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WASHINGTON — A year after failing to meet its enlistment goal for the first time in 13 years, the U.S. Army is now on track to meet a lower 2019 target after revamping its recruitment effort. Army leaders tell The Associated Press that they expect to sign up more than...

A Homewood man riding a motorcycle died Monday night after being involved in a crash in the Pittsburgh neighborhood. Charles William Allen, 24, was riding an off-road motorcycle at 9:40 p.m. when he collided with a car near the intersection of Kelly Street and North Dallas Avenue, according to Pittsburgh...

Attracting people to a brick-and-mortar art gallery can be a challenge, so Chelsea Schilling decided to take her show on the road. Every few weeks, she rounds up about a dozen or so local creatives, rents a 20-foot U-Haul truck, parks it outside of an area business and invites folks...

Two varsity soccer players from Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh were “goaded … with racial slurs” during a Labor Day boys soccer match against Connellsville Area High School, according to a group of parents. Pittsburgh Public Schools Superintendent Anthony Hamlet said Monday in a prepared statement he is aware of...

A Unity man already serving an 11-year federal sentence for possession of child pornography on Monday pleaded guilty to additional charges of raping a child. Westmoreland County prosecutors said Timothy Piper, 24, had sexual contact with a young boy over a seven-year period that ended in 2015. According to court...

Hours before his daughter’s wedding on Saturday afternoon, an Edgewood man severed a natural gas line in his home, then used gasoline to ignite a fire that destroyed the house and caused his death, the borough’s police chief said Monday. “All of the facts point to suicide,” Chief Robert Payne...

Lisa Hegedus stood on West Otterman Street on Friday evening and heard music from three different concerts at once — including one happening in Caffe Barista, which she owns. “It was wonderful. It couldn’t have been better,” she said. “We had people coming that had never been there before. It...

NEW YORK — New York City prosecutors have subpoenaed President Donald Trump’s tax returns, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Monday. Manhattan District Attorney’s Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office recently sent a subpoena to Trump’s accounting firm seeking the last eight years of state and federal...

A week after Gov. Tom Wolf renewed his opioid disaster declaration for the seventh time since 2018, Secretary of Health Rachel Levine spoke about the successes against the ongoing crisis and a program that will assist dependent patients cut off by their doctors. Speaking Monday at “Opioids: The Fight Continues,”...

It was hoped the departure of Antonio Brown would make the Steelers a more focused and disciplined team by way of removing distraction. It hasn’t turned out that way. Losing Ben Roethlisberger for the rest of the season trumps any other problem. But the Steelers are in a state of...

The American flag that withstood hurricane winds on a light tower in the Atlantic Ocean is for sale. The tattered flag, nicknamed Steve, flew above Frying Pan Shoals Light Tower on Sept. 6 during the brunt of Hurricane Dorian. The tower’s owner, Charlotte software engineer Richard Neal, is auctioning the...

With one 49-word statement, the Pittsburgh Steelers season was potentially turned upside down. Ben Roethlisberger will undergo season-ending surgery on his right elbow, the team announced just before noon Monday. The 16-year, two-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback suffered an injury during the first half of the Steelers’ 28-26 loss to the...

Sen. Amy Klobuchar is scheduled to visit Pittsburgh on Wednesday as she kicks off her “Blue Wall Tour,” visits to states President Donald Trump flipped from blue to red in 2016. Klobuchar, of Minnesota, is one of 20 hopefuls vying for the Democratic presidential nomination. She’ll host a meet-and-greet in...

A Latrobe man posted $500 bond last week after he was arrested on animal cruelty charges in connection with 17 dead animals found inside his former Derry Township mobile home. Andrew T. Pevarnik, 44, had been evicted from the home in April. The animals — 11 guinea pigs, five rats...

The promotion company hired to put together this year’s canceled Three Rivers Regatta has filed for bankruptcy. LionHeart Event Group filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Chapter 7 provides for liquidation — the sale of a debtor’s nonexempt property and the...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio has received $17.8 million to generate data on self-driving vehicles, an area of research in which the state is already playing a prominent role, according to the state’s U.S. senators. Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown and Republican Sen. Rob Portman said the grant, announced this week, will...

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and its owners expressed sympathy but not responsibility for the nation’s opioid crisis as the company filed for bankruptcy protection late Sunday night, part of a move to settle some 2,600 lawsuits — most from state and local governments. “Like families across America, we have deep...

A 72-year-old Hill District man who at first appeared to have died from natural causes was shot, Pittsburgh police said. According to police, officers went to an apartment building in the 2100 block of Centre Avenue on Friday morning after being called to do a welfare check on a resident....

A new kind of road intersection will replace an old, problematic one in Allegheny Township: A “roundabout” intersection is in the works for Route 356 and La Belle Vue Road. A roundabout is a one-way, circular intersection where cars yield and merge. Roundabouts have proved to be safer than intersections...

Brentwood Borough is once again “Taking it to the Streets” on Sept. 28 for a night of fall fun. The “Autumn Splendor” event will close down a portion of Brownsville Road near Brentwood Towne Square from 6 to 10 p.m. for an evening of craft beer, ax-throwing, food trucks, games...

NEW YORK — Ric Ocasek, The Cars frontman whose deadpan vocal delivery and lanky, sunglassed look defined a rock era with chart-topping hits like “Just What I Needed,” was discovered dead Sunday afternoon in his Manhattan apartment. The New York Police Department said that officers found the 75-year-old Ocasek at...