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Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Wednesday, July 19: Police say juvenile injured in Braddock shooting Pennsylvania State Police said one person was injured in a shooting early Wednesday morning in Braddock. Emergency dispatchers said police were called to the 200 block of 6th Street...

McKeesport Fire Department officials are investigating what sparked a fire at a two-story dwelling Tuesday night. Allegheny County dispatchers confirmed firefighters, police and EMS personnel were dispatched to the 2100 block of Duquesne Avenue around 10 p.m. It was unclear if anyone was injured. Dispatchers said there were no medical...

West Mifflin Council voted unanimously Tuesday to condemn the former Century III Mall. The vote was 6-0 with Councilman Anthony Topolnak absent. Attorney Nicole Nino, filling in for borough Solicitor Phil DiLucente, said the property owner, Moonbeam Capital Investments, has 30 days to appeal. She said she could not comment...

Flanked by scores of cranes, first lady Jill Biden visited the Pittsburgh region Tuesday in an effort to remind the region that the Biden administration supports, and provided funding for, many of its largest infrastructure projects. In a speech just outside of Pittsburgh International Airport, she praised Western Pennsylvania for...

A car crashed into the vestibule of the McCandless Longhorn Steakhouse on Tuesday around 1 p.m., pinning a 17-year-old female employee underneath the vehicle. First responders rescued the employee using the Jaws of Life. The driver, an 81-year-old woman, and the employee were taken to a nearby hospital with moderate...

A man charged with homicide in a case involving a woman found dead in a refrigerator in McKees Rocks in 2020 was sentenced to voluntary manslaughter and abuse of a corpse. Daryl Jones, 44, of McKees Rocks, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to felony voluntary manslaughter and misdemeanor abuse of...

Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz believed it was better to be kind than right. Bernice and Sylvan Simon could have been the poster children for a happy marriage. Joyce Fienberg doted so much she reminded her son of Mary Poppins. Rose Mallinger loved to do the chicken dance. Irv Younger was so...

Pennsylvania State Police are investigating after a woman was fatally shot Sunday evening in Braddock during a neighborhood dispute. Troopers said Erica Vail, 43, was shot in the abdomen around 7:30 p.m. on Corey Avenue during the dispute among residents that turned into an altercation. She was taken by ambulance...

A man was shot several times early Monday morning in Wilmerding, according to Allegheny County Police. At about 5:16 a.m., Allegheny County 911 was notified of a shooting in the 600 block of Airbrake Avenue. At the scene, first responders found a man with multiple gunshot wounds. He was transported...

Bethel Park police are seeking the public’s help to find a 15-year-old girl last seen Saturday. Armor Wilson is described as 5 feet, 7 inches tall and 150 pounds. She has short faded red hair. When she left home Saturday morning, Wilson was wearing pajama pants and a black hoodie...

From coast to coast, officials have tried to block Terence Keel from getting autopsy reports as he studies jail and police-custody deaths. But after clashing with recalcitrant civil servants in California, Illinois, Maryland and Texas, the UCLA professor said no state has vexed him like Pennsylvania. In his quest for...

One person was killed and three others wounded early Saturday in a shooting at a bar in Munhall, according to Tribune-Review news partner WTAE. Allegheny County Police said they were called to J’s Juke Joint on Ravine Street just before 2 a.m. Police told WTAE that one man is dead...

If you had to pick a nice day for kids to set up a lemonade stand, it would have been hard to top the first Friday in July. Under a blue sky with white puffy clouds and temperatures in the mid-80s, children in Pine and Marshall helped a new charitable...

Some workers at the Penn Center East Starbucks in Wilkins Township are petitioning the National Labor Relations Board to hold a vote to decertify the union representing employees at the coffee shop. Penn Center East joined Starbucks Workers United last year. The employee who submitted the petition, Elizabeth Gulliford, is...

A one-year-old child was hospitalized in critical condition Thursday afternoon after almost drowning in Etna, Allegheny County Police said. First responders performed life-saving measures on the child, who was reported unresponsive at about 3:40 p.m. in the 30 block of Sycamore Street, police said. The preliminary information suggests the child...

The digital divide leads to lost opportunities for people in underserved broadband areas, officials said Thursday as they discussed how to spend $1.16 billion expected from the federal government to help solve the problem. “People have been talking about the digital divide for decades,” said Evan Feinman, director of the...

Allegheny County has named a replacement for former Chief Public Defender Matt Dugan, who stepped down on July 7 as he runs for district attorney. The county said Thursday that Laura McWilliams is taking over as leader of the Office of Public Defender effective immediately. McWilliams will lead the office...

It’s been an anxious week for Ross residents since a 3-foot albino python was first seen slithering through the outfield grass near the baseball diamond at Ross Community Park on the Fourth of July. Though pythons are nonvenomous, the U.S. Geological Survey says the snakes can be dangerous because they...

George “Alex” Reed of McCandless was fortunate to have a successful living-donor kidney transplant in 2015, but the organ is now failing, and the 33-year-old Reed is searching for another living donor. His friends and family are hoping that a golf fundraiser Match Made on the Green on Aug. 6,...

Citing an ongoing shortage of nurses and concerns for patient safety, the unionized registered nurses of Allegheny General Hospital urged health care workers throughout the region to demand improvements to staffing levels. At a news conference Wednesday at Allegheny Commons Park North in Pittsburgh, the RNs represented by SEIU Healthcare...

A family whose Monroeville home was stormed by Pittsburgh SWAT officers in January is suing the city in federal court, claiming the violent raid violated their civil rights. The family said in the lawsuit that at least 20 officers carrying machine guns raided their Paulson Avenue home Jan. 22, scaring...

A Duquesne man turned himself in at a Downtown Pittsburgh court Wednesday morning after authorities said he shot someone in his hometown last month. Allegheny County Police charged Bradley C. Middlebrook, 33, with attempted homicide, two counts of aggravated assault and a firearms charge, court records show. No date has...

A state court has ruled that Allegheny County must release a medical examiner’s full autopsy report to journalists or members of the public when they request it, reversing an earlier court decision. An attorney for the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association called the decision “a great win for public access.” In a...

A Sharpsburg organization has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University spinoff company to create a digital borough currency. Sharpsburg Bucks was launched a little more than a month ago to encourage people to shop and keep their money local. The alternative currency is a pilot project of the Sharpsburg Neighborhood Organization...

Transportation Security Administration officers on Monday stopped a Washington County man who tried to bring a handgun onto a flight at Pittsburgh International Airport. It was the 22nd gun confiscated at the airport so far this year. TSA officers found a loaded 9mm gun in the Canonsburg man’s carry-on bag...