Pittsburgh Politics News

Day event announcement. "We're not going to answer any questions further. We made our statements last week, and we'll continue to pursue it that way. We've been thankful thus far for the privacy that's been afforded to us, and hope...

Pittsburgh's Racial Justice Awards event at the Westin Convention Center. Multimedia. Mackenzie Carpenter's video program, "Omnivore," is available exclusively at PG+ , a members-only web site of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Forty-four-year-old Richard Adam Brown, of Butler, faces a preliminary hearing Jan. 4 on a charge of simple assault. Butler police say the girl ate three candy bars after her father went to bed Thanksgiving night, and she was punished, not...

The city's annual budget hearing focused on the 1 percent tuition tax that Mayor Luke Ravenstahl has proposed in an effort to find $15 million a year to bail out the city pension fund. The proposed $453.8 million budget won't...

Mercy Hospital this morning after a two-vehicle accident in Beaver County, according to police. Three other people were injured in the collision, which occurred after a mini-van turned left in front of a tractor-trailor, said Rochester Township Police Officer Kevin...

A private university will pay $7.5-million (all currency U.S.) to provide lifetime care to a former football player who suffered a severe brain injury in a 2005 game, allegedly after an earlier concussion went untreated.

How can illegal contact and pass interference which was accepted by the Ravens both be called on Ike Taylor on the same play when clearly the ball was out of bounds and uncatchable? Darryl Preble, Binghamtom, N.Y. Ed Bouchette's blog...

The suspect, Frank Pekular, 49, of Aliquippa, was later arrested by Hopewell police...He is charged with aggravated assault, robbery and other counts. According to a criminal complaint, Mr. Pekular went to the BP at 910 Saw Mill Run Blvd., Duquesne...

The goal of the Goodfellows Fund is to make sure that every child has a toy under the tree on Christmas morning. Your donations support the Marine Corps Toys for Tots program, which will distribute thousands of toys to needy...

But Bill Virdon, one of his pupils, doesn't put his candidacy in the realm of make-believe. "He deserves it...I wish I could vote," said Virdon, who played under Murtaugh on that 1960 team and later managed in four different organizations,...