Candle studio joins pop-up businesses fueling Downtown’s NFL Draft push
The temperature Tuesday afternoon in Downtown Pittsburgh didn’t climb much above freezing. But patrons at Kayla Branca’s new candle workshop, The Studio by PGH Candle, said they felt something warm wash over them upon entering the Wood Street store. Branca made the shop’s opening official this week with an oversized...
AG-led raids targeting illegal guns lead to seizures in Pittsburgh, Rankin
Local police and agents from the state Attorney General’s Office last week arrested two teens and seized three guns after securing search warrants for homes in Pittsburgh and Rankin, the agency announced Thursday. Authorities said they arrested Daonte King, 18, on gun charges after searching his Mount Washington home March...
Market Square brawl reignites Downtown Pittsburgh safety concerns weeks before 2026 NFL Draft
A Market Square brawl last weekend has renewed pressure on business owners and elected leaders to crimeproof one of Downtown Pittsburgh’s most visible public spaces — just weeks before hundreds of thousands of visitors descend on the city for the 2026 NFL Draft. About 40 people wreaked havoc around 5:30...
What will happen to the puppy abandoned at Pittsburgh International Airport?
Allegheny County Police have been inundated with emails and phone calls about adopting the puppy they said a Texas man abandoned last week at Pittsburgh International Airport, a spokesman told TribLive on Wednesday. Authorities know little beyond the gender — male — of the chocolate Labrador retriever officers found Friday...
Pittsburgh-funded shelter draws praise as rockets strike Israeli sister city
An Israeli bomb shelter Tuesday helped save the lives of two children threatened by an impending missile attack, Jewish leaders said — and the money to build the wartime safe haven came straight from Pittsburgh. The alarms sounded in Karmiel, Israel, at 3:45 p.m. local time on the 25th day...
Texas man charged with abandoning chocolate Lab puppy at Pittsburgh airport
Authorities are looking for a foster home for a chocolate Labrador retriever they say a Texas man abandoned Friday afternoon at Pittsburgh International Airport. Omar Orlando Perez, 42, of Robstown, Texas, was charged Tuesday with animal cruelty and dog abandonment after he left the animal — a puppy whose age...
Mystery daredevil parachutes off Pittsburgh skyscraper
Pittsburgh police are investigating after a “reported parachutist” jumped off a skyscraper near the former site of the Civic Arena. Just three weeks after a Beaver County social-media influencer scaled the Gulf Tower — once Pennsylvania’s tallest building — someone appeared to launch themselves off the FNB Financial Center, a...
Police seize cocaine, mushrooms, cash, guns in Robinson bust
A Robinson man was jailed Thursday after authorities said they found nearly a kilogram of cocaine, psychedelic mushrooms and about $30,000 in cash in his Statia Street home. Nicholas Giese, 40, was charged with seven drug counts. He was taken to the Allegheny County Jail, where he posted $100,000 bail...
Pittsburgh refused to identify cops present at bar fight, but records reveal their names
Pittsburgh officials Wednesday released records with the names of three city police detectives — one of them the leader of his police academy class — present at a bar brawl involving one of their colleagues last month in Pleasant Hills. Pittsburgh police Chief Jason Lando placed Detectives Jake Flickinger, Kyle...
‘Brink of death’: Aliquippa man sent to prison for up to 32 years in brutal VFW beating
A judge Tuesday sentenced an Aliquippa man to up to 32 years in prison for brutally beating a fellow city resident inside a Veterans of Foreign Wars lodge last year. In January, a Beaver County jury found Brett Ours, 40, guilty of attacking Preston Coleman III, then 52, inside the...
Pittsburgh police union fears city’s fiscal straits could harm contract prospects
Pittsburgh police union leaders fear city officials may plead poverty Wednesday morning when they furnish new information to arbitrators preparing to set the terms of the police bureau’s next contract. Last week Mayor Corey O’Connor revealed the city’s finances were in worse shape than he knew and warned this year’s...
Clairton man to stand trial after crash, hammer attack following custody exchange
A Clairton man is headed to trial on attempted homicide and related charges for striking his former paramour’s car with his vehicle following a child-custody exchange, then repeatedly hitting the woman in the head with a claw hammer. Allegheny County Police charged Vance Gibson Jr., 28, with two counts each...
Bus gunman’s blunders spur swift arrest in Pittsburgh Regional Transit shooting
Police said they were quickly able to arrest an 18-year-old for shooting a person on a Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus last weekend in part because the teen showed his face on camera and used a phone app to pay for his fare. Michael Andrews of Pittsburgh was charged with shooting...
Sharpsburg woman to stand trial after police find dead dog in feces-filled home
A Sharpsburg woman is headed to trial after police said they found a dead dog and two neglected animals inside a feces-filled home that “was deplorable and unfit” for pets. Caitlin Marie Franks, 21, waived a preliminary hearing Monday on 15 animal cruelty charges in front of a district judge,...
Partiers pack South Side after St. Patrick’s Day parade, but mayhem stays away
Pittsburgh police bulked up foot patrols Saturday night in the city’s South Side as they braced for St. Patrick’s Day parade revelers to migrate from Downtown to pack the dozens of bars that line East Carson Street. But the holiday-weekend chaos never arrived. “You definitely got the sense that, when...
Pittsburgh police ramp up security for St. Patrick’s Day parade
Pittsburgh police officers will be out in force Saturday as the city hosts one of the largest St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in the nation, police Chief Jason Lando said Friday, though he declined to provide details. Saturday’s holiday parade, which starts at 10 a.m., is taking place amid turmoil at...
Turtle Creek mayor drops primary challenge to U.S. Rep. Summer Lee
The moderate Mon Valley mayor attempting to derail Rep. Summer Lee’s reelection bid has withdrawn from the Democratic Party primary. Turtle Creek Mayor Adam Forgie announced Tuesday he is shutting down his campaign. Lee, a Swissvale Democrat seeking her third term to represent Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District, was officially endorsed...
Pittsburgh bust uncovers smorgasbord of drugs, leads to arrest of brothers in their 60s
Two Pittsburgh brothers are facing charges after authorities said Tuesday they found more than a dozen bricks of fentanyl, $30,000 worth of crack cocaine, multiple guns and a laundry list of illegal drugs at their Larimer apartment. Rodney Howard, 60, and Andre Howard, 62, were charged March 6 with drug...
Pittsburgh woman accused of running over ex-boyfriend with his SUV
A Pittsburgh woman is headed to trial on charges she ran over her ex-boyfriend with his own SUV after a night of drinking — while the man’s mother sat in the front passenger seat. Police charged Chanel Dyer, 38, of the city’s Brookline neighborhood, with attempted homicide and aggravated assault...
Clairton crash clash leads police to detain 1 driver
Authorities took a man into custody Monday morning after he crashed his car into another vehicle during a “domestic incident” in Clairton, then began assaulting the other driver, according to Allegheny County Police. Police said they were dispatched around 8:05 a.m. to the intersection of 5th Street and St. Clair...
Pitcairn man arrested in Parkway East DUI crash that killed his passenger
A Pitcairn man already facing sentencing in two drunken-driving cases was arrested Monday in connection with what police say was a third DUI incident, this one fatal. Jordan Bowyer was driving an Infiniti sedan up to 87 miles per hour on the Parkway East in 2024 when he crashed the...
Body pulled from Monongahela River is identified
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified a body found Sunday in the Monongahela River as a 56-year-old man who lived outside of the area. Elizabeth Borough’s water rescue team pulled Donald L. Wilson from the river, near the 700 block of West Elizabeth’s 1st Street, on Sunday afternoon,...
Suspected gun thief takes dip in the Mon to elude police
A man suspected of stealing guns led authorities Wednesday on a brief car chase in Downtown Pittsburgh that ended with him jumping into the Monongahela River and later being arrested. Police said they tried to pull over the man while he was driving at Wood Street and Forbes Avenue around...
Pittsburgh man charged in shooting death of sister
A Pittsburgh man charged with killing his sister in the apartment they shared is scheduled to appear later this month before a district judge, who will determine if he will face trial. Aaron Charles Martin, 27, was arrested last month after police were dispatched to his apartment in the city’s...
Video plays key role in Wilkinsburg homicide arrest
Police have arrested a Wilkinsburg man for fatally shooting another man in the back of the neck and leaving his body in the middle of a borough intersection. Wilkinsburg police said they were dispatched around 8:40 p.m. Jan. 13 to the 700 block of South Avenue for a call about...
