Wilkinsburg News

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.

A man found not guilty of charges that triggered the events that led up to the shooting death of a 12-year-old Wilkinsburg boy has been arrested on new charges.

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Share + Oct 28, 2009 2:00 pm US/Eastern WILKINSBURG Three people in Wilkinsburg were taken to the hospital after a carbon monoxide scare Tuesday night.

A Homewood man who was just acquitted of third-degree murder in connection with 12-year-old Kholen Germany's death during a gun battle is wanted on new charges.

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A 3-year-old, her mother and grandmother were rushed to the hospital Tuesday night with signs of carbon monoxide poisoning that came, fire officials said, from a generator in their home's basement.

Medics rushed three people to the hospital after they were overcome with carbon monoxide.

A majority of the dozens of people who appeared before the Pittsburgh Citizen Police Review Board on Tuesday evening complained that police were overzealous and violated the rights of protesters and innocent bystanders during the G-20 summit.

The Port Authority of Allegheny County voted Friday for a wide-ranging transit redevelopment plan that will change several bus routes, eliminate others with low demand and raise the fare for riders who live farthest from the city of Pittsburgh.

A local man was wounded after a shooting in Wilkinsburg early Friday morning. Police said the man was found on Park Avenue with injuries suffered during the shooting.

A Wilkinsburg man wanted for failure to appear for three child support hearings since 2006 was arrested Thursday morning at his workplace in the Strip District, Allegheny County Sheriff William P. Mullen said.