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Longtime Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald is finally weighing in on the upcoming Democratic primary election. Fitzgerald endorsed Democratic county council at-large candidate Joanna Doven on Wednesday, issuing his first primary endorsement of the 2023 campaign. Fitzgerald is serving his third term as county executive, Allegheny County’s highest elected position,...

A traveler from Arkansas was arrested Tuesday after TSA officers stopped him with a handgun at the security checkpoint at Pittsburgh International Airport. The man was caught transporting a 9 mm unloaded firearm and two gun magazines packed with 16 bullets in them in carry-on baggage, according to TSA spokesperson...

A New Jersey man remains jailed after police say he attacked his wife’s former paramour at a Monroeville hotel last week. Vincent Serzan, 46, is charged with felony aggravated assault and related charges after police say he attacked the man and knocked him unconscious — causing severe facial injuries —...

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Wednesday, April 19, 2023: Pittsburgh ranked among worst in nation for air quality The Pittsburgh region and Allegheny County were again ranked among one of the worst in the nation for air quality by the American Lung Association. The...

Tate Stanford, 23, was serving two years of probation after pleading guilty to reckless endangerment in March 2022. Six months later, he was arrested for carrying a gun without a license, possession of marijuana and receiving stolen property. Although bail was set on the new charges, Stanford was held in...

Five candidates for Allegheny County’s top elected office shared their plans to boost the economy and the county’s $7 billion hospitality industry during a forum hosted by the tourism agency VisitPittsburgh. The forum, held Thursday, featured four of the race’s six Democratic candidates for Allegheny County executive: state Rep. Sara...

A Canonsburg man has been charged with driving under the influence after a wrong way crash in March. According to a Pennsylvania State Police report, Jacob Alauzen, 27, was driving north in the southbound lanes near the Camp Horne Road Exit in Ohio Township around 2:30 a.m. March 24. According...

A registered sex offender is behind bars after Allegheny County Police said he used a popular social media app to interact with a 13-year-old girl, according to Tribune-Review news partner WPXI-TV. A criminal complaint filed in the case said Jerrell Carson, 28, posed as a 15-year-old on Snapchat and began...

Allegheny County Police have tracked down a Cincinnati man who they say abused a corpse in May 2022 by dumping the body in Scott. County police are still searching for a second suspect they say also was involved. Police said Tuesday that Abdullah Faheem, 52, is in custody. He is...

A North Carolina woman has been arrested in connection with a stabbing in Chalfant over the weekend. Alisa Turner, 50, of Charlotte, faces one charge of aggravated assault, court records show. She was taken to Allegheny County, but was released after posting $5,000 bail on Saturday. Allegheny County 911 was...

Kahlil Darden calls it “turning pain into purpose.” As with many in his community, the 2019 Penn Hills High School graduate is no stranger to the heartbreak of gun violence, having lost friends and family who were killed in area shootings. But now, Darden, 22, a senior majoring in business...

A single-lane restriction on southbound Route 28 in Aspinwall and O’Hara will take place Monday through Friday, April 21, PennDOT officials announced . Officials said it will be from the Virginia Avenue on-ramp to the Highland Park Bridge interchange, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day, weather permitting. The...

A man from Pittsburgh’s Elliott neighborhood faces charges in connection with the fentanyl-poisoning death of a 7-month-old Penn Hills girl. Allegheny County Police on Friday charged David Dwayne Poindexter, 58, with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment. Police said Poindexter, a boyfriend of the baby’s grandmother, was being held in Allegheny...

Swissvale police said no one was injured in a shooting incident that sent a bullet through a school bus Friday afternoon. Around 3 p.m., two vehicles exchanged gunfire in an incident that started in the Edgewood Towne Center, Swissvale police said. The incident then extended into Swissvale, police said, where...

The mudslinging continued Wednesday in the Democratic primary race for Allegheny County’s at-large council seat. Challenger Joanna Doven held a news conference in Pittsburgh’s Schenley Park to launch a series of personal attacks against incumbent Allegheny County Councilwoman Bethany Hallam, D-North Side. Doven, who runs a public relations firm and...

A new summer concert series is coming to the area. Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald announced on Tuesday a six-show Acoustic Series that will be held throughout the county parks. “I’m excited to see this series take off. We tried out the idea of an acoustics show in The Cascades...

An old convent and private residence in Sewickley that also once was used as a Catholic school will remain standing as borough leaders have rejected a demolition request. Council voted 6-0 Tuesday night to stand by its historic review commission’s recommendation and not allow what is colloquially called the Herbst...

Baldwin Borough Police suspect that a half-dozen brush fires reported in rapid succession on Tuesday may have been intentionally set. “We responded to a total of six scenes within minutes of each other,” police said in a post to the department’s Facebook page. Police are asking residents with outdoor-facing cameras...

A Penn Hills man who police say opened fire on a family member in a Giant Eagle parking lot has been arrested, Allegheny County Sheriff Kevin M. Kraus said Tuesday. Norman Vire, 49, was arrested by sheriff’s detectives in connection with the Dec. 5, 2021, shooting and taken to Allegheny...

The single lane restriction along Route 28 southbound in Aspinwall and O’Hara will continue through Thursday, PennDOT announced. A single-lane restriction will occur on southbound Route 28 from the Virginia Avenue on-ramp to the Highland Park Bridge interchange from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. Crews will conduct sound...

Kennywood says it will open for its 125th season as scheduled on April 22 after amusement park officials met with the Allegheny County District Attorney’s office last week to address security concerns. “The intent of the meeting and future steps is to demonstrate the shared commitment the park, law enforcement...

An air quality action day has been issued for Allegheny County’s Mon Valley because of a spike in particulate matter pollution. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection declared a Code Orange Air Quality Action Day on Tuesday, which was caused by a strong temperature inversion in the morning and light...

After two months of remote learning following a fire, students returned to Elizabeth Forward High School on Tuesday. The fire damaged the inside of the school in February. According to the school, rooms and areas adjacent to the auditorium space where the fire occurred are walled off and will not...

Pittsburgh Regional Transit will replace diesel buses with electric models to serve the Mon Valley thanks to a $10 million federal grant meant to improve air quality. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agencyselected Allegheny County on Monday for the grant to replace four, 40-foot diesel buses with zero-emission, electric buses and...

West Mifflin fire crews responded early Tuesday to a fire at the site of the former Century III Mall. An Allegheny County alert sent at 7:10 a.m. said the fire was in the walls above the food court area on the third floor. West Mifflin borough police chief Gregory McCulloch...