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An 18-year-old Jefferson Hills woman is facing trial on charges that she hacked into a former friend’s social media account and disseminated a sexually explicit video and photos after their friendship soured. Rachel Kazimer is scheduled to be arraigned later this month in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court on four...

Transportation Security Administration officers confiscated a loaded 9 mm firearm Friday morning at Pittsburgh International Airport. According to a release from the TSA, officers detected the weapon in a Pittsburgh woman’s carry-on bag after it was seen in an X-ray at the airport’s main security checkpoint. The gun was loaded...

Republican National Conventions of years past have simmered with intrigue, speculation and pivotal moments, but this year could shape up to have one singular focus: Trump. Former President Donald Trump was shot in the ear Saturday during a Butler County rally. Shots killed Corey Comperatore of Buffalo Township, who was...

A man was wounded Friday night in a shooting in Pittsburgh’s Garfield neighborhood, according to city police. Officers were dispatched around 10:40 p.m. to a shooting in the 300 block of North Fairmount Street. At the scene, police said they found shell casings in the area and spoke with a...

A Homestead man was killed in a shooting in Clairton on Friday evening, according to Allegheny County Police. Police were dispatched to the 900 block of Madison Avenue just before 10:30 p.m. for a shooting. Police said Terell Dachaon Blanks, 27, was found with multiple gunshot wounds. He died at...

The parents of a 28-year-old woman killed in a shooting at a Penn Hills hookah bar sued the owner of the property Thursday, claiming they should have known the bar was “a public nuisance” prone to gun violence. Two or more people fired seven to 10 gunshots at Ballers Hookah...

A Hampton man pleaded guilty to four counts of securities fraud after prosecutors charged him with engaging in 160 trades of Dick’s Sporting Goods stock after receiving insider information from a company employee. Frank T. Poerio Jr., 62, made the transactions between August 2019 and May 2021, U.S. Attorney Eric...

Police said they don’t believe the security guard who is accused of killing a woman at a Penn Hills hookah bar last month had any motive to shoot her, but he will face trial for criminal homicide. Chaz Jackson, 42, of Pittsburgh was charged in connection with the death of...

Jessica George keeps her phone on silent overnight. When she checked it at 7 a.m. Thursday morning, she had missed several calls, many texts — and a few photos of a car lodged in the side of her Edgewood coffee shop that was scheduled to open in the next few...

A European-inspired estate boasting an elevator and eight bathrooms in Fox Chapel is listed for $7 million. The provincial-designed country estate on three acres, located at 341 Fairview Road, sits atop a hill and overlooks 7½ acres of undeveloped land owned by the Fox Chapel Land Conservation Trust. “This estate...

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Friday, July 12: Aliquippa woman faces charges in 3-month-old daughter’s cocaine death An arrest warrant was issued for an Aliquippa woman whose 3-month-old daughter died from cocaine toxicity, according to Aliquippa police and Beaver County detectives. Rachel Dlubak, 40,...

Online bidding for pieces of an original Thunderbolt rollercoaster mural at Kennywood Park raised over $14,000 for charity last weekend. But the artist behind the original work believes it could have raised more — if he had been told about the auction. Raphael Pantalone, a mural artist and retired elementary...

Kareef Easington didn’t want to face justice, but there was no escaping it. Convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting death last year of a Swissvale woman and her 7-year-old daughter, Easington refused to leave his jail cell Thursday to attend his sentencing — and face his...

Imagine waking up and looking out the window to a view of the water and feeling waves moving under you. That can be a reality aboard an Airbnb right here in Western Pennsylvania. The Serene Houseboat Hideaway is an Airbnb docked on the Ohio River in Glen Osborne. Owned by...

Rachel Coyne is concerned about her upcoming semester at Chatham University’s Eden Hall campus in Richland. The school announced it is closing the sole dormitory on the branch campus, and students instead will be housed at the university’s main campus in Pittsburgh. Coyne, like other students who planned to live...

Don Ammon of Monroeville grew up writing short plays performed by other children in his neighborhood. By the time he graduated from Penn-Trafford High School, he’d read all 86 of Agatha Christie’s mystery novels and was ready to move to Devonshire, England, to do exactly what Christie was doing. That...

A small nonprofit dedicated to saving senior dogs has scored a mega-sized monetary donation, thanks to the generosity of thousands of Anthrocon attendees from the 2024 convention held last week at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. Gray Paws Sanctuary co-founders and married couple Darla Poole-Brescia and Joe Brescia of...

First lady Jill Biden is expected to visit Pittsburgh this weekend, her second visit in just over a month. The first lady is scheduled to arrive at Pittsburgh International Airport around 4 p.m. Saturday before delivering remarks at an Italian Sons and Daughters of America dinner in Pittsburgh. On the...

Allegheny County Council turned up the heat on the Innamorato administration Tuesday when it rejected all five of the executive’s nominations for an advisory board meant to oversee the county’s newly reopened juvenile detention facility. Council voted 14-1 to reject Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato’s picks for the Juvenile Detention...

A politically persecuted Venezuelan journalist reinvented himself as a Pittsburgh-based Spanish radio show host. A boy whose family was ripped apart by deportation decided to dedicate his life to helping the Latino community that supported him. A woman worked to provide immigrant children better opportunities than she had as a...

The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified both people who were discovered last month in Montour Run Creek in Moon Township. First responders were dispatched to the creek, which is in the area of the Montour Run Trail just after 4 p.m. June 28, where they found a man’s...

On a Thursday afternoon last month, a summer intern from Pittsburgh’s suburbs was walking on Downtown’s Smithfield Street when she was savagely attacked. Her assailant punched her twice in the head, dragged her into the street by her hair and broke her nose by punching and kicking her in the...

A new Shake Shack location will be coming to Pittsburgh International Airport, following the chain’s first location in the region opening in the Strip District in May. The chain previously noted plans for upcoming locations in East Liberty and North Fayette. The planned airport location is part of 15 new...