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More than 300 Pennsylvanians a day were hospitalized for mental illness in 2018, leaving mental health professionals in many instances struggling to find beds for them in a system plagued by limited resources. The numbers, detailed in a new report by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, found the...

Several of Greensburg’s street department vehicles and equipment were damaged in a fire early Saturday morning that caused extensive damage to the inside of the city’s public works building, the fire chief said. ”It destroyed most of the building inside — probably half of the building,” Chief Tom Bell said...

It was Pitt’s annual Blue and Gold Madness event on Friday night — but it ended with the song “Black and Yellow.” Pittsburgh rapper and Grammy nominated recording artist Wiz Khalifa headlined a live performance for students following inter-team scrimmages between Pitt’s women’s and men’s basketball teams at the Peterson...

TribLIVE’s sports reporters have you covered from Friday’s Week 7 high school football action. GAMES OF THE WEEK • JEANNETTE 40, GREENSBURG CENTRAL CATHOLIC 14 Jeannette’s senior running back scored five touchdowns and rushed for 217 yards • BURRELL 36, FREEPORT 35 (OT) With the game on the line, senior...

Events celebrating filmmaker George A. Romero will be held across Pittsburgh starting Saturday. Romero is most famous for 1968’s “Night of the Living Dead” and its related films. The 1968 film has been described as a landmark in modern horror, in independent filmmaking and the first feature film to come...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that Kevin McAleenan was stepping down as the acting secretary of Homeland Security. Trump said McAleenan wanted to spend more time with his family and go to the private sector. “We have worked well together with Border Crossings being Way down,” Trump tweeted....

Over 1,500 people were without power in the Fort Allen neighborhood of Hempfield Friday evening. West Penn Power crews were dispatched shortly before 7:40 p.m., said spokesperson Jeff Straight. Power was restored shortly after 9 p.m. when a fault cleared itself, he said. Crews still do not know the cause...

Two people were taken during the hospital after a crash in South Huntingdon on Friday afternoon, according to a Westmoreland 911 dispatcher. Crews responded shortly after 3:20 p.m. to the intersection of Mt. Pleasant Road and Kosor Lane. The crash involved a tractor trailer and U-Haul truck, the dispatcher said....

NEW YORK — Shepard Smith, whose newscast on Fox News Channel seemed increasingly an outlier on an outlet dominated by supporters of President Trump, abruptly quit after signing off his final newscast on Friday. Smith, who had signed a contract extension last spring, said that he had asked the network...

Two men were hospitalized in stable condition after being shot in Pittsburgh on Friday morning. Officers responded to a ShotSpotter report of gunfire around 10 a.m. along the 800 block of Georgia Avenue in the city’s Knoxville neighborhood. Authorities said police observed a vehicle speeding away from the area and...

The Lower Burrell Police Department is requesting assistance in locating Clinton Weleski. The 37-year-old man was reported missing since Thursday, Oct 3. Weleski is 5 feet, 10 inches tall and 170 pounds. He has dark brown hair and hazel eyes. “There has been no contact with any friends or family...

WASHINGTON — The United States is suspending a tariff hike on $250 billion in Chinese imports that was set to take effect Tuesday, and China agreed to buy $40 billion to $50 billion in U.S. farm products as the world’s two biggest economies reached a cease-fire in their 15-month trade...

WASHINGTON — A 15-year-old boy was stabbed and seriously injured Friday afternoon near the U.S. Capitol after an altercation with a teenage girl aboard a Metro train, police said. The stabbing occurred around 12:30 p.m. at the Capitol South Metro station, about a block from the Cannon House Office Building,...

LOS ANGELES — A wildfire raged out of control along the northern edge of Los Angeles early Friday, forcing thousands of people from their homes as firefighters battled flames from the air and on the ground. Police Chief Michel Moore said mandatory evacuations encompassed about 100,000 people in over 20,000...

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. will not attend a countywide candidate forum hosted by the League of Women Voters on Monday, the Zappala campaign and the League of Women Voters confirmed Thursday. The longtime district attorney is being challenged in November by Allegheny County public defender Lisa...

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s financial records must be turned over to the House of Representatives. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said that lawmakers should get the documents they have subpoenaed from Mazars USA. The firm has...

On Oct. 17, downtown Greensburg will be filled with teams raising money for a good cause while having a heck of a good time. As part of the Great Race of Greensburg, more than a dozen teams of four to six people will run their own version of television’s “The...

OSLO, Norway — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 in recognition of his efforts to end his country’s two-decade border conflict with Eritrea. The Norwegian Nobel Institute on Friday also praised the “important reforms” that Abiy, Ethiopia’s leader since April 2018, has...

A man from Ohio died in a two-vehicle, head-on crash in Beaver County on Thursday, state police said. The crash happened around 4:30 p.m. on Lincoln Highway north of Langham Drive in Greene Township, according to state police. Melissa J. Brubaker, 36, of Chester, W. Va., had been driving too...

A surgeon from Pittsburgh was among eight people arrested in a crackdown of suspected online sexual predators targeting children. Shawn Paul Robinson, 38, a resident of Galveston, was working as a surgeon at the University of Texas Medical Branch, according to a new release from Harris County Constable Harry Rosen....