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The body of kayaker Jamie Lynn Gray was recovered Monday afternoon from a West Virginia river where she went missing on Feb. 9, authorities said. Gray, 41, went missing while kayaking with nine other people on a remote section of Middle Fork River in Barbour County, according to the West...

Wilkinsburg Mayor Marita Garrett on Monday posted to Facebook a scathing rebuke of Allegheny County police and prosecutors, calling on law enforcement officials to “recognize their egregious missteps” and “reckless handling” of the investigation into the murders of five adults and an unborn child killed during a 2016 ambush of...

Washington Township officials are dissolving the township’s planning commission in favor of a planning administrator. The township supervisors last week approved an agreement with the Municipal Authority of Washington Township that effectively takes that action. Supervisors Chairman Rich Gardner said the authority must still approve the agreement under which both...

Allegheny County Democratic Committee members voted Sunday to endorse moderate Democrats over their progressive opponents, signaling that party insiders could be leaning more conservative as the April 2020 primary approaches. But some political observers said that endorsement might not reflect what the broader swath of Democratic and independent voters are...

Myles Garrett is lying. But very few will say that, at least not directly. As a result, Garrett’s lie is, by default, becoming the truth. Entire sports-talk TV segments are built around “what if.” As in, “what if Mason Rudolph did call Myles Garrett the n-word?” As George Costanza said,...

North Braddock police are investigating a crash that involved multiple vehicles and shut down part of Route 30 on Monday afternoon. Allegheny County dispatchers said the wreck happened around 2:10 p.m. in the 1000 block of Ardmore Boulevard (Route 30). The roadway near Vincent’s Pizza was shut down in both...

A company that seemed poised to make Westmoreland County a hemp hub has folded, leaving local growers with nowhere to sell their crops. Commonwealth Alternative Medicinal Options shut down its 45,000-square-foot CBD processing facility near New Stanton as the price of hemp collapsed. “The bottom line on it is, we...

Travelers this spring will start seeing the prep work for a three-year, $1.1 billion construction project this summer that will build a new terminal at Pittsburgh International Airport. Airport visitors will begin to see construction trailers and new walls and fencing built to isolate the construction area from existing facilities,...

Pittsburgh’s police union on Monday voted against accepting a minor pay bump offer from Mayor Bill Peduto’s administration, sending the contract dispute to an arbitration panel, officials said. Of 655 officers who voted, ranging from fledgling officers to lieutenants to recent retirees, 55% chose to reject Peduto’s offer in favor...

State police are asking for the public’s help in identifying suspects connected to a methamphetamine manufacturing dump site discovered in a rural eastern Indiana County. Troopers called the agency’s Clandestine Laboratory Response Team to a wooded area in Buffington Township near Vintondale at 4 p.m. Sunday after finding suspicious materials,...

CLEVELAND — An Ohio village along Lake Erie is experiencing what officials describe as an “erosion emergency” because the lake hasn’t frozen over. With more waves pounding the shore, erosion has eaten away more than 40 feet of land from a park in Geneva-on-the-Lake in a two-week span, village administrator...

LAS VEGAS — A growing number of Democratic lawmakers, union officials, state leaders and party strategists agree that Bernie Sanders is a risky nominee to put up against President Donald Trump. There’s less agreement about whether — and how — to stop him. Critics of the Vermont senator, who has...

Allegheny County police are investigating after they said a man was found shot dead in his Baldwin home. Officials said they were called shortly after 11 p.m. Sunday to the 3300 block of Vernon Avenue, where they found the 28-year-old man identified as Jeremy Dentel, according to the Allegheny County...

The Leechburg Area School Board on Tuesday will present its plan for the Veterans Memorial Stadium renovations to Leechburg Council. Council members Chuck Pascal, Ruth Bender and Lorrie Bazella attended Wednesday’s school board meeting seeking information on the project. The borough owns the property where the field and adjoining practice...

Back-to-back mild winters have caused a backlog of road salt for some communities, forcing them to scramble to find space to store incoming shipments for next year. A number of communities have not used as much road salt as they thought they would, said Tom Benecki, executive director of the...

The Hays bald eagle has laid her second egg of the season — exactly three days after the first one arrived on Feb. 13. “It was 6:30 p.m. for both eggs,” Rachel Handel, communications director for the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania, said. Onlookers can watch the live webcam at...

A guidance counselor at Sto-Rox School District said she’s been touched by the generosity people have shown since she tweeted about a paper shortage in the district. “I was so surprised at how quickly this could all happen. This is a perfect example of kindness and generosity, and it is...

A Uniontown area woman was hurt after her vehicle went off the road and into the woods in Rostraver early Sunday morning, authorities said. Rostraver police said the 27-year-old woman was flown to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. The extent of her injuries wasn’t immediately known. The crash was reported...

A 19-year-old man was taken to a hospital after he was shot multiple times Sunday afternoon in Duquesne, Allegheny County Police said. The shooting was reported just after 12:30 p.m. in the area of 600 Grant Avenue. The man was listed in critical condition Sunday afternoon, but he is expected...

A group of surveyors from Pennsylvania and Maryland starting this year plan to create a new record of what might be America’s most famous border: the Mason-Dixon Line. Members of both states’ surveyor societies will help survey the 196-mile border stretching from Delaware to the southeastern tip of Fayette County,...