Tom Davidson stories, Page 33

Someone is $3 million richer thanks to a winning scratch-off ticket that was sold at a North Fayette Township convenience store, according to the Pennsylvania Lottery. The person who bought the ticket wasn’t identified, but the winning Diamond Dazzler ticket was sold at the Circle K on Market Place Drive,...

Police have charged a woman for leaving her two children alone in their Bedford Dwellings home. The 23-year-old woman, Mattie Viola Sims, told police that she left the residence in Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood to help a friend who was about to fight nearby. The children, ages 4 and 1,...

A 46-year-old Pittsburgh woman is accused of trying to slash two people with a box cutter Sunday afternoon in the city’s Uptown neighborhood, threatening to kill them, according to a criminal complaint filed by Pittsburgh police. Police responded to the call at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the 1800 block of...

An Allegheny County Judge issued a gag order Wednesday in the capital murder case of a man charged in conneciton with the killing a Pittsburgh police officer. Christian Bey, 30, of Wilkinsburg, is accused of killing Pittsburgh police Officer Calvin Hall in July. Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala...

Local sexual assault allegations made against Antonio Brown, a former Pittsburgh Steeler, likely will not be prosecuted, a spokesman for District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said Wednesday. “Our office, along with the Allegheny County Police Department, made contact with counsel for the plaintiff in the federal lawsuit involving Antonio...

A former Monongahela police officer has been charged with having unwanted sexual contact with a woman while he was on duty, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced Wednesday. Dustin Devault, 47, of Monongahela, was charged with indecent assault, official oppression and obstruction based on the recommendation of a grand jury...

Hours before his daughter’s wedding on Saturday afternoon, an Edgewood man severed a natural gas line in his home, then used gasoline to ignite a fire that destroyed the house and caused his death, the borough’s police chief said Monday. “All of the facts point to suicide,” Chief Robert Payne...

An Allegheny County jury deliberated about three hours before convicting a Duquesne man for supplying the drugs that caused a Clairton man’s 2017 overdose death. It was the first such jury conviction since a 2011 change in state law made it possible to charge someone in a fatal drug overdose...

The CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods is among leaders of 147 companies across the nation who sent a letter to U.S. Senate members Thursday calling for lawmakers to pass gun safety legislation. Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO Edward Stack joined leaders from a wide range of industries in signing the letter....

Two winning Pennsylvania Lottery tickets were sold in Allegheny County. A Match 6 ticket that won $1.8 million Wednesday was sold at Two Louie’s Market on Penn Avenue in the Strip District, and a Cash 5 ticket that won Wednesday’s drawing worth $500,000 was at the Smoker Friendly store on...

The father of a 16-year-old Duquesne Heights boy who died after a weekend shooting said he wants the owner of the gun used to be held accountable. “I want the right person or people held responsible, even if it was an accident,” Jack “Jay” Alman told the Trib on Wednesday....

A Duquesne man accused of providing the drugs that resulted in the 2017 overdose death of a 28-year-old Clairton man is on trial this week in Allegheny County court. Tyree Marce Saunders, 27, is accused of providing 20 stamp bags of drugs that were sold as heroin to Jeremy Clark,...

A 21-year-old McKeesport woman is accused of stabbing an East Pittsburgh woman and her two adult daughters Monday night outside an East Pittsburgh apartment building, state police said. Kimberly Suzanna Dolan, 21, argued with the 50-year-old mother outside the Allegheny County’s Prospect Terrace apartments at about 8:45 p.m. The women...

The 16-year-old who died after a Sunday afternoon shooting in Pittsburgh’s Duquesne Heights neighborhood was a junior at Brashear High School, Pittsburgh Public Schools said in a statement. Police are still investigating, police spokeswoman Cara Cruz said. It was reported to 911 at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the 300 block...

It’s going to be warmer than average this week, but there’s nothing unusual about this latest stretch of warmer weather, a National Weather Service meteorologist said. “I think we could see 90,” John Darnley, one of the meteorologists based in Moon, said of Tuesday’s high temperature. The National Weather Service...

A man sleeping in a dumpster in Carrick woke up Monday morning in the back of a garbage truck and had to be rescued, Pittsburgh Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz said. The man, who wasn’t identified by police, had lost track of a friend, needed a place to sleep and...

The owner of a Shadyside jewelry store said he was surprised and saddened that a former employee was arrested by police Friday after an early-morning burglary was reported. “It’s surprising that anybody would come in, particularly a former employee,” said John Henne, owner of Henne Jewelers. “Everything is locked in...

The 18-year-old North Side man accused of shooting two people July 4 after the holiday fireworks celebration in Downtown Pittsburgh waived his preliminary hearing Thursday. Camerin Caldwell is accused of shooting an 18-year-old and a 16-year-old in Agnes R. Katz Plaza shortly after 11 p.m. that night in what Major...

If the problem involved anything but guns, something would have been done to stop it long ago, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto told three visiting members of Congress. “There would not only be hearings like this, but actions taken,” Peduto said Wednesday, as the city hosted a roundtable of the House...