Provides the latest RSS feeds for Pittsburgh News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Pittsburgh Star.com http://www.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/10/id/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/ en-us Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:20:30 -0500 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:20:30 -0500 30 It took a high-speed chase, a pursuit on foot, and a scuffle, but two McKees Rocks police officers on routine patrol spotted a car jacking in progress and arrested a suspect. A news release from ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203256040/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:25:04 -0500 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203256040/ Protesters with Occupy Pittsburgh were packing up their tents Sunday, a day before the deadline for their eviction from a downtown park where they have been since October protesting what they ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203256041/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:51:23 -0500 Washington Examiner http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203256041/ Police have arrested a man accused of stealing a car and trying to flee from authorities.Officials said two McKees Rocks police officers saw Troy Naylor, 23, try to hit a man with a stolen car in ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203254934/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:56:28 -0500 WPXI http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203254934/ Police are investigating a robbery at a beer distributor in Bellevue.Officials said a masked man entered Bellevue Beer on Ohio River Boulevard just before 10 p.m. Saturday.The suspect, who was ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203254933/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:56:26 -0500 WPXI http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203254933/ Police are looking for a man accused of robbing a Baskin Robbins on Forbes Avenue in Squirrel Hill Saturday.Officials said the suspect showed a gun and took off with an unknown amount cash from the ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203254932/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:56:24 -0500 WPXI http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203254932/ One person was taken to a local hospital with burns suffered in a house fire in Washington County early Sunday morning.Officials said the blaze started at a home on Jefferson Street just before 1 ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203254930/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:56:23 -0500 WPXI http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203254930/ PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - The Occupy Pittsburgh movement may be coming to a close. According to our news partners at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, some people in the encampment appeared to be leaving ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203254929/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:21:39 -0500 2KDKA http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203254929/ A car slammed into a pole and snapped it in half Sunday morning in Carrick.Police are investigating what caused the crash that happened on Brownsville Road just before 6 a.m.The driver, whose name ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203253748/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:22:25 -0500 WPXI http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203253748/ A three-story apartment building and a house next to it in Bridgeville were badly damaged in a fire early Sunday morning.Officials said the blaze stared at the apartment building on Baldwin Street ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203253747/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:22:23 -0500 WPXI http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203253747/ Attorneys representing a man who was sentenced to death more than two decades ago in the murder of a waitress in Fayette County are trying to stop prosecutors from retrying the defendant. A federal ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203253749/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:14:54 -0500 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203253749/ NEWARK, N.J. (KDKA) - After a hard-fought win in Boston on Saturday, the Pittsburgh Penguins will be right back on the ice today against a division rival. Today's game against the New Jersey ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203252463/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:06:11 -0500 2KDKA http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203252463/ Two Beaver County residents were hurt Saturday in a car crash blamed on speed. State police at Beaver said Mark Frankenberry, 22, of New Brighton, was cited for driving at an unsafe speed following ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203250927/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:58:02 -0500 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203250927/ JEANNETTE (KDKA) — Residents are on alert as Westmoreland County authorities continue to investigate another fire at an abandoned home in Jeannette. The fire on Friday night in the 300-block ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203250926/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:32:33 -0500 2KDKA http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203250926/ PITTSBURGH (93-7 The Fan) — In their all-red, "Bulls-like" throwback jerseys honoring the former Duke and first African American to be drafted in the National Basketball Association, ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203249970/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:40:30 -0500 2KDKA http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203249970/ Gov. Tom Corbett toured the Kurt J. Lesker Co., a manufacturer of vacuum products in Jefferson Hills, in April, defending his 2011 budget decisions. More cuts are expected for the 2012 ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245325/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:46:52 -0500 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245325/ An official says a fire early Friday morning at the Sarris Candies factory in Canonsburg destroyed nearly 20,000 pounds of chocolate. The blaze occurred in a second-floor packaging area. Plant ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245326/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:46:51 -0500 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245326/ CapCon 176 had Marshall's Dave Hatfield marching back into the winner's circle of the contest for the third time since October, which is mighty impressive considering his entries are up ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245327/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:46:50 -0500 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245327/ The image of the first day of school at the new Pittsburgh Westinghouse 6-12 in Homewood still sticks in one teacher's mind. "I think the first day in August was so beautiful. They came ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245328/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:46:48 -0500 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245328/ Using his uncle's Civil War diaries, Mark A. Miner chronicles how the not-yet-famous poet and his uncle overlapped in their service to wounded ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245333/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:46:47 -0500 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245333/ The railroad industry is picking up steam again, after losing ground decades ago to the nation's trucking industry. And Pittsburgh's expertise and history in the business -- Andrew ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245332/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:46:45 -0500 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245332/ HARRISBURG -- It's only a month into the new year, but things are already getting ugly at the state Capitol. While election-year wars are always rough and tough, House Democrats have kicked ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245331/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:46:43 -0500 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245331/ Sgt. Fredrich Ramien of Trafford hugs his son Jacob, 7, Saturday in New Kensington after a year in Afghanistan with the 307th Military Police ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245329/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:46:41 -0500 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245329/ Bishop David A. Zubik will celebrate a memorial Mass for the late Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua at St. Paul Cathedral on Feb. 19. Cardinal Bevilacqua, a retired archbishop of Philadelphia and the ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245334/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:46:39 -0500 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245334/ A Cambria County man driving on the wrong side of the road was killed early Saturday morning in a head-on collision, according to state police. Brian Polk, 34, of Salix was driving a minivan south ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245335/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:46:38 -0500 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245335/ SEATTLE -- This is the University of Washington's new math: 18 percent of its freshmen come from abroad, most from China. Each pays tuition of $28,059, about three times as much as students ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245336/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:46:37 -0500 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245336/ Green River Community College, 45 minutes south of Seattle, has no special overseas cachet, no global name recognition -- but it has enrolled 1,400 international students this year, most of them ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245337/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:46:36 -0500 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245337/ CHESTER, Pa. -- The Chester Upland School District is more than $20 million in debt, its bank account is almost empty and it cannot afford to pay teachers past the end of this month. To make ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245338/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:46:35 -0500 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203245338/ NEW KENSINGTON (KDKA) — A touching scene played out in New Kensington Saturday when more than 100 members of the 307th MP Company returned to their families after a yearlong tour in ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203244121/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:31:53 -0500 2KDKA http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203244121/ PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — There is both happiness as well as some disappointment in Steelers Nation following the Pro Football Hall of Fame announcements Saturday. Four of the 17 nominees once wore ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203244122/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:31:51 -0500 2KDKA http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203244122/ INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Running back Curtis Martin and four linemen have made the Pro Football Hall of Fame, along with one senior committee choice. Martin is the fourth-leading rusher in NFL history. ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203240837/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:46:50 -0500 2KDKA http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203240837/ And now there are 20.With Jack Butler and Dermontti Dawson having been elected today into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2012, the Pittsburgh Steelers now will have 20 of ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203239423/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:36 -0500 Pittsburgh Steelers http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203239423/ It's not often a player comes along who has the ability to re-define the way a position is played, and those are precisely the kind of people who belong in their sport's Hall of ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203239424/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:32 -0500 Pittsburgh Steelers http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203239424/ WASHINGTON -- Area senators and congressmen vowed Friday to fight the Air Force's plans to close the 911th Airlift Wing in Moon within the next two years, moving two of its seven C-130 ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203239422/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:27:49 -0500 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203239422/ PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) — KDKA Radio’s Robert Mangino speaks to Hazel Ion. They discuss the issue of putting animals to sleep by using carbon-monoxide chambers. They also take ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203239419/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:59:22 -0500 2KDKA http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203239419/ Marc-Andre Fleury made 28 saves, and Evgeni Malkin had a power-play goal to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins over the Boston Bruins 2-1 Saturday, their ninth win in 10 games.Matt Cooke had the other ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203237904/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:39:46 -0500 WPXI http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203237904/ A Clairton man was sentenced to life in prison on Friday after a fatal shooting on New Year’s Eve.A judge found Keith Wright guilty of second-degree murder, burglary and conspiracy in the ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203237905/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:39:44 -0500 WPXI http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203237905/ The family of a missing woman is offering a reward in hopes of finding the missing 51-year-old woman from Etna.Joann Angel has been missing since December. She was last seen at a gas station along ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203237906/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:39:43 -0500 WPXI http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203237906/ Police have arrested a man suspected of robbing an Oakland bank Wednesday, warning tellers not to "freak out" before demanding their money. John Lamonde, 53, of Carrick, was arraigned ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203237909/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:32:35 -0500 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203237909/ Two people were taken to a local hospital Saturday morning after a one-car crash in West Mifflin.Officials said the crash happened on Mountain View Drive shortly after 10 a.m.Two people, whose names ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203236236/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:26:10 -0500 WPXI http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203236236/ Attorneys representing a man who was sentenced to death more than two decades ago in the murder of a waitress are trying to stop prosecutors from retrying the defendant.A federal judge last year ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203236237/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:26:09 -0500 WPXI http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203236237/ A man who pleaded guilty to hundreds of criminal charges for secretly videotaping women in an East Huntingdon tanning salon was sentenced Friday to seven to 20 years in prison. Jesse Macklin, 29, ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203236238/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:18:10 -0500 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203236238/ INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Pack lightly, Super Bowl fans. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano joined NFL and other officials in warning that security for Sunday’s game at Lucas Oil Stadium ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203236235/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:46:01 -0500 2KDKA http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203236235/ A coach who trains speed skaters has been banned from Robert Morris University after allegations of improper behavior surfaced.RMU officials said students were notified that the unidentified coach ... http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203234470/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:11:37 -0500 WPXI http://story.pittsburghstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/ea5ecf6d7dafb8bf/id/203234470/