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A federal agent shot and killed a 18-year-old in Aliquippa on Thursday night, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. The shooting happened just after 6:20 p.m. on Waugaman Street, in the Linmar Terrace apartment complex. The medical examiner identified the teenager as Kendric Curtis. Curtis was shot by...

Editor’s note: This is the first in an occasional series on real estate market trends in Western Pennsylvania. Ashlea Lee was tired of hunting for pet-friendly rental apartments for Reese, her 5-year-old golden retriever. The Westmoreland County native and Greensburg Central Catholic alumna knew what she wanted: a modest ranch,...

Work crews cleaning bridges along Route 28 will restrict traffic to a single lane on the highway starting next week. The lane restrictions will take place in both directions of the expressway between Monday, Sept. 22 and Wednesday, Oct. 1. During weekdays between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., the restrictions...

The December death of a man who was shot more than 17 years ago in North Braddock has been ruled a homicide. William Loughner had been drinking iced tea at Crud’s Bar on Brinton Avenue on June 27, 2008, when a pair of masked gunman stormed in and demanded money,...

During opening statements on Monday, Dorian Abel’s attorney asked a jury to find his client guilty but mentally ill of shooting his girlfriend 17 times in her Munhall home. But on Thursday, Abel’s own expert psychiatrist testified that the defendant has no mental illness of any kind. No diagnosis. No...

ATLANTA — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s hand-picked vaccine advisory committee on Thursday recommended the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopt new restrictions on a combination shot that protects against chickenpox as well as measles, mumps and rubella. The panel advised that the vaccine known as MMRV...

Investigators say they’ve found a fourth dead infant in the Cadogan house Jessica Mauthe had been renting after police searched it last week. Police initially reported three dead infants in the residence, but new charges filed against Mauthe accuse her of concealing an additional corpse. Mauthe’s former landlord located the...

Westmoreland commissioners said employees will be furloughed in two weeks and the county parks will partially close in early October as a result of the ongoing state budget impasse. Commissioners on Thursday instructed department heads to make recommendations for a temporary job reduction plan as part of continued cost-savings efforts....

Noah Wyle wrapped filming in Pittsburgh after Wednesday’s first day of local production and was en route back to Los Angeles on Thursday. But filming continued around the exterior of Allegheny General Hospital for scenes in the upcoming second season of HBO Max’s “The Pitt,” which will stream in January....

Lakyn Shelleby lived loudly. Friends and neighbors adored her, recalling an upbeat, fierce-willed young woman described by her boss as a “ball of energy.” The 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh, sometimes photographed sporting a nose ring or strands of blue hair, died Sunday, an alleged homicide victim trapped...

NORTH CODORUS — A suspected stalker armed with a rifle hid inside his ex-girlfriend’s home in the rolling farmland of southern Pennsylvania and ambushed police officers who came to arrest him, killing three of them in a shootout, a prosecutor said Thursday. Two other officers were seriously wounded before police...

Congressional Democrats won’t get any help from U.S. Sen. John Fetterman as they risk a government shutdown in a bid to extend expiring Obamacare subsidies. The Braddock Democrat, who has a habit of breaking with his party at inopportune times, said Tuesday his philosophical opposition to shutdowns comes before his...

The Shaler Area School District has prepared a plan that calls for closing the district’s elementary school and changing where some grade levels are housed. The district announced Thursday that it will present the plan, called “Building for Tomorrow,” during a community forum beginning at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 29...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump suggested that U.S. broadcast networks should face scrutiny over their licenses if their content is overwhelmingly critical of him, and defended ABC’s decision to suspend late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s show indefinitely over remarks about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. “That’s something that should...

Sitting side by side, Harold McKamish with his arm around his wife, Daisy, the couple recalled the first time they met. They were juniors at Penn Hills High School — seated next to each other in Spanish class. The year prior, Daisy was chosen as sophomore queen. Each class had...

Pittsburgh International Airport has ranked 13th for medium sized airport in this year’s North America Airport Satisfaction Study, just ahead of the unveiling of the new terminal project. A travel intelligence expert says the new terminal could help to improve Pittsburgh’s rankings. Mike Taylor, senior managing director of travel intelligence...

Allegheny County is freezing hiring and spending because of a state budget impasse that has left funding in limbo. The county is losing out on about $75 million per quarter until the state adopts a budget. The county has a $3.1 billion budget, which has been under increasing pressure. The...

Just days after being sworn into office, U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick had lunch with a group of U.S. Steel workers who favored the company’s sale to Nippon Steel. That January meeting convinced the Pittsburgh Republican of the controversial deal’s merits, McCormick said Wednesday at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C....

In the valley below Monroeville Mall, a small stream that starts in Penn Hills winds its way downhill alongside Stotler Road, before breaking southeast and following the road that bears its name, Thompson Run. As the stream nears a bridge carrying Thompson Run Road over top, the water has an...

Thursday morning, law enforcement personnel are investigating after a shooting killed three police officers and wounded two others in Southcentral Pennsylvania the day before. Here’s what is known so far: York County officers from as-yet unidentified departments were following up on a domestic-related investigation that began Tuesday. They went to...

Norfolk Southern railroad’s plans to construct two buildings have stirred some ire among the East Deer commissioners. Chairman Tony Taliani told his fellow commissioners the railroad officially notified the township of its plans via a letter from an engineer, Michael Gay. The site for the buildings is a tract owned...

State environmental regulators were peppered with questions from Indiana-area residents Wednesday concerned about the air pollution that will be emitted from a proposed 4.5-gigawatt, natural gas-fired power plant outside Homer City and the potential for impacting their health. “We don’t feel they took any shortcuts on evaluating the (air pollution)...

NEW YORK — ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely beginning Wednesday after comments that he made about Charlie Kirk’s killing led a group of ABC-affiliated stations to say it would not air the show. Kimmel, the veteran late-night comic, made several comments about the reaction to Kirk’s assassination on...