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Golfers can return to the course at Penn Township’s Blackthorne Estates community this spring. After being closed to the public in 2023, the course will reopen this season and a new golf facility will be built, according to an agreement reached this week between Blackthorne Investors and the township. The...

Allegheny County Police are investigating a fatal shooting Thursday night outside of a Penn Hills bar. Police said 32-year-old Andrew William Miller of Verona was shot in the chest outside the World Class Tavern in the 600 block of Long Road. Miller was taken to UPMC Presbyterian hospital, where he...

When the Pittsburgh Penguins first brought Jake Guentzel to the NHL roster in November of 2016, it was because of injury. Chris Kunitz, arguably the best winger the franchise had attached to franchise center Sidney Crosby up until that point, landed on injured reserve. His convalescence prompted management to summon...

Jim Roddey, Allegheny County’s first chief executive, died Thursday. He served as county executive from 1999 to 2004 and was a former chairman of the county’s Republican committee. He was 91. Roddey was honored for his service to the Republican committee at its annual Spirit of Lincoln fundraising dinner at...

The owners of the blighted Century III Mall said in court papers filed this week that they have contracted with a company to raze the property, but they claim that the Allegheny County District Attorney’s office is interfering with their ability to carry out the demolition. A hearing on the...

Andrew and Lauren Hackney’s daughter was 7 months old when they took her to the pediatrician because she’d been refusing her bottle. The doctor diagnosed her with dehydration and recommended she be evaluated at a hospital. Within weeks of the baby being admitted for treatment, a caseworker with Allegheny County’s...

Westmoreland County District Attorney Nicole W. Ziccarelli has ruled that use of deadly force was justified in an officer-involved shooting Sept. 5 that resulted in the death of a suspect in an undercover narcotics investigation in North Huntingdon. Dontae D. Warner, 30, of McKeesport was found dead in his vehicle...

A 20-year-old man was shot and killed Thursday in Clairton, authorities said. Allegheny County Police homicide detectives are investigating the late-morning shooting. Marquise Jones was found in the 900 block of Toman Avenue following a call to 911 at 11:22 a.m. for a shooting. He was pronounced dead at the...

If there’s an SAT exam in your future or that of your child, don’t worry about scrounging up a perfectly sharpened No. 2 pencil. You have outlived the paper era of the college entrance exam. Starting Saturday, an almost-century-old rite of academic passage for high schoolers will have bowed to...

A Derry Borough man is accused of stopping his SUV in the left lane of Toll Route 66 and arguing with a truck driver, breaking the trucker’s cell phone, according to court papers. State troopers said the encounter with Marshall C. Dolfi, 30, was captured on cameras in the tractor-trailer....

A sea of green will make its way through Downtown Pittsburgh on March 16. What began more than 150 years ago as a way to honor the patron saint of Ireland has evolved into a city-wide celebration held the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day — unless March 17 falls on...

A new Starbucks is coming to Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood, and some in the community are complaining about it. Dave Breingan, director of community group Lawrenceville United, said the Arsenal 201 mixed-use development recently agreed to a lease with Starbucks at one of its vacant storefront locations on Butler Street between...

Pittsburgh Controller Rachael Heisler Wednesday urged city officials not to count on nearly $10 million in revenue included in this year’s budget, sounding a strong warning about an increasingly grim fiscal picture. In a letter to Mayor Ed Gainey and City Council members, Heisler described the city’s tenuous financial situation...

DALLAS — Once again, most Americans will set their clocks forward by one hour this weekend, losing perhaps a bit of sleep but gaining more glorious sunlight in the evenings as the days warm into summer. Where did this all come from, though? How we came to move the clock...

A Sewickley man is facing federal drug charges for allegedly trafficking fentanyl and other narcotics in the Quaker Valley area. Jeffrey West, 43, was taken into custody at his Chadwick Street apartment by borough police and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents on Wednesday, March6. A grand jury indicted West on...

MONTGOMERY — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation into law Wednesday shielding in vitro fertilization providers from potential legal liability raised by a court ruling that equated frozen embryos to children. The decision by the Alabama Supreme Court last month raised concerns about civil liabilities for clinics and prompted an...

A Pennsylvania appellate court said Wednesday that a Pittsburgh police officer who was fired amid allegations that he sexually assaulted a fellow officer nearly three years ago should be reinstated. That officer, Aaron Fetty, was investigated by the Allegheny County Police Department but never charged. He denies there was any...

The decision to blow open five tank cars and burn the toxic chemical inside them after a freight train derailed in Eastern Ohio last year wasn’t justified, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board told Congress on Wednesday. But she said the key decision-makers who feared those tank cars...

The U.S. House passed a $460 billion spending package Wednesday that would avoid a shutdown and keep the government running through the next fiscal year. As part of the package, the Pittsburgh region would receive over $28 million worth of community project funding. That includes $1 million for the reconstruction...

In an unusual display of frustration, Pittsburgh Councilman Anthony Coghill on Wednesday publicly lambasted Mayor Ed Gainey’s administration for what he called a lack of communication with council. The Beechview councilman criticized the mayor and his staff for not consulting council before submitting a plan on how to spend $8...

A McKeesport man was found not guilty of an attempted sexual assault against a co-worker at a North Huntingdon nursing home. Daniel Odu, 36, a former nursing aide at the Grove at Irwin, was charged with having improper sexual contact with a 19-year-old fellow employee in a resident’s bathroom on...

The Monongahela Incline, which shut down Tuesday, will remain closed for the remainder of the week, Pittsburgh Regional Transit said. In a statement Wednesday, Pittsburgh Regional Transit said the 154-year-old incline shut down Tuesday afternoon when a brake resistor and motor controller unexpectedly failed. The incline cars were docked at...