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For some, this weekend is a three-day respite –Monday is Presidents Day. Here’s what is going on: ••• Uncork it The Senator John Heinz History Center in the Strip District tonight will host its 21st annual “History Uncorked: Out of this World” soiree for young professionals. The event features live...

Housing authorities in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Westmoreland, Armstrong and Butler counties will receive about $657,000 in federal money to support public housing residents and housing voucher program recipients so they can earn more money and reduce their dependence on public assistance and rental subsidies. The money from the Department of...

A crash shut down part of Route 30 in North Versailles Friday, according to police. Westbound lanes of the highway between Broad Street and Jackman Street were closed for about two hours after a vehicle wrecked into a telephone pole. The crash occurred around 9:45 p.m., officials said. Police reported...

A Brookline man accused of assisting a drug dealer with packaging and distributing cocaine has admitted his guilt in federal court, authorities announced Thursday. Walter John Amman, III, 68, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and possession charges and is expected to be sentenced in June, according to a release from the...

Prospect Road in Baldwin Borough reopened to traffic Thursday following a landslide that shut down the South Hills thoroughfare earlier this week, officials said. A landslide during Tuesday’s severe weather conditions prompted Allegheny County Department of Public Works crews to close Prospect Road between Beryl Drive and Streets Run Road....

A Pittsburgh man has been sentenced in federal court to more than 15 years in prison for robbing three banks. Authorities say the suspect’s lavish spending and his girlfriend’s bragging about it led to his demise. U.S. District Court Judge Cathy Bissoon imposed the sentence on Bryan Campbell, 27,, federal...

Work to convert Pittsburgh’s landmark Produce Terminal into a restaurant, retail and office complex will begin soon following a unanimous vote Thursday by the Urban Redevelopment Authority. Pamela Austin, senior project manager of development for Chicago-based McCaffery Interests, said the $50 million project could begin in March and wrap up...

The suspect in a murder on the other side of the country fled to his father’s home in Coraopolis where he was arrested Thursday morning by sheriff’s deputies, authorities said. Police in Bakersfield filed charges against 19-year-old Isaiah Starns and four others in what was, at the time, an attempted...

Contemporary Craft is on the move. The cutting-edge, contemporary arts hub is leaving its longtime location in the historic Produce Terminal Building in the Strip District and buying a permanent home in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood. At the ceremony announcing the move, Contemporary Craft Executive Director Janet McCall said finding a...

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said he’s prepared to battle all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court over the city’s proposed gun ban. The mayor, in an interview with reporters Wednesday, said the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is another possibility “depending on what’s being challenged.” Gun activists have promised to sue...

Police are looking for two men who robbed a CVS pharmacy at gunpoint in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood early Thursday morning. The men went into the store on Centre Avenue around 3 a.m. and robbed a clerk at the register, fleeing with an undetermined amount of cash, according to the Pittsburgh...

A baby doll found hanging from a light pole in Pittsburgh’s Homewood section Thursday morning has prompted a police investigation and outcry from a local state representative. Pittsburgh police officers found a weather-beaten, African-American doll hanging from a light pole at the intersection of Bruston Avenue and Mohler Street, said...

A federal receiver controlling the finances of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh is nearly out of cash to manage the entities he’s tasked to oversee. Mark Dottore, the Cleveland-based receiver in the case, wrote in a Feb. 7 letter to the Department of Education that he has $3.8 million on...

A truck lost its load along the Parkway West midday Thursday, snarling traffic for hours while crews worked to clear metal debris from the interstate, officials said. By 5 p.m., about five hours after the incident, Interstate 376 reopened to traffic after closing to a single lane in both directions...

Legal arguments reignited Thursday over the large Lamar Advertising sign looming over Pittsburgh from atop Mt. Washington. A Pittsburgh attorney argued that Lamar Advertising has operated a “blatantly illegal” sign for more than three years, while representatives from Lamar contended the city is violating its due process, property and free...

An Aliquippa man pleaded guilty to having and selling cocaine in Allegheny County for several months in 2017. Rickee Dawkins, 52, was initially charged with five other men for a conspiracy to violate federal drug laws. He accepted a plea agreement. He was the last of the six to go...

A federal jury in Pittsburgh deliberated for six hours on Wednesday before finding a Beaver Falls man guilty of violating five drug laws. According to federal records, Anthony Taylor was accused of a conspiracy that sold almost 18 ounces of cocaine and three-quarters of an ounce of the synthetic painkiller...

A federal grand jury this week indicted two of three people accused of a string of armed bank robberies in Pittsburgh and its suburbs in October, U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady said y. Nicole Wallace, 34, of Carnegie and Edward Hooten, 42, of Pittsburgh face charges that carry maximum sentences...

The attorney for a fired Pittsburgh police officer said Wednesday he plans to sue the city and a police detective for malicious prosecution, claiming the detective lied in court. Robert Kramer, 29, was fired in 2017 following an incident in which he was accused of pointing a silver revolver at...

The union representing Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom workers on Wednesday filed unfair labor practice charges against Publisher John Robinson Block for what witnesses described as a “berserk” newsroom meltdown over the weekend. Block intimidated staff members when he stormed into the North Shore newsroom Saturday night, ranting and raving and acting...

A winning Cash 5 ticket for Tuesday’s drawing was sold at a Richland Township business. The winner will split the $800,000 jackpot with another winner in Erie. The ticket was sold at The Brew House, 312 Northtowne Square. The store will receive a $500 bonus for selling the ticket. Each...

The owner of a string of Pittsburgh-area Shop ’n Save grocery stores allegedly ordered employees to hoard unused coupons and used them to bilk more than $300,000 from manufacturers over the course of four years, according to theft charges filed against him Wednesday. Michael Mihelic, 59, of Franklin Park, owns...