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Two dogs died and one firefighter was taken to the hospital after a house fire in Wilkins Township early Monday morning, Tribune-Review news partner WPXI reported. Nobody was home at the house on Ridgecrest Drive when it ignited overnight. Firefighters were called shortly before 12:30 a.m. and extinguished the blaze...

A charitable fund created in honor of Mac Miller — the late Pittsburgh-born rapper who sought to invest in youth programs and safe playgrounds in his hometown — has raised more than $370,000 in donations, fund managers confirmed Sunday. Miller, who rose to international fame after growing up in Pittsburgh’s...

Police found a man’s body Sunday next to Chartiers Creek below an Interstate 79 overpass in Collier Township, officials said. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the man as Stuart Hayman Hunt, 36, of Pittsburgh. Shortly after 9 a.m., police received a report of an unresponsive man found by...

The Allegheny County fire marshal is investigating the cause of a blaze that damaged an unoccupied Pitcairn house early Sunday morning, authorities said. The fire apparently started on a second-floor, rear porch of the three-story house and spread to the interior walls on the second and third floors, said Thomas...

Union leaders representing at least 7,000 federal workers in Western Pennsylvania have started asking credit unions and mortgage companies to cut furloughed employees a break as the partial government shutdown continues to stretch their dollars. Workers could miss their next paycheck if the government doesn’t open by Friday, said Philip...

A Lower Burrell woman is accused of firing a bullet into the ninth-floor ceiling of the parking garage at Rivers Casino on Pittsburgh’s North Shore shortly after thousands of casino-goers rang in the new year, records show. State police on Saturday charged Julie Ann Renaldi, 37, with discharging a firearm...

Four people and eight pets are safe after a house fire in Pittsburgh’s Troy Hill neighborhood Saturday morning. According to the Department of Public Safety, firefighters, police, paramedics and animal care and control officers responded to the fire in a two-story duplex in the 1800 block of Lowrie Street at...

Voters in southern and western Allegheny County and part of Washington County will return to the polls this spring to fill the Pennsylvania Senate seat left vacant by newly elected Republican U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler. Lt. Gov. Mike Stack, D-Philadelphia, the presiding officer of the state Senate, announced via Twitter...

Strategies for reducing carbon emissions, and checking the worst effects of climate change, will be the topic of a Jan. 29 public forum at Pittsburgh’s Energy Innovation Center. Three panelists will address, “The future of energy: Can we get to zero carbon?” from 6:15 to 8:30 p.m. at 1435 Bedford...

Three Munhall residents were arrested and three firearms were recovered in connection with a narcotics investigation in the borough. Allegheny County Police Inspector Andrew Schurman said narcotics officers conducted an undercover investigation the past few months into a drug distribution network in Munhall. Officers apprehended Deondre Broadus, 28, Gerald Ford,...

A McKees Rocks man and two juveniles are charged in connection with Thursday morning’s shooting in McKees Rocks, Allegheny County police said. William Davis Sr., 37, is charged with obstructing justice, tampering with evidence, having a firearm with an altered serial number, carrying a firearm without a license, and receiving...

The Allegheny County Democratic Committee has a named new interim executive director just three months after the former resigned amid allegations of racially insensitive Facebook posts. Steve Kochanowski, 34, of Beaver County, replaces Mark Salvas of Plum, who abruptly left the post in October after several weeks on the job....

Call it a first shot in what is expected to be a lengthy and emotional battle over proposed gun regulations in Pittsburgh. The city and gun rights groups butted heads Friday over signs put up this week warning City-County Building visitors that firearms are prohibited in the building in advance...

An anonymous tip led McCandless police to two women suspected of robbing a PNC Bank of more than $35,000 last year, according to charges filed against the women. Jasmine Parrish, 29, and Donna Poremski, 42, are both charged with robbery, conspiracy, receiving stolen property, possession of an instrument of crime...

Allegheny County police officials on Friday honored SWAT and bomb squad officers who ran toward the gunfire last year when a mass shooter stormed a Squirrel Hill synagogue. The Oct. 27 shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue brought officers from Pittsburgh and beyond to the scene, including county police...

A love of beer brewing is translating into national recognition. It’s almost overwhelming for Hitchhiker Brewing Co. founder Gary Olden after being named “One of the Best Breweries to Watch in 2019” by online magazine Hop Culture. “It’s certainly very humbling and really awesome that people respect our work, and...

Democratic U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb kept a campaign promise Thursday by not voting for Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the House. Even without Lamb’s vote, Pelosi secured enough support to reclaim the speaker gavel. Lamb, who won his first full term in Congress in November by beating Keith Rothfus in...

Hate has no home in Lawrenceville. That’s the message of an upcoming safety meeting hosted by community group Lawrenceville United and the FBI. Discussions will focus on a recent spate of hate activity popping up in the former industrial town whose resurgence in recent years has propelled development and property...

Motorists who travel near Route 51 in Beechview should lookout for detours today. A portion of Crane Avenue will be closed from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The road will be shut down between Route 51 and Dagmar Avenue so the public works department can perform drainage work. Anyone who...

A day after taking his seat in the 116th Congress, U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb raced back to Western Pennsylvania to get hitched. “I’m getting married in the morning,” Lamb posted to his Twitter account Friday afternoon. “Hurrying back from DC with my team & making sure they get me to...

Shaler Township police will patrol Shaler Area High School Friday in response to an unspecified threat discovered by district officials, according to Tribune-Review news partner WPXI. The district told families about the threat Thursday evening, calling it an “unsubstantiated rumor.” Other than the extra police, the high school will operate...

The Pennsylvania Superior Court has upheld an earlier ruling that doctors who treated a mentally ill man who shot five people in Pittsburgh in 2012 can’t be held responsible for the shooting. On March 8, 2012, John Shick, 30, went on a shooting spree at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic...

Allegheny County Sheriff’s deputies on Thursday had to break into a residence in Pittsburgh’s Lincoln Place neighborhood and then into a bedroom to arrest a fugitive who had been on the run since last summer, authorities said. The Allegheny County Sheriff’s Department said Joshua Currington, 32, of McKees Rocks, held...

Sybrina Fulton, mother of slain black teenager Trayvon Martin, will speak at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary later this month. Martin was 17 when he was shot and killed in 2012 by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. He was walking through the neighborhood when Zimmerman called 911 to...

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto on Thursday honored the city’s second longest-serving mayor — Tom Murphy — with a ceremonial key to the city, crediting the North Side resident with creating the city’s riverfront parks and trails and for his long record of public service. Peduto noted that Murphy’s tenure from...