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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 June 10--The four people suspended after former Pittsburgh police Chief Nathan Harper resigned were his 'close friends and confidants,' retired Assistant Chief Regina McDonald testified Friday in [...]

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 April 06--Noteworthy: The Arbor Day Foundation appointed Crumrine to a three-year term on its board. Based in Nebraska City, Neb., the 44-year-old nonprofit has fostered the planting [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling April 03--Wendy Bell returned to social media Saturday by setting up a new Facebook page four days after WTAE-TV fired her over a controversial March 21 post [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling and Rich Cholodofsky March 25--Allegheny County lost about 2,400 people in 2015, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday, but county Executive Rich Fitzgerald said other [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling March 15--President Obama has nominated a McKeesport native to serve as a judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. If confirmed by the Senate, Rebecca [...]

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 Feb. 27--About a thousand people marched from Bigelow Boulevard down Fifth Avenue to Market Square to show support for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, a rally organizer [...]

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 Dec. 29--When it came time to name their French bulldog puppy, Kevin and Mandy Beamon decided to leave the decision to their two daughters. But Mandy cast [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling and Kari Andren Dec. 29--Colleen Robinson is bracing herself for a surge in dogs named after characters in the new 'Star Wars' movie. Robinson, who owns Academy [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Oct. 01--A Downtown attorney can't rely on generalizations claiming that the federal government is illegally monitoring his and other people's communications, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Sept. 30--An Erie man failed to establish an Allegheny County jail guard has a history of violence, much less that the county failed to investigate and discipline [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Sept. 29--The sister of a mentally ill North Braddock man who died in police custody has settled her wrongful death lawsuit against three boroughs and two county [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Sept. 23--A Glassport man stole about $8,200 worth of Pirates, Penguins, Steelers and Gavin DeGraw concert tickets from StubHub! using bogus bank and PayPal accounts, federal prosecutors [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Sept. 21--Former Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin at most violated a work rule, not the law, when she used her staff to perform political work, Melvin [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Sept. 21--Former Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin at most violated a work rule, not the law, when she used her staff to perform political work, Melvin [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Sept. 18--The Pittsburgh metro area in 2014 gained about 5,200 homes, which include multi-unit and single-family dwellings, according to federal figures released Thursday. Local government officials called [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Sept. 02--PPG -- Industries Inc. violated state and federal environmental laws by discharging pollutants and storm water from a 150-acre dump site in Armstrong County without proper [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Aug. 29--Noteworthy: At its annual meeting in August, the board of the Boy Scouts Laurel Highlands Council elected Cunningham as its president. Cunningham will serve a two-year [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Aug. 27--An O'Hara invention promotion company has agreed to pay $275,000 in back wages and damages to settle a federal overtime lawsuit by the Labor Department, according [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Aug. 25--A Carnegie Mellon University student apologized Tuesday in federal court for designing an Android app that allows criminals to take over people's phones. 'I am sorry [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Aug. 21--A Texas company that researches land titles for the oil and gas industry misclassified some workers as independent contractors to avoid paying them overtime, the Labor [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Aug. 20--An Indiana man admitted in Pittsburgh federal court Wednesday that he participated in a scheme to send millions of spam texts to cell phones. Phillip R. [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Aug. 17--A New York man admitted in Pittsburgh federal court Monday that he was part of a cyber conspiracy that infected more than 70,000 computers and used [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Aug. 13--Unsure about which door to enter for the person they had come to arrest, members of a Pittsburgh SWAT team effectively flipped a coin and raided [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Aug. 12--After more than a decade in jail, prison or on probation, a Pittsburgh man is accused of celebrating his freedom by harassing one of the FBI [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Aug. 04--A Westmoreland County businessman who concealed some of his assets during a bankruptcy proceeding will spend two years in prison, a federal judge ruled Monday. A [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Aug. 04--A Uniontown man serving a state sentence of 12 1/2 to 25 years in prison will spend 15 more months in federal prison for threatening President [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 31--A Westmoreland County man will spend 19 years in prison for recording his sexual assaults of a girl, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Thomas Jere Deglau, [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 30--Economy council fired the borough's secretary in 2014 because of her political affiliation and age, a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday contends. Susan Blum, 66, of Economy [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 24--A federal grand jury Tuesday indicted five men in three separate cases accused of selling heroin to drug users who died from overdoses, according to court [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 20--On his 33rd birthday, a Baldwin Borough man received a sentence of 6 1/2 years in prison on a federal gun charge. Jason Korey pleaded guilty [...]

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 [...]