Justin Vellucci stories, Page 3

Police say they responded to a Bethel Park home Thursday after a man shot another man and then himself. Authorities did not immediately identify either man; both were reported to be in critical condition at unnamed area hospitals. The incident occurred in the 500 block of Chessbriar Drive, which is...

Yet another candidate for Pittsburgh mayor has entered the race to unseat Ed Gainey. Thomas West, a 48-year-old businessman from Highland Park, is running as a Republican. He will battle Anthony Moreno, a former Pittsburgh police officer, for the GOP nomination in the May primary. West announced his candidacy Tuesday...

Pittsburgh’s Office of Municipal Investigations and the independent Citizen Police Review Board are scrutinizing two unrelated incidents last month in which city police used force to make arrests. The arrests have elicited concerns among the NAACP’s Pittsburgh branch and other leaders in the city’s Black community, who have a meeting...

Police have charged a Jimmy John’s manager with participating in the brutal assault last month of an employee at the sandwich shop’s Downtown Pittsburgh location, accusing him of punching the man at least nine times. Melvin Robinson, 29, of Penn Hills, is the third man arrested in the attack, which...

Retired police officer and former Democrat Tony Moreno roundly skewered Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey Friday as he announced plans to run as a Republican for mayor of the city in the spring primary. “We have no accountability in this city. We have no transparency,” said Moreno, 56, of Brighton Heights,...

The corpse of a Washington County man was left to decay in bed for six months while several of his family members lived among it, police said Wednesday. Authorities do not suspect foul play. Michael Bebout, 64, apparently died last summer of natural causes inside his Canton Township home on...

As temperatures in Washington, D.C., lingered around 27 degrees Monday morning, state Rep. Jill Cooper sported an electric-heated jacket as she bounced between events celebrating the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Frigid temperatures, making the inauguration the fourth-coldest one on record, forced festivities indoors — the first time since Ronald...

Hundreds of Western Pennsylvania school districts have moved to remote learning Tuesday morning as an arctic blast of near-record-low temperatures are anticipated through Wednesday. Pittsburgh Public Schools, whose 20,350 students make it the largest district in Allegheny County, will go remote Tuesday, officials said online. A number of others, including...

A 71-year-old woman died early Monday morning in house fire in Crafton. Christine Shutt was identified as the victim by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. Firefighters were dispatched at 5:15 a.m. to a three-story, brick house on Elmwood Street, where two people were reported to be trapped inside, Crafton...

A 14-year-old boy died three days after being accidentally shot in the face by his 16-year-old brother earlier this month in East Liberty, authorities reported Thursday. Carmello Mosley died on Jan. 7 at UPMC Presbyterian hospital, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. Jordan Mosley, Carmello’s brother, remained in...

The person who stole three Stanley Cup championship rings from Pittsburgh Penguins center Evgeni Malkin’s Sewickley Heights home doesn’t appear to be linked to any national operation targeting sports superstars, Allegheny County Police said Wednesday. Police have made no arrests in the case. Malkin discovered his home had been burglarized...

The number of guns Transportation Security Administration officers confiscated at Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh airports dropped slightly in 2024, officials announced Wednesday. TSA stopped 42 handguns at Pittsburgh International Airport’s security checkpoint last year, down from 44 in 2023, spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said. Pittsburgh accounted for nearly half of all guns...

A Veterans of Foreign Wars lodge where a man was brutally beaten in what the victim’s family called a hate crime agreed to close permanently, while authorities Friday kept searching for a suspect labeled as “armed, dangerous and mentally unstable” by the Beaver County district attorney. The lodge’s leadership “are...

One man turned himself in Thursday while a second suspect remained at large in connection with the beating of a 52-year-old Aliquippa man inside a Veterans of Foreign Wars lodge. The family of Preston Coleman III said he was beaten, unprovoked and mercilessly, for nearly 30 minutes late Sunday inside...

The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office Wednesday identified the man authorities found dead last weekend on a Wilkinsburg sidewalk as Dorrel Ferguson, 19. Police were dispatched at 8:25 p.m. Saturday to the 1000 block of Ross Avenue, where the unidentified man, later identified as Ferguson, was found dead on the...

Like many U.S. cities, Pittsburgh saw homicide and nonfatal shooting rates drop in 2024 to pre-pandemic levels. That trend did not play out, however, in the suburbs ringing the city in both Allegheny and Westmoreland counties, data shows. “America’s crime trends in 2024 were remarkably positive with an enormous decline...

Allegheny County Police are investigating the shooting of a man they found dead Saturday night in Wilkinsburg. Police were dispatched at 8:25 p.m. to the 1000 block of Ross Avenue, where the unidentified man was found dead on the sidewalk, county police said. The man had suffered a single gunshot...

President Joe Biden’s decision to thwart a Japanese firm from buying U.S. Steel doesn’t pen an obituary for the Pittsburgh-based industrial titan whose decades-long fall from grace has been inextricably linked to the city where it was born. But it does portend an uncertain future for an industry that built...

Jeremi Sensky described his feelings Thursday after barely surviving the terrorist who mowed down people in a pick-up truck in New Orleans early New Year’s Day, killing 14 and injuring 30 others. “I’m just happy to be alive,” is how Sensky of Canonsburg described his feelings to CNN’s Anderson Cooper...

A giant, inflatable Santa Claus nursing a fake Yuengling beer bottle perched Wednesday morning above a sea of tailgaters on Pittsburgh’s North Side. Scores of football fans wore red and white Santa Claus caps. Others meandered through parking lots while donning holiday-themed pajamas. And at least one man dressed up,...

Early in their relationship, Danielle Rupright talked with her boyfriend, Shawn West, who was brought up Methodist, about how much she valued her Jewish faith and culture. “I said, ‘It’s important to me that I raise my kids as Jews,’ ” she recalled. “And he responded, ‘It’s important to me...

Pittsburgh Regional Transit is investigating a ransomware attack that targeted the transit agency’s communications operations last week and briefly disrupted dispatchers from tracking vehicles on its light-rail line. The scope of the attack remains unclear. Adam Brandolph, an agency spokesperson, told TribLive on Monday evening it appeared primarily to affect...