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PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh police say a drunken woman tried to drive away in an unmarked police car — with two officers still inside.
According to a criminal complaint, 32-year-old Ria Buford got into the car at about 2:15 a.m. Saturday outside a nightclub that was hosting a party after the Wiz Khalifa concert.
Police say she sat in the driver's seat and told the two plainclothes officers in the back that she intended to drive the vehicle to where her own was parked.
Police say Buford was arrested before she could drive anywhere. A man who intervened in her arrest was also charged.
Buford faces a preliminary hearing Thursday on charges of robbery of a motor vehicle, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness.
CONWAY — Pittsburgh's Roman Catholic bishop has put a suburban pastor on administrative leave after receiving an allegation of unspecified sexual abuse against the cleric dating to the late 1990s.Bishop David Zubik says the church is providing the Rev. John Fitzgerald with temporary housing away from Our Lady of Peace Church in Conway, Beaver County, where he's on administrative leave as pastor while church and law enforcement officials review the allegations.Zubik didn't detail the allegations, but says prosecutors in Allegheny and Lawrence counties have been notified because the alleged abuse occurred in those jurisdictions.Zubik said in a statement Sunday that the priest “has denied committing any acts of sexual abuse.”
COLLEGEVILLE — Police say two 17-year-old boys were charged with breaking into a home and baking drug-laced brownies.Police say the burglary happened July 22 though the department only recently publicized it.Police say the boys were found with drug paraphernalia and more than 2 pounds of the unspecified drug used to make the brownies. The boys were charged in Montgomery County Juvenile Court.
