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Police seek help to locate man last seen in Hazelwood
Authorities are seeking help finding a man last seen Tuesday night in Pittsburgh’s Hazelwood neighborhood. Pittsburgh police said Michael Johnson, 26, was wearing a dark green shirt and black pants in the area of Browns Hill Road and he may have been headed to The Waterfront in Homestead. Johnson is...
100 mph chase on Route 28 ends with crash near Fox Chapel
A Pittsburgh man wanted on a warrant was jailed early Wednesday after state police say he led them on a more than 100 mph chase down Route 28 in a stolen vehicle. Jozsef “Joe Ball” Harangozo, 36, was suspected of being “under the influence of controlled substances” as he fled...
How Wilkinsburg’s Henry Parham survived 68 days on Omaha Beach
It’s hard to say for sure if the 68 days that Private First Class Henry Parham spent on Omaha Beach in 1944 were the most challenging of his life. He grew up working on a Virginia farm in the segregated Jim Crow South during the 1920s and ‘30s. There were...
Two charged with firing guns near Coraopolis police station
Coraopolis police have identified two men who were arrested in connection with gunfire near the police station early Tuesday morning. A third man, who has not been identified, has contacted the department and is expected to turn himself in Wednesday, police said. Nathan John Fishbourne, 29 and Brandon Michael Youngworth,...
Peter Frampton bids heartfelt farewell to Pittsburgh
Farewell tours are all the rage in the pop music world these days as aging rock musicians try to squeeze every dollar they can from new audiences excited about their music, or old ones who have never tired of it. Kiss, The Who (both of whom played PPG Paints Arena...
Furry invasion closes in on PittsburghVideo
This weekend’s forecast in Pittsburgh: Partly cloudy with a chance of furries. Yes, it’s furry season again. The Anthrocon Convention — a gathering of adults dressed up as animals — invades Pittsburgh from Friday through Sunday at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown. Many will arrive Thursday. Vendors will...
Cops: Jeannette man rammed police cars in attempt to escape arrest in Pittsburgh
A suspected drug dealer rammed his car into two police vehicles as he tried to escape arrest Tuesday, according to Pittsburgh police. Edwin Wylie-Biggs, 38, of Jeannette was wanted on a warrant for allegedly assaulting a woman, police said. Several undercover police cars surrounded Wylie-Biggs’ car on Merritt Avenue near...
Penn Hills man vows to chain himself to White House to bring attention to school district
A Penn Hills man, the son of the Penn Hills School Board president, has caught the eye of the U.S. Secret Service, with an online petition to have federal authorities help bail out his financially strapped school district. Phil Vecchio posted his plea to Change.org in June. He said he...
Pittsburgh police charge ‘Chomp’ alligator owner with neglect, animal cruelty
Pittsburgh police on Tuesday charged a Beechview man, who admitted he owned a five-foot alligator who escaped from his home, with 33 counts of neglect. As police probed the case surrounding the rogue reptile named Chomp, they learned that Mark A. McGowan, 44, who lives on Rutherford Avenue, kept reptiles...
UPMC: Visitor brought in bacteria to Children’s Hospital ICU
A visitor to the neonatal intensive care unit at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh is believed to have brought in the antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria that spread to six babies and six staff members, a hospital official said Tuesday. The hospital began testing the NICU infants and staff Thursday afternoon after...
Penn Hills School District’s state allocation only a Band-Aid, board president says
The Penn Hills School District was able to dodge a property tax hike that would have thrust the district to the top-highest tax rate in Allegheny County, but many residents know budgets last only one year. By then, Earl Jenkins said he and his wife might move down South. “We...
LCB awards nearly $765,000 in grants to reduce underage drinking
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board approved almost $765,000 in grants to 44 schools, community organizations, municipalities and law enforcement organizations, among others, to reduce underage and dangerous drinking. The grant money will cover projects like enforcement patrols and tactics, awareness campaigns, educational efforts and alternative, alcohol-free activities. “Since 1999, the...
Police investigate equipment theft at Pittsburgh maintenance facility
Pittsburgh has hired security guards and assigned employees to work evening shifts at a maintenance facility in Squirrel Hill that was burglarized several weeks ago on three separate occasions, a city official said. Department of Public Works Director Mike Gable said about $10,000 worth of equipment, including lawn mowers, weed...
Pa. Senate Republicans issue letter to Lt. Gov. Fetterman over Senate floor chaos
State Senate Republicans issued a letter to Lt. Gov. John Fetterman Tuesday expressing “grave concerns” over what they described as his “dereliction of duty and defiance as the presiding officer of the Senate.” Signed by all 28 Republicans in the state Senate, the letter refers to chaos — shouting, name...
Police investigating bank robbery in Downtown Pittsburgh
One man is in custody and another is being sought after the Tuesday morning robbery of a Downtown bank, Pittsburgh police said. The robbery was reported to police at 10:43 a.m. at the PNC branch in the 200 block of Fifth Avenue. A man approached a teller and passed a...
Governor commutes life sentence of Robert Wideman in 1975 murder case
Gov. Tom Wolf on Monday commuted the sentence of Robert Wideman, who was serving life in prison for his role in a 1975 murder. Wolf affirmed the Board of Pardons recommendation issued in May. Wideman, 68, of Homewood, was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Nicola Morena....
Audubon seeks volunteers to collect discarded fishing line in O’Hara, along North Shore
With more than one million birds killed each year from debris like discarded fishing line, the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania is seeking people to help combat those numbers. The group, headquartered at Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve in Fox Chapel, is looking for stewards to maintain fishing line recycling bins....
Soul-food restaurant to open in West Mifflin Walmart
Soul food restaurant Cornbread, described as fast-casual farm-to-table, will open the first of three area sites in the Walmart at 2351 Century Drive, West Mifflin. Doors at the leased space will open at 11 a.m. July 5, with locations at the Walmarts in Frazer and Hempfield set to open before...
Pittsburgh firefighter charged in scuffle with boy at playground
A Pittsburgh firefighter is on administrative leave after police charged him in connection with a June 25 altercation with a 13-year-old boy, authorities said. Officers found Thomas Louis D’Andrea, 46, of Greenfield, holding down the boy at the playground near his residence, police said. The boy suffered a large lump...
Pittsburgh poised to pay woman $52,500 to settle negligence lawsuit
Pittsburgh would pay a West End woman $52,500 to settle a lawsuit she filed in 2014 contending an EMS official struck her with a city vehicle as she was crossing a street in Brighton Heights. Jennifer Batten, 36, of Crafton Heights said in a complaint that she was in a...
Police: North Versailles man tried to flush heroin, cocaine, pot at Indiana County hotel
State troopers say a man attempted to “flush” nearly five bricks of heroin, 24 grams of crack cocaine and a small amount of marijuana down the toilet at an Indiana County hotel Monday as they were closing in to serve a search warrant, according to court documents. But the alleged...
One grazed in shoulder in Hazelwood shooting
Police are investigating a shooting in Pittsburgh’s Hazelwood neighborhood that left one man injured. The shooting was reported just after midnight Tuesday on the 400 block of Elizabeth Street, according to police. The victim was grazed in the shoulder, police said. Medics took him to a hospital in good condition....
Cops: Men fired guns near Coraopolis police station
Police arrested two men and are looking for a third who they say repeatedly fired guns near the Coraopolis police station early Tuesday morning. Nobody was hurt, according to police. Coraopolis police officers heard the first gunshots as they left their station around 3:15 a.m., said Sgt. Robert Litterini. After...
Pittsburgh man dies in West Mifflin crash
A Pittsburgh man died Monday in the emergency room after a crash in West Mifflin, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office. Thomas Buczynski, 63, was pronounced dead at 3:20 p.m. The crash happened on the corner of Streets Run Road and Propsect Road around 2:40 p.m., according to...
AG Shapiro thanks patients face-to-face for fueling UPMC-Highmark truce
A week after rival health giants UPMC and Highmark struck a 10-year deal to preserve access for most Western Pennsylvanians, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro returned to Pittsburgh to meet with some of the patients who stand to benefit. “I can say, unequivocally, you made a real difference,” said Shapiro...
