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WASHINGTON — In a remarkable political repudiation, the Democratic-led U.S. House voted Tuesday night to condemn President Trump’s “racist comments” against four congresswomen of color, despite protestations by Trump’s Republican congressional allies and his own insistence he hasn’t “a racist bone in my body.” Two days after Trump tweeted that...

PennDOT plans to clean drainage pipes along an area of busy Route 28 in Pittsburgh that flooded last week for the second time in two months. The work, scheduled to take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, will occur between the 40th and 31st bridges. Motorists...

A turnpike interchange could be coming at last to Penn Township, though advocates likely still have a while to wait. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission voted Tuesday to allocate $30 million to build a cashless tolling interchange at state Route 130. The project was added to the commission’s 10-year capital plan....

An annual report from Pittsburgh police shows a continuing racial disparity among the people they arrest, pull over and frisk. The total number of arrests, traffic stops and frisks has dropped in recent years, but African-Americans continue to experience numbers disproportional to their population in the city. A consent decree...

The U.S. Department of the Interior has added Lawrenceville — one of Pittsburgh’s oldest and trendiest neighborhoods — to the National Register of Historic Places. Sarah Quinn, the city’s historic preservation planner, said the designation carries no restrictions for private property owners. Certain eligible buildings being rehabilitated or redeveloped would...

Toni Crawford’s new washer and dryer were destroyed Thursday when 4 feet of sewage and water flowed up through a drain in her West Jeannette basement. By Tuesday, her basement had been scrubbed clean three times, but her anger had not subsided. “I’m disgusted with this sewer system,” she said....

Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls are set to go up, again. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission on Tuesday approved a 6% hike for all customers, which will take effect Jan. 5. The most common toll for passenger vehicles will rise from $1.40 to $1.50 for E-ZPass users and from $2.30 to $2.50 for...

Two of three people accused of killing a Wilkinsburg woman in 2018 to rob her of her tax refund pleaded guilty Tuesday to their part in the crime, according to the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office. A third man is awaiting trial in the case. Keiauna Davis, 27, was shot...

A Michigan-based firm wants to open Western Pennsylvania’s first medical marijuana testing laboratory, which would move from Clearfield to Trafford. Lansing-based ACT Laboratories Inc. is seeking a variance from Trafford Borough to operate the lab at 109 Brinton Ave., in a building owned by Trafford Emergency Medical Services Company No....

The lucky Pennsylvania liquor lottery winners have been chosen. Winners, who will be granted the opportunity to purchase highly sought-after bourbons and whiskeys, were notified last week. The drawing was held Wednesday. For the first time, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has released the cities in which the winners live....

PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — A Kentucky man who went to the doctor with an irritated eye got the unsavory news that it contained a tick. WYMT-TV reports an optometrist used tweezers to remove the tick from Chris Prater’s eye. Prater works for an electric company and had left a job site...

The suspect in a weekend robbery turned homicide that police say led to him being shot and killed by a Penn Hills officer used a similar tactic to rob a woman in Pittsburgh earlier this month, according to a criminal complaint filed against him. Onaje Dickinson, 20, of Pittsburgh was...

LOS ANGELES — HBO’s “Game of Thrones” slashed its way to a record-setting 32 Emmy nominations Tuesday for its eighth and final season, leading HBO back to dominance over Netflix, the streaming service that bumped it last year from atop the increasingly crowded television heap. The bloodthirsty saga’s total eclipsed...

A newly constructed fireworks store off Route 30 in North Huntingdon may have to close because of a dispute with the township over the company’s failure to construct the metal building’s facade according to the approved land development plan. Township officials told Wholesale Fireworks representatives the Hubbard, Ohio, firm must...

“The Lion King” remake won’t hit theaters until later this week, but another Simba recently made his debut in Pennsylvania. The lion cub — named in honor of the movie — was born at Keystone Safari in Grove City in May. After spending his first six weeks indoors with his...

CHICAGO — The alligator had a good run as day after day the people hunting for him in a Chicago lagoon came up empty, but in the end he was no match for an expert the city shipped in from Florida. The male gator, nicknamed ‘Chance the Snapper,’ was first...

A Brackenridge man who is accused of robbing the Allegheny-Ludlum Brackenridge Federal Credit Union of more than $100,000 surrendered to FBI agents Tuesday morning after a nearly four-hour standoff at his home. Thomas George, 64, of Eighth Avenue was charged Tuesday in federal district court in Pittsburgh and held without...

Pittsburgh just lost a tiny bit of its steep mojo. For as long as we can recall, Canton Avenue in Beechview — with its 37% grade — has been the steepest street in the city. And the country. And the world. Now, that world title is no more. A street...

Even before President Donald Trump’s racist tweets toward four Democratic congresswomen of color, Americans considered race relations in the United States to be generally bad — and said that Trump has been making them worse. On Sunday, Trump tweeted that the congresswomen should go back to the “broken and crime...

WASHINGTON — Defiant in the face of widespread censure, President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday that his tweets suggesting four Democratic congresswomen of color return to their countries “were NOT Racist,” and he appealed to fellow Republicans to “not show weakness” and to resist a House resolution condemning his words. “I...

Firefighters from multiple departments were battling a blaze at a Fayette County social hall Tuesday morning. The fire at the Sons of Italy on Rogers Avenue in Connellsville Township was reported shortly before 6 a.m., a Fayette County emergency dispatcher said. The fire was under control by 7 a.m., the...

A man injured in a bicycle crash in Mt. Pleasant early Tuesday morning has been flown to a hospital, a Westmoreland County emergency dispatcher said. The man, who was not identified, was hurt in the 700 block of Armbrust Hecla Road, the dispatcher said. It was not immediately clear if...

PennDOT is investigating the possibility that illegal dumping in Pittsburgh’s Troy Hill neighborhood is behind recent flooding along Route 28 near Pittsburgh’s 40th Street Bridge, an official said Monday. Cheryl Moon-Sirianni, PennDOT’s District 11 executive, said crews were in Troy Hill Monday to see whether a report of illegal dumping...

Family and friends are mourning the death of a North Huntingdon teen while questions remained about his death Monday after a fall from a remote Somerset County rock outcrop. Nathan Kanczes, 15, fell more than 40 feet while attending a teen wilderness camp at YMCA Deer Valley Camp in Fort...