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Pittsburgh police seek the public’s help in locating a missing Homewood teen. Sincere Mack, 16, was last seen in the Homewood area Monday night, Oct. 7. He is described as standing 5 feet 11 inches, weighing 160 pounds with brown eyes and black hair. Sincere is also known to frequent...

Tree of Life Congregation Rabbi Jeffrey Myers made a daily call to Bob Butter for comfort and advice. Butter, a public relations giant in Pittsburgh, helped Myers handle the media onslaught after the Oct. 27, 2018, attack on Tree of Life in Squirrel Hill. “We knew we would need extra...

The portion of Black and other students of color declined in this fall’s entering class at Carnegie Mellon University, following the first recruiting cycle since the U.S. Supreme Court barred consideration of race in admissions. The share of new students who are white also slipped, but Asian student enrollment rose,...

A former Pittsburgh building inspector will not go to prison after pleading guilty in federal court to accepting bribes. U.S. District Court Judge Mark Hornak on Wednesday sentenced Walter Eiseman, 59, to 18 months of probation and 90 days of home confinement. Eiseman also must pay a $1,500 fine and...

A look at each of the homicides that have occurred in Allegheny County in 2024: Jan. 7: Dai’Von Means Dai’Von Dailon Means, a 3-month-old boy, died from blunt force trauma to the head in a Duquesne home. His mother, Alisha L. Parker, 26, has been charged with homicide. Read more:...

Forty of the nation’s leading private colleges and universities, including Carnegie Mellon University, are accused in a federal class-action lawsuit of conspiring with the College Board to, in effect, overcharge students. The suit was filed Monday in Chicago before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The...

TribLive reporter Justin Vellucci delves into the emotional journey of Rona Kaufman, a Duquesne University law professor, who has leaned into her Jewish faith as the Israel-Hamas conflict continues. With her daughter serving in the Israeli military, Rona faced the heart-wrenching challenge of being physically distant during this crisis. So...

Nearly 200 spectators packed a Pittsburgh courtroom Tuesday as the Pennsylvania Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the mandatory sentence of life without parole for second-degree murder violates the state constitution. The punishment, often called death by incarceration by opponents, applies to nearly 1,100 people in Pennsylvania currently serving time...

A retired Marine three-star general and a Republican ex-congressman from Connecticut visited Pittsburgh Tuesday to stump for Vice President Kamala Harris and portray her rival, Donald Trump, as a threat to the U.S. Constitution. Retired Lt. Gen. Richard L. Kelly, a Pittsburgh native and Penn State University graduate, and former...

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning: Wednesday, Oct. 9: Ambridge standoff involving 2-year-old ends peacefully A roughly five-hour standoff in Ambridge on Tuesday afternoon ended peacefully, according to authorities. A large police presence was seen in the area of 6th Street in Ambridge at around...

A tree grown from a seed that orbited the moon is taking root in Pittsburgh. Allegheny Observatory and Riverview Park were chosen to be the caretakers of a Moon Tree, according to Kerry Handron, special events and outreach coordinator at the observatory. The small sweetgum tree was delivered this summer...

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Tuesday, Oct. 8: Man arrested outside Kennywood amid fight with police A 25-year-old man was arrested by Allegheny County Police in connection to a fight over the weekend outside of Kennywood Park. Jabari Ata Wilson Jr., who in court...

Michal Alon’s voice shook just once Monday evening as she described how she found herself, a year ago, in a military base with a terrorist. The nurse and mother was tending to a wounded Israeli watchtower guard in Zikim, a base that sits about a half-mile from Israel’s border with...

The scent of bell peppers and tomatoes tickles your nose from the steps of the East Busway and Homewood Avenue Station. The aroma of pizza wafts down the block, ushering any passerby to the doorstep of North Homewood Pizza on the corner of North Homewood Avenue and Susquehanna Street. It’s...

Even as it plans for growth, the University of Pittsburgh has reduced its footprint by 85 acres through the sale of a sprawling but underused research park in Harmar. The $5 million transaction of Pittsburgh Applied Research Center (U-PARC) in Harmar was completed Sept. 24, said Pitt spokesman Jared Stonesifer....

A nearly $4 million gift will enable Duquesne University to open a second nursing simulation lab on its campus, which also enrolled its inaugural class in osteopathic medicine this fall. The Joanne Barkett Conway Simulation Center is scheduled to open in 2026 on the sixth floor of Fisher Hall, university...

When Hamas militants blitzed Israel one year ago today, Rona Kaufman immediately feared for her daughter, Naomi Kitchen. Kitchen had traded Pittsburgh for Israel in 2021. Now, as a 21-year-old soldier in Israel’s military, she was 6,000 miles from home, helping repel an armed incursion against a base in the...

One June morning, near 4 a.m. Pittsburgh time, Ahmed Arafat got a text from his sister in Palestine’s Gaza Strip. It was 11 a.m. there. Israeli tanks were approaching Nuseirat, a refugee camp near where her family was sheltered. “I’m going to die,” she texted Arafat. “Please take care of...

What’s heartbreak in Pittsburgh is a thriller in Dallas after Sunday night’s Steelers game against the Cowboys. After allowing a fourth-down touchdown pass with 20 seconds left in the game early Monday morning, the Black and Gold lost to the Cowboys, 20-17, at Acrisure Stadium. The loss came on a...

A Pittsburgh councilman wants to sell the Municipal Courts Building to Allegheny County for $9 million to save the city the costs of upkeep and utilities at the Downtown facility. Councilman Anthony Coghill, D-Beechview, introduced legislation Tuesday that would instruct the city to scrap its existing lease agreement with the...

A man was killed Friday night after being shot multiple times in Homewood, authorities said. Pittsburgh police said they responded to the 7400 block of Race Street in the East End neighborhood about 9:30 p.m after receiving a 12-round alert from the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system. They found a man,...

Rocky Bleier and Mel Blount suited up for the Steelers on Friday night, just like they did 50 years ago. Fans cheered when they walked out. Terrible Towels were swirling. But instead of game time, it was show time. And the field was a runway. They walked a similar catwalk...

Images appearing in Point Park University’s student newspaper this week show unsanitary conditions that the publication says it found in the Downtown campus’s dining facility inside Lawrence Hall. One of the photos published Wednesday in The Globe depicts a red pepper “appearing to be moldy in the salad bar.” Another...

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Friday, Oct. 4: Vehicle hits gas pumps on South Side, igniting fire A Pittsburgh police officer was injured while investigating the scene of a fire Thursday evening at a South Side gas station, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety. The...

A woman was found dead with gunshot wounds Friday morning in a Duquesne residence, Allegheny County Police said. The County’s Homicide Unit said emergency services received reports at 2:42 a.m. of a shooting in the 1000 block of Orchard Park Avenue. Police said first responders found a woman dead inside...