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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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...