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Attorneys for three newspapers asked an appeals panel Tuesday to open the juvenile court trial of a boy who was just 11 when he was charged with killing his father's pregnant fiancee with a shotgun blast.
An accounting-director-turned-government witness was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison for faking the financial records of the defunct Pennsylvania soft drink maker Le-Nature's, and the only executive to maintain his innocence in the $800 million fraud scheme was given a 15-year term.
The attorney for a Maine man who claims former Syracuse assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine molested him on a trip to Pittsburgh in 2002 says he is filing a lawsuit to rebut claims by Fine's attorneys and a prosecutor that the man isn't credible.
Companies affiliated with Alcoa and controlled by a billionaire businessman paid $9.5 million in bribes to Bahrain officials and executives with a Bahrain-controlled company that overpaid for raw materials as a result, the Middle Eastern firm said in court papers.
The man investigating the 2005 disappearance of a central Pennsylvania prosecutor doesn't believe it is linked to the prosecutor's 1998 decision to not file child-sex charges against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
A Pennsylvania woman sentenced to life in prison for a bizarre bank robbery plot in which a pizza delivery driver was killed by a bomb locked around his neck wants an appeals court to grant her a new trial on grounds that she wasn't mentally competent to stand trial, among other issues
A white man claims he was fired as manager of a suburban Panera Bread shop for repeatedly having a black man work the cash register instead of putting him in a less visible location and having "pretty young girls" be the cashiers.
The former CEO of bankrupt soft drink maker Le-Nature's Inc. received the longest prison sentence ever for a financial fraud in the 25-county western Pennsylvania federal court district, for the largest such crime ever prosecuted in that jurisdiction.
A coroner says a man who fatally shot a western Pennsylvania police officer was himself shot in the head, chest and abdomen.
Iraqi law should not govern a lawsuit brought by the mother of a Pittsburgh-area soldier electrocuted in a barracks shower at an Army base in Iraq, a federal judge has ruled.
A western Pennsylvania man in prison for nearly 25 years in a 1977 double murder walked out of state prison Friday after a federal judge said he was wrongfully convicted because of the "outrageous misconduct" of two prosecutors who are now state judges.
Dr. Ravi Godse is on call nearly 24/7 as a top internal medicine specialist in Pittsburgh, but he so loves writing, directing and starring in movies that he wants other people to love them, too.
A Pittsburgh doctor who likes to makes his own films is hoping people will buy his latest movie when it comes out on DVD on Tuesday. And he's offering a money-back guarantee, and an apology, if viewers don't like it.
A university professor says in a federal lawsuit against the Pittsburgh police that her hearing was damaged when officers used a giant speaker to disperse protesters during the Group of 20 economic summit two years ago.
A boy accused of murdering his father's pregnant fiancee with a shotgun blast when he was 11 years old should be tried in juvenile court instead of adult court, a judge said Tuesday in a reversal of a previous decision.
Consol Energy Inc. said Thursday that it will sell half of its interest in its Marcellus Shale holdings in Pennsylvania and West Virginia for $3.4 billion in a deal that gives Noble Energy Inc. access to the lucrative Marcellus natural gas market.
Thirty miles north of Pittsburgh, where industrial giants like U.S. Steel were just beginning to forge the metallic backbone of the nation's upcoming World War II machine, a tiny company that made even tinier cars developed the prototype for a vehicle that would revolutionize the way soldiers traveled: the Jeep.
A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty Tuesday to using the Internet to promote terror attacks against American military and civilian targets in posts he made on an Islamic extremist web forum he moderated. He also pleaded guilty to having a loaded pistol when he allegedly bit two FBI agents who tried to question him.
When the comedy "30 Minutes or Less" opens in theaters Friday, one small group of people will be sure to avoid it.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty Tuesday to using the Internet to promote terror attacks against American military and civilian targets in posts he made on an Islamic extremist web forum he moderated. He also pleaded guilty to having a loaded pistol when he allegedly bit two FBI agents who tried to question him.
Officials have confirmed an outbreak of salmonella poisoning at a high-security federal prison in northeastern Pennsylvania that sickened more than 300 inmates and staff who ate tainted chicken last month.
A man killed his father and stepmother in western Pennsylvania, then tried to cover up the slayings with a story claiming they had perished in a fiery New Jersey car crash — a ruse that prompted the stepmother's family to post an obituary in her hometown newspaper, a prosecutor and state police said Thursday.
Pittsburgh-area police say an exotic dancer who left her two young sons home without a baby sitter before a fire broke out and killed them has surrendered.
Craig Morrow has a simple reason for creating Bicycle Heaven, a combination museum and vintage parts shop tucked into the warehouse district along a bicycle trail on the north shore of Pittsburgh's Ohio River: He loves bicycles and wants everyone else to love them, too.
The former CEO of a defunct Pennsylvania soft drink company pleaded guilty to using two sets of books to obtain $875 million in credit and equipment leases for the failing company, including more than $27 million he spent on a mansion, collectible toy trains and rare jewels.
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