Pittsburgh News

Tuition tax battle lines began to emerge on Pittsburgh City Council today, as Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's Philadelphia legal gun laid out the case for the levy and encountered a conflicted council.

The U.S. Postal Service has further trimmed its list of post offices facing possible closure, and four Pittsburgh-area locations remain on the new list.

An unidentified man was shot in the head Sunday morning in the Hill District, dispatch workers said.

County dispatchers said one arrest was made Friday night after police responded to a stabbing in East Liberty.

Firefighters continue to battle flames at a house fire in Lawrenceville, where one fatality has been reported.

An Uptown man is in critical condition after being stabbed in the neck in the South Side early this morning, Pittsburgh police said.

A woman's body was found on a hillside in Pittsburgh's East Hills neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon.

Gerard Massaro, a Pittsburgh police psychologist, had the reputation of being a straight shooter when counseling or briefing a police officer.

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A man was stabbed in the neck Friday morning on Pittsburgh's South Side, police said.

Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl announced today that after balancing his 2010 budget using stop-gap measures, he will cut services in public safety, public works and the parks department in 2011.

Officials Monday heralded a former sliver of a flood-prone parking lot along the Monongahela River as the latest step in reclaiming Pittsburgh's riverfront real estate, in opening the Mon Wharf Landing park and outlining its place in a network of parks wrapping the city.

The Allegheny County medical examiner plans an autopsy on the body of a woman found in a wooded section of Pittsburgh's high-crime East Hills neighborhood.

A crash involving several cars closed the inbound Parkway East in Pittsburgh on Wednesday evening.

One person was injured when a van hit a Port Authority bus in East Pittsburgh on Wednesday morning.

Western Pennsylvania's hotel and motel industry is being investigated by a federal agency on whether it is complying with minimum wage and overtime pay laws, as well as recordkeeping and child labor laws, the Department of Labor said Monday.

State Gaming Control Board officials say they are providing information requested by a state grand jury that is believed to be looking into how the Pittsburgh casino license was awarded by the board in late 2006.

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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center on Thursday reported strong financial results for the three-months ended Sept.

Two suspects in an attempted homicide in western Pennsylvania might be in the Reading area, state police said Monday.