Natasha Lindstrom stories, Page 19

A man was rushed to the hospital Thursday after he was stabbed in Pittsburgh’s Bloomfield neighborhood, officials said. Emergency dispatchers received a report of the incident near Baum Boulevard and Morewood Avenue shortly before 5 p.m., an Allegheny County 911 shift commander said. Responding officers found a man with a...

A pipe burst inside Kennywood Park on Wednesday, sending crews scrambling to get the amusement park ready in time for Thursday night’s Holiday Lights events. “While Santa visited our homes on Christmas Day, it appears the Grinch stopped by the park,” Kennywood said in a Facebook post. “A water main...

Dave Houston got an unexpected knock at his door the Saturday morning before Christmas. “Did you see your garage?” his neighbor asked. Perplexed, the 55-year-old man walked outside his Springdale Township home thinking, “Maybe I left my garage door open all night.” “Well,” Houston recalled, “The garage door wasn’t even...

Thick fog blanketing Western Pennsylvania prompted flight cancellations and driving warnings, and air travel around the country continued to be affected Christmas morning. A dense fog advisory was extended until noon Wednesday for Allegheny, Beaver, Lawrence and Mercer counties. Visibility was close to zero in some parts of the region...

A seven-vehicle crash outside the Squirrel Hill Tunnel snarled traffic during Monday’s evening commute. Emergency dispatchers received a report of the crash on the inbound lanes of Interstate 376 heading toward Pittsburgh about 6:30 p.m., an Allegheny County 911 shift commander said. The crash happened at the inbound entrance on...

A plane headed from Charlotte to Pittsburgh reported a possible mechanical issue with its nose landing gear before touching down safely Monday afternoon, officials said. Pittsburgh International Airport spokesman Matt Neistein said officials treat any such reports “very seriously” and that the airport sent emergency units to the runway “out...

Stewart Elementary School ditched its typical holiday parties this year. Instead, the Lower Burrell school’s roughly 265 fourth- and fifth-graders spent their final day before winter break working together to raise money for sick children. “We broke away from our traditional classroom parties,” Principal Jim Croushore said. “We wanted to...

The masked man who forced an employee to empty the safe of a Harmar off-track betting parlor last month may be wanted in connection to at least dozen robberies across seven states, police said Friday. Lloyd Eugene Rhodes, 57, who has warrants out for his arrests from the FBI and...

A pair of Pittsburgh cousins were indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in connection to an investigation into a drug trafficking ring that led to the sickening of 18 SWAT officers during a series of raids two years ago, prosecutors said Thursday. Lynell Guyton, 30, of the city’s Elliott...

A West Mifflin man accused of using an apartment in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood to store hundreds of pounds of illegal marijuana pleaded guilty to federal drug charges, prosecutors said Thursday. Wayne Barker, 61, had operated what officials called a large-scale “stash house” as part of a drug trafficking ring...

A former Beaver County man will spend nearly five years behind bars for robbing four banks and a convenience store of more than $27,000, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Patrick Acierno, 34, who has ties to Freedom, Beaver County, was convicted of the spate of robberies in Allegheny and Beaver counties...

A New Castle man has been accused of scheming to sell large amounts crack cocaine to addicts in Western Pennsylvania, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Zaamar Stevenson, 43, who goes by the nickname “Scrap,” faces new charges from a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh related to possessing and selling more than...

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey said Wednesday night he’s concerned about the future of the Affordable Care Act as a lawsuit backed by the Trump administration advances that threatens to nullify the sweeping federal health care law. “The GOP’s hopes to destroy the ACA live another day,” Casey, D-Scranton, said in...

A Pittsburgh man caught trying to sell heroin to a pair of undercover FBI agents pleaded guilty to drug charges, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Mark Ridley, 28, believed he was taking the illegal street drug to a customer in the city’s Hazelwood neighborhood in April 2017 with his driver, Leonard...

A Pittsburgh man whose pit bull was shot and killed by police was cited for not having a leash on his dog when it attacked a poodle in the North Side, officials said Monday. Trevaugh Brown, 24, was sent a summons in connection with the incident, which began with a...

Pittsburgh will play host Saturday to a nationally televised event spotlighting where eight Democratic presidential candidates stand on a variety of hot-button education issues. National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen García, who was an elementary school teacher, said she and fellow educators couldn’t be more excited about the chance to...

U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb said Thursday he plans to vote in favor of both impeachment articles Democrats plan to lodge against President Trump. The Mt. Lebanon Democrat — a rising-star politician serving his first full year in Congress — said the last few weeks of evidence and testimony in Washington...

A federal grand jury indicted seven people from Pittsburgh and Allegheny County’s eastern and southern suburbs in a purported scheme to sell more than 2 pounds of heroin, documents unsealed Thursday show. From June through December of this year, the co-defendants are accused of plotting to acquire and sell the...

A Pittsburgh man pleaded guilty to breaking into parked cars as part of a scheme to steal the identities of Western Pennsylvanians, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Terry Porterfield, 44, admitted to taking the driver’s licenses, credit cards, debit cards and Social Security cards from the unoccupied vehicles he ransacked around...

U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb said Thursday he plans to vote in favor of both impeachment articles Democrats plan to lodge against President Donald Trump. The Mt. Lebanon Democrat — a rising-star politician serving his first full year in Congress — said the last few weeks of evidence and testimony in...

Police arrested four people in connection with a scheme to steal nearly $23,000 from Propel Schools by forging checks in the Western Pennsylvania charter school operator’s name, officials said Monday. The Propel Schools Foundation filed a report with police on Nov. 12 after discovering nearly two dozen fraudulent checks in...

A Pittsburgh man pleaded guilty to dealing cocaine from a convenience store he owned in the city’s Sheraden neighborhood, federal prosecutors said Monday. Willie Harris, 40, admitted to conspiring to sell more than 500 grams of cocaine — or more than a pound — out of Woogie’s Mini Market on...

Police say a man punched a bus driver in the face in Downtown Pittsburgh and are asking for the public’s help to find him. Police on Monday released two photos of the man they say assaulted the driver at about 8:20 p.m. Sunday, Port Authority of Allegheny County spokesman Adam...

It took a grueling three weeks to shoot the final spine-tingling sequence of the first “Scream” movie, Neve Campbell said while ruminating about the film Saturday at Steel City Con in Monroeville. The Canadian actress who anchors the now-four-movie franchise as lead character Sidney Prescott credited the late director Wes...