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The Allegheny County Police Homicide Unit obtained an arrest warrant Saturday for Kareef Easington in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman and child in Swissvale. Easington, 35, was previously sought by the police for questioning. He remains at large. Police said Easington lived with the victims, Megan J....

A 2-year-old boy was shot Friday night in Duquesne, police said. Allegheny County Police said the boy was in critical condition after being shot in the abdomen. The incident was reported at about 9:15 in the 300 block of N. Third St. The boy was not identified. County police homicide...

The family of one of the people killed when a car crashed through a North Side plasma clinic in 2021 is suing the estate of the man who was driving. The crash at Biomat USA Plasma Center, on Western Avenue in Pittsburgh, occurred about 11:30 a.m. on June 12. Investigators...

The female Pittsburgh bald eagle laid her first egg of the season Friday just before 5:30 p.m., according to the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania. The Hays couple, in their 11th breeding season nesting a steep hillside high above the Monongahela River near the Glenwood Bridge, have successfully raised 18...

The piers that once supported the Wabash Bridge across the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh have been sold. What happens next to the huge, stone towers that rise about 45 feet above the river between Downtown and the South Side remains to be seen. The all-cash sale was through a third-party...

Trustees at Carnegie Mellon University have reappointed Farnam Jahanian to a second five-year term as president. The board of trustees acted Thursday on the unanimous recommendation of a presidential review committee of six faculty members and six trustees. The panel’s recommendation followed interviews with about 70 people and other input...

The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy is looking to create a series of accessible sensory areas in Frick Park. Many of the sites the conservancy uses for nature programming and other activities at the park aren’t accessible for everyone, said Brandon Riley, the conservancy’s capital projects manager. “We’re trying to provide that...

Guests expect to see fashion models on a runway. But for a show to include live opera singers’ powerful voices with songs from “Carmina Burana,“ ”Rigoletto” and “Rinaldo”? That’s not something you see and hear every day. Friends of the Pittsburgh Opera hosted their annual style event on Monday with...

It’s a long holiday weekend for some with Presidents Day on Monday. Here are some ways to spend it. Auto Show The Pittsburgh International Auto Show is Friday through Monday at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown. There will be a wide variety of vehicles in a non-sales atmosphere....

The brooding man acts on his cruel intentions. Married with 3-year-old twin daughters, he wants out. He wants a new life and sets a fire and leaves his family for dead. The fire does not kill his family, but horrifically scars them. Eighteen years later, the now 21-year-old twins Anaia...

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Friday, Feb. 17, 2023: 3 arrested after police say drugs, firearms found at Homewood store Pittsburgh police said they recovered drugs and firearms Thursday night in a convenience store in the city’s Homewood neighborhood. Narcotics and Vice detectives executed...

A Turtle Creek man is charged with possessing three guns in the William S. Moorhead Federal Building Thursday, in Pittsburgh. An X-ray security screening detected two loaded 9mm guns in a personal bag carried in the Liberty Avenue building by Jeremy Foster Isaac, 42, according to a criminal complaint filed...

Pittsburgh police are investigating after a body was found in the city’s Bluff neighborhood Thursday afternoon. An Allegheny County 911 dispatcher said the discovery was made around 4:30 p.m. along the 1700 block of Watson Street. “At this point, this is not necessarily considered suspicious,” Public Safety spokeswoman Amanda Mueller...

A Pittsburgh man convicted of sexually exploiting children has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison followed by supervised release for the rest of his life, authorities said Thursday. Wayne Edward McNutt, 58, was sentenced by Senior U.S. Judge Joy Flowers Conti. Authorities said McNutt communicated with a person...

The inbound Armstrong Tunnel is scheduled to close for a $13.1 million rehabilitation project. The closure is expected to start at 6 a.m. March 4, according to county officials. It’s not expected to reopen again until winter 2024. The right lane for inbound traffic on Second Avenue also will close...

A female bicyclist was injured Thursday morning after being hit by a vehicle in the Strip District. Pittsburgh police said they responded to 16th Street around 9 a.m. The cyclist, who police did not identify, was taken to an area hospital in critical condition, police said. Sixteenth Street between Penn...

A Pittsburgh man is accused of assaulting a Dollar Tree clerk, stealing $72 in cash from a store register and then driving off in a stolen van. Kwon Lester, 43, was charged Tuesday with robbery, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, resisting arrest, fleeing or attempting to elude police...

Pittsburgh-based Evoqua Water Technologies is selling its carbon reactivation and slurry operations to a European company that specializes in industrial mobile filtration. The agreement with Desotec, headquartered in Belgium, includes the product line’s workforce and facilities in Darlington, Pennsylvania; Parker, Arizona; and Red Bluff, California. The deal, scheduled to close...

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023: Crash leads to power outage, closes busy Penn Hills road A portion of a busy road in Penn Hills was forced to close and left some residents without power for a time early Thursday after...

It’s certainly not your parent’s mini golf course. Heck, it’s not even been your mini-golf course. Until now. The high-concept Puttery Pittsburgh opens its doors Friday in the Strip District. And it greatly expands the experience of miniature golfing. The venue’s three courses — The Lodge, The Library and The...

After several days of a boil water advisory in East End Pittsburgh neighborhoods, the Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority on Wednesday lifted the advisory for several thousands of households across about a dozen neighborhoods. The announcement comes a day after some residents in four neighborhoods had their advisories lifted. There...

The Mellon Park Tennis Center reopened this weekend after being closed for renovations for seven months. The Department of Public Works replaced the dome over the five tennis courts at the tennis center in Mellon Park in Pittsburgh’s Shadyside and Point Breeze neighborhoods. The dome was at the end of...

A 14-year-old boy, who the police say shed his GPS ankle monitor after shooting and killing another teen in Carrick earlier this week, turned himself in on Wednesday. Nigel Thompson, 14, of Carrick, who Pittsburgh police is charged with criminal homicide and three weapons counts. He was in the Allegheny...

A Pittsburgh man is in custody after an attempted carjacking of a police officer in Braddock on Tuesday night. Tribune-Review news partner WPXI reported that Derek Lamont Moore, 33, is facing charges including aggravated assault, assault of a law enforcement officer, disarming a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest. Allegheny...

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023: Police recover church bell stolen from Squirrel Hill A 2,000-pound church bell that Pittsburgh police said was stolen from Squirrel Hill has been recovered. Police said they recovered the bell early Wednesday morning along Parkwood...