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Walmart’s decision to change the job requirements for its greeters has caused a national controversy as some believe it targets people with disabilities. But some disabled worker advocates say they haven’t seen any issues locally yet. Lisa Razza, spokeswoman with ACHIEVA, which works with people with disabilities in Allegheny and...

Pittsburgh is poised to spend nearly $1 million on a new River Rescue boat and water safety training for firefighters, paramedics and police officers who staff River Rescue crafts and the city fire boat. City Council on Wednesday gave preliminary approval for a three-year, $360,000 contract with Lexington, Ky.-based National...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office on Wednesday announced it will not file charges against the undercover Pittsburgh police officers involved in a brawl with members of the Pagans motorcycle club at a South Side bar last year. The FBI was investigating whether there were any civil rights violations by the officers....

Pittsburgh will close Shiras Avenue in Beechview for about five days starting Monday during a repair project, the Mayor’s Office announced Wednesday. The street running from Candace Street to Palm Beach Avenue will be closed while a Department of Public Works crew builds a retaining wall along the street. The...

The driver license and photo center in Bridgeville is temporarily closed while state transportation officials relocate the office for a Friday opening. The PennDOT announced the closure Wednesday. The Department of Motor Vehicle site at the Chartiers Valley Shopping Center at 1025 Washington Pike, Route 50, in Bridgeville closed Tuesday...

A Penn Hills man has been charged with causing the death of a woman driver in a 2017 head-on crash in Pittsburgh’s East Hills neighborhood. Pittsburgh police charged Taariq Tyler, 22, with homicide by vehicle, reckless endangerment and other related charges on Feb. 22, after determining his rental pick-up truck...

About 3,800 Pittsburgh households remained under a boil water advisory Wednesday, a day after a contractor broke a water line while working on Shaler Street in Duquesne Heights. Nearly 1,000 of those households had no water service. The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority issued an advisory for residents of Crafton...

A road in Dravosburg will close Monday and remain closed until mid-May to build a retaining wall after a 2018 landslide, the Allegheny County Department of Public Works said. Elizabeth Street will also be paved as part of the $506,133 project. Traffic will be detoured using Elizabeth Road, Maple Avenue,...

Prosecutors on Wednesday laid out their sexual assault case against former restaurant owner Adnan Pehlivan, calling him a restaurateur by day and sexual predator by night, while defense counsel set out to prove the case is a hook-up gone wrong. The jury of eight men and four women heard opening...

Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium officials are mourning the death of one of their sea lions. Officials announced Wednesday that a 24-year-old sea lion named Zoey died from cancer after being diagnosed last year. “Zoey was diagnosed with oral squamous cell carcinoma in 2018 and was the first sea lion...

A judge on Wednesday revoked bond for two men charged in an alleged large-scale cocaine trafficking operation, calling the men flight risks and a danger to the community. Jermaine Clark and Terry Suggs Jr. were arrested Monday in North Braddock, the culmination of a months-long investigation into the pair. The...

The North Side section of Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Heritage Trail has a new name. Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved renaming the trail in honor of former Mayor Tom Murphy, a longtime North Side resident, who is recognized as the “architect” of the city’s riverfront trail system. The trail...

A Pittsburgh Steelers fan who headbutted another fan during a brawl at a Steelers game in December pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. Chad Ferguson, 44, of Ben Avon, was required to pay a $100 fine for the summary offense. A simple assault charge police had filed against Ferguson was dismissed....

African American parents in the West Jefferson Hills School District are enraged after a Thomas Jefferson High School student allegedly made a racist social media post about a fellow student that circulated widely Tuesday. The photo is of an African American student appearing to be sitting in a school science...

Fresh off its Oscar win for best feature documentary, the movie “Free Solo” is returning to the screen of the Rangos Giant Cinema at the Carnegie Science Center this weekend. The movie tracks Alex Honnold’s free solo climb up the 3,000-foot granite face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park...

No one was hurt in a crash involving an empty school bus that closed inbound Route 28 on Wednesday during the morning rush hour. Millvale police Chief Tim Komoroski said six vehicles including an ABC Transit bus with only the driver inside were involved in the crash. Multi vehicle crash...

Light rail service is operating normally Wednesday morning following a fire under a bridge in Pittsburgh, according to the Port Authority of Allegheny County. Tents used by homeless people and debris caught fire below the T tracks along Arlington Avenue around 2 a.m., the Trib’s news partner, WPXI-TV, reported. The...

Allegheny County police said Wednesday that officers arrested a Pittsburgh man accused of being drunk when he crashed his pickup into an SUV and killed its driver this month in Penn Hills. Theamon Jemal Hicks, 48, was charged Tuesday with homicide by vehicle, according to court records. He is currently...

Marilyn Darnley became an institution at Pittsburgh International Airport. The Salvation Army worker was a fixture at the terminal for 20 years, but it wasn’t just the costumes she wore on holidays and special Pittsburgh sports occasions that drew travelers to her red kettle. “She had a beautiful smile. She...

The Pittsburgh Public Schools board should not have nixed a proposed charter school in the city’s East Liberty neighborhood, a state oversight board ruled Tuesday. On a split vote, the Pennsylvania Charter School Appeal Board determined that the application for the planned Catalyst Academy Charter School fully meets the requirements...

A man involved in a brawl with undercover Pittsburgh police officers last year at a South Side bar has filed a federal lawsuit against the city, the four officers involved and the police union, essentially calling the police an organized crime enterprise. Attorney Wendy Williams filed the federal lawsuit Tuesday...

The 50 pounds of cocaine worth $10 million seized in North Braddock this week marked the region’s biggest drug bust in recent memory, Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala said Tuesday. “We haven’t taken this much dope off the streets for a long time,” Zappala told reporters during an...

Testimony is scheduled to begin Wednesday in the trial against a Pittsburgh restaurateur accused of breaking in to a woman’s South Side Slopes home and sexually assaulting her in her bed. Adnan Pehlivan, who owned Regent Square’s now-shuttered Istanbul Sofra restaurant, is accused of following the woman home from a...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that denied the Pittsburgh police union’s appeal of a contract awarded through arbitration in 2016. Fraternal Order of Police Fort Pitt Lodge No. 1 had appealed an arbitration panel’s 2016 contract award, contending it deviated from the city’s former...