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Man to stand trial on charges he torched McKeesport home over $200 drug debt

A man set fire to a McKeesport home in September after a couple who had lived there failed to pay him $200 for heroin, police said. After a preliminary hearing Monday, Arthur Franklin, 32, now heads to Allegheny County Common Pleas Court for trial. Video footage showed Franklin walking toward...
Allegheny County sheriff’s race pits incumbent Kevin Kraus against challenger Brian Weismantle

Both candidates vying to be Allegheny County sheriff agree: the Nov. 4 election will be a referendum on incumbent Kevin Kraus. Kraus, a Democrat and retired Pittsburgh police officer, is seeking reelection to a second term. He touts his management experience in overseeing the $24 million, 177-deputy office as a...
Pittsburgh man arrested with $300K in luxury watches was wanted for playground shooting

A fugitive wanted for a September shooting at a Pittsburgh playground was arrested more than 200 miles away — with $300,000 worth of counterfeit watches in a rental car’s trunk, authorities said. A Pennsylvania State Police trooper said he arrested Kaheem Sturdivant, 24, of Pittsburgh’s Troy Hill neighborhood around 2:30...
‘He’s going to survive this’: Long road lies ahead for Acrisure Stadium fall victim

A friend of Keith Keller, the TV crewman who plunged at least 50 feet from Acrisure Stadium’s main scoreboard last weekend while prepping the Pittsburgh venue for a prime-time Sunday Night Football audience, said the Chicago-area man has a long road — and a lot of medical bills — ahead...
Penguins offer new details about plunge that critically injured fan at PPG Paints Arena

The Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday broke their silence and provided new details about a man’s 35-foot fall from the upper concourse of the arena during Monday night’s game, leaving him critically injured. The team and Oak View Group, the venue’s managing partner, “can confirm the patron was not using the...
Dizzying heights at venues like PPG Paints Arena unsettle upper-level spectators

For Pittsburgher Fabian Carrazana, going to a hockey game or concert means braving the vertigo-inducing pitch of PPG Paints Arena. “The upper bowl is terrifying,” Carrazana said Wednesday, two days after witnessing a man at a Pittsburgh Penguins game suffer life-threatening injuries after falling from the venue’s upper level. “It’s...
Officials release few details on man’s ‘life-threatening’ fall at PPG Paints Arena

Officials remained largely tight-lipped Tuesday after a spectator at a Pittsburgh Penguins game suffered life-threatening injuries after falling an estimated 35 feet from the upper concourse inside PPG Paints Arena a day earlier. Around 7:15 p.m. Monday, a man fell from the 200 level of the stands during a Penguins...
Pittsburgh detective becomes 1st Black woman to join city police bureau’s mounted unit

Pittsburgh police Detective Dorothea Leftwich didn’t plan out her newest assignment. Leftwich, a mother of three known by many as “Dea,” patrolled neighborhoods and worked stints with narcotics and burglary units after joining Pittsburgh’s force in 2007. For the past 12 years, she’s been working full-time in the bureau’s Office...
Inside Tony Moreno’s quest to become Pittsburgh’s 1st GOP mayor in nearly a century

Maverick Republican Tony Moreno knows he probably won’t be Pittsburgh’s next mayor. But the unconventional candidate, who faces Democrat Corey O’Connor on Nov. 4 at the ballot box, says he stresses what needs to be said. The retired Pittsburgh police officer first sought the city’s top elected post — unsuccessfully...
Argument leads to shooting in Point Breeze, school lockdown

A man was hospitalized Friday following a midday shooting that prompted a nearby school to go into lockdown. Police said officers were dispatched around 11:30 a.m. to the 200 block of East End Avenue in the city’s Point Breeze neighborhood. A call came in about an argument followed by gunshots....
Tip about Mt. Oliver killing led to arrest in Georgia with case now heading to trial

An anonymous tip this spring from a 412 “burner phone” helped detectives crack open a cold case: the Mt. Oliver home invasion that ended in the fatal shooting of Damon Lincoln. On Friday afternoon, the case took another step forward when a judge bound suspected gunman David Barlow, now 28,...
‘You gonna meet death, cuz’: Victim’s defiant words caught on video in Homewood slaying

A Braddock man filmed himself on a cellphone video accusing a “childhood friend” of plotting to “do something to me” moments before police say that friend fatally shot him outside a Pittsburgh bar last month. In six expletive-laced videos, Kevin Venson, 55, insulted and threatened Sean Carter on Sept. 12...
Police chief named to head new regional force for Swissvale, Braddock Hills

The new police force set to begin patrolling Swissvale and Braddock Hills next year now has a leader. Veteran Swissvale police Chief Charles Watson was selected Monday night to lead the Swissvale Braddock Hills Regional Police Department, whose 18 full-time officers start Jan. 1. The appointment, made by a seven-member...
Lawsuit claims officials wrongly forced Muslim woman to remove hijab at Pittsburgh courthouse

Pittsburgh and Allegheny County violated a Muslim woman’s constitutional rights to religious freedom and protection from unreasonable searches when officials forced her last year to remove her hijab, a religious head covering, when taking an ID photo in a municipal courthouse, a federal lawsuit filed Thursday claimed. Candace Dyer Bey...
Social media influencer charged after jumping into Pittsburgh zoo enclosure

Police have charged an Ohio social media influencer with hopping a fence on his birthday last month at the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium’s elephant enclosure, where he was nearly trampled twice by the animal. “Almost elephant food,” the man, 19-year-old Noah Thomas, captioned a video of the encounter posted to...
Steelers vs. Bengals: What they’re saying in Cincinnati after Steelers’ loss

One headline that roared Friday morning in the Cincinnati Enquirer summarized most of what those in Ohio’s third-largest city were saying after the Cincinnati Bengals defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers the night before at Paycor Stadium: How Joe Flacco saved the Bengals’ season in win over Steelers. “See, Cincinnati Bengals can...

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