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Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Tom Gorzelanny is headed to the minors. After the team's 9-1 loss on Friday to the Milwaukee Brewers, the Pirates have optioned Gorzelanny to AAA-Indianapolis. It is not known yet who ...

Police say speed was a factor in an accident overnight on Pittsburgh's Perry North neighborhood.

A teenager was shot three times in Pittsburgh's North Side late Monday afternoon.

A Cleveland man is accused of scalding his girlfriend's young son in Pittsburgh and burning the child over 40 percent of his body.

A 156-room Hilton Garden Inn hotel could rise on the former site of the Allegheny County Jail Annex in Downtown Pittsburgh by the end of the year.

A 19-year-old man faces a criminal homicide charge in the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy outside a restaurant in Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood.

Pittsburgh police charged one man and were searching for a second after a shooting Saturday that left two people dead in a minivan in the Lincoln-Lemington neighborhood.

Thick smoke and bright orange flames cover the skies above Pittsburgh's Manchester neighborhood.

A Leet Township man is dead after an overnight motorcycle accident. It happened at 12:21 a.m. at the intersection of Deer Run and Merriman Roads in Aleppo Township.

One person remains at large and another in police custody after an alleged home invasion in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood Saturday afternoon.

Two men were shot and killed in Pittsburgh's Lincoln-Lemington neighborhood late Saturday afternoon.

Pittsburgh firefighters had to deal with heavy smoke while battling a blaze along California Avenue on the North Side.

The family of retired Pittsburgh Police Chief Dom Costa jumped into action to save a woman from a burning home in Morningside.

Police are searching for the person who they said abducted a Wilkinsburg teenager and raped her in a wooded area in the East Hills.

The cause of a fire on Pittsburgh's Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood is under investigation.

A convicted rapist from Mt. Washington is accused of luring a 15-year-old girl into his vehicle, Pittsburgh police said Tuesday.

Pittsburgh arson investigators are searching for the cause of a fire on the North Side.

City police handed out traffic citations Thursday on Pittsburgh's South Side, under PennDOT's Smooth Operator program for aggressive driving enforcement.

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Police responded to the corner of 20th and Sidney streets at approximately 2:15 a.m. Saturday morning for the report of a man with a gun.

The city of Pittsburgh's Historic Review Commission today approved a dramatic redesign of Downtown's Market Square, clearing the way for construction planning but urging that the architects meet with Pittsburgh ...

Mayor Luke Ravenstahl today sent a letter to state Gaming Control Board Chairwoman Mary DiGiacomo Colins, expressing his concerns about proposed changes to the planned North Shore casino.

The assailant enters the suburban Pittsburgh convenience store, handgun trained on the clerk.

One of two youths accused of setting fire to a vacant North Side house Tuesday morning had a run-in with Pittsburgh police the night before.

A suspect was shot during an arrest by state police in Pittsburgh's Hill District neighborhood Wednesday afternoon.

Majestic Star Casino architects asked city planners today to let them delay building an amphitheater, dock and path on the river's edge for at least three years, but riverfront advocates said that would be a ...

Developer Don Barden wants to put plans for an amphitheater outside his North Shore casino on hold.

The South Side can be a very strange place on weekends. Like Bourbon Street in New Orleans or South Street in Philly, Carson Street fills with people who don't need an excuse to drink to excess just as night ...

Investigators are searching for answers after a Presbyterian minister, who was ordained in Pittsburgh, was shot and killed.