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Pittsburgh Crime Stoppers is looking for the public’s help in solving an open homicide case. Police are looking for information on a Nov. 6 shooting that left 21-year-old Calvin Anderson dead. Police initially responded to a call of shots fired in the 6800 block of Alcoma Drive in Penn Hills....

A second North Side resident announced plans Thursday to challenge Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Darlene Harris in the Democratic primary on May 21. It would be Bobby Wilson’s third attempt to unseat Harris, 66, of Spring Hill, who has said she would seek a fourth term. Wilson, 36, also of Spring...

A judge on Thursday dismissed all charges against a Wilkinsburg woman arrested last year during an incident at a North Versailles movie theater. Charges against Melanie Carter, 36, of resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and defiant trespass were dismissed by Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Judge David Cashman. The charges...

UPMC plans to transition its inpatient women’s health, obstetrics and neonatal intensive care unit from UPMC Mercy to UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital. Officials said in a news release Thursday that UPMC Magee already provides deliveries as well as other clinical care provided by specialists for high-risk mothers and newborns. UPMC Magee...

One man taken to the hospital in critical condition after a shooting in Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood, according to the city department of public safety. Pittsburgh police are investigating the shooting at an apartment building on Carrington Street, which happened around 3:20 a.m. The unidentified man was shot several times....

If your New Year’s resolution this year is to listen to more music or see more shows, we’ve got you covered. Here are five Pittsburgh-based bands you may want to keep your eyes on in 2019. They already have promising catalogs, and we’re hoping for more in the coming months....

A prominent San Diego attorney who has represented such high-profile defendants as the Boston Marathon bomber and the Unabomber has been named to help lead the defense team for the man accused of fatally shooting 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill. Judy Clarke, of the...

A junior at Pittsburgh Public Schools Allderdice HIgh School died in the hospital after being shot in Pittsburgh’s Homewood South neighborhood Wednesday night. Jonathan Freeman, 16, of the city’s Stanton Heights neighborhood died at 10:01 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office. “A high achieving student, Jonathan...

Allegheny County officials said no one was injured in a vehicle crash along Route 28 northbound near the RIDC exit Wednesday evening. The accident occurred around 5:30 p.m. Traffic was reduced to one lane around the scene. The lane was reopened within two hours....

Several hundred Pittsburgh Public Works employees will receive raises of 2 percent and 3 percent under a five-year contract approved by the city and a union representing the workers. Public works employees will receive 2 percent retroactive raises for 2018 and 3 percent raises each subsequent year. Mayor Bill Peduto...

State Attorney General Josh Shapiro on Wednesday offered guidance and resources to students jilted by last month’s abrupt shuttering of Brightwood Career Institute in Downtown Pittsburgh and related vocational campuses across Pennsylvania. “The sudden closing of Brightwood schools left many students across the Commonwealth unsure of their academic status and...

Pittsburgh police are searching for a graffiti vandal leaving images of oblong chickens across the South Side, including in the bathroom of a 22nd Street bar. The man struck Rugger’s Pub just after midnight Dec. 1 when he walked in, ordered a drink, then disappeared to the bathroom, according to...

New year, new airline. That was the message officials had Wednesday when they announced a new carrier would be adding three new nonstop flights from Pittsburgh International Airport in the coming months. “It’s a perfect match,” said Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald. Via Airlines will be adding direct flights to...

Peoples Gas hopes to cut methane emissions from its Pittsburgh distribution system by 50 percent by the end of the year using new leak detection technology, the utility company said. Peoples’ pledge is described as the first of its kind by a U.S. utility. The utility plans to use leak...

Mascots from across the region will take to the ice Saturday in Schenley Park in Pittsburgh for the annual Citiparks Mascot Skate. In its 32nd year, the event brings the likes of Iceburgh, the Pirate Parrot, Kenny Kangaroo and others to the Schenley Park Skating Rink each winter to skate...

Officials from the Allegheny County Health Department are encouraging Mon Valley residents — especially those with asthma, bronchitis or emphysema, as well as children and the elderly — to limit outdoor activities until further notice following a Dec. 24 fire at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works. This recommendation includes residents...

Police arrested Tuesday a man suspected of robbing a Pleasant Hills bank this week. Richard D. Parrish, 40, of Jefferson Hills, allegedly confessed to robbing the bank once police tracked him down in Monongahela. Parrish is accused of robbing the Dollar Bank branch at 500 Clairton Boulevard at about 1...

A seven-car crash on southbound Route 28 slowed the commute Wednesday morning. The crash happened around 7:20 a.m. near the Highland Park Bridge and was cleared by 8:40 a.m., according to state police in Kittanning. Traffic backed up to RIDC Park. By 8:30 a.m., traffic cameras showed the crash had...

A motorist Wednesday fled after crashing into a pole on Universal Road in Penn Hills, according to the Penn Hills Volunteer Fire Department. Universal Road was closed between Stotler Road and Joslyn Drive and wasn’t expected to reopen until noon Wednesday, according to the fire department. The car hit the...

A yellow steel structure has been looming 45 feet above Lawrence­ville for about three months. You can see it from the 40th Street Bridge and from Polish Hill. Sometimes secretive about its projects, Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center isn’t exactly hiding its tallest robot. The 45-foot robot has...

Following a heated public comment period, Braddock Council voted Tuesday to delay the scheduled appointment of an interim mayor. “There was so much controversy from the residents, I couldn’t see us in good conscience going through with the process,” Councilman Robert Clanagan, who made the initial motion to postpone the...

The canopy over gas pumps at a Sunoco gas station along Haymaker Road in Monroeville toppled over Tuesday evening, trapping two vehicles but injuring no one. Both vehicles under the canopy, a car and a pickup truck, were empty during the collapse that occurred about 5:30 p.m., according to Monroeville...

A Squirrel Hill man created a Facebook page centered on Monday’s armed gun rally outside Pittsburgh City Hall and raised nearly $3,000 in donations for anti-gun groups. Ron Gaydos, who lives three blocks from the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill, where a mass shooting occurred in October, said...