PITTSBURGH — College students in the city's Oakland neighborhood said they overpowered a man after he allegedly robbed them at gunpoint and raped a woman, police said.
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FALLS CREEK, JeffersonCounty — A Western Pennsylvania soldier died Thursday in Iraq, his family and the Defense Department said.
Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Tully, 33, of ...
NRA put pressure on Ellwood City
ELLWOOD CITY — Under pressure from the National Rifle Association, Ellwood City rescinded an ordinance banning the possession of weapons ...
PITTSBURGH — The Allegheny County Citizens Elections System Advisory Panel said the county should consider replacing touch-screen voting machines the county bought just ...
DONORA — A woman was accused of taking a 12-year-old boy to two houses of prostitution and paying for him to have sex there.
Linda Van Pool, 36, of Donora, was charged w...
Company invests in healthier food
PITTSBURGH — H. J. Heinz Co. said Friday its fiscal first-quarter earnings grew 6 percent, driven by double-digit growth in ketchup, bea...
HARRISBURG — More than two dozen gun dealers and a state lawmaker filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to block a planned four-day freeze on gun sales to allow an upgrade of t...
Voter frustration can spell trouble
HARRISBURG — The days when election to Pennsylvania's appellate courts was a virtual guarantee of a lifetime job — with power, prestig...
BURGETTSTOWN — The state attorney general's office will prosecute two Pittsburgh police detectives accused of fighting local police.
Washington County District Attorney ...
Room levy to fund hotel
PITTSBURGH — Erie County can use a room tax to pay for a publicly funded hotel at a new convention center, despite opposition from other lodging o...
