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The three-year mark of the shootings at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill will be commemorated by an outdoor ceremony this year, the 10.27 Healing Partnership said. Plans call for the public ceremony to happen in Schenley Park at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 27 at the intersection of Hobart...

Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a male suspect in the Monday afternoon shooting of a 17-year-old boy in Penn Hills. According to authorities, the boy was shot multiple times near the gas pump of a BP station. Penn Hills Police Chief Howard Burton said the shooting took...

Security agents caught four guns over four days in carry-on baggage at Pittsburgh International Airport, two of which were loaded, according to Transportation Security Administration officials. Firearms cannot be brought to the checkpoint or transported in carry-on baggage. They must be packed, unloaded, in a hard-sided case and declared at...

Two cousins pleaded guilty to third-degree murder on Monday stemming from a man’s beating death in Pittsburgh last year. Marlon Johnson, 33, and Madera Johnson, 48, will be sentenced by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Kevin G. Sasinoski on Dec. 13. Roger Brown, 63, was found with severe head trauma...

Sympathy, condolences and tributes echoed from all corners of the sports and medicine world following Friday’s news of the death of Dr. Freddie H. Fu, a renowned orthopaedic surgeon who created the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s sports medicine program. Fu was 70. He also was Pitt’s sports teams physician...

Officials from the National Aviary are searching for a Steller’s sea eagle that escaped its habitat on Saturday morning in Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood. “It looks a bit like a bald eagle, but it’s larger,” said National Aviary Communication Director Carly Morgan. “A team of experts are working to safely...

A donation of $1 million from Alba Tull and the First Light Capital Group will help Robert Morris University launch the RMU Century Initiatives and Innovation Fund as part of the university’s 100th-year anniversary celebration. The RMU Century Initiatives and Innovation Fund provides resources to launch and reboot programs critical...

Students of any age can continue learning through La Roche University’s Center for Lifelong Learning, with courses ranging from art and history, to fitness and philosophy. The McCandless school established the Center for Lifelong Learning this year, touting the initiative as a way to allow adults of all ages and...

Carnegie Mellon University’s team of students, faculty, staff and robots placed fourth in a major competition testing how well their robots could navigate an underground course simulating a search-and-rescue mission. Called Team Explorer, the university’s team traveled this week to the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) challenge in Louisville,...

Allegheny County police on Thursday charged the treasurer of African Americans for Good Government, a political action committee active in Pittsburgh, with a single count for failing to properly file a campaign finance report. The misdemeanor Election Code violation was filed against Leeretta Payne, 64, of Crawford-Roberts, via summons. Under...

Childhood hunger is becoming a bigger problem in Southwestern Pennsylvania than perhaps anyone could have anticipated. Roughly 96,000 children in the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank’s 11-county service area don’t have access to enough food, or food of an adequate quality to meet basic needs, according to Feeding America. Now...

A 62-year-old man suspected of committing burglaries in Millvale and Reserve has been arrested. Elwood Bartrug was arraigned early Friday morning and being held in the Allegheny County Jail after being unable to post a $5,000 bail, according to court records. Millvale police charged Bartrug with theft, burglary and criminal...

A Florida man was hit and killed by an SUV on Route 22 in Monroeville Thursday night, Allegheny County Police said. The collision happened at Route 22 and Elliot Road around 9 p.m. According to county police, first responders found Kenneth Allan Kissell Jr., 32, of Nokomis, Fla. He was...

For the fifth time in September, someone trying to bring a handgun onto a flight at Pittsburgh International Airport was caught at the checkpoint. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers stopped a Homer City man from bringing his unloaded .380-caliber handgun onto a flight at Pittsburgh International Airport. When TSA officers...

The Oakmont Water Authority has issued a boil water advisory for much of the Penn Hills water supply region. On Wednesday, a small mouse was discovered in one of the water tanks during a routine inspection, meaning that disease-causing organisms might have entered the water. Before drinking water, the water...

A Ross woman charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is expected to plead guilty next month. Jennifer Heinl appeared via video at a status conference on Thursday at which both the prosecution and defense said they were working on a plea agreement. “We are very close to reaching a...

North Allegheny School Board voted 5-4 on Sept. 22 to require masks for students, staff and visitors indoors if Allegheny County is at a high or substantial rate, even if the state’s health department order is lifted. The motion was presented by school board director Kevin Mahler at the board’s...

A man died after being found shot in Clairton early Thursday morning, according to Allegheny County Police. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner identified him as Robert Linnen, 41, of Clairton. According to county police, a shooting in the 400 block of Saint Clair Avenue was reported to 911 shortly before...

An Elizabeth Township man is charged with criminally negligent homicide in Colorado after he allegedly shot and killed another man his mistook for an elk while hunting last week. Ronald Morosko, 67, was hunting Friday in the San Juan National Forest in Dolores County when he allegedly shot 31-year-old Gregory...

Five days before Christian Bey was arrested in connection with the July 14, 2019, fatal shooting of off-duty Pittsburgh police Officer Calvin Hall, he was pulled over in a traffic stop. Homicide detectives had developed Bey as a suspect and put out a notice for patrol officers in the area...

Unvaccinated residents in Allegheny County are 10 times more likely to be hospitalized with covid-19 than those who are vaccinated, and they’re 20 times as likely to die from the virus, county health director Dr. Debra Bogen said Wednesday. Bogen, who has held briefings on the virus nearly every week...

A teenage girl and her parents sued McDonald’s and a Bethel Park franchise operator Tuesday, alleging that she was harassed and raped by a shift manager with whom she worked, that the defendants knew about it and did nothing to stop it. The complaint, filed in Allegheny County Common Pleas...