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Just in time for the holidays, The Friends of the Monroeville Public Library will hold a Winter Walk event for adults over the age of 21 Dec. 4. The walk will be part of the Blanket the Library PLUS fundraising event, which began Nov. 15 and will run through Dec....

A fire that broke out in machinery at an industrial scrap metal plant in West Mifflin early Wednesday was extinguished by mid-morning, Tribune-Review news partner WPXI-TV reported. The fire was reported around 3:30 a.m. at the TMS International plant on Delwar Road. Firefighters extinguished the fire by 5:30 a.m. No...

A Port Authority of Allegheny County bus driver already involved in a lawsuit filed by union members over Black Lives Matter masks at the agency filed his own federal lawsuit Tuesday alleging race discrimination. James Hanna, of Penn Hills, has worked for Port Authority since 1988. He said in the...

A man’s death following a bar fight at the Loose Moose Saloon in Baldwin earlier this year has been ruled a homicide, and the Peters man accused of punching him is charged with homicide. Zachary Blake, 22, is charged with homicide in connection with the July death of Mark Thompson,...

UPMC is poised to log another record year of billion-dollar revenue growth in 2021, records made public Tuesday show. The health giant headquartered in Downtown Pittsburgh’s U.S. Steel Tower raked in $18 billion between January and September — about $1 billion more than it made by this time last year,...

A Turtle Creek man will spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance for parole after he was sentenced Monday in the robbery and shooting death of a 27-year-old woman who was killed for her tax refund. A jury found Kaijin Scott, 27, guilty of second-degree murder,...

Cindy K. Chung was sworn in on Tuesday to become U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Chung, 46, of Pittsburgh, took the oath of office from Chief U.S. District Judge Mark R. Hornak. “I have dedicated my career to serving the public and am honored to continue to...

A Wexford man was killed in a crash on Interstate 79 south Monday, according to state police. Troopers said Kevin Kass, 44, was on foot at 5:20 a.m. in the left lane of the highway near milepost 68.5 in Sewickley Hills when he was hit by a Ford F-150. He...

West Mifflin police said no one was injured in an 11-vehicle crash late Monday along Lebanon Church Road. Police said a Port Authority of Allegheny County bus and 10 other vehicles were involved in the crash that was first reported just before 11 p.m. A broken water line caused the...

A 6-year-old shot and killed a 5-year-old sibling Monday night in Penn Hills, according to police Chief Howard Burton. The medical examiner’s office identified the boy as Connor Wolfe. The incident happened about 5:30 p.m. at a home on Prescott Drive, Burton said. The 5-year-old was taken to UPMC Children’s...

A Penn Hills man is accused of co-running a child sex abuse scheme that involved using Snapchat to threaten teenage girls into sending him sexually explicit photos and videos of themselves, court records show. The far-reaching federal “sextortion” investigation targeted Kaung Myat Kyaw and a yet-to-be named co-conspirator for attempting...

Republican Sean Parnell suspended his U.S. Senate campaign Monday, saying he wanted to focus instead on his three children. The announcement came just hours after his estranged wife was given primary physical custody of the children and sole legal custody following a three-day trial. Parnell’s decision didn’t come as a...

A judge on Monday refused to remove a former Regent Square restaurant owner from house arrest pending retrial on sexual assault charges. After hearing testimony regarding an incident involving Adnan Pehlivan from 2012, Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Anthony M. Mariani said that he believed keeping Pehlivan on home electronic...

A 15-year-old boy wanted for the fatal stabbing of another teen in McKeesport was arrested in Oakmont on Monday, according to police. Damian Baverso is charged with homicide and making terroristic threats in connection with the Friday killing of 19-year-old Kai Brown. He was taken into custody by Oakmont police,...

A section of Interstate 79 in Franklin Park closed Monday morning after a multiple-vehicle crash, according to PennDOT. The southbound lanes between I-279 (exit 72) and Mt. Nebo Road (exit 68) were closed for about 90 minutes before reopening shortly after 7 a.m. after the highway was cleared. PennDOT said...

Police have issued an arrest warrant for 15-year-old Damian Baverso in connection with the stabbing death Friday of a 19-year-old McKeesport man. Authorities found the victim, Kai Brown suffering from stab wounds when they responded to a call at around 3:20 p.m. Friday at 516 Sinclair St., McKeesport. Brown was...

Authorities are seeking information in the Saturday night shooting death of a man in Penn Hills. Allegheny County Police Department Homicide detectives, responding to a 911 call at 10:42 p.m. found the victim, David Moore, 30, of Pittsburgh inside a vehicle in a parking lot on the 1100 block of...

Workforce training, flood prevention programs and community gardening will be among the initiatives supported by newly awarded state tax credits to Sharpsburg, Etna and Millvale. The Sharpsburg Neighborhood Organization (SNO) will receive $160,000 in tax credits from the Department of Community and Economic Development. It’s among several groups to split...

Amid bouts of chilly wind, icy rain and temperatures dipping into the 30s, several dozen people showed up at the steps of Downtown Pittsburgh’s Smithfield United Church of Christ this past week in need of a warm place to sleep. An average of 25 to 35 people who are homeless...

A federal judge on Friday denied the request of a former Charleroi woman charged in the Capitol riot to be allowed to possess a firearm to protect her livestock pending trial. Tara Stottlemyer, 36, is accused of obstructing official proceedings, disorderly conduct in the Capitol building, entering a restricted building...

The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office on Friday identified the man who died Wednesday morning after being hit by a pickup in Duquesne. Deveon Franklin, 18, of Duquesne, died at a hospital at 7:40 a.m. Wednesday, following the incident around 6 a.m. in the 100 block of Kennywood Boulevard. The...

Sometimes, just sometimes things we wish would come back, do indeed return. The iconic Kangaroo ride at Kennywood will be back for the 2022 season, the park announced Friday. And it will look shinier and newer – it’s been fully refurbished. “Kangaroo is a one-of-a-kind ride that’s perfect for a...

Woodland Hills High School students participated in classes virtually Friday because of a threat made against the school, according to a message from its principal. In a Facebook post Friday morning, Principal Shelly Manns said that officials on Thursday night received a screenshot of an individual who had made a...