Emotions could be high for Virginia Tech on Saturday. The Hokies (7-3, 3-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) are home against Pittsburgh (4-6, 2-4), and the game will be the final one at Lane Stadium for 17 seniors who will be honored before the contest. Center Eric Gallo isn’t sure how he will react, but hopes to … Continue reading
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pennsylvania man was arrested on child endangerment charges because he didn’t call 911 after the mother of his two children threatened to kill them and sent him videos of his son’s lifeless body during two hours’ worth of angry text messages, police said. Andre Price Jr., 23, of McKeesport, was jailed … Continue reading
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A former judge’s regret could lead to the early release of a drug kingpin whose case became well-known because of its connection to an organ transplant that saved Pennsylvania’s ailing governor in 1993. As a federal judge in 1996, Robert Cindrich sentenced Ronald Whethers to life in prison for cocaine trafficking because … Continue reading
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Stepping deeper into America’s race debate, Donald Trump on Thursday warned African-American protesters that their outrage was creating suffering in their own community, as he worked to walk a line between his law-and-order toughness and new minority outreach. “The rioting in our streets is a threat to all peaceful citizens and it … Continue reading
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A woman who was kidnapped at gunpoint by her husband while he was under home confinement on charges he beat and abducted her two months earlier was found dead inside a barn, and he was hospitalized with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, state police said Wednesday. Police found the couple Tuesday night after … Continue reading
CAMP FOSTER, Japan (AP) — Pittsburgh and Gonzaga made a long trip to Japan to play a college basketball game. It must have seemed a lot longer when they only got to play 20 minutes. The Armed Forces Classic between No. 9 Gonzaga and the Panthers was canceled at halftime because of slippery conditions on … Continue reading
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A woman who appeared with Bill Cosby on an educational children’s TV show as a teenager has sued saying he defamed her after she gave an interview claiming he sexually abused her in the 1980s. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday by 48-year-old Renita Hill, of Baldwin, a Pittsburgh suburb, says the incidents occurred … Continue reading
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh police say rapper Wiz Khalifa has been cited for urinating in public. City public safety spokeswoman Sonya Toler says it happened at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday October 10th behind a bar called The Flats on Pittsburgh’s South Side. Khalifa, whose real name is Cameron Jibril Thomaz, is a graduate of … Continue reading
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