Wilkinsburg News

Allegheny County sheriff's deputies last night located and arrested a fugitive wanted for sexually assauting a child who fled during a hearing earlier this week.

Elected officials in two east suburban communities approved formal resolutions opposing a plan by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to close its hospital in Braddock.

The Allegheny County Sheriffa TMs Office is searching for a fugitive wanted on suspicion of raping a child.

A 26-year-old Pittsburgh man has been convicted of kidnapping and killing a 17-year-old girl and her friend after what prosecutors described as a failed ransom plot.

Classes were cancelled today for nearly 500 students at Wilkins Elementary School in Churchill because of a broken water line.

Wilkinsburg officials are fighting a company's request to house up to 108 adult inmates at what is a juvenile facility.

Authorities broke up a cocaine ring which funneled more than $200,000 worth of the drug into Allegheny County each month, state Attorney General Tom Corbett said today.

An Allegheny County judge ordered a North Side man Friday to stand trial on charges of killing a woman scheduled to testify against his brother.

A 12-year-old girl cried Friday before she testified against the man whom Pittsburgh police say killed her older sister -- a woman who would have been a trial witness against his brother in a separate murder case.

The man accused of killing a baby sitter to keep her from testifying against his brother is due in a Pittsburgh courtroom on Friday.

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PennDOT is warning motorists that there will be nightly lane closures along the Parkway East between Monroeville and Wilkinsburg this week, officials said.

A traffic stop was anything but routine for police in Homewood early Tuesday morning.

Police were searching this afternoon for a gunman and his getaway driver following a fatal shooting in a Wilkinsburg barbershop.

Investigators decided a shooting in the Allegheny County Jail last month was accidental and no criminal charges are expected against the officer, county police Superintendent Charles Moffatt said Monday.

Pittsburgh police said a traffic stop ended with what officers called a "dangerous" police chase early Tuesday morning in the city's Homewood section.

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A man was shot twice in the back in Wilkinsburg on Monday night. Emergency officials told WTAE Channel 4 Action News that a man was shot on Ardmore Boulevard at Rebecca Avenue shortly after 8 p.m. The victim was taken to UPMC Presbyterian.

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An Allegheny man wanted by Butler City Police in connection with the shooting of another man at an apartment in the city in July has been arrested by police in Georgia, city police report.