Pittsburgh PA

Allegheny County DA probe uncovers bid-rigging allegations and financial irregularities within the Gainey administration. Taxpayers deserve answers.

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. met Friday with officials in Frazier Township, hailing progress it has made in improving road conditions around the troubled Pittsburgh Mills shopping mall. But in a lengthy give-and-take with reporters, Zappala also made clear that officials in the administrati

Pittsburgh’s former mayor “exploited” existing procedures to award no-bid contracts and grants to favored groups and possibly violated federal securities law by covering up the city’s true finances, according to an unsealed affidavit for a search warrant served on city government earlier this year. Allegheny County...

Elijah Hemingway allegedly killed a Pittsburgh doctor and critically injuring the physician’s wife after sneaking into the couple's home through a rear window. The post Dying pediatric doctor called intruder by his first name during home invasion while wife watched in horror, police say first appeared on Law & Crime .

This article was funded by LebTown donors as part of our Civic Impact Reporting Project. Heidelberg Township supervisors approved a land development plan for a contractor shop at 146 Sinclair Road and a two-lot subdivision at 1713 Heidelberg Ave. at its monthly meeting Tuesday, Sept. 22. Both plans were approved...

It’s gray and boxy, roughly a foot high, 2 feet deep and 2½ feet wide, according to a former Penn State University student who kept it in his room. This heavy-duty safe, prosecutors say, played a key role in the fraternity cocaine prosecution that has rocked Penn State University and ensnared a Churchill father and son

(File Photo of a Police Siren Light) (Aliquippa, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in Beaver reported yesterday that they arrested two people for possessing drugs in Aliquippa on August 28th. Police stopped forty-one-year-old Brittany Tucker of Aliquippa because she committed a vehicle violation in the area 108 Economy Str

A brand-new residential building in Pittsburgh’s Uptown neighborhood celebrated its official opening this week, with some tenants already unpacked and settled in while the developer continues accepting applications for the remaining apartments. The Standard on Fifth, a four-story, 51-unit building at 2120 Fifth Avenue,

I learned this week that you can just buy a roll of translucent paper that looks like stained glass and stick it to the window, and it’s hard to tell the difference. I came home and thought, for a second, “Hey, we have a new stained-glass window in the bathroom!” I mean, I don’t hate it; that window is at the end of it

Millennials, your favorite shoe store you dreaded visiting as a kid is dwindling. JCPenney, the longstanding department store that’s been in operation for 124 years, has closed hundreds of stores since 2020. But the retailer’s latest closure marks the end of a decades-long presence in the community, TheStreet reported.