Top Pittsburgh Area Local News Stories
Source: WTAE.com - Local News
An infant who was just a few days old is bitten by a dog in McKeesport and rushed to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh but does not survive.
Published: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:06:43 EST
Casual women's clothing, fashion accessories, yoga apparel and frozen yogurt will be sold at four new stores at the mall in Ross Township.
Published: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:56:45 EST
Pennsylvania's chief fiscal watchdog says he's expanding his look at the state's six psychiatric hospitals after finding that two contracted employees were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in a year at Torrance in Westmoreland County.
Published: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:01:46 EST
A Butler County jury finds a man guilty -- but not of first-degree murder -- for shooting his longtime friend at his home in Seven Fields. He told police that they watched a horror movie and played with a Ouija board, and they were spooked and started handling a shotgun.
Published: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:37:05 EST
State police and a Special Emergency Response Team were called to arrest a Millvale man who is accused of repeatedly threatening police officials. They said the threats were "so alarming" that the Indiana Township police chief called the Allegheny County district attorney's office.
Published: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:30:18 EST
Pittsburgh police say a man shoots his live-in girlfriend after an argument at their Stanton Heights home, then turns the gun on himself, all while their 4-year-old child is in the apartment.
Published: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:19:59 EST
A Westmoreland County man is jailed, unable to post bail on charges that he twice fired a flare gun at his wife, striking her in the torso with the second shot in Sutersville.
Published: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:02:01 EST
An 8-year-old girl who was hospitalized after choking on a hotdog at her school in Mercer County has died.
Published: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:26:12 EST
Two people are recovering after a car struck a house on Hulton Road in Plum.
Published: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:56:24 EST
A sharp-eyed passer-by spotted flames a building under construction in Westmoreland County.
Published: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:59:19 EST
Seven families from eight apartments were receiving assistance from the Red Cross following an overnight fire inside of a building, that was also home to a local bar.
Published: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:29:26 EST
Veterinarians say cancer is the most common killer of dogs and cats, and almost half of pets, develop cancer in their lifetime.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:59:10 EST
The Pittsburgh Public Schools paid two lobbyists $400,000 through no-bid contracts during years when the district also closed schools and cut programs to address budget deficits and fought declining enrollment.
Published: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:20:17 EST
Police say they are seeking a driver accused of nearly hitting an officer with a car Wednesday night.
Published: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:53:36 EST
A tractor-trailer traveling east on Route 22 is stuck trying to turn onto Northern Pike in Monroeville.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:33:35 EST
Pittsburgh robbery detectives need help to identify a man in surveillance images from a robbery at Bierhaus Tavern in the Spring Garden area. Callers may remain anonymous. The phone number is 412-323-7151.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:54:09 EST
Pittsburgh police say three men who work for an energy company wore matching shirts and went door to door, promising to help lower an elderly man's electric bill, but his daughter noticed a missing iPad and got suspicious.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:14:39 EST
The former assistant to the owner of Falcon Drilling in western Pennsylvania is jailed on charges he stole nearly $1 million. State police say up to $5 million may turn up missing as their investigation continues.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:38:36 EST
A string of fires that has stretched into the teens has Jeannette residents on edge after a home that was occupied became the latest target over the weekend.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:35:51 EST
Ross Park Mall was closed Wednesday morning and searched by bomb-sniffing police dogs following the discovery of a threat.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:34:16 EST
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