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A businessman and a former two-term Allegheny County councilman is seeking the Republican nomination for Allegheny County executive. Matthew J. Drozd, 74, of Pittsburgh, made the announcement Thursday evening. If he is nominated by the Republicans in the May 21 primary election, he will run against County Executive Rich Fitzgerald,...

A Butler woman who worked at UPMC pleaded guilty Wednesday to wrongfully disclosing health information, according to the U.S. Attorney in Pittsburgh. Linda Sue Kalina, 61, worked as a patient information coordinator with UPMC and its affiliate, Tri Rivers Musculoskeletal Centers in Mars, from March 7, 2016 to June 23,...

Lane restrictions on southbound McKnight Road begin Thursday night, weather permitting, PennDOT announced. Crews from Peoples Natural Gas will conduct service line repair work between McKnight Circle and Patrick Place from 8 p.m. Thursday night until 5 a.m. Friday morning. Two of three lanes will be closed to traffic....

Pittsburgh’s Student Police Academy began Wednesday with its largest class since its inception in 2015, according to police. Thirty-four high school students will learn directly from Pittsburgh police officers for the 10-week course. The students are from parochial, charter, Pittsburgh Public and suburban schools. The course allows students to learn...

Pittsburgh has classified potholes as public enemy No. 1. The city’s 311 Response Center created a pothole wanted poster on Wednesday to draw complaints from residents about the annual western Pennsylvania street menace. WANTED: Suspect is known as POTHOLE with known aliases such as crater & rut. If seen avoid...

Longtime Pirates and Penguins organist Vince Lascheid may have passed away 10 years ago, but his music lives on at PNC Park. Devoted fans of Lascheid’s distinctive keyboard stylings will be able to hear more of his ballpark melodies as more have been digitized and will be played at PNC...

Pittsburgh is looking to remake the intersection of Ellsworth and Maryland avenues in Shadyside with an artistic design commemorating the neighborhood’s history of gay activism and the 50th anniversary of riots in New York City that touched off the modern LGBT rights movement in the United States. The Public Art...

An issue with the Allegheny County Jail’s water tower has led to a modified lockdown at the facility through Sunday, jail officials said. Warden Orlando Harper said in a statement there is no hot water available from the ground floor up to level five of the Second Avenue facility. The...

Spirited Media officials announced Wednesday the company is selling its three online publications, including Pittsburgh-based The Incline. Chris Krewson, vice president of strategy at Spirited Media, announced on Medium that the company had already sold Denverite to Colorado Public Radio and is looking to sell The Incline and Philadelphia-based Billy...

About 50 firefighters from a dozen units responded to a warehouse fire Wednesday morning in Etna, officials said. No one was injured. When officials arrived shortly after 11 a.m., they found an interior section of the warehouse on Bridge Street near Main Street consumed by flames, Etna Fire Chief Greg...

Jurors must decide whether the man charged with causing the 2016 Thanksgiving crash that killed a family of three truly intended to cause harm that day or if the crash was the unintended consequence of reckless actions. The jury began deliberating Wednesday, weighing not whether 24-year-old Demetrius Coleman is guilty...

Cinderlands Beer Co. in Lawrenceville is one of 20 new breweries in the country in a competition to be voted the best in the land. The brewery and restaurant landed on USA Today’s list of the top 20 new breweries in the country. It was ranked No. 6 on the...

It must be the luck of the Irish. Pittsburgh ranked N0. 8 out of 200 U.S. cities to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this year, according to a recent WalletHub.com report. That’s great news, because we moved up two spots from last year’s No. 10 ranking. The report used 17 key...

A political newcomer’s challenge to a longtime Allegheny County councilman appears to have pushed the council to take up the issue of conversion therapy. Council members Tuesday introduced a ban on the controversial and widely discredited practice used to attempt to remove a person’s feelings of same-sex attraction or to...

Roads owned by Allegheny County are now up for adoption, so to speak. The county has launched a new Adopt-a-Roadway program that will allow people and organizations to pledge to keep sections of roads clean of litter. Litter on the roads is especially visible during this gray time of year....

A Penn Hills man will spend at least a decade in prison after pleading guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl. Investigators say Veryl Long, 29, conspired to distribute more than 14 ounces of the drug between October 2016 and March 2017, according to prosecutors....

A Beaver County man who allegedly robbed a bank in McCandless on Tuesday morning was arrested after police spotted him fleeing in a vehicle along Interstate 79. Patrick Acierno, 34, of Freedom is in the Allegheny County Jail after failing to post a $250,000 cash bond, according to court records....

The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority waived a preliminary hearing Wednesday on charges that it violated Pennsylvania’s Safe Drinking Water Act during a lead line replacement program in 2016 and 2017. PWSA faces 161 criminal counts and fines ranging from $201,250 to $2 million. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s office...

Police are searching for a Bellevue man who has been missing for over a month. Wendell Caldwell, 56, was going to visit a friend on Pittsburgh’s North Side on Feb. 1, but never arrived, according to the Bellevue Police Department. The last communication his friend had with him was when...

A woman was transported to a Pittsburgh area hospital in stable condition after crash in the city’s West End Tuesday. Department of Public Safety spokesman Chris Togneri said officers responded to a report of a vehicle crash around 5:36 p.m. near the intersection of South Main Street and Noblestown Road....

An elderly Pittsburgh man pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday to trafficking in cocaine and money laundering for more than 20 years. Richard Stuart Wright, 76, entered the guilty plea to three counts before United States District Judge Mark R. Hornak. He will be allowed to remain at home...

A Pittsburgh woman walked into the Hill District YMCA on Monday with a Smirnoff Ice in her hand, requesting to pick up her children, who had been taken home on a bus, according to charges filed against the woman. Staff members at the Centre Avenue facility told police that Anastasia...