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Intricate stained glass and jungle gyms don’t usually go side by side. Sia Fouse is working on removing the stained glass, but she keeps filling the Sia Center, an indoor playground and event space in Vandergrift, with even more toys and equipment. She bought the former St. Paul Lutheran Church...

A passerby was shot in the leg after multiple people fired a total of 25 rounds in Pittsburgh’s Hill District early Sunday morning. Pittsburgh Police said multiple people were firing at each other at around 2:10 a.m. in the area of Chauncey Drive and Bedford Avenue. When police arrived on...

Pittsburgh’s heat wave has finally broken, but the cold front moving in will likely bring severe storms and a potential tornado to the region, according to forecasters. Sunday’s forecast high is 84 degrees for Pittsburgh, marking the first day in a week with high temperatures forecast below 90 degrees. The...

(Editor’s note: “From the archive” is a recurring series highlighting vintage photos submitted by community members or gathered from the Tribune-Review’s files. If you have a photo you would like to see featured here, please contact gtrcity@triblive.com.) It seemed as though the Jeannette Glass plant might restart four decades ago,...

Marc Fogel of Oakmont has been an international teacher since he was a student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. In August 2021, he was arrested at the airport in Moscow for possession of 17 grams of marijuana, legally prescribed in Pennsylvania for a well-documented history of back and knee pain...

The Alle-Kiski community came together on a blazing hot Saturday to honor the fallen officers and those who cared for them in what organizers said was the fundraiser’s biggest event ever. The annual Back the Blue police fundraiser was held at Mogie’s Irish Pub in Lower Burrell on Saturday afternoon...

A toddler was sent to the hospital after falling to the ground from a second-floor window in Pittsburgh’s Hill District on Saturday morning. Pittsburgh Police were called to a home in the 2400 block of Bedford Avenue just after 8 a.m., responding to reports that a child had fallen out...

One of Pittsburgh’s most popular and historic park shelters is set to get an upgrade next summer. The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy is spearheading an effort to revitalize Riverview Park’s Valley Refuge Shelter and improve accessibility at the site. The shelter is one of the most popular in the city, with...

For years, Slippery Rock University has held its own in a slumping student market, and its leaders anticipate another strong fall aided by a third consecutive increase in first-year students. But as that cautiously optimistic forecast was conveyed to school trustees in recent days, one unsettling statistic stood out. With...

The use of AI in classrooms, the importance of educator diversity and dealing with angry parents are just a few of the topics that will be discussed at a national education conference in Pittsburgh beginning Sunday. More than 200 state government officials, representatives from educator preparation programs and school district...

Heat waves like the one sizzling across Western Pennsylvania are dangerous for everyone’s health, but young children are markedly more susceptible to hazards associated with prolonged exposure, experts say. “The younger the child is, the less likely they are going to be able to deal with the heat,” said Dr....

The University of Pittsburgh on Friday set salaries ranging from $300,000 to $630,000 for three new officers hired under Chancellor Joan Gabel and approved a retention bonus for a fourth officer predating her tenure. Two of the new hires will start at pay levels topping their predecessors who served in...

SAN FRANCISCO — A man who bludgeoned Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer and was sentenced to 30 years in federal court was also convicted Friday of aggravated kidnapping by a state court which could put him behind bars for life. A federal judge last month sentenced David DePape to...

Carol Hardeman said she’s frustrated that the promised park projects in Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood still haven’t started, years after residents hoped they would be done. Hardeman, who serves as executive director of the Hill District Consensus Group, said the lengthy delays to projects that were supposed to improve a...

Pittsburgh’s horror fans received a jumpscare earlier this week after finding out ScareHouse will not be returning to its Pittsburgh Mills location and will not open for the 2024 season. Pittsburgh Magazine reported on Monday that ScareHouse co-owner Scott Simmons announced the news last week in a private Facebook group...

A Hempfield man was sentenced to two years of probation this week in connection with dozens of obscene and racially-charged voicemails police said he left for members of Congress. Mark Eugene Ray, 64, pleaded guilty to ethnic intimidation and harassment. A second count of harassment was dismissed. Judge Timothy Krieger...

FORDYCE, Ark. — Two people were killed and eight wounded in a shooting that occurred Friday at a grocery store in south Arkansas, police said. Arkansas State Police said the shooting occurred at the Mad Butcher grocery store in Fordyce and that the shooter was critically injured after being shot...

An intoxicated man is accused of stealing an 82-foot yacht from a Strip District marina and piloting it about a half-mile down the Allegheny River Friday morning, Pittsburgh police said. Michael Fischer, 38, is accused of breaking into the Lock Wall Marina off 23rd Street Friday morning, then boarding and...

A man who was fatally shot in Export this week will be remembered at a luncheon on Sunday, according to his obituary. Police said Daniel T. “Slim” Chicka Jr., 65, of Avonmore, had been in a dispute over parking with another man when he was shot Tuesday on Madison Avenue....

The Allegheny County Health Department on Thursday fined U.S. Steel nearly $80,000 for air pollution the department said its Clairton Coke Works created in the first quarter of 2023. The $79,545 fine includes soaking and pushing violations at the coke works, a 123-year-old plant that sits on 392 acres on...

A relentless heat wave continued to bake most of the United States on Friday, with numerous areas expected to see record-breaking temperatures and forecasters warning there would likely be little relief through the weekend for most areas. The steamiest conditions on Friday were expected in parts of Ohio and Indiana,...

A portion of construction work at the new UPMC Presbyterian hospital tower was halted Thursday after a Pittsburgh inspector found the project did not have all the necessary permits, according to a city spokeswoman. Maria Montaño, a spokesperson for Mayor Ed Gainey, said UPMC did not have the required electrical...

Pittsburgh Parks and Recreation Director Kathryn Vargas was aware that a controversial contractor had previously been fired from a different role with the city before she hired him and paid him with a municipal credit card in violation of city policies, according to documents TribLive obtained Friday. Dozens of emails...