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Pittsburgh Police arrested a Crafton Police officer this morning on charges he struck and killed a 24-year-old man with his vehicle, then fled from the scene, two years ago in the South Side.

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Share + Jul 3, 2009 8:05 am US/Eastern BEDFORD, Pa. A south central Pennsylvania man had pleaded guilty but mentally ill to fatally bludgeoning his father with a long-handled, wood-splitting hammer last year.

Pittsburgh police say an 18-year-old Chartiers man is at least one of the people responsible for the death of a pregnant college student, also 18, who was innocently killed in a barrage of bullets on the North Side.

A Pittsburgh financial institution deemed "critically undercapitalized" last month by the Office of Thrift Supervision said Tuesday it is submitting a capitalization plan to federal regulators with the help of foundation support.

Donations from two corporations helped propel The Pittsburgh Promise scholarship program beyond its goal of raising $15 million during its first year so that it could make good on an agreement to net a $10 million pledge from University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

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Pittsburgh police said three people are under arrest after a man said he was robbed and beaten at gunpoint while smoking crack.

Several of the area's largest foundations have stepped up to help Hill District-based Dwelling House Savings & Loan raise enough capital to meet a deadline set by federal banking regulators.

A Pittsburgh firefighter accused of calling in false alarms so he could steal money from empty fire stations to pay for his drug habit faces a 30-day, unpaid suspension and possible termination, a top public safety official said today.

Fees on college students, hospital patients and all-day parkers are part of a proposed five-year financial recovery plan Pittsburgh City Council is set to vote on this morning.

Picture a City of Pittsburgh devoid of nonprofits, a Pittsburgh in which nonresidents don't commute to work, park, attend events, check into hospitals, attend colleges and universities or own homes and businesses.

A prosecutor says a northeastern Pennsylvania man beat a 19-month-old girl so badly that she nearly died.

City of Pittsburgh officials will attempt to fire a firefighter accused of calling in false alarms and then burglarizing a Lawrenceville firehouse.

A member of the Pittsburgh Public Schools board is resigning so she can spend more time on her full-time job as executive director of the Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania.

A man convicted of strangling a company intern from North Dakota has pleaded no contest to charges of possessing child pornography on his computer when he was arrested.

Jun 24, 2009 2:45 pm US/Eastern Reporting Trina Orlando UNIONTOWN State police have arrested a Brownsville man in the hit and run death of his wife over the weekend in Menallen Township.

He hailed from McKees Rocks, earning the nickname of "The Pittsburgh Kid" while rising to become a boxing champion only to have personal demons knock him back down to the mat.

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It was every bride's worst nightmare - but it happened in a way no one would dream.