Top Pittsburgh Area Local News Stories
Source: ThePittsburghChannel.com - Local News
The jury deciding the fate of a man accused of assaulting his 23-month-old daughter and leaving her to die in the cold has reached a verdict.
Published: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:25:00 EDT
Jurors in a former Beaver County state lawmaker's corruption trial are deliberating once again.
Published: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:05:31 EDT
The House has passed President Barack Obama's health care bill, but the debate over reforms is far from over.
Published: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:02:51 EDT
Crews are on the scene of a chemical spill in Jefferson Hills.
Published: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:11:42 EDT
Allegheny County SWAT officers respond to the Avalon Hotel Sunday night for report of an armed man barricaded inside a guest room.
Published: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:18:50 EDT
Rescue crews are called to Washington Township, where an 81-year-old man fell over a steep hillside.
Published: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:03:59 EDT
Crews are called to an emergency landing of a small plane in Bullskin Township, Fayette County.
Published: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:34:09 EDT
A fugitive from Michigan is found at a Pittsburgh bar -- wearing only a hospital gown.
Published: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:58:45 EDT
A Pittsburgh company says it is reviewing hiring procedures and background checks following a newspaper report that it had employed almost two dozen convicted felons in the past few years to make fundraising phone calls on behalf of charities.
Published: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:34:53 EDT
Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin tells the NFL Network he's concerned for quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
Published: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:32:51 EDT
The March of Dimes introduces Mackenzie Minney as the ambassador child for 2010 in Pittsburgh.
Published: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:25:18 EDT
Hundreds of people honor of a Westmoreland County girl who died from an incurable form of brain cancer two years ago.
Published: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:15:41 EDT
Two teenage girls seriously hurt after a bicycle crash in Beaver County are hospitalized in Pittsburgh.
Published: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:23:19 EDT
McGuffey school teachers in Washington County walked off the job on Monday in the district's first-ever strike.
Published: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:21:49 EDT
More than 100 parents and students are upset about over a plan to close the only Catholic school in McKees Rocks.
Published: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:48:34 EDT
Even as the number of people in state prisons across the country has fallen for the first time in almost four decades, Pennsylvania's prison population is on the increase.
Published: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:14:43 EDT
Two people suffered major injuries after a head-on collision on Strawcutter Road in Derry Township, Westmoreland County.
Published: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:42:56 EDT
Two people were flown to a Pittsburgh hospital Saturday night after a bad accident in West Deer, Allegheny County.
Published: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:44:06 EDT
A man was rushed to the hospital after being shot in Homewood early Sunday.
Published: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:47:35 EDT
Traffic backed up significantly on the Parkway East throughout the day Saturday.
Published: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:36:13 EDT