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State police are investigating the theft of a furnace and hot water tank from a Brady Township home. Troopers from the Butler station reported a burglary occurred sometime between Nov. 10-13 in the Brady Hills Mobile Home Park along Bluebell Lane. Someone entered the victims’ residence and stole the items...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s Legislature moved closer Wednesday night to settling a yearslong battle over lifting criminal and civil statutes for child sexual abuse crimes in a debate growing out of Roman Catholic Church scandals. The Republican-controlled state Senate voted to dramatically expand statutes of limitation in sexual abuse cases where...

Former Elizabeth Borough police Chief Timothy Butler will not serve any jail time after pleading guilty to emptying his department’s evidence room of thousands of packets of heroin to feed his personal drug addiction. Butler, 43, of Finleyville will spend about four years on probation. He also must perform 325...

A Clairton man was sentenced this week to five years in federal prison for robbing a store and a bank earlier this year, federal prosecutors said. Richard D. Parrish, 41, was convicted of interference with commerce by robbery and bank robbery. According to U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady, Parrish robbed...

Leechburg Council has approved a $1.2 million preliminary budget that includes a 24% increase in property taxes. Under the preliminary plan, the borough’s tax rate would go up 4 mills, to 22.3 from 18. At the proposed rate, someone with a house assessed at $25,000 would pay about $558 in...

HARRISBURG — A lawyer for the agency that investigates misconduct by Pennsylvania lawyers says a yearlong law license suspension is justified against one of the primary prosecutors in Jerry Sandusky’s 2012 child molestation trial. Amelia Kittredge with the Office of Disciplinary Counsel argued Wednesday in favor of the punishment against...

NEW YORK — Rudy Giuliani defended himself against damaging allegations in the impeachment inquiry by attacking his own side. After Gordon Sondland, ambassador to the European Union, threw him under the impeachment bus in blistering testimony Wednesday, Giuliani lashed out in real time against the GOP counsel co-running the hearing,...

Rita Ruffner was all about Christmas, so much so that she wanted her son, a former Hollywood set designer, to make a Santa’s sleigh for her front yard. Jeffrey Michaels, 51, of Las Vegas started work on the sleigh this summer. He finished days before his mother’s 80th birthday Oct....

A jury Wednesday found Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner not guilty of disturbing the peace during a confrontation with Detroit police but could not reach a verdict on a more serious charge of resisting and obstructing officers. Wagner was accused of interfering with Detroit police March 6 as they prepared...

An armed man who police believe robbed a discount store in Beechview at about noon Wednesday was taken into custody after a short standoff in Mt. Oliver Borough, a Pittsburgh police spokesman said. The standoff closed a section of Brownsville Road for about an hour, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety...

Two former altar boys have accused a priest of almost daily sexual abuse for more than three years in the 1980s, according to a 27-page lawsuit filed against the Diocese of Pittsburgh, Bishop David A. Zubik and St. Alphonsus Catholic Church in McDonald. The diocese has yet to be served...

Since 1956, the Dangelo family has delivered beer to bars, restaurants, hotels and other businesses throughout the Pittsburgh region. Thanks to modern technology, they’ve expanded their reach to include all of Pennsylvania. In June, the Dangelos’ wholesale company, Brentwood Distributing, launched Beverages2U. People across the state can now use the...

The Allegheny County Fugitive Task Force arrested a man charged with shooting two teenagers in Pittsburgh’s Carrick neighborhood, according to the Pittsburgh Department of Public Safety. Cody Smith, 23, of Pittsburgh is charged with two counts each of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, robbery and recklessly endangering another person. Smith allegedly...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Hurricanes aren’t the only hazard lapping at the shores of the Outer Banks, according to a report examining the threat of climate change on some of the country’s most beloved natural landscapes. Thanks to creeping sea levels and erosion rates, Cape Hatteras National Seashore made the list....

A Pittsburgh man is accused of homicide and other crimes in connection with a deadly home invasion in Wilkinsburg last week. Allegheny County police issued an arrest warrant for Brandon Franklin, 22. He’s wanted for allegedly killing a 42-year-old man at a home along Woodlawn Avenue on Nov. 14. The...