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A fan at PNC Park fell over the outfield wall and onto the track on Wednesday night during the Pittsburgh Pirates’ matchup with the Chicago Cubs. In the seventh inning of the contest, a man in the right field section at PNC Park suddenly was seen falling headfirst over the outfield wall and crashing down onto the dirt during the middle of a play. The person appeared to jump up before flipping multiple times on his way down about 21 feet to the warning track.

A jury has sentenced Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers to death for his crimes. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Colville read the verdict about 11:45 a.m. Jurors had been deliberating since about 9 a.m. Tuesday and signaled they’d reached a verdict at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday. When Bowers shot out the front window of the building Oct. 27, 2018, three congregations were preparing for services: Tree of Life, Dor Hadash, and New Light. Twenty-two people were inside the monolith at the corner of Shady and Wilkins. Half were killed: Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil and David Rosenthal,...

GREENSBURG, Pa. – Former President Bill Clinton claimed Tuesday that Israeli leaders “don’t care anymore” about peace between the Jewish State and Palestinians and said Vice President Kamala Harris “can’t have” a plan to end the war in the Middle East. Clinton, 78, was stumping for Harris in western Pennsylvania at the University of Pittsburg-Greensburg when a pro-Palestinian protester interrupted his remarks, demanding an answer from him on what the vice president would do to stop “the genocide” in Gaza and end US military support for Israel. “That’s a fair question,” the 42nd president responded, before telling a 15-minute-long story...

Infamous DNC election manipulation operative Marc Elias is working furiously in the state of Pennsylvania to counter the disqualification of fraudulent ballots. In the Keystone state, specifically the area around Pittsburg known as Washington County, multiple grassroots efforts have been underway to identify and disqualify fraudulent registrations. Essentially, ballot registration addresses using empty lots, businesses, P.O. boxes, abandoned buildings and WalMarts etc. Those registered ballots are being identified and challenged, creating what are called “defects” in the ballot. The defective ballots are being culled and disqualified. With the designation of “received” being placed on the ballots rather than “cancelled.”

The TSA doesn’t want you to have a blast this summer. Two passengers were busted at the Pittsburgh International Airport on Wednesday when they tried to bring a smoke grenade and an inert explosives grenade aboard their respective flights, according to the TSA. TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said agents first came across a man who thought he could pass the security checkpoint while carrying a hand grenade in his bags. “Most people plan on having a blast on their trip, but this guy wasn’t thinking along those lines when @TSA officers intercepted this grenade at the @PITairport checkpoint yesterday,” Farbstein...

Pittsburgh police will no longer personally respond to calls that aren’t considered “in-progress emergencies” after recent department policy changes. Calls not considered “in-progress emergencies” will be assigned by dispatch to a telephone recording unit. The city’s website states, “Creation of an enhanced Telephone Reporting Unit (TRU) operating from 7-3 a.m. daily, including weekends. Dispatch will assign reports to the TRU for calls that do not require an in-person response by officers. TRU will NOT be assigned to any “In Progress” call where a suspect may be on scene, any crime where a person may need medical aid, any domestic dispute,...

Crime is up. Morale is down. Pittsburgh police share views on everything from pandemic to Black Lives Matter Gunshots erupt in an amusement park outside Pittsburgh. People run screaming for the exits. Bullets strike three patrons at the park. It allegedly started with teenagers fighting. Scenes like this are playing out more frequently across the United States with an increase in shootings during the pandemic. Murders surged almost 30 per cent in 2020 according to FBI statistics, then inched up and down in the two years since. Other countries also saw increased homicides during the pandemic, including Canada and the...

The Trump-backed super PAC MAGA Inc. is lighting up Ohio Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) and Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman in recent ads, weeks ahead of the midterm election. The election is coming down to its final stretch, and the Trump-backed PAC is making moves, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads in both Pittsburgh, Columbus, and Cleveland combined. One of the ads targets Ohio Senate hopeful Tim Ryan and features him overtly sucking up to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). “Senator Schumer’s here and I want to make sure he’s my future boss, so I gotta suck...

Sitting with the candidate for almost an hour on Friday morning, community and faith leaders in Duquesne told Republican U.S. Senate contender Mehmet Oz that the reason Pennsylvania is seeing its communities ravaged by violent crime is because of deeply-embedded systemic issues, insisting that it’ll take level-headed solutions — not mantras like “Defund the Police” — to fix them. In a small activity room at New Birth Baptist Church on Grant Ave, Mr. Oz was joined by church members and activists to discuss solutions to rising crime rates, modeled off a similar roundtable he held in Philadelphia recently. On the...

CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that MAGA Republicans who were “unhappy” former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election were dragging down American democracy. Anchor Margaret Brennan asked, “How dangerous is the moment that we are in? Garrett said, “It feels more dangerous, Margaret than any I’ve encountered in covering politics at the national level since 1990. David and I had to write this book, but we wish we didn’t have to. Stating what clearly happened in 2020, it wasn’t a fraudulent election. No crime was committed. That doesn’t mean you...

CALIFORNIA (Santa Clara DA) – Five men have been charged with a series of smash and grab robberies, part of a crime wave that terrorized the Bay Area during the holidays. The men, armed with construction hammers, would invade stores en masse. Charged with felonies are Michael Earl, 18, of Oakland, Andrew Manuel Maravillalopez, 19, of Hayward, Noah G Tekle, 19, of San Leandro, Charles Evans, 18, of San Leandro, and Maurice James Sweet, 19, of Pittsburg. Earl, Maravillalopez, Tekle, and Evans were arraigned on April 15 with bail set at $250,000. Maurice James Sweet, 19, is on for arraignment...

A ‘booming’ start to 2022 was felt in the Pittsburgh Region on New Year’s Day after officials from the National Weather Service (NWS) believe a meteor exploded in the atmosphere. Residents across suburban Pittsburgh heard a loud boom and what felt like an earthquake on Saturday around lunchtime. Allegheny County officials reported an influx of 911 calls about the disturbance. Allegheny County 9-1-1 has received reports of a loud boom, shaking in the South Hills and other reports. We have confirmed that there was no seismic activity and no thunder/lightning. At this point, we have no explanation for the reports,...

Section 1. Pittsburgh Statement The U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) met for the first time in Pittsburgh on 29 September 2021. It was co-chaired by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager, European Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis. The United States and the European Union reaffirm the TTC’s objectives to: coordinate approaches to key global technology, economic, and trade issues; and to deepen transatlantic trade and economic relations, basing policies on shared democratic values....

police officer in northwest Pennsylvania is being investigated by his department after taking photos showing support for President Donald Trump in Washington, DC... ...According to CBS Pittsburgh, Goldie was pictured in DC wearing a hat that said: "Trump MAGA 2020 f--- your feelings." Zelienople Police Chief Jim Miller told WTAE that Goldie was not part of the riot that descended on the Capitol, but was in the crowed listening to Trump's speech at a "stop the steal" protest on Wednesday,...

We are being manipulated ... by Donald J Trump!ONLY the president can use the BSA to reveal the source / person(s) who ordered a halt to counting in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Detroit, and Milwaukee on election night. Whomever ordered that stop counting command which resutled in the observers being expelled and the counting resumed without licit oversight is the key to this seditious defrauding of American voters.Withholding that key piece of information from the American people who have supported Donald Trump is manipulating US rather than including us in the truth as a basis for our opposition tot he defrauding....

--SNIP-- Let’s look at the Trump record: Under Donald Trump the economy, pre-COVID, boomed, like no time since the 1950s. Look at your 401(k) over the past three years. Unemployment for Black Americans is lower than it has ever been, under any president of either party. Under Mr. Trump, our trade relationships have vastly improved and our trade deals have been rewritten. Thanks to him, middle America is on the map again and the Appalachian and hourly worker has some hope. Has Mr. Trump done enough for these struggling fellow citizens? No. But he recognized them. Maybe he was not...

Special agents from the United States Postal Service raided the home of a USPS carrier in Baldwin, PA on Sunday night, confiscating eight large garbage bags of suspected undelivered mail, according to neighbors. WATCH REPORT...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the "Western District of Pennsylvania has filed federal charges against the 20-year-old accused of inciting violence and riots in Pittsburgh on Saturday. "According to the criminal complaint, Bartels said his motive was, in part, “that he considers himself to be far ‘left’ ...” “He explained that he had previously hoped that he would be able to change things through voting, but nothing changed,” the complaint added.

The 39 million N95 masks the Service Employees International Union announced it had discovered turned out to be an elaborate scheme, according to the FBI. In late March, the union rushed out a press release: The union launched an exhaustive search for masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) five days ago in response to pleas from frontline healthcare workers that they need more protection and feel unsafe on the job as they treat the growing number of COVID-19 patients. SEIU-UHW has 97,000 members who work in hospitals across California. Within 48 hours of painstakingly calling leads and potential suppliers,...

<p>DAYTON, Ohio (KDKA/AP) – An ex-girlfriend of the Ohio gunman who killed nine people says he showed her a video of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on their first date.</p> <p>Adelia Johnson says in an emailed statement to The Associated Press that Connor Betts often joked about having dark thoughts. She says he told her that he had bipolar disorder and that his talk didn’t scare her because she thought it was a symptom of his mental illness.</p>