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3 hurt when Duquesne police car chasing speeder crashes into Port Authority bus
A Duquesne police officer crashed his marked patrol car into a Port Authority bus while chasing a speeder Saturday afternoon, the department said. The crash happened shortly before 12:30 p.m. at Duquesne Boulevard and Grant Avenue. The officer involved, who was not identified, was not hurt but was taken to...
Harmar bald eagles suspected to have hatched an eaglet
The Harmar bald eagles reportedly welcomed a newly hatched eaglet early Friday in their nest on a hillside above Route 28. Confirmation was still pending Saturday morning from the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania. Without the benefit of a live webcam, observers including a photographer documented the birds likely feeding...
Pittsburgh man accused of attacking woman in McCandless parking lot
A Pittsburgh man is accused of attacking a woman in a McCandless parking lot this week and trying to steal her wallet, according to court papers. Taylor Dale Wible, 18, of the Terrace Village neighborhood, was being held in the Allegheny County Jail on $100,000 bail. He is charged with...
Safety concerns prompt indoor graduation for West Mifflin
West Mifflin Area School District is set to begin renovation of its high school stadium in May. But safety concerns are the more important factor prompting officials to hold the school’s June 6 graduation ceremony inside the auditorium, according to district Superintendent Mark Hoover. “While we know many of you...
Think you can lie about hitting a deer? 25 charged in Western Pa. insurance fraud sweep
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro sent a message Friday to anyone who thinks they can get away with lying to pocket an insurance check: We’re going to catch you. State prosecutors from the Western Regional Office have charged 25 people in a far-reaching insurance fraud sweep during February and March,...
Pirates make ‘bun’ of themselves in Instagram post
The Pittsburgh Pirates PR team had a bun time on social media explaining the mystery of why they appeared to run out of hot dog buns on Wednesday. They’ve tackled the problem head-on and aren’t being weenies about it. In a Friday evening Instagram post, the Pirate Parrot, one of...
Mayor Bill Peduto meets with Parkland, Fla., survivorsVideo
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and survivors of the Parkland, Fla. mass shooting vowed Friday to join forces in efforts to end gun violence in America. Peduto said the three-hour meeting in his City Hall conference room included members of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community and students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School...
Parkland survivors visit Tree of Life to help community find voice
The message from Parkland to Pittsburgh on Friday was simple: You matter — and you have a voice. Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. visited Pittsburgh to start three days of talking and sharing with students at Allderdice High School in Squirrel Hill and others in...
Feeling Graeter’s in Castle Shannon as shop opensVideo
When Andy Webster heard Graeter’s Ice Cream was opening a Castle Shannon shop Friday, he hurried down for his two favorite scoops– black raspberry chocolate chip and coconut chocolate chip. “I am so happy it’s here,” said Webster, of Mt. Lebanon, who knew the company from his time in Columbus,...
Parkland survivors visit Tree of Life to help community find voice
The message from Parkland to Pittsburgh on Friday was simple: You matter — and you have a voice. Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. visited Pittsburgh to start three days of talking and sharing with students at Allderdice High School in Squirrel Hill and others in...
Pitt researchers receive $175K grant for Pittsburgh water study
University of Pittsburgh researchers will study the environmental impact of the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority’s use of a chemical to reduce lead levels in city drinking water. The National Science Foundation awarded professors Sarah Haig and Emily Elliott a $175,000 grant to study the environmental effect of orthophosphate, which...
Bun-less Buc Night draws frank apology from Aramark
Aramark was frank in its promise to avoid another bun-less hot dog night at Friday’s Pirates game. A repeat of Wednesday’s Buc Night fiasco would be the wurst. The PNC Park concession provider promised to do better in a meaty response. “Last (Wednesday) night, our team was prepared, but unfortunately...
Reward offered for information on fatal Homestead shooting
A reward is being offered to anyone with information in a fatal February shooting in Homestead. Tre-Quan Embry, 22, of Homestead, died of a gunshot wound to the head at UPMC Mercy in Pittsburgh’s Uptown. The shooting occurred shortly after 12:30 a.m. Feb. 2 in the area of 311 East...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: April 5-7
It’s springtime and baseball is back along with other fun things to do this weekend. Festival time The Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour is Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Byham Theater, Downtown. Stories of “remote journeys, ground-breaking expeditions, and cutting-edge adventures told through the eyes of adventurers,...
Ross house heavily damaged by fire, 2 escape unharmed
A three-alarm fire early Friday morning in Ross Township caused significant damage to a two-story home, according to authorities. Multiple fire departments responding to the blaze shortly after 6:30 a.m. in the 4500 block of Peoples Road encountered heavy smoke pouring from the frame structure. Peoples Road between Ivory Avenue...
Turtle Creek man gets 4 years behind bars for illegally owning AR-15 engraved with ‘Let it rain’
A Turtle Creek man was sentenced to four years and three months behind bars after twice getting caught illegally owning weapons — including an AR-15 rifle with the engraving, “Let it rain,” prosecutors said Thursday. Iklas Richard Davis, 38, pleaded guilty to federal firearms charges following three days of trial...
Judge adds 3 years to Shaler man’s 12-year sentence for selling heroin paraphernalia
A federal judge added three more years to a Shaler man’s 12-year prison sentence because he continued to sell heroin paraphernalia at his family’s stores in the North Hills even after getting caught, prosecutors said Thursday. Mayank Mishra, 38, pleaded guilty to criminal contempt and drug charges in November for...
Marshall postal facility to reopen
Nearly two weeks after a mercury spill, the U.S. Postal Service’s Pittsburgh Network Distribution Center will resume daily operations Friday. The Marshall facility has been closed since March 24, after receiving an “improperly mailed package containing mercury,” said a postal service press release. According to the state Department of Environmental...
TSA: Irwin man had loaded gun in carry-on bag at Pittsburgh airport
Federal security officers on Thursday said they stopped an Irwin man from bringing a loaded handgun onto a plane at Pittsburgh International Airport. It is the eighth gun found at the airport this year, according to the Transportation Security Administration. The .380-caliber handgun, loaded with six bullets, was in the...
Pittsburgh man sought in connection with Walmart theft
State police are searching for a man they have charged with stealing a computer and other items from an Indiana County Walmart. Trenton Dwight Jones, 30, of Pittsburgh was charged Thursday with taking a computer, motor oil and laundry detergent. It was valued at $980.24, according to state police. The...
Homicide charge filed after woman dies in McKees Rocks Bridge crash
A McKees Rocks man has been charged with homicide after a woman injured in a crash police say he caused two months ago died this week. Allegheny County police filed charges Thursday against Christopher Vuckovich, 39. Police said Vuckovich was driving eastbound on the bridge at 62 mph in a...
Luke Skywalker put on ‘trial’ for murders in Death Star destruction
It may well be the trial of the millennium. A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Luke Skywalker is accused of 5,999 counts of murder — when on May 25, 1977, and during innumerable repeats thereafter — he destroyed the Death Star in “Star Wars.” The...
Man claims Pittsburgh K-9 attacked him, witness says it was his fault
Pittsburgh would pay a North Side man $5,400 to settle a federal lawsuit alleging a city police dog attacked and injured him after he reported a 2016 break-in at an auto shop. The shop owner, however, said the man — not the dog — was at fault for being bitten....
Pittsburgh gun bills have little chance in courts, legal experts say
Legal experts gave Pittsburgh good marks for creativity in crafting ordinances aimed at regulating firearms in the city but said the bills have little chance of surviving the legal challenges that are sure to come. The courts might uphold some provisions in the package of bills, but the city would...
U.S. Steel: Equipment damaged in Clairton Coke Works fire repairedVideo
Desulfurization equipment at the Clairton Coke Works facility is back online and operational after over three months of repairs, U.S. Steel announced Thursday. The equipment has been down since a Dec. 24 fire at the facility caused significant damage and hindered the plant’s ability to clean coke oven gas, a...
