Wilkinsburg News

Wilkinsburg School District has received a $90,000 grant to purchase musical instruments for more than 100 students, as part of the VH1 Save the Music Foundation.

Less than a week after city and county officials announced a new anti-violence initiative, the program's implementation is being accelerated following a series of apparent "retaliation" shootings, one of which ...

Wilkinsburg police say they have arrested a man accused of shooting a witness in a robbery and assault case.

Two accidents caused delays on Parkway East Thursday morning. The first accident on Parkway East blocked at least one lane in each direction near Wilkinsburg.

Ten trailers are scattered like Matchbox cars beside the Parkway East near the Allegheny County Jail.

Talk about blowing the call. The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, confronted with the results of a nine-month investigation by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Bill Moushey, nonetheless ...

Several people were rushed to a hospital following a car accident on the Parkway East/Interstate 376 Sunday night.

Police said there was a major break Friday in the fatal shooting of a man who was killed while filling up his car at a local gas station.

A man accused of killing a key witness to the April slaying of a 12-year-old boy surrendered to Allegheny County sheriff's deputies last night at the urging of his family.

One of the central figures in a high-profile child homicide was shot to death himself at a gas station in the Point Breeze neighborhood -- just blocks away from the scene of that earlier killing -- and police ...

Pittsburgh police have obtained an arrest warrant for a suspected gunman accused of killing a man in North Point Breeze.

There are new developments in a homicide investigation in North Point Breeze. Police reportedly have now identified a suspect.

One of the central figures in a high-profile child homicide was shot to death himself on Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh's Point Breeze area, just blocks away from the scene of that earlier case.

A police chase that started in Penn Hills overnight ended in a crash in Wilkinsburg.

Since April, nearly half a dozen local companies, and many more individuals, have been victimized by identity theft and fraud.

Allegheny County Common Pleas Court Judge Michael E. McCarthy always wondered what it would be like to be a firefighter, racing into a burning building with 100 pounds of gear and feeling your way around in ...

Five commuters have been robbed over the past six weeks along the East Busway, prompting extra patrols by Port Authority police.

For the first time, the mayor of Wilkinsburg is answering questions about the lack of police certification for the municipality's chief of police, Ophelia Coleman.

Five robberies in six weeks near some Port Authority bus stops have alarmed transit riders.

A federal judge says a Pittsburgh suburb muzzled its police chief with a restrictive chain-of-command policy.