Top Pittsburgh Area Local News Stories
Source: WTAE.com - Local News
A truck gets stuck and blocks traffic as it attempts a turn off Route 22. Monroeville police cars are at the scene.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:56:08 EST
A tractor-trailer traveling east on Route 22 is stuck trying to turn onto Northern Pike in Monroeville.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:33:35 EST
Pittsburgh robbery detectives need help to identify a man in surveillance images from a robbery at Bierhaus Tavern in the Spring Garden area. Callers may remain anonymous. The phone number is 412-323-7151.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:54:09 EST
Pittsburgh police say three men who work for an energy company wore matching shirts and went door to door, promising to help lower an elderly man's electric bill, but his daughter noticed a missing iPad and got suspicious.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:14:39 EST
The former assistant to the owner of Falcon Drilling in western Pennsylvania is jailed on charges he stole nearly $1 million. State police say up to $5 million may turn up missing as their investigation continues.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:38:36 EST
Deliberations continue as a jury decides the fate of a young Seven Fields man charged in his longtime friend's shooting death.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:54:19 EST
A string of fires that has stretched into the teens has Jeannette residents on edge after a home that was occupied became the latest target over the weekend.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:35:51 EST
A judge says a woman's text messages with her husband about her 4-year-old stepson's injuries can be used at trial -- a decision that deals with Pennsylvania's status as a state that lets spouses invoke a "communications privilege" in all child-abuse cases.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:07:20 EST
Ross Park Mall was closed Wednesday morning and searched by bomb-sniffing police dogs following the discovery of a threat.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:34:16 EST
Thousands of crows won't go away in California, Pa. Residents and business owners say they're loud and dirty and keeping people inside. California University tried lasers and other measures trying to chase them off.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:25:14 EST
Allegheny County authorities say 2-year-old Gregory McKenith was kidnapped by his parents after a judge ordered the boy to be turned over to CYF.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:02:23 EST
Wilkinsburg police have issued a warning about several vehicle break-ins that have been reported in Regent Square since the New Year.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:09:37 EST
Firefighters in New Castle managed to save 200 pounds of Polish sausage from what they're calling the best-smelling fire they've doused in years.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:11:58 EST
An 18-year-old Fayette County man is behind bars, charged with sexually assaulting his girlfriend's 3-month-old baby last year in Rostraver.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:28:43 EST
The owner of a popular Dormont hot dog shop is charged in two bank robberies after a jitney driver helps stop his latest robbery attempt at a bank inside a South Side Giant Eagle, police say.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:31:24 EST
On Valentine's Day, a local high school coach celebrates the anniversary of transplant surgery that saved his life.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:19:25 EST
An 8-year-old girl was hospitalized after choking on a hotdog at her school in Mercer County on Monday.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:19:15 EST
Residents at a community meeting on the Southside say they're sick of revelers partying and leaving messes behind.
Published: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:33:52 EST
The mother of an 11-year-old boy who police say was beaten to death by his mother's boyfriend over the weekend is interviewed for several hours at Pittsburgh Police Headquarters on Tuesday.
Published: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:19:05 EST
The DEA and the FBI executed a search warrant at the office of Dr. Oliver Herndon in the Waterdam Plaza in Peters Township, Washington County.
Published: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:56:10 EST
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