Pittsburgh police

Authorities have released the names of three men who died in an apparent mass drug overdose at a Pittsburgh apartment complex that left four other men hospitalized. Police say the men initially went to a venue together, then headed to the apartment Sunday where they used narcotics at the same time and in the same place. Authorities haven’t specified which...

Authorities say a man fatally stabbed a woman who was talking to a police officer at a downtown Pittsburgh bus stop and then slashed another woman before he was taken into custody. Pittsburgh Police Chief Scott Schubert says the officer was checking on the first woman’s well-being Thursday on a crowded sidewalk full of office workers and others headed to...

A mother duck was spotted quacking for help after her ducklings got trapped in a sewer in Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh police responded.

Pittsburgh police say a trail of coins led them to a burglary suspect.

Eleven police officers who responded to the deadly synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh will light a menorah on Long Island Sunday evening in memory of the victims.

David Feldstein knew seven of the 11 people killed in the synagogue. For Augie Siriano, they all were friends. Rabbi Jeffrey Myers was leading Shabbat services when the gunshots rang out.

After a gunman stormed a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday morning and killed 11 people during worship services in what is being treated as a hate crime, officials urged the city to come together in support as the victims were identified. Those killed ranged in age from 54 to 97 and included two brothers and a husband and wife, the medical examiner...

President Donald Trump suggested, shortly after at least eight people were killed at a Pittsburgh synagogue, that the shooter could have been stopped had there been an armed guard on duty. But, many Jewish people say, there already often is.

Rashaun Washington was killed during a confrontation with Vineland, New Jersey, police.

President Donald Trump and some members of Congress met Feb. 28 at the White House for a freewheeling discussion on how to reduce gun violence at schools. The meeting came two weeks after the mass shooting in Florida in which 17 people were killed, including 14 high school students. Here we look at the facts regarding some of the issues...

A man awaiting trial on charges of having killed a University of Pittsburgh student in her off-campus apartment last year is now accused of having raped a teenager days before the slaying.

The ex-boyfriend of a University of Pittsburgh student found slain in her off-campus apartment on Sunday has been arrested in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

The ex-boyfriend of a University of Pittsburgh student found slain in her off-campus apartment on Sunday has been arrested in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Pittsburgh police say a masked gunman robbed a restaurant and pepper sprayed employees before fleeing with cash from the business’ safe.

The jury that will hear the sex assault case against Bill Cosby will include two black people among its 12 members....
Prosecutors and the defense team on Wednesday also selected six alternates, two of whom are black....
Cosby’s lawyers had complained this week that prosecutors were trying to keep black people off the jury with their seven strikes. The judge, though, found...

A man who had his ear bitten off Monday said his roommate allegedly attacked him in a drunken rage during an argument about President Donald Trump.

An off-duty officer from the suburbs is accused of shooting a county jail guard in Pittsburgh after an argument in a nearby bar.

University of Pittsburgh and city police searched for a man who reportedly sexually assaulted a woman near campus early Sunday.

Pittsburgh police say a man who robbed a gas station was found less than 15 minutes later with the cash register he stole still in his vehicle.

The Democratic National Convention speaker’s lineup has highlighted an increasingly diverse country that could soon elect the first female president to succeed its first black chief executive. Yet the stream of women, African-Americans, Latinos, gay Americans — from U.S. senators and celebrities to activists, rank-and-file citizens and, Thursday, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton herself — also serves as a tacit reminder...