Emergency Response

13+ hour, 11+ min ago   (1116+ words) LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Justice Department failed to secure felony convictions against most of the 102 protesters arrested in four major cities last year on charges of assaulting federal authorities — a record far below the norm in federal assault prosecutions. All…...

9+ hour, 32+ min ago   (95+ words) A man’s body was found Saturday in the Allegheny River between the Roberto Clemente and Andy Warhol bridges, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety. River Rescue responded around 11:15 a.m. to a report of body amongst river debris near the shoreline. A…...

9+ hour, 10+ min ago   (111+ words) Two people were taken to hospitals from the scene of a crash in Harrison on Saturday afternoon. The collision at Freeport and Saxonburg roads was reported to Allegheny County 911 shortly before 4:15 p.m., a dispatcher said. The crash involved a small car…...

8+ hour, 48+ min ago   (426+ words) A Philadelphia man has been ordered to serve 121 months in federal prison after admitting his central role in a cargo theft ring that targeted tractor-trailers parked across the city in 2023, according to a U.S. Department of Justice press release from the…...

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16+ hour, 15+ min ago   (366+ words) Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Saturday, Sept. 12: 2 men wounded in Pittsburgh shooting Emergency crews were called just before 11:30 p.m. to the area of Brighton Road at Woods Run Avenue along border of both neighborhoods. They…...

14+ hour, 18+ min ago   (441+ words) Pennsylvania's flood barriers are getting older and costlier to maintain, while the storms testing them are growing more intense. According to The Conversation, the state's more than 180 levees span roughly 155 miles of riverbank and shield about 158,000 residents alongside an estimated…...

15+ hour, 19+ min ago   (534+ words) Hundreds of residents filled the Garden of Reflection in Lower Makefield Township on Thursday evening to mark 25 years since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, according to 6abc/WPVI. The ceremony centered on the 18 Bucks County residents killed that day, with nine of…...

15+ hour, 31+ min ago   (339+ words) An off-duty Philadelphia police officer was attacked by multiple assailants and robbed of his service weapon near the 700 block of North 10th Street, between Brown Street and Fairmount Avenue in the West Poplar section of North Philadelphia, according to the Philadelphia…...

22+ hour, 14+ min ago   (801+ words) The scope of an alleged cocaine distribution ring involving students at Penn State University remains unclear, but testimony at preliminary hearings offered some clarity as to how much money and drugs were exchanged between the two accused leaders of the…...