. County police Inspector Andrew Schurman on Wednesday said they...

Westmoreland County Commissioner Ted Kopas said Thursday he will seek re-election for the seat he has held since 2010. Kopas, 45, a Hempfield Democrat, touted his role in enhancing economic development, upgrading county parks and reducing blight in communities throughout the county as well as his support of initiatives to...

The victim of a fatal head-on crash Thursday in Penn Hills was identified as Steven Prazenica, 33, of Allison Park. Allegheny County homicide detectives believe alcohol was a factor in the crash which happened at 4:30 p.m. A Dodge pick-up truck traveling along the 12000 block of Frankstown Road toward...

Ray Alincic never thought he’d run a fish fry, let alone one that starts three weeks before the Lenten — and unofficial Western Pennsylvania fish fry — season kicks off. As manager of Station Cafe and board member of the Youngwood Historical and Railroad Museum for 14 years, Alincic is...

Westmoreland County commissioners said Thursday they won’t wait for more state funding — which could become available later this year — to buy a new voting system. “We have to move forward with this now so we have it in place before the presidential election. We want to make sure...

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump alleged in his State of the Union that the United States was on a dangerous course to socialism. On Thursday, democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) proposed a “Green New Deal” - which was instantly supported by several Democratic presidential candidates. The package isn’t socialism,...