Tony LaRussa stories, Page 8

Ballistic vests have long been an integral part of a the gear police officers rely on to protect them during dangerous encounters. So for officers who rely on a dog as part of their patrol duties, protecting their canine partners from serious injury is just as important. But until last...

A West Deer woman who admitted to killing a man when she hit his disabled car along Route 28 in 2014 is now accused of being high on fentanyl and cocaine when she caused a head-on collision in late May while driving her child to school. Rachel Rebecca Bailie, 32,...

New Kensington police say a man they pulled over for allegedly running a stop sign had a loaded pistol stuffed between the seat and center console of his vehicle. Police said Laquinta Dewayne Shuford, 31, did not have a license to carry the gun. Shuford of the 1700 block of...

A New Kensington woman is accused of stealing her former boyfriend’s identity to get a credit card in his name, charging more than $3,500 on it after they broke up while he was in state prison. Melissa A. McGreal, 41, of the 600 block of Campbell Avenue was charged July...

A man accused of firing at least eight shots at two people in Tarentum in May has been ordered to stand trial. A district judge also ordered a woman who police said instigated an argument earlier in the day that resulted in the shooting to stand trial. Steven Jermain Prezzie,...

Donna Bendel was already done showering and feeding her dog, Jet, before heading out for work about 3:45 a.m. Thursday when a fire broke out in the laundromat in the same building as her apartment and five others. “I heard the front security door bang shut, but didn’t think anything...

A Pine Township man who pleaded guilty last year to having child pornography was arrested by Allegheny County police for allegedly downloading illegal images and video on the day of a scheduled meeting with his parole agent. Kyle Donnelly, 28, of the 200 block of McKinney Road was charged by...

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 has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor indecent assault after prosecutors agreed to drop nine felony counts. Last October, South Buffalo police charged Mark Anthony...

An Armstrong County insurance agent pleaded guilty to operating with an expired license and taking money from a customer for a policy that never was issued. Last summer, the state Attorney General’s Officie charged Thomas John Scheeren, 42, of the 100 block of Sherwood Drive in East Franklin with felony...

Lower Burrell police charged a woman with a felony count of stalking on the day a judge ordered her to stand trial for the same charge filed against her late last year, according to authorities. Shannon Lee Marie Dotto, 44, of the 7200 block of Guyer Road in Lower Burrell...

When Rachelle Beavers and her daughter, Destiney Beatty, decided to expand their growing online clothing business last year by adding a retail shop, their goal was simple. They wanted to create a place where customers could see, touch and try on the high-quality, affordably priced apparel they sell for women...

New Kensington police accused a man of reaching for a stolen pistol in his vehicle when he was pulled over for running a stop sign. Tory Windel Jones, 29, of the 1100 block of Hulton Road in Penn Hills was charged with a felony count of receiving stolen property along...

A New Kensington man is accused of punching an emergency medical technician while being highly intoxicated as the EMT transported him to Allegheny Valley Hospital. James Howard Mott, 57, of the 1700 block of Ridge Road was charged by Highmark Health Police with a felony count of aggravated assault along...

State police arrested a Verona man at a traffic safety checkpoint set up on Route 28 in East Deer after he admitted to having a gun and marijuana inside the car in which he was a passenger. Matthew Howard Yots, 20, of the 400 block of Center Avenue was charged...

Work on an ambitious list of projects is underway in the Pine-Richland School District. More than three dozen projects totaling $12 million are being done, including major upgrades at the high school, the stadium and the middle school along with smaller improvements in all other buildings. Dana Kirk, the district’s...

Lower Burrell police accused a man of having sex with a 15-year-old in exchange for a nicotine vape cartridge last year and trying to do the same thing with a 14-year-old a month earlier. Dylan Michael Jacobs, 20, of the 100 block of Reed Street in Lower Burrell was charged...

Kids in Leechburg can learn how to be safer while riding their bikes at a free program Aug. 10. Sponsored by the Leechburg Police Department and the Leechburg Volunteer Fire Company, the event will run from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the fire hall on Canal Street. Staff from UPMC...

State police said a man pulled over in North Buffalo Township for speeding had more than 4 ounces of crack cocaine in the glove box and nearly $5,000 under the seat. Kahn Mykle Holliday, 30, of the 1100 block of Leishman Avenue in Arnold was charged July 12 with a...

Leechburg police are asking residents to be vigilant about locking their vehicle doors after three guns were stolen in less than a week. Police Chief Jason Schaeffer said all three handguns were stolen overnight from unlocked vehicles. The first one was taken from a vehicle parked along Logan Street early...

A New Kensington man is accused of having body armor in his apartment along with a semi-automatic pistol loaded with armor-piercing ammo, police said, and drugs that were within easy reach of his 18-month-old child. Cameron Robert Blystone, 22, of the 700 block of Carl Avenue was charged with possession...

Frazer police accused an Ohio man of stealing $22,000 worth of perfume and designer clothing from Macy’s after they arrested him in the parking lot with a garment bag altered to stop security scanners from going off at the registers. Angelo Aaron Dowdell, 25, of Warren was arrested Tuesday and...

If you had to pick a nice day for kids to set up a lemonade stand, it would have been hard to top the first Friday in July. Under a blue sky with white puffy clouds and temperatures in the mid-80s, children in Pine and Marshall helped a new charitable...

State and county narcotics agents accused a New Kensington woman of being a drug dealer after, they say, 900 packets of fentanyl were confiscated during a raid at her home. Ieesha Franshawn Rajab, 41, of the 1100 block of Fifth Avenue was charged with two felony counts of possession of...

State police accused a man of having pot in the car while he was speeding through a Turnpike construction zone in Richland in a stolen vehicle. Alexander David Rocco, 22, of Dover Drive in Cranberry was charged with a felony count of receiving stolen property along a count of prohibited...

A homeless man from Colorado accused of breaking into the Pittsburgh Brewing plant in East Deer and stealing a three-wheeled pedal bike told police he stole another bicycle three days later to ride back to the facility, according to authorities. David Austin Jay, 45, was charged by Allegheny Valley Regional...