Tony LaRussa stories

A New Kensington man who is not allowed to possess a gun is accused of having a stolen pistol tucked in his waistband when an SUV in which he was a passenger was pulled over. Michael Lamar Harris Sr., 47, of the 300 block of Third Avenue was charged with...

A Tarentum man was accused of being a drug dealer after state narcotics agents found cocaine and heroin in his SUV and at his home. Sir John Withrow, 33, of the 100 block of Second Avenue was charged Dec. 21 with two counts of possession of drugs with the intent...

State police accused a Harrison woman of being drunk and speeding with four children in her car, including an infant who wasn’t buckled in a baby carrier. Tiffany Lynn Carter, 36, of Princeton Avenue was charged Dec. 29 with four felony counts of endangering the welfare of children along with...

An East Deer couple face nearly a dozen felony charges after police accused them of causing a skull fracture to a 1-year-old while fighting with the child’s mother. Catalina Hirth, 26, and Lewis Davis, 23, both of the 100 block of Clarks Pike Road, were charged by Allegheny County Police...

A former standout high school and college basketball player who was accused of sexually assaulting a teenage student at a skills school he operated in Ford City was sentenced to 23 months in jail and must register as a sex offender. In October 2022, South Buffalo police charged Mark Anthony...

An Apollo man accused of assaulting a state trooper who arrested him on charges of stealing an electric guitar from a home and selling it to a music shop has been ordered to stand trial. Jack Russell Frain, 34, of the 500 block of Crowe Street was charged with a...

Washington Township police accused a man of breaking into a building used for storage along Greensburg Road after an employee saw a pickup speed off and then return while police were on the scene investigating. Robert Allen Gill, 39, of the 1200 block of Sixth Avenue in Ford City was...

A combination of technology and personnel dedicated to making air travel safe has created a system that makes it all but impossible for a gun to slip through the Transportation Security Administration’s screening and onto a plane. But it has happened. On Oct. 21, Jeff Wilson, a Republican state senator...

A state lawmaker’s proposal to raise the stakes for negligent gun owners caught at airport security checkpoints by revoking their concealed carry permit comes after decades of efforts by aviation security officials to address the threat to public safety. Formed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks,...

Lower Burrell police filed felony charges against a woman and her daughter accused of filing a false hit-and-run claim for a vehicle to collect the insurance. Sharon L. Zaborowski, 55, of the 1400 block of Babcock Boulevard in Shaler was charged Dec. 19 with three counts of filing a fraudulent...

A teenager accused of beating a 63-year-old Vandergrift man until he fell to the ground and then continuing the assault by beating the man with his own walking stick was ordered to stand trial. Jackson Mills, 15, of the 200 block of Holmes Street in Vandergrift was charged Oct. 31...

One of two men arrested in the parking lot of the Giant Eagle grocery store in Verona last Saturday had 100 stamp bags of heroin tucked in his buttocks, police said. Fred Crawford III, 27, of the 400 block of Penn Street in Verona was charged with a felony count...

New Kensington police arrested two people after officers responding to a burglary call caught them inside a condemned building. Eleanor Nicole McAllister, 30, of the 200 block of North Street in New Kensington was charged with felony counts of burglary and criminal trespass along with a count of theft. Jeremy...

A home improvement contractor who is awaiting trial in Allegheny County for allegedly taking money up front for work that wasn’t done has been accused of doing the same thing to a family in Lower Burrell. Jason Raymond Mager, 47, of the 400 block of Ridge Avenue in Springdale was...

Pennsylvanians with a permit to carry a concealed gun can lose that privilege if they are convicted of crimes ranging from shoplifting and writing a bad check to marijuana possession or committing bigamy. But if they walk up to an airport security checkpoint with a loaded gun in their carry-on...

Decades before everyone could take photos using their cellphones, Don Klinsky was the guy who always had a camera to capture the moment. In September, Klinsky, 55, created a way to share his lifelong love of photography with the launch of a gallery in Brackenridge. Don Klinsky Fine Art Photography...

South Buffalo Township police accused a man of sexually assaulting a child over a nine-year period that began when they were 5. Eric Lynn Nulph, 73, of the 300 block of Troy Hill Road in Rayburn with felony counts of rape of a child, statutory sexual assault, sexual assault, involuntary...

Saxonburg’s borough secretary has been charged with fatally shooting his neighbor’s dog in Buffalo Township and tossing the dead animal’s carcass into a dumpster outside the municipal building where he works. Steven Thomas May, 43, of the 200 block of Goldscheitter Road was charged Wednesday with a felony count of...

Charges were withdrawn on Tuesday against a Parks Township man accused of firing a shot at a woman who was with a group of family members gathering to make funeral arrangements for his father. State police charged Jeffrey Lynn Walker, 38, of the 1200 block of Ridge Road with a...

A former Fawn supervisor who was found guilty in October of harassing a police officer in Armstrong County and following his vehicle too closely has had both convictions overturned. David A. Montanari, 64, of the 1600 block of Bull Creek Road in Fawn was issued a citation by Manor Township...

Lower Burrell Police accused a Philadelphia man of using bogus $100 bills at four Sheetz locations and a liquor store in the Alle-Kiski Valley. Quidare Carl Daily, 27, was charged with seven felony counts of forgery and seven counts of theft by deception. He was released on a $100,000 unsecured...

One of two New Kensington men accused of dealing cocaine after a SWAT team raided their home last month has been ordered to stand trial. Police charged the homeowner, Andrew Michael “Sly” Slywczuk, 39, of the 400 block of Charles Avenue, with two felony counts of possession of drugs with...

A man accused of trying to ditch a stolen gun and drugs as he fled from police officers attempting to arrest him for warrants in two counties has been ordered to stand trial. Warren Paul “Boo” Greenleaf Jr., 39, of College Avenue in Mt. Pleasant, was charged Nov. 15 with...

Another person is facing charges in the case of wayward alligators in Kiski Township. Stephanie A. Suman, 26, of the 1300 block of Brownstown Road in Kiski Township, was charged via summons last month with two misdemeanor counts each of reckless endangerment and cruelty to animals. Police say she risked...

Southern Armstrong County Police accused a woman of assaulting an officer Tuesday morning when he arrested her for repeatedly calling 911 to report a break-in at a home in Gilpin they say never happened. Auriahna Claudette Price, 33, of the 200 block of South Jefferson Street in Kittanning is charged...