Pittsburgh Star news Pittsburgh Star news Rss feed

  • Surveillance photos released of armed man robbing Bentleyville PNC Bank

    The FBI and local law enforcement agencies are asking for the public's assistance in identifying a man they say robbed a Bentleyville PNC Bank Wednesday morning.According to police, the man robbed the PNC Bank on Wilson Road at gunpoint just before 10 a.m. Wednesday.Investigators said the man in his 20s or 30s, around 5 feet 9 inches tall, thin to medium build with a beard and a mustache. ...

  • The Allegheny County 2013 Fun Guide is out

    Concerts, nature programs, movies, sports clinics, plays, athletic events, classes, historical tours and fundraisers are all included in the Fun ...

  • Police Mom stole $27000 from Derry Area Football Boosters Club

    A mother who formerly headed the football boosters program at a western Pennsylvania high school has been charged with stealing more than $27,000 from the ...

  • Firefighters called to Downtown Pittsburgh restaurant

    2min A campfire left untended sparked a blaze near Yosemite National Park that is threatening hundreds of homeowners, but firefighters are starting to get a handle on it. About 500 homes are under mandatory evacuation orders, including one that belongs to ...

  • Feds again leave empty-handed in Hoffa hunt

    The search in a field near Detroit for ex-Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa ended Wednesday, and as with so many past attempts to find him, authorities walked away empty-handed, the FBI ...


clear
Pittsburgh Weather
65.0°F Clear
Winds: From the East at 1.1 MPH Gusting to 4.7 MPH
Thu
clear
75° 55°
Fri
clear
81° 63°
Sat
partlycloudy
86° 66°
Last Updated on June 19, 9:37 AM EDT
Weather sourced from Weather Underground

Movie Review

Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire

At his best, director Danny Boyle comes somewhere close to alchemy, making invigorating and original cinema out of material that, on the face of it, just shouldnt work. Having burst onto the scene in the mid-1990s with Trainspotting (1995), an outlandish excursion i ... ...

On Facebook

  • National Guardsman Suing Target For Wrongful Firing

    PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - An active-duty member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard is suing Target after he was allegedly fired for not showing up to work due to mandatory military training. According to the civil complaint, Andrew Lanier was terminated under Target's "no call-no show" policy. The complaint claims this is a violation of Lanier's rights under the Uniformed ...

  • Why The Spurs Must Win Game 7

    Last night, the San Antonio Spurs possibly choked away a championship. They led the Miami Heat by 5 points with 20 seconds to play and lost in OT. That’s a choke. You don’t blow 5 point leads with 20 seconds to play. You just can’t do that. Not with a title on the ...

  • LeBron Leads Heat To Game 6 OT Win

    You are using Internet Explorer 6. Internet Explorer 6 is unsupported by this site and you may experience layout and functionality issues. It is recommended that you upgrade to a newer version of Internet Explorer or switch to another browser. ...

  • Officer injured while chasing burglary suspect in Oakland

    According to police, one of the men, later identified as 25-year-old Andrew Peters, charged at an officer and tackled him. Peters then took off on foot again, before officers eventually took him into custody using a stun gun on Lawn Street near Kennett Square, above the Parkway ...

  • Geneva College can exclude morning-after pill coverage

    A federal judge ruled a Christian college in western Pennsylvania can exclude coverage for birth control like the morning-after pill and the week-after pill when it offers a health insurance plan to its students.The injunction issued in favor of Geneva College will remain in effect until the federal judge in Pittsburgh rules on the school's lawsuit challenging looming federal health care ...

More Pittsburgh Star news