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Western Pa. congressional incumbents have upper hand over challengers in campaign cash
Congressional incumbents seeking reelection in Western Pennsylvania have significantly more cash to fuel their campaigns than their challengers, new filings show. U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Fox Chapel, has the biggest money advantage, according to the latest filings with the Federal Election Commission, which were due Wednesday. His campaign raised $2.1...
Penguins-Flyers playoff series opens Saturday
Game 1 of the first-round playoff series between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers will happen on Saturday. The NHL announced a start time of 8 p.m. but in reality, the opening faceoff at PPG Paints Arena will happen a handful of minutes after that. As for the rest of...
New Kensington’s Willie Thrower family to join Bears brass at NFL Draft to honor league’s 1st Black quarterbackVideo
This fall marks 73 years since Willie Thrower’s monumental moment in football history when he became the first Black quarterback to take a snap in the modern NFL. Legendary Chicago Bears coach George Halas called on Thrower, a New Kensington native, in a game Oct. 18, 1953, against the San...
Lawyer for Mills mall a no-show, hearing on citations from Frazer postponedVideo
Lawyers for the limited liability companies that operate the Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills did not show up for the scheduled court hearing on Thursday. District Judge Michael Girardi continued, or postponed, the hearing until early May. Girardi was supposed to hear arguments regarding 32 continued citations stemming from the condition...
10-day ceasefire agreed on by Israel and Lebanon goes into effectVideo
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A 10-day truce began in Lebanon on Friday that could pause fighting between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group and boost attempts to extend the ceasefire between Iran, the United States and Israel after weeks of devastating war. U.S. President Donald Trump announced the agreement as a...
Report: Spirit Airlines may liquidate its assets as soon as this weekVideo
Spirit Aviation Holdings could decide to liquidate its assets as soon as this week, according to Bloomberg News, a move that would likely strand travelers and leave Arnold Palmer Regional Airport without a commercial carrier. The Bloomberg report cites sources familiar with the matter, who say the discount carrier faces...
Vandergrift fire departments resume operations after 6-day service gapVideo
Vandergrift’s two fire companies are back in business. The volunteer fire departments returned to normal operations Thursday after a six-day service pause, said Mayor Lenny Collini. The gap was caused by lapsed workers’ compensation insurance, which the mayor said was reinstated at 12:01 a.m. Thursday. Vandergrift officials noticed the lapse...
Justin Fairfax killed his estranged wife and himself 2 weeks before a court deadline to move out
ANNANDALE, Va. — Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax was facing a court-ordered deadline to move out of his family’s home before police say he killed his wife and then himself on Thursday. Fairfax, 47, and his wife, Dr. Cerina Fairfax, 49, were found dead in their home in the...
Pope blasts ‘tyrants’ ravaging the Earth during his visit to CameroonVideo
BAMENDA, Cameroon — Pope Leo XIV blasted the “handful of tyrants” who are ravaging Earth with war and exploitation, as he preached a message of peace Thursday in the epicenter of a separatist conflict considered one of the world’s most neglected crises. Leo traveled to the western Cameroon city of...
2 residents, 2 firefighters injured in 3-alarm blaze in Lawrenceville
Two residents and two firefighters were sent to the hospital early Thursday morning after a three-alarm blaze tore through a Lawrenceville row home. Crews were called to the fire around 12:45 a.m. on the 3400 block of Ligonier Street in Lower Lawrenceville. A man living at the home was rescued...
Pittsburgh man accused of firing gun with kids nearby after Neville Island fight
A Pittsburgh man is facing criminal charges after police say he fired several gunshots in the air with children nearby Wednesday evening at a Neville Island roller rink. Tommy Lamont Paige Jr., 32, of Pittsburgh’s Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood is charged with endangering the welfare of children, recklessly endangering another person and...
Alle-Kiski EMS Authority gets state approval
Property owners in Harrison, Brackenridge and Tarentum will learn in the coming weeks how much they’ll pay for ambulance service next year. The Alle-Kiski Emergency Services Authority, voted into existence March 25 by the three municipal governments, was officially approved this week by the Pennsylvania Department of State. The newly...
Mobile home park owner takes over as Westmoreland County’s top taxpayerVideo
A New Jersey-based company that owns mobile home parks and prefabricated residential communities in a dozen states will be Westmoreland County’s largest taxpayer in 2026. New totals from the county’s tax assessment office reveal United Mobile Homes Properties Inc. has taken the top spot among local taxpayers, replacing the owners...
Doctor gets probation for selling weight-loss drugs from China to Mon Valley Hospital colleagues
A former doctor at Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital was ordered Wednesday in federal court to serve two years probation after pleading guilty to illegally selling weight-loss drugs to hospital employees. Liana Bittner, who worked at the hospital as an emergency department physician, said in court documents she was not...
Officials hope sky’s the limit for Downtown Pittsburgh following NFL DraftVideo
New retailers, art installations and even a small museum are popping up throughout Downtown Pittsburgh in the lead-up to the 2026 NFL Draft — and officials hope they remain long after the event. Mayor Corey O’Connor, standing Wednesday afternoon in a new Moonshot Museum Simulation Lab on Penn Avenue near...
Murrysville attorney on trial for alleged road rage incident
The former wife of a high-powered Murrysville lawyer told a Westmoreland County judge her estranged husband used his car as a weapon and ran her off a road near her home three years ago amid a heated custody battle. Brad Funari, 49, was charged with a misdemeanor count of reckless...
Pa. House sends budget proposal to Senate earlier than it has in nearly a decade
The state House sent a proposed $53.3 billion budget for the coming fiscal year to the Senate on Tuesday — the earliest it has initially passed a spending plan in nearly a decade. The plan passed this week by the Democratic-controlled House has virtually no chance of making it through...
Sewickley father detained by ICE since February has reunited with family
A Sewickley father has been reunited with his family after being in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody for nearly two months. Bruno Guedes da Silva, a native of Brazil, was freed on a $5,000 bond set by an immigration judge this week. He reunited with the family Tuesday evening at...
Harrison family creates community rock garden to memorialize 3-year-old daughter
A purple tulip sprouted in Madisyn Murray-Sinicki’s Natrona lawn the day she decided to plant a rock garden for her daughter. “I believe it was a sign,” said Murray-Sinicki, whose 3-year-old daughter, Karma, died in January at their Pine Street home. “I have this idea — it’s a little silly...
Lawsuit accuses Shady Side Academy of firing nursing director who raised concernsVideo
The former director of nursing at Shady Side Academy, a private pre-K through grade 12 school in Fox Chapel and Pittsburgh, is suing after she said its administrators repeatedly directed her to disregard state regulations governing how medications are delivered in school and interfered with her ability to do her...
Pittsburgh Brewing pours its heart into new Downtown taproom experimentVideo
After 165 years brewing and distributing some of Pittsburgh’s most iconic beers, Pittsburgh Brewing Co. has reemphasized the first word of its name by pouring its heart into a taproom experiment in the heart of Downtown. With the first of its taprooms located at its 42-acre brewing and distilling campus...
What is the ‘just war theory’ that U.S. Speaker Mike Johnson invoked to defend Trump from Pope Leo?
Following recent social media disagreements between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV surrounding the Iran war, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday used the “just war theory” to defend the president’s criticism of the pontiff. But what exactly is the “just war theory”? Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, insisted...
Senate Republicans reject effort to halt Iran war, but some eye future war powers votesVideo
WASHINGTON — The Republican-led Senate on Wednesday rejected the latest Democratic attempt to halt President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, turning aside a resolution that would require the U.S. to withdraw forces from the conflict until Congress authorizes further action. The 47-52 vote was the fourth time this year that...
Driver in red-light crash that killed motorcyclist in Downtown Pittsburgh gets probation
Heidi Christopher knows exactly how long it’s been since her father was killed driving his motorcycle in Downtown Pittsburgh: 640 days. That’s how she measures time now as she grieves the man who helped her raise her children, who provided unconditional love, who had spent nearly 21 years sober and...
Pittsburgh man charged with fatally beating, burning girlfriend
Police have arrested a Pittsburgh man charged with killing his girlfriend in December, accusing him of beating and burning her before driving her naked corpse to a North Side home and abandoning it. Tyrone Good, 44, was arraigned Wednesday on one count of criminal homicide, a day after being extradited...
