CRIME & SAFETY
Pittsburgh Mother of Three Crushed By Steel Cylinder That Weighed Nearly a Ton After It Broke Free from Construction Site; GoFundMe Raises Nearly $100,000
Pittsburgh city officials said a woman was killed by a steel cylinder that somehow broke away from a construction site, rolled down a hill, and […] Pittsburgh Mother of Three Crushed By Steel Cylinder That Weighed Nearly a Ton After It Broke Free from Construction Site; GoFundMe Raises Nearly $100,000
No Verona police officers were on the clock when 2 crimes happened
VERONA, Pa. (KDKA) -- A shortage of police officers in a small Allegheny County borough is beginning to cause some concern to residents.Right now, Verona borough said they have two full-time officers and three part-time officers but confirmed to KDKA-TV it's not enough to be considered as fully staffed.The borough manager, Stefanie Woolford, said they're working to fill the positions, but until they make more hires, they have to lean on state police to answer the call when they don't have any officers on duty.That's exactly what happened last month when two crimes happened on the same day, without any...
Crews contain leak from sunken boat in Ohio River
A boat sunk in the Ohio River near Pittsburgh’s Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood Friday. The boat sunk near the old site of SCI Pittsburgh, better known as Western Penitentiary, at around 12:30 p.m. Reports indicated the boat was leaking some type of oil or fuel. Fire crews both on land and on the water with the fire boat worked to contain the spill. Pittsburgh Public Safety officials confirmed the boat produced a small fuel leak. HazMat deployed a boom and materials to help contain it.
Man stabbed in local home, dies at hospital
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (WTRF) Steubenville Police are investigating a homicide. Just before 11:45 pm Wednesday night Police were dispatched to a residence in the 800 block of Oakmont Avenue for a call of a subject stabbed. When officers arrived on scene they saw a 58-year-old man stabbed in the home. Steubenville Fire and EMS transported the […]
Woman killed in crash after vehicle strikes a concrete footer; Charges pending for male driver
A woman is dead after a vehicle she was in crashed. Officials say they were called to a single vehicle accident at the intersection of Veterans drive and Main Street in Follansbee, WV where the vehicle which was traveling north on Main Street had left the roadway and struck a concrete footer supporting a metal […]
UPDATE: Steubenville police identify victim in Wednesday night stabbing homicide
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ohio — Steubenville police have released the name of the victim of a Wednesday night homicide. Police say 58-year-old Bruce W. Flieger, of Jewett, was stabbed and later was pronounced dead at the hospital. Officers were called around 11:45 to a residence at 801 Oakmont Avenue. Police...
'It's happening here in Pittsburgh': Pennsylvania ranks 9th in new cases of human trafficking
PITTSBURGH — It is estimated there are more than 49 million people enslaved in the world and that human trafficking generates $150 billion in illegal profits every year, according to the International Labor Organization. In the most recent federal human trafficking report, Pennsylvania ranks ninth in the nation for...
Motorcycle driver dies in crash near UPMC Mercy
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A motorcycle driver has died following a late-night crash near UPMC Mercy Hospital last night along the Boulevard of the Allies. Pittsburgh Police say that the crash involved the motorcycle and another vehicle.Medics at the scene performed CPR on the motorcycle, but the man, later identified as 33-year-old Donte Hairston, died at the hospital. The driver of the other vehicle refused medical attention.A second vehicle was also hit during the crash but no one was hurt.The Collision Investigation Unit is handling the investigation into the crash.
Pittsburgh’s gay police chief is stopping crime and living proud (exclusive)
Pittsburgh in the late 1980s and 1990s wasn’t known as an LGBTQ+ stomping ground — regardless of what you might have seen on Queer as Folk. After I graduated from college, I worked briefly in the Pittsburgh area and usually met my friends in downtown Pittsburgh for happy hours. I would get drunk, I’d sneak away from them, and go to a gay bar. I have no idea how I found what I think was the only gay bar in the city. I couldn’t remember the name of the bar until recently. But I do know one night, I went down the wrong way on a one-way street buzzed, and a cop car, with lights blazing, met me head-on.
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