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A mutli-vehicle crash snarled rush hour traffic on Route 28 in Millvale on Wednesday evening. The crash in the northbound lane near the Fox Chapel exit was reported shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday, dispatchers said. Police, fire and EMS were sent to the scene. It is unknown how many cars...

Allegheny Health Network is one step closer to finishing its emergency room expansion at Jefferson Hospital. The final steel beam was placed Wednesday as officials from AHN and Highmark Health celebrated with local leaders and EMS crews at the Jefferson Hills facility. The $21 million expansion and renovation project will...

A Pittsburgh Department of Public Works carpenter charged with stealing jewelry and coins from a house he was assigned to board up in 2018 pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempted theft. John C. Minard, 42, of of Brookline was sentenced to probation. Minard waived his right to a trial and pleaded...

A woman charged in connection with a Penn Hills hit-and-run death in April turned herself in to authorities, a day after a warrant was issued for her arrest, police said Wednesday. Modesty Hopper, 21, of McKeesport, is charged with hindering apprehension for allegedly refusing to give police the name of...

Drivers should continue to expect delays on the Homestead Grays Bridge through Saturday as crews to do milling and paving work. The bridge will be restricted to one lane in each direction during the following dates and times: • 7 p.m. Wednesday to 7 a.m. Thursday • 7 p.m. Thursday...

Fans of “Star Wars” have another chance to see the hero of the iconic franchise brought to justice. The Allegheny County Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division’s annual Fairy Tales Mock Trials series this year put Luke Skywalker on trial. It will wrap up its mock trials at 10 a.m. Saturday...

At least three former tax preparers for former Cititax Refund Co. franchises in Pittsburgh have pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns that prosecutors allege cheated the Internal Revenue Services out of millions of dollars. The latest charged is Lakisha K. Pinkney, 42, previously of Pittsburgh. Pinkney, now of Eastpointe,...

Allegheny County police say a Braddock man shot his ex girlfriend’s new boyfriend in the leg Tuesday night in North Versailles. The shooting was reported shortly before 11 p.m. at a residence along the 200 block of Greensburg Pike. According to police, Melvin McCane Jr., 36, went to the residence...

Two more members of an Allegheny County family have contracted the measles, county health officials said Wednesday. There are no new risks of public exposure because the family has been quarantined since four other members were diagnosed earlier this month. The first four cases in that family were reported by...

A scratch-off lottery ticket worth $1 million was claimed at a Coraopolis convenience store Tuesday, Pennsylvania Lottery officials said. The ticket, a $1,000,000 Money Mania scratch-off that cost $20, was sold at the Speedy Food Mart on Fifth Avenue, according to a news release. The store will receive a $5,000...

The Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics will host an open house May 18 for those with an interest in flight-related careers. Representatives from Endeavor Air will be at the school’s main campus, at the Allegheny County Airport in West Mifflin, to talk with prospective students. PIA President Suzanne Markle said the...

Yinz better be sittin’ dahn with an Arn City beer for this news n’at. The Pittsburgh accent is not sexy. Not even close, according to a recent survey by Big 7 Travel company. The company asked 1.5 million people through social media to rank the 50 sexiest American accents. Pittsburgh...

The suspect in Sunday’s double stabbing in Carnegie walked out the backdoor of a Scott home Wednesday morning and into police custody, authorities said. Richard ‘Stretch’ Mickens, 58, is charged with homicide in the stabbing that left a man dead and a woman in critical condition. The stabbing happened at...

A North Carolina woman who was found during FBI wiretaps of the Greenway Boys Killas street gang pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine, according to U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh. Prosecutors said a 2017 wiretap focused on the West End neighborhood of Pittsburgh found that from November 2017 through...

A man missing since Sunday night from Northview Heights has been located and is safe, Pittsburgh police announced this morning. Police said tips received in response to news reports and social media postings about the missing man helped them locate Clifford Owens, 57....

Work on a broken water main on Butler Street in Lawrenceville will take longer than expected — and additional blocks will be without water — until about 5 a.m. Thursday, according to the Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority. Repairs to the 20-inch water main between 39th and 42nd streets began...

Blue Martin once owned a bunny named Bacon. Now she’s president of Pigsburgh Squealers Rescue, a nonprofit that educates people about miniature pigs and helps find permanent homes for the animals. Since 2016, it’s placed more than three dozen. Martin, 29, and her fiance Zack Robinson, 32, recently bought a...

HARRISBURG — East Deer resident Brittany Eckert plans to reluctantly say goodbye to the oncology team she credits with saving her life when she sees them Wednesday morning, her final appointment at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital. Soon, her insurance card will not be accepted there unless courts intervene. “It’s a really...

City and Public Safety officials honored more than a dozen EMS members for their life-saving actions during the Tree of Life synagogue mass shooting last year. The death toll could have been higher, Mayor Bill Peduto said, if not for their actions on Oct. 27. “There is no doubt that...

The Pittsburgh District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its waterways partners are hosting the third annual water safety event known as Lockfest 2019 on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Emsworth. The event’s goal is to increase river users’ knowledge of its navigation facilities and...

The Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Squad has arrested the man they saw was driving the car in a fatal Penn Hills hit-and-run crash last month. Surron Burch, 21, was charged Wednesday with homicide by vehicle, involuntary manslaughter and related counts. His arrest at a Penn Hills home is the...

Paving work on the Homestead Grays Bridge is expected to cause traffic delays during rush hour Tuesday. The bridge is restricted to one lane in each direction and the West Fifth Avenue ramp is closed until 6 p.m. Police will be directing traffic. West Fifth Avenue ramp traffic is being...

What better place to have a “larger than life” Roberto Clemente painting than at the Clemente Museum. The museum is partnering with local artist Kyle Holbrook to paint a mural on the side of the Roberto Clemente Museum on Friday, June 21 beginning at 10 a.m. Holbrook’s mural painting style...