PITTSBURGH — Last year saw a jump in the number of homicides in Pittsburgh, even as other cities are seeing fewer slayings.
Pittsburgh police investigated 79 homicides i...
DOYLESTOWN — A Bucks County judge has upheld the legality of a marriage performed by a Universal Life Church minister, the latest ruling on whether marriages performed b...
PITTSBURGH — An Allegheny County judge says money raised by a drink tax can only be used for the county's transit agency.
County Executive Dan Onorato had wanted to spen...
PHILADELPHIA — The alleged gunman involved in a Christmas night shooting over noisy moviegoers is an Iraq war veteran, a churchgoer and a newlywed who fired in self-defe...
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's chief justice said Tuesday that he is considering whether to impose uniform standards to improve the state's troubled constable system.
Chief...
PITTSBURGH — Laura Stewart thought she was saving her 86-year-old sister from a squalid, unheated Pittsburgh apartment by taking her home to Ohio in what Stewart's attor...
MONROEVILLE — Two firefighters were injured at a shopping center blaze, one of them when he was hit by a car at the scene.
Eight businesses were damaged in the blaze tha...
PHILADELPHIA — Fire officials said filling a heater with gasoline instead of kerosene caused a fire that killed seven people in a southwest Philadelphia home.
Fire Commi...
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh International Airport is expected to record in 2008 its lowest passenger rates in 16 years of operation.
Airport officials say the facility is ex...
WASHINGTON — Fewer police officers died in the line of duty in 2008 compared to last year, reflecting better training and tactics, two law enforcement support groups rep...
