Pittsburgh

A white man was sentenced to mere probation recently after planting bombs near a busy plaza in downtown Pittsburgh following a Black Lives Matter protest.

A mother sued a Pittsburgh hospital Wednesday, saying it collected and tested her urine for drugs without her consent while she was in labor and reported a false positive result to protective services that resulted in a child abuse investigation. It is the second such lawsuit filed against the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center since […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Award-winning mystery writer Barbara Neely, who created the first black female series sleuth in mainstream American publishing, died last week after a brief illness, according to her publisher, Brash Books. She was 78. Neely is perhaps best known for her four-book Blanche White series, which had at its center a nomadic […]

Meek Mill has shared an emotional public service announcement dedicated to Antwon Rose II, who, at age 17, was fatally shot by an East Pittsburgh officer on June 18, 2018. Following the shooting, Officer Michael Rosfeld was charged with criminal homicide. After a 4-day trial, he was acquitted on all counts. Rose had no significant criminal record prior to […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A woman was charged with attempted homicide in a Pittsburgh stabbing that critically injured former Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor, who is also facing a charge, police said. Pryor was taken to the hospital just after 4:30 a.m. Saturday following a dispute with “mutual combatants” in an apartment on the city’s North […]

Last week, two Black women were violently attacked by owners of a Pittsburgh gas station during a dispute that was filmed and went viral. On Monday the Allegheny District Attorney’s office filed assault charges against three men involved in the incident, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. Their names are Scott Hill, 50, who faces two counts of simple […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man suspected of fatally shooting an off-duty Pittsburgh police officer more than a week ago has been charged with criminal homicide, police announced Monday. The indictment against Christian Bey, 30, in the death of Officer Calvin Hall, 35, is sealed, so further details will not be provided, said Cmdr. Victor Joseph. […]

A Pittsburgh woman was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of her baby, who died after drinking fentanyl that was in the child’s sippy cup. According to Action News 4, 23-year-old Jhenea Pratt was found not guilty of first-degree homicide and third-degree homicide, which were possible alternative guilty verdicts on the general […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh City Council has given final approval to gun restrictions proposed after last year’s synagogue massacre. The legislation places restrictions on military-style assault weapons like the AR-15 rifle that authorities say was used in the Oct. 27 rampage at Tree of Life Synagogue that killed 11 and wounded seven. It also […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld did everything by the book in his fatal encounter with an unarmed black teenager outside Pittsburgh last summer, a defense expert says. Testifying at Rosfeld’s homicide trial, retired Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Clifford W. Jobe Jr. maintained Rosfeld followed proper procedure when he shot and killed […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — After prosecutors wrapped up their case, the lawyer for a white former police officer charged in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager asked a judge Thursday to issue an acquittal on murder charges. Former East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld shot and killed 17-year-old Antwon Rose II after pulling over […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Video that showed a white police officer shooting to death an unarmed black teenager was played for jurors as the former cop’s criminal homicide trial got underway. A second day of testimony is scheduled for Wednesday as the trial of former East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld resumes in a Pittsburgh courtroom. […]