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Turtle Creek mayor drops primary challenge to U.S. Rep. Summer Lee The moderate Mon Valley mayor attempting to derail Rep. Summer Lee’s reelection bid has withdrawn from the Democratic Party primary. Turtle Creek Mayor Adam Forgie announced Tuesday he is shutti...

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Turtle Creek mayor drops primary challenge to U.S. Rep. Summer Lee The moderate Mon Valley mayor attempting to derail Rep. Summer Lee’s reelection bid has withdrawn from the Democratic Party primary. Turtle Creek Mayor Adam Forgie announced Tuesday he is shutti...

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NEWS: @repsummerlee.bsky.social’s Democratic primary field just shrank.

Turtle Creek Mayor #AdamForgie says he’s ending his campaign to challenge the #Pittsburgh area congresswoman.
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Pittsburgh bust uncovers smorgasbord of drugs, leads to arrest of brothers in their 60s Two Pittsburgh brothers are facing charges after authorities said Tuesday they found more than a dozen bricks of fentanyl, $30,000 worth of crack cocaine, multiple guns and a laundry list of illegal d...

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Agents from the #PA attorney general's office uncovered 15 bricks of fentanyl, 1,200 pills, $30K in crack cocaine, guns + more in a #Larimer apartment.

Two #Pittsburgh brothers now face multiple drug charges.
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Pittsburgh woman accused of running over ex-boyfriend with SUV A Pittsburgh woman is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday on charges she ran over her ex-boyfriend with his own SUV after a night of drinking — while the man’s mother sat in the front pas...

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A #Pittsburgh woman is due in court after police say she ran over her ex-boyfriend with his own SUV after a night of drinking — while the man’s mother sat in the passenger seat.

She faces attempted homicide charges. @triblive.bsky.social

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Clairton crash clash leads police to detain 1 driver Authorities took a man into custody Monday morning after he crashed his car into another vehicle during a “domestic incident” in Clairton, then began assaulting the other driver, according...

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Police in @alleghenycounty.bsky.social say a man crashed into another vehicle in #Clairton and began assaulting the driver until a bystander intervened.

Multiple people — including a child — were taken to hospitals.
Police have a suspect in custody. @triblive.bsky.social

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A man awaiting sentencing for two DUI cases has now been charged in a fatal third crash.

@alleghenycounty.bsky.social police say Jordan Bowyer drove up to 87 mph with a .197 BAC before crashing his car on the Parkway East, killing his front-seat passenger. @triblive.bsky.social

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Body pulled from Monongahela River is identified The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified a body found Sunday in the Monongahela River as a 56-year-old man who lived outside of the area. Elizabeth Borough’s water res...

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Body pulled from Monongahela River is identified The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified a body found Sunday in the Monongahela River as a 56-year-old man who lived outside of the area. Elizabeth Borough’s water res...

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Authorities have identified the man pulled from the #MonongahelaRiver in #WestElizabeth Sunday as Donald L. Wilson, 56.

@alleghenycounty.bsky.social police believe Wilson may have been working on a commercial boat. @triblive.bsky.social

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Suspected gun thief takes dip in the Mon to elude police A man suspected of stealing guns led authorities Wednesday on a brief car chase in Downtown Pittsburgh that ended with him jumping into the Monongahela River and later being arrested. Police said they...

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A man suspected of stealing guns led authorities on a brief chase from Downtown #Pittsburgh to #StationSquare on Wednesday — ending when he jumped into the Monongahela River and was arrested.

Charges are pending. @triblive.bsky.social

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Pittsburgh man charged in shooting death of sister A Pittsburgh man charged with killing his sister in the apartment they shared is scheduled to appear later this month before a district judge, who will determine if he will face trial. Aaron Charles M...

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Police say Aaron Martin shot his sister 4 times in the #Greenfield apartment they shared.

Now the 27-year-old #Pittsburgh man is scheduled to appear in court March 27 as a judge decides whether the homicide case will move to trial. @triblive.bsky.social

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Pittsburgh police radio breach wouldn’t take much money or skill, experts warn It doesn’t cost much to break onto a police-scanner channel and curse, spew hateful language, or threaten an elected leader as an “unauthorized user” has been doing this week in Pitt...

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'Anyone who spends $45 on one of these radios can go on YouTube … and cause havoc.'

Experts say cheap two-way radios — some sold on #Amazon for under $50 — can be used to break onto police-scanner channels, as one user is doing in #Pittsburgh / @triblive.bsky.social

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Hateful broadcasts disrupt Pittsburgh public safety radio for 3rd day For the third consecutive day, an unknown person Wednesday broadcast racist and obscene messages over a public-safety radio channel in Pittsburgh with seeming impunity. The foul comments follow earlie...

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An unknown voice has hijacked a #Pittsburgh area public-safety radio channel for 3 days now, spewing racist + antisemitic messages and threatening Mayor @coreyoconnorpa.bsky.social

Officials say it’s not a system hack — and the source is still unknown. @triblive.bsky.social

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‘She’s a fighter’: Survivor of fatal Liberty Bridge crash faces rough recovery Christie Ford watched her employee and friend Madison Rau lay helpless in a hospital bed Tuesday — a breathing tube down her throat and bones broken “from the top all the way to the bottom...

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A heartbreaking #Pittsburgh story

Madison Rau, 23, is fighting to recover after a fiery crash on the #LibertyBridge. Her spiritual twin — Laila Jones, 25, a single mom from #BaldwinBorough — died in the wreck.

Friends say the two were inseparable. @triblive.bsky.social

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A man was shot and left face down in a #Wilkinsburg intersection in January just blocks from police HQ.

Video from 4 cameras helped @alleghenycounty.bsky.social police track the suspect.

Jason “Flame” Moran was arrested Monday on homicide charges. @triblive.bsky.social

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Dog abandoned in filthy apartment in Rostraver dies; 2 women charged Authorities have charged two women with animal cruelty after a maintenance worker found a “lifeless and barely breathing” dog abandoned in a feces-covered Rostraver apartment in January. T...

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Two women are charged after a #ShihTzu was found “lifeless + barely breathing” in a feces-covered, unheated #Rostraver apartment, authorities said.

The dog, discovered in a closet, later was euthanized. Police allege it suffered starvation and hypothermia.
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‘She has always had a village’: Jeannette native Jasmine Jones returns home with Olympic bronze Jasmine Jones, the Jeannette native who competed in this year’s Winter Olympics in Italy, remembers the moment a childhood dream 15 years in the making came true. Jones, 29, was on her first Oly...

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15 years. 1 medal.

#Jeannette native Jasmine Jones exploded w/ #TeamUSA in @milancortina2026.bsky.social — pushing a bobsled 3x her body weight + clinching #Olympic bronze.

Here? 150+ supporters, a surprise party and a village that never stopped believing. @triblive.bsky.social

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Islamic group calls Iran strikes illegal; Pennsylvania expats in Israel weather counterattack A Jewish social worker who called Pittsburgh home for 32 years spent most of Saturday sheltered behind a steel door and reinforced-concrete walls waiting for Iranian missiles to strike. Carri Golden, ...

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Carri Golden, who lived in #Pittsburgh's #Greenfield neighborhood for 32 yrs, spent Shabbat sheltering behind steel + concrete in Rehovot as missiles flew between Israel and Iran.

“Not quite just another day in Israel — but we’re safe,” she told
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