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On a recent visit to Pittsburgh, Graham Nash reflected on Woodstock’s 50th anniversary and how it marked the end of “people getting in a garage and forming a rock band with their friends, and the beginning of corporate interests in seeing kids that they can sell a cola and another...

Power was restored to the Mon Incline just before 9 a.m. Friday. The incline had shut down around 6:35 a.m. due to a power failure, according to Port Authority of Allegheny County spokesman Adam Brandolph. The Monongahela Incline had been shut down for more than three months for repairs. It...

Mother’s Day is Sunday. So celebrate the woman who gave you life with one of these events this weekend. More than a race The 27th annual Komen Pittsburgh Race for the Cure begins at 6:30 a.m. Sunday. There is a Kids Dash and a 5K Run and Walk. The race...

A chain-reaction crash that sent a vehicle into the side of a Carrick house Thursday was spurred by a drive-by shooting, Pittsburgh police say. The shooting was reported just after 5:50 p.m. in the 100 block of East Meyers Street. Officers responded to reports of shots fired. When they arrived...

Scott Township Police are looking for a man who snatched a purse from an elderly woman in front of a grocery store earlier this week. The snatching occurred at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in front of the Shop ‘n Save in Raceway Plaza. The victim is 84 years old. Police say...

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said last week that police have identified suspects in last month’s shooting at the Monroeville Mall and arrests are imminent. Zappala said investigators used surveillance cameras and license plate recognition software to identify the suspects in the April 12 shooting at a...

A former Pittsburgh radiologist convicted of unlawfully distributing a prescription painkiller and health care fraud has been sentenced to two years in federal prison and fined $15,000. Omar A. Almusa, 46, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. Judge Arthur Schwab in Pittsburgh. Almusa was a radiologist with the University of Pittsburgh...

The goats are going back to work. Thanks to a $9,500 grant from the Allegheny County Conservation District, Allegheny GoatScape’s herd will remove — as in “eat” — invasive species from public wooded land in the Perry Hilltop neighborhood. “We are so excited to receive this gift from ACCD,” said...

Several survivors of a mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue lauded state lawmakers on Thursday for a package of proposed bills designed to enhance Pennsylvania hate crimes statutes. State Reps. Dan Frankel of Squirrel Hill and Ed Gainey of Lincoln-Lemington and Sen. Jay Costa of Forest Hills, standing...

The Monongahela Incline will reopen on Friday after being shut down for repairs for more than three months. The incline has been out of service since Feb. 4 to repair damage caused by flooding. On Jan. 19, a Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority water main that runs along Grandview Avenue...

Police believe the car that hit, dragged and killed a Penn Hills man last week was a silver blue 2002 Saturn SL or SL2, Allegheny County officials said in a news release Thursday. Joseph Morris, 51, was found dead by police along Universal Road in Penn Hills after Allegheny County...

A Shaler man has pleaded guilty to raping a 5-year-old boy he was babysitting. Dylan McKinney, 27, will spend between seven and 14 years in jail followed by 10 years supervised probation on the rape charge in exchange for the dismissal of some of the related criminal counts he faced,...

The bald eagles at North Park, likely the first pair to nest in an Allegheny County park, didn’t produce any young this season, wildlife officials said. The Pennsylvania Game Commission confirmed recently there are no chicks in the nest. “There have been sightings of both parent birds leaving the nest,”...

A broken switch Thursday at a West Penn Power substation knocked out service to more than 7,000 utility customers in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties. More than half of impacted customers had power restored by 11 a.m., according to the FirstEnergy website. Power to all customers was restored by 2:30 p.m....

A Wexford man died after he crashed his motorcycle on the Parkway North early Thursday. He was identified as Douglas J. Regrut, 28, by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. The crash was reported just before 1 a.m. at mile marker 12.7 in Franklin Park. State police at the Moon...

A man was in critical condition early Thursday after Pittsburgh police say he was shot multiple times in Brighton Heights. The shooting was reported just before 11:45 p.m. Wednesday in the 1200 block of Woods Run Avenue. Police officers from Zone 1 first received a ShotSpotter notification, followed by 911...

Two men were in critical condition early Thursday after their vehicle hit the side of a building in Pittsburgh’s Mt. Washington neighborhood. The crash was reported at 3:22 a.m. on Route 51 just past Woodruff Street. The driver and a passenger were trapped inside and had to be extracted from...

Penn Hills School District students will not have to worry about paying for breakfasts and lunches next school year. District officials recently approved the high school’s participation in the National School Lunch Program’s Community Eligibility Provision. It’s being administered by the state Department of Education’s Division of Food and Nutrition....

A Pittsburgh man died after he was a stabbed in McKeesport late Wednesday afternoon, according to Allegheny County Police. He was identified as Irvin Green, 48, by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. McKeesport police and paramedics were called to the 1200 block of Evans Avenue around 5:40 p.m. for...

Homestead police say a resident was shot in the lower left leg while walking up the steps to his home on Wednesday night. Allegheny County dispatchers said police and EMS activity was reported at West 12th Avenue and Hays Street around 10:15 p.m. Homestead Police Chief Jeff DeSimone said the...

Allegheny County sheriffs on Wednesday night arrested the man accused of killing a local tattoo artist. Terrance Murphy, 25, of Stowe, allegedly shot an unidentified 31-year-old man who had just given him a tattoo, according to county police. The shooting happened around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday on the second floor of...