Megan Guza stories, Page 2

Delivery of the last of the beams needed to rebuild the Fern Hollow Bridge will begin Thursday, shutting down a Parkway East ramp and several Regent Square side streets during delivery times. Fourteen beams have already been delivered to the Squirrel Hill side of the bridge. The bridge, part of...

A Ross man faces assault charges after a brief standoff Tuesday with police, authorities said. Robert Gentile, 48, is charged with simple assault. Police said Gentile’s mother called 911 about 1 p.m. and reported he’d become irate, attacked her and then barricaded himself in his room. Sgt. Brian Kohlepp said...

A Duquesne man had a blood-alcohol content of more than twice the legal limit when he led police on a chase through West Mifflin last month before crashing on airport property and killing his passenger, according to charges filed Monday. Eugene McLemore, 36, is charged with homicide by vehicle, fleeing...

A violent night in Pittsburgh capped off a weekend of carnage across Allegheny County that left 2 people dead and 12 injured between Friday night and early Monday. Stephone Drayton, 40, died around 10:30 p.m. Sunday, less than an hour after he and three others were shot on Pittsburgh’s North...

PennDOT bridge inspections will affect drivers throughout Allegheny County through the end of the month, officials said Friday. Work begins Monday on four bridges, said spokesman Steve Cowan. The inspection work will be 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday – Friday. The work includes the following bridges:The overhead Union Railroad...

A McKees Rocks grandmother already on the run after her infant grandson allegedly overdosed under her care faces additional charges after two more children for whom she cared tested positive for drugs, according to police. Robbie Boyer, 47, remains wanted in connection with a July 31 incident in which her...

A man who ran a red light Friday morning in Downtown Pittsburgh could face charges after the collision ended with seven damaged vehicles, according to police. Authorities said the man, who police did not name, was driving a black Jeep when he ran a red light at Cherry Way and...

Rising cases and hospitalizations pushed Allegheny and Westmoreland counties into the “high” covid-19 community level, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which set standards for defining the amount of the virus within a community. Allegheny County, which recorded nearly 2,700 additional infections over the past week, was...

A Bloomfield man faces charges after police said he sold fentanyl-laced cocaine to three people who died of overdoses last summer. James Hamlett, 43, was taken to Allegheny County Jail after being denied bail Thursday, with District Judge Eileen Conroy calling him a “threat to the community” in court records....

The names and medical histories of 8,000 Allegheny Health Network patients might have been leaked in a data breach last month after an employee opened a phishing email that compromised their account, the health care system said Friday. Patients affected were notified by mail this week, officials said. The incident...

A woman who was shot during the mass shooting at an Airbnb party Easter morning in Pittsburgh filed a lawsuit this week against the company and owners of the property where the shooting happened. The lawsuit, filed in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on Wednesday, alleges negligence on...

Allegheny County’s covid-19 cases and hospitalizations rose high enough this week to put the county back into the medium level in terms of community transmission, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC calculates a county’s transmission level — low, medium or high — by looking at...

There is no readily available clearinghouse for Allegheny County’s unsolved homicides, including those within the city of Pittsburgh, but organizations that track cold cases indicate there are likely hundreds of families in the area waiting for justice. Project: Cold Case, a nonprofit that helps families bring attention to and advocate...

A 77-year-old Tarentum man faces homicide by vehicle charges in connection with a one-car crash that killed another man last year on Route 28 in Harrison. State police say Frederick Fattman was behind the wheel of a 2015 Corvette on July 5, 2021, when he allegedly lost control and hit...

The Omicron BA.5 variant is the dominant strain of the covid-19 virus in Allegheny County, health officials said Thursday. According to the county health department’s weekly covid-19 report, the variant accounts for about two-thirds of the covid cases in Allegheny County. The variant, which experts say is the most contagious...

The Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office plans to notify the owner of a Rankin housing complex that it considers the complex a “nuisance property” after a search warrant turned up thousands of bags of suspected heroin, the office announced Thursday. The warrant, served early Thursday at Palisades Plaza, was the...

Vaccine availability to those at risk for contracting monkeypox remains limited, but Allegheny County health leaders say they are working on a plan to expand eligibility as supply increases. Twenty cases of the virus have been confirmed in the county. Vaccines are being offered to people who have had a...

A woman whose toy poodle died during a PetSmart grooming appointment in Pittsburgh filed a lawsuit this week against the pet store and two employees in connection with the November 2020 incident. AJ Ross, a Pittsburgh native who works as a CBS Sports reporter, had taken her 12-year-old poodle Kobe...

While monkeypox has historically been limited to about a half-dozen African nations, the head of the World Health Organization over the weekend declared the spreading viral disease a “public health emergency of international concern.” The monkeypox outbreak has spread to more than 70 countries and cases now total about 16,800,...

Washington County’s top prosecutor on Friday said a Pennsylvania State Trooper was justified when he opened fire and killed a passenger during a May traffic stop in Mount Pleasant Township. The trooper, who authorities have not identified, will not face criminal charges. The shooting, which stemmed from the stop of...

Security agents stopped a Swissvale woman with a loaded gun and package of ammunition at a checkpoint Thursday at Pittsburgh International Airport, a Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman said. The 9mm handgun was loaded with two rounds and packed alongside a container of 35 other bullets, said TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein....

Beams that will ultimately support the rebuilt Fern Hollow Bridge will begin their 124-mile journey Monday from Central Pennsylvania to Frick Park, according to PennDOT officials. The beams were produced in Roaring Spring in Blair County and will travel through Cambria and Armstrong counties before ending up on the South...

Ten days shy of one year since his daughter was gunned down on a Pittsburgh street, Robert Washington pleaded for help not only catching his own child’s killer, but for help catching the culprits in all of the city’s unsolved homicides. “We need some closure,” said Washington, whose 27-year-old daughter...

Longtime Allegheny County solicitor Andy Szefi resigned his post on Wednesday to be sworn in to the Court of Common Pleas judgeship to which he was appointed earlier this year. Szefi, the county’s top attorney for a decade, was appointed to the position by Gov. Tom Wolf, and he was...