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Byline: Brian Bowling March 01--A Greensburg teen whose heroin trafficking is linked to the death of a Charleroi man will spend five years in prison, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Nov. 04--Searchers found the body of a St. Clair Township man who had been missing for more than a week. The body of Scott Herman Neuner, 45, [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 29--An 8-year-old boy killed by a dump truck Thursday in Pittsburgh's Spring Garden neighborhood died of blunt force trauma to the head and trunk, the Allegheny [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 28--A South Carolina man admitted in Pittsburgh federal court Friday that he pretended to be missing Duquesne University student Dakota James online to harass an area [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 07--A Fayette County commissioner agreed with a plea bargain that allowed his wife, who shot him in the neck last year, to receive a sentence of [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 07--A Fayette County commissioner's wife accepted a plea deal Friday related to charges she shot her husband in the neck last summer in what state police [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling March 13--A Unity man hopes to avoid home confinement when a judge sentences him Monday for impersonating a Secret Service agent, according to court documents. Christopher DiIorio, [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Nov. 08--Two people in Allegheny County have been contacted recently by people claiming to be federal marshals or other court officials when they actually were scammers, said [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Oct. 29--A federal judge Friday threw out an excessive-force lawsuit filed by a Wilmerding man serving 5 1/2 to 11 years in prison for exchanging gunfire with [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Oct. 28--Prosecutors dropped attempted homicide charges against two teens involved in a New Year's Day 2015 home invasion in Tarentum in return for them pleading guilty Friday [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Oct. 22--An Allegheny County jury on Friday found a Clairton man not guilty of killing a Glassport man last year. Prosecutors charged John Sanders, 21, for the [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Oct. 22--An Allegheny County jury on Friday found a Clairton man not guilty of killing a Glassport man last year. Prosecutors charged John Sanders, 21, for the [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Oct. 21--A Colorado energy executive admitted in federal court Friday that he stole more than $360,000 in taxpayer money -- but balked at admitting he pocketed an [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Oct. 20--A controversial Pittsburgh charter amendment proposal seeking more government transparency will not appear on the Nov. 8 ballot. The state Supreme Court on Thursday declined to [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Oct. 05--A former Pittsburgh attorney can take another step forward on his lawsuit claiming that the federal government is illegally monitoring his and other people's communications, an [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Oct. 04--A McKees Rocks man pleaded guilty Tuesday to the fatal 2014 shooting of a man who had intervened during an earlier argument between the gunman and [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Sept. 19--A Lincoln-Lemington man admitted Monday in Allegheny County court that he killed a security guard in a Homewood bar. Harvey Scott, 28, pleaded guilty to third-degree [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Sept. 14--A federal grand jury Tuesday indicted Wei-Ming Shi, 58, of Mt. Lebanon on two counts of unlawful sexual contact on an aircraft during flight. Shi groped [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Sept. 02--Two review boards have apparently reached opposite conclusions on whether Pittsburgh police Chief Cameron McLay's appearance at the Democratic National Convention was political and, therefore, a [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Aug. 25--A Mt. Lebanon man accused of groping a sleeping woman during a flight from Las Vegas to Pittsburgh waived his right to preliminary hearing Wednesday. The [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Aug. 19--A Mt. Lebanon man groped a sleeping passenger during a flight from Las Vegas to Pittsburgh Thursday, according to an arrest affidavit filed by the FBI. [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Aug. 15--A federal jury will have to decide whether a Pittsburgh police officer violated Leon Ford's civil rights when he shot and paralyzed the Garfield man during [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 25--Two men arrested for a shooting that left one man dead and two injured in North Braddock pleaded guilty Monday to other charges and were sentenced. [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 25--A Penn Hills woman will spend 11 1/2 to 23 months in prison for fatally stabbing a man with a kitchen knife in a Braddock house, [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 21--A McCandless woman accused of drowning two of her three sons in a bathtub is refusing to take the medications that would help her assist her [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 16--Police said a man in his 20s was shot about 4 p.m. Saturday in Wilkinsburg. The victim and a passenger in the green Ford Expedition he [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling June 29--Federal agents and local police searched eight area electronics stores and an electronics warehouse Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Pittsburgh said. The search warrants are [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling June 29--Allegheny County and its former jail medical provider, Corizon Health Inc., caused the death of a Dormont woman by administering her Haldol while she was being [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling June 26--Two people were shot in Mt. Washington on Saturday night, including a 15-year-old boy. Pittsburgh Public Safety spokesman Sonya Toler said police found a 19-year-old man [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling June 26--Two people were shot in Mt. Washington on Saturday night, including a 15-year-old boy. Pittsburgh Public Safety spokesman Sonya Toler said police found a 19-year-old man [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling June 24--A Penn Hills man will spend 10 years in prison for acting as the primary distributor for a local cocaine ring supplied out of Tuscon, a [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling June 24--The last of three men charged with supplying fentanyl-laced heroin that resulted in at least two overdose deaths pleaded guilty Thursday to a lesser offense, according [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling June 17--The sentence of an Indiana Township woman serving 15 years and 10 months in prison for killing a federal agent should be reduced to time served [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling June 16--A former federal probation officer leaked information of a state heroin investigation to the sister of a suspect, federal prosecutors say in court documents filed Wednesday. [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling June 15--A fight over about a half-million dollars worth of early American art moved to federal court in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. Scott B. Leff and Marilyn J. [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling May 19--Even if an appeals court rules that a mother and her teenage daughter didn't have standing in 2012 to sue New Kensington-Arnold School District over a [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling May 17--An Oakmont developer admitted Tuesday that he sold business assets and handled the proceeds in a way that allowed him to avoid paying court-ordered restitution to [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling May 11--Hiding a million-dollar home in Adams, Butler County, and other assets from creditors in a federal bankruptcy proceeding will cost a Florida man 30 months in [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling May 06--The sister of Sarah and Susan Wolfe testified Friday that, as a part-time Iowa state legislator, she frequently attends breakfasts and other events put on by [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling April 15--The adult son of an Elizabeth Township woman who died of a gunshot wound claims in a federal lawsuit that two Glassport police officers, one of [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling April 07--An Indiana County man told police that he sold heroin to a man shortly before he died of an overdose on March 30, according to federal [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling March 10--The Penn Hills School Board fired the former principal of Linton Middle School in 2013 for reasons other than the money that came up missing after [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling March 09--A Whitaker man sold synthetic opioids in August that caused the death of another person, federal prosecutors say. Allegheny County police arrested Justin Thornton, 32, on [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Jan. 06--People convicted of federal crimes have a right to make a final statement before the judge sentences them without being cross-examined by prosecutors, a federal appeals [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 15--An Etna woman who admitted Wednesday in federal court that she stole nearly $407,000 from her employer has a problem that's not officially recognized by the [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 14--A Brighton Heights man who decapitated his mother's Chihuahua will spend one to two years in prison, an Allegheny County judge ruled Tuesday. Matthew Ondo, 32, [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 09--A New Jersey woman's claim to have changed her ways fell on unsympathetic ears Thursday in Pittsburgh federal court. Shawn Foote, 49, of Atlantic City pleaded [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling June 24--Two videos from Pittsburgh police cruiser dashboard cameras support two Homewood men's claim that police used excessive force during a July 2, 2013, arrest outside a [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling June 15--Pittsburgh fired its former manager of the police Office and Personnel and Finance for failing to report the criminal activities of its former police chief, the [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling June 15--The state agreed to pay $90,000 to settle an equal pay lawsuit by two Allegheny County court managers, a state official said Monday. Two female managers [...]