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Accused Tree of Life gunman Robert Bowers to be arraigned Monday
Accused Tree of Life gunman Robert Bowers will be arraigned on 63 charges Monday in federal court. Bowers was originally indicted last year on 44 federal charges related to the Oct. 27 shooting that left 11 people dead inside the Squirrel Hill synagogue. A federal grand jury returned a superseding...
Pittsburgh officials eye new towing rules in wake of shooting
Pittsburgh officials hope to keep towing companies from competing with each other to reach crash sites by designating one towing for each of the city’s six police zones. The announcement comes less than a week after a dispute between two tow truck drivers escalated to violence, with one driver going...
Cops sworn in to Pittsburgh force, some for 2nd timeVideo
Six veteran police officers from departments across the region took the Pittsburgh police oath Friday morning, two of whom will begin their second stints with the bureau. The new officers, considered veterans because they’ve served with other departments prior to joining Pittsburgh police, now move on to weeks of field...
Nine on Nine in Pittsburgh to close its doors after Valentine’s Day weekend
Nine on Nine in Downtown Pittsburgh will breakup after Valentine’s weekend. The restaurant at the corner of Ninth Street and Penn Avenue in the cultural district is offering Valentine’s specials, Thursday through Saturday, serving a three-course dinner for two for $120. Then the doors will close for good. Owner Courtney...
Pittsburgh police arrest 1 in alleged kidnapping
Pittsburgh police arrested a man in Bloomfield early Friday morning for an alleged kidnapping that happened in Wilkinsburg, authorities said. City police responded to Cypress Street about 2:45 a.m. after a reported abduction, said Public Safety spokesman Chris Togneri. He said the kidnapping was reported in Wilkinsburg, and the man...
10th Street Bypass closed with flooding expected
The 10th Street Bypass was closed Friday as PennDOT anticipated flooding. Authorities closed the bypass between the Parkway North and Fort Duquesne Boulevard after heavy rains hit the area Thursday and overnight, according to PennDOT. In addition, they also closed both ramps from the Parkway North to the 10th Street...
Plum school board member to resign over anti-Muslim Facebook share
A Plum school board member who came under fire for sharing an anti-Muslim Facebook post is resigning, according to a meeting agenda. Plum school board members have scheduled a special meeting Saturday to approve the resignation of board member Brian Wisniewski, who caused outrage by sharing the post. The post...
Emergency demolition ordered for crumbling Wilkinsburg building
Emergency demolition was ordered Friday morning for a building along Kelly Avenue in Wilkinsburg after it partially collapsed overnight. Police were called at about 2 a.m. after reports that bricks and other materials were crumbling to the ground, WPXI reported. Bricks were falling from the upper level of the 100-year-old...
Portion of North Shore River Walk closed for flooding
A portion of the North Shore River Walk is closed Friday morning because of flooding concerns. The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh expanded a flood watch through 9:45 a.m. across the region, including Allegheny, Westmoreland, Armstrong, Butler, Clarion and Indiana counties. The Mon Wharf remains closed as well after authorities...
AHN, Johns Hopkins researchers to study obesity, pancreatic cancer
Researchers at Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute and Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center are teaming up to study the link between obesity and pancreatic cancer. Researchers plan to study new treatments, potential screening methods and modifiable risk factors for pancreatic cancer, which includes obesity. AHN officials said pancreatic cancer is...
4 record labels making headway in Pittsburgh
With new and exciting bands frequently popping up in the city of Pittsburgh, it can be difficult to keep track of every new release. The city is home to some truly great and vastly different record labels. These four Pittsburgh-based labels are keeping listeners informed of what’s next in music,...
Art Institute of Pittsburgh may have potential buyers
A federally appointed mediator has halted the closure of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and says he has two potential buyers interested in acquiring the Strip District-based school. Dream Center Education Holdings, which bought the art institute in 2017, filed for federal receivership in January, citing $41 million in debt...
Pittsburgh police seeking suspects who shot at officers in West End
Pittsburgh police are seeking suspects who shot at two officers late Friday night in the West End. No officers were hit, according to a Pittsburgh police Facebook post, and police did not fire any shots. Officers stopped a car with several people at about 11:30 p.m. on Broadhead Fording Road....
Woman trapped in car by fallen tree rescued by Penn Hills residents, another motorist
A pair of Penn Hills residents and nurses helped save a woman trapped in her car by a tree that had fallen onto Verona Road. Joe Marron and his girlfriend, Amanda Livingston, were unloading groceries at their home along the 4600 block of Verona Road on Thursday afternoon when they...
Police: Pedestrian struck by hit-and-run driver on Fifth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh police are investigating a pedestrian who was struck along the 900 block of Fifth Avenue on Thursday evening. Police say the driver did not stop after striking a man and then hitting a vehicle just before 6 p.m. The injured man apparently had a head injury. An ambulance took...
Police offer reward for information in Penn Hills murderVideo
Pittsburgh Crime Stoppers and the Allegheny County Police Department are asking for the public’s help in a murder investigation. Investigators are looking for information on the death of Brian Kelly “Popcorn” Dalton, 26, of Pittsburgh. They’re offering a reward of $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of the killers....
Feds tie spike in Western Pennsylvania bank robberies to opioid epidemic
Federal investigators believe a spike in bank robberies over the past several months can be tied to the opioid epidemic, agents said Thursday. There have been 28 bank robberies in Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia since Oct. 1, a rate of about seven a month, according to Glen Galeone, a...
Pittsburgh gang member sentenced for owning gun used in murder
A Pittsburgh gang member received a two-year prison sentence for illegally owning a gun that was used in a 2017 murder, according to the office of United States Attorney Scott W. Brady. Tre Goins, 24, did not commit the murder, but did provide the gun, according to Brady’s office. Goins...
State lawmakers meet to discuss air quality concerns following Clairton Coke Works fire
U.S. Steel representatives told a panel of state lawmakers Thursday that operations will not be business as usual following a fire at Clairton Coke Works that heightened concerns over the region’s air quality. “I’ll take responsibility,” Chris Masciantonio, U.S. Steel director of government affairs and public policy said. “I should...
Police say they’ve seized $62k in drugs, guns from Monroeville house
Authorities say a raid at a house in Monroeville on Tuesday netted illegal drugs with a street value of about $62,000. Allegheny County and Monroeville police and the FBI on Tuesday searched a house in the 2500 block of Monroeville Boulevard. County police Inspector Andrew Schurman on Wednesday said they...
Victim in Penn Hills crash identified
The victim of a fatal head-on crash Thursday in Penn Hills was identified as Steven Prazenica, 33, of Allison Park. Allegheny County homicide detectives believe alcohol was a factor in the crash which happened at 4:30 p.m. A Dodge pick-up truck traveling along the 12000 block of Frankstown Road toward...
University of Pittsburgh-owned grocer opens, fills healthy food voidVideo
University of Pittsburgh junior Jason Earle has always traveled off campus by public transportation to buy groceries, taking hours out of his day. Now, he can simply walk out of class and down Forbes Avenue in Oakland and have his choice of fruits, vegetables, fresh meats and other healthy food...
Sex abuse allegation against deceased Pittsburgh Central Catholic teacher
A new abuse accusation has surfaced in the ongoing scandal involving the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, the latest involving a priest who died in 2004. The allegation against the Rev. John O’Brien dates back to the mid-1960s, according to an alert from the diocese. At the time, O’Brien was a...
Federal jury awards $2.2M to sex abuse victim of former Pittsburgh school cop
A federal jury on Thursday awarded $2.2 million to a man who was sexually abused by a Pittsburgh Public Schools police officer in the late 1990s, a crime for which the former police officer is already serving a lengthy prison sentence. Robert Lellock, 50, is five years in to a...
More than ever, people are trying to board planes with guns
Travelers moving through Pittsburgh International Airport continued to bring firearms to security checkpoints at a rate of more than two per month. Transportation Security Administration agents at the airport caught 34 guns at checkpoints last year, up slightly from the 32 caught in 2017, according to Lisa Farbstein, a TSA...
