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Putting a defendant on the stand to testify in their own defense is risky business. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t, legal experts told the Tribune-Review. It’s anyone’s guess whether Michael Rosfeld will take the stand and describe under oath exactly what happened on June 19, 2018, the day...

Friends and community members are organizing to support the family of Antwon Rose II during Michael Rosfeld’s trial, arranging logistics like transportation to and from the courthouse, planning meals and taking up a collection to cover other costs, according to posts circulating on social media. “This is the next thing...

Pittsburgh police are searching for a suspect in connection with a shooting in Larimer on Sunday afternoon that left a man in critical condition, according to authorities. The shooting occurred in the 6400 block of Shetland Street shortly before 4:30 p.m. City police officers from the Zone 5 station responding...

When he was just 14 years old, Ari Lehman drowned in Crystal Lake. His life has never been the same. The actor and musician, now 53, played the young Jason Voorhees, sans hockey mask, in the original “Friday the 13th” movie. Released in May 1980, the horror flick about a...

Duquesne police have arrested a North Versailles man they say threw a gun out a truck window during a chase. Police were conducting extra patrols Saturday night because of St. Patrick’s Day. Officers attempted to stop a pickup truck for suspected impaired driving, police said. When the truck wouldn’t stop,...

Five people were arrested by the North Hills DUI Task Force for driving under the influence Saturday. The task force made the arrests as part of a DUI detail and roving patrols in Marshall, McCandless, Ross and West View that were conducted as part of the St. Patrick’s Day “Drive...

Pittsburgh officials said there were no major incidents during the city’s St. Patrick’s Day parade, but eight people were arrested on the South Side as they celebrated later that night. Chris Togneri, public safety spokesman, said police arrested eight people for “mostly assault or public intoxication” on Saturday. Two summons...

Allegheny County Police are looking for a teenager accused of shooting a 60-year-old man in the leg Thursday. Demon Ronald Ross, 17, has been charged as an adult in the shooting. Ross and the 60-year-old man got into an argument that ended when Ross shot the man near the intersection...

A man has been found dead in the Monongahela River in Braddock, according to Allegheny County officials. A tugboat operator spotted the body near the Rankin Bridge at about 8:45 a.m. Sunday, officials said. First-responders recovered the body from the river. Further details were not immediately available....

Western Pennsylvania over the span of nearly a quarter century has twice found itself at center stage of national outrage involving the deaths of black men at the hands of white police officers. The 1995 death of Jonny Gammage in the era of Rodney King and the L.A. riots focused...

Sporting a thick mane now more salt than pepper and an impeccably tailored suit, Patrick Thomassey cuts a confident figure in the courtroom. It’s a confidence borne of razor-sharp legal skills the 71-year-old Monroeville lawyer has honed in more than four decades in court. But friends and colleagues say the...

The lights are back on for about 1,000 Duquesne Light customers who lost power in Plum Saturday evening when a pair of electrical transformers caught fire, according to police. The incident occurred shortly after 6 p.m. along Holiday Park Drive, police said. The affected homes were along Holiday Park Drive...

A plan to add more trips on four buses routes in Oakland to ease overcrowding and rider “pass ups” begins Sunday, according to the Port Authority of Allegheny County. The quarterly service updateswill add trips to the 71B-Highland Park, 71D-Hamilton, 75-Ellsworth and 83-Bedford Hill. The updates also provides bus service...

A West Virginia man was arrested early Saturday on Pittsburgh’s South Side after police said he struck two cars and drove the wrong way down 17th Street. Police said they then found four guns in his car and the suspect, Kristopher Alan Miller, 42, of Tridelphia, was visibly intoxicated when...

Starting on Tuesday, a stretch of Noblestown Road at the Carnegie interchange to I-79 will be down to a single lane in each direction for bridge preservation work that is expected to last into late November, according to PennDOT. A posted detour around the construction site also will be in...

Amid the sea of people dressed in green Saturday along the Boulevard of the Allies in downtown Pittsburgh, a white faux straw hat seemed to glow when the sun appeared from behind the stark, gray clouds. Robert Weck was wearing it as he and some of his family enjoyed Pittsburgh’s...

Pittsburgh police seek the public’s help in finding a missing Homewood teen. Police said Unique Rodgers, 17, was last seen wearing a white hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, black tennis shoes and glasses. The missing person’s post was made on the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police’s Facebook page around 10 p.m. Friday....

Abdul Malik Mujahid visited the Muslim Association of Greater Pittsburgh’s mosque in Richland Township for the first time Friday. Mujahid is an American Muslim imam and nonprofit leader based in Chicago. He was asked to deliver a sermon addressing the mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand that...

Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald crowned the newest Miss Irish Smiling Eyes on Friday. This year’s Irish queen is Maggie Byrnes. Her court members are Erin Joyce and Anne Garvey. The trio will be part of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday in Pittsburgh. “It is...

A week after the sudden, but not unexpected closure of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s office is offering guidance for students affected by the move. “The sudden closure of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh has left hundreds of students across the Commonwealth in limbo about...

Senate GOP leaders on Friday accused Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro of usurping the Legislature and violating the state constitution in his legal attempt to force UPMC to rescind a controversial prepay rule and contract with rival Highmark. Senate President Pro Tempore Joseph Scarnati, R-Jefferson, filed documents in Commonwealth Court...

With repairs said to be coming together ahead of schedule, U.S. Steel on Friday released photos showing some of the damage and repairs to the Clairton Coke Works facility following a Dec. 24 fire. A photo taken Dec. 31, 2018, shows exterior damage to the roof of part of the...

A Westmoreland County organization and two in Allegheny County were among 18 people, organizations, businesses, and local governments that were awarded the 2019 Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence. The Allegheny Land Trust in Sewickley was recognized for its Greenprint Planning Tool; the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy got the award for the...

As a Muslim living in Pittsburgh, Mohammad Sajjad struggled to put into words what he felt about yet another place of worship becoming the scene of a mass shooting. “It’s horrific that someone would go into a mosque and be able to kill almost fifty people, possibly more,” Sajjad, program...