Now that Byron Leftwich is injured and likely out two to four games, and Ben Roethlisberger's suspension has been cut to four games, Dennis Dixon appears to be in line to start the season at...

Washington Nationals outfielder Nyjer Morgan is an easygoing guy, unless there's a game on the line. Then his scrappy side comes out. By channeling his competitive nature, Morgan, a 33rd-round draft...

Thomas Blair of Crafton is part of a group he wants no part of -- one of the more than 1 million military veterans who are out of work. "Veterans as a group disproportionately have higher...

WASHINGTON -- With less than two months until the November elections, the White House is seriously weighing a package of business tax breaks -- potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars -- to...

WASHINGTON -- The unemployment rate went up slightly to 9.6 percent in August as employers shed 54,000 jobs during the month, the Labor Department said Friday in a jobs report that nonetheless...

Google Inc., which is developing a digital music service, is winning over record companies that are hoping the technology company can loosen Apple Inc.'s grip on the digital music market. The talks...

With the 2011 Buick Regal CXL, Buick takes a giant step toward relevance, desirability and--can it be? -- excitement. The Regal's tidy dimensions, athletic shape and excellent handling inject some...

Stocks rose Friday, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index gaining a fourth day and the Dow Jones Industrial Average erasing its loss for the year, as better-than-estimated growth in private payrolls...

High school junior, Kealey Oliver, helped police catch a criminal by tackling him at the mall. Hear what she was doing at the time and what she was thinking when she slammed him to the...

Michael Cherubino had all the elements that make a good salesman: an ability to connect with people, plus tenacity, curiosity, knowledge and enthusiasm about his product. Certainly, he got results:...

An ousted Catholic priest and professor at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe on Friday filed a defamation lawsuit against a number of administrators at the school, claiming that his reputation was...

As the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Light Up Night, the organization is stepping up enforcement of its trademark rights to the annual event. Letters...

An excavator lurched over the remains of a building on East Carson Street Friday, clearing debris from the 19th-century structure to make way for a grocery and marking the end of a lengthy battle...

McKeesport won't lose Eat'n Park or Rite Aid when it installs a $5.7 million fly-over ramp to improve access into an industrial park. City officials announced Friday that both the restaurant and the...

HARRISBURG -- A $425 million racetrack-casino in Lawrence County is still in the race, but now it has two major hurdles to clear or the state Harness Racing Commission may put it out of its misery. ...

The other shoe has dropped for the owner of the former Hilton Pittsburgh. BlackRock Financial Management Inc. has begun a foreclosure action against Shubh Hotels Pittsburgh LLC, one day after the...

A retirement incentive program intended to lessen budget strain across Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities drew more takers than expected, a total of 257 employees from janitors to a...

The Coraopolis police officer who works as Ben Roethlisberger's bodyguard must appear in court on Sept. 24 to explain to an Allegheny County judge why he should not be held in contempt for failing to...

An 11-year-old boy was fatally shot in rural Westmoreland County Friday evening, a county dispatch supervisor said. Someone called 911 around 6:50 p.m. to report that a boy had been shot in the head...

An Evans City man was jailed on charges that he held a woman captive in his mother's basement, where he beat and raped her, leaving her with several broken bones. Jeremy Michael Flood, 34, was...

A Penn Hills teen was killed after the car he was riding in crashed into a school bus. Robert Chamber, 16, of Penn Hills, was pronounced dead at 4:05 p.m. at UPMC Presbyterian, the Allegheny County...

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a federal judge in Pittsburgh must hold a mental competency hearing for an Altoona man who has sought execution after failing to overturn a conviction of...

A Baldwin Borough man has been ordered to trial on charges that he shoved another man, forcing him into a wall and causing fatal injuries. Garry Ethridge, 55, is charged with homicide in the July 9...

A Duquesne man will stand trial on charges that he shot and killed another man last month on Seward Street. Omar Bradley, 18, was arrested Aug. 30, 10 days after the shooting death of Charles...

Baldwin Borough police shot and killed a man armed with a rifle who said he was a Vietnam veteran and threatened to shoot at police officers who responded to the scene of a domestic dispute. Baldwin...

Two workers from the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office were suspended for five days without pay for leaving a body in their van while they went shopping. Officials say Jennifer Sullivan...

(8/25/2010) Mold is causing problems at another local school district. The weight and locker room at Valley High School have been shut down after a small amount of mold was found in the ceiling....

Stripped of its ties to the Hilton chain, Downtown's biggest hotel faces a second crisis: Mortgage holder Black Rock Financial Management Inc. foreclosed on the property. The New York City-based...

Scientists looking at the impact of Marcellus shale gas drilling said they first need to measure the quality of the water, air and wildlife before the work starts. With that goal, the Heinz...

National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell on Friday reduced the suspension of Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger to four games from six. The announcement in New York ends a sordid...

Vinnie's Pretzel Shoppe owner Mike "Vinnie" Vona said he was amazed at the amount of business his shop did on the day it opened, Aug. 14. "People here look out for one another," he said. Cheap rent...

Pittsburgh police Officer Steven Sywyj testified Friday he was responding to a 911 call about an East Hills home invasion when he saw a man in the doorway aim an assault rifle at him. Seconds later...

Negril needs a home. But not if it means separating from her best friend, Montego, because she needs him more than anything else in the world. Negril and Montego are 9-year-old Welsh corgi mixes at...

Duquesne's law school, founded in 1911, was the university's first professional school. Its graduates include 103 judges, more than any Pennsylvania law school has produced, according to university...

Students and faculty at Eden Hall Upper Elementary in Richland are rallying behind one of their own: 10-year-old singing sensation Jackie Evancho. A banner signed by nearly 1,100 of her classmates...

A former airline pilot probably won't try to market any more products that help transportation workers beat drug tests, but showing him leniency would send the wrong message to a "receptive audience"...

William Brown has known for years that honeybees were living in the abandoned grocery store on the corner of Wilson Avenue and Burgess Street in the North Side. He never imagined there were about...

An organization that works to prevent sex crimes is encouraging high schools to use Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's off-field problems as a lesson. The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape...

There is nothing to indicate that a man seen Friday near Myrtle Elementary School on Pine Avenue in Castle Shannon was involved in any criminal activity, police Chief Kenneth M. Truver said. The man...

The sons of an elderly woman who died after multiple falls while undergoing treatment at the now shuttered UPMC Braddock filed a malpractice and wrongful death lawsuit against the University of...

An Allegheny County judge ordered a Duquesne man Friday to stand trial for a fatal shooting. Omar Bradley, 18, is accused of killing Charles Gibson, 24, of Duquesne on Aug. 20 on Seward Street....

A Penn Hills teenager died Friday after the vehicle in which he was riding was involved in a collision with a school bus. County emergency dispatchers said the crash occurred at 3:10 p.m. along...

Signs posted around the Beaver Run Reservoir warn against trespassing, hunting, fishing, diving and parking. Drilling is OK. The Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County allowed Consol Energy...

It was hard for those who knew the mild-mannered Reno Luchini to envision him as a member of the SACO TIGERS of World War II. Along with their Chinese counterparts, the Navy and Marine members of...

A priest at St. Vincent College filed a libel suit Friday in Westmoreland County against officials of the Greensburg Catholic Diocese and St. Vincent College, alleging they falsely accused him of...

Fifteen minutes after the second World Trade Center tower fell on Sept. 11, 2001, New York City firefighter Liam Flaherty was on the scene. Flaherty was a member of the Fire Department of New York's...

The Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County has given a bonus to the Allegheny County-based management company that has run the water authority for more than a decade. During a special meeting...

In January 1990, a Westmoreland County judge recommended that Samuel Powell be castrated for his brutal sexual assaults on a young girl who told a teacher about her three years of torment. Powell,...

A Hempfield Area School District director says he's been targeted by vandals during the past several months and believes the incidents are related to his vote to hire a private company to run...

The Murrysville couple didn't fall for the scam, but a Monroeville area woman did. Postal inspectors were able to stop an envelope in which a 72-year-old woman sent $12,000 in cash. However, it was...