Three people were injured after a sedan and bus were involved in a crash in Pittsburgh.
Allegheny County dispatchers say emergency crews were called to the intersection of Noblestown Road and Obey Street at 9:52 p.m. on Saturday.
Pittsburgh Regional Transit officials say their investigation indicates that the sedan drove into oncoming traffic and hit the bus.
The driver of the sedan was taken to UPMC Mercy. Their injuries are unknown at this time.
18 people were on the bus at the time of the crash. Pittsburgh Regional Transit said the bus driver was taken to a hospital with a possible knee injury and a passenger who might have suffered a shoulder injury was also taken to a hospital.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available.
PITTSBUGRH — Police are looking for a man who robbed a bank in Pittsburgh’s Southside in broad daylight.
Officers were called to the 1100 block of E. Carson Street for reports of a robbery happening at the First National Bank just after 10 a.m. on Saturday.
A bank teller told officers that a middle-aged man with a red bandanna demanded $50 and $100 bills after approaching his station. The man made threats and said he had a gun.
Surveillance video from the bank shows the suspect driving a 2008 silver Mazda SUV.
A shooting investigation in Clairton ended in Bethel Park Friday after two of the three suspect attempted to flee from police.
Allegheny County police say they were called to a report of shots fired into a residence on the 800 block of 3rd Street in Clairton around 11:40 a.m. Investigators were able to develop the description of a vehicle of interest.
About 30 minutes later, officers with Whitehall and Brentwood police spotted the vehicle along Route 51 and attempted a traffic stop. Police say three men ran from the vehicle. Officers were able to take one man into custody, but the other two were able to get back in the vehicle and flee the scene.
A short time later, the vehicle was spotted in Bethel Park and Bethel Park police began to pursue it. The vehicle lost control and crashed at the intersection of Library Road and Clifton Road. Police said the two men then fled on foot. Both were taken into custody after a brief pursuit on foot.
Police say all three individuals involved in the incident are now in custody. A firearm was also recovered during the investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call the county police tip line at 1-833-ALL-TIPS.
The names of the three men in custody were not immediately available.
A local man is behind bars after police said he assaulted a female and impersonated an officer.
Pittsburgh police said Andrew Ranallo, 31, from Bloomfield, met a female at a restaurant, where, after a period of time, he identified himself as a “police officer” through identification cards.
The victim told police she felt safe to go to another location with him after he identified himself as an officer.
Ranallo assaulted the victim inside his car and refused to let her out. She took the opportunity to jump out of the car while stopped at a red light and ran for help, police said.
Ranallo is charged with indecent assault, criminal attempt indecent assault, false imprisonment and impersonating a public servant. He’s being held at the Allegheny County Jail.
The investigation is ongoing and more charges may be coming, police said.
The judge in Donald Trump’s Georgia election case declined to outright disqualify DA Fani Willis, but ruled that either she or prosecutor Nathan Wade must step aside.
A small dog was attacked by a coyote in the city’s Mount Washington neighborhood, Pittsburgh Public Safety said in an alert Thursday.
The Jack Russell suffered injuries to its face during the incident, which happened Monday in a private backyard on William Street, a public safety spokesperson told Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 in an email.
The coyote was scared off by the owners of the dog being attacked.
“It’s typical for coyotes to go after small dogs/cats when there are no people around and to be easily scared away by people with loud noise and arm waving — which was the case in this situation when the dog’s owners went into the backyard after hearing the attack,” Public Safety spokesperson Emily Bourne said in an email.
In the wake of the incident, Pittsburgh Animal Care & Control was reminding people to remove food sources and not leave pet food or unsecured garbage outside.
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The shuttered J. Edward Hutchinson Parking Garage in Greensburg could be demolished and replaced with a new parking lot by the end of the summer, if the state approves the city’s request to repurpose funding.
Greensburg City Council approved an agreement Monday with Independence Health System Westmoreland Hospital to repurpose $1.5 million in state Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program funding to demolish the adjacent Hutchinson parking garage.
The 475-space parking garage, built more than 40 years ago as supplemental parking to the hospital, is connected to the hospital by an enclosed walkway over Shearer Street. It has been closed for more than two years because of its deteriorating condition.
Family Dollar, the struggling discount chain that caters to low-income customers predominantly in cities, said Wednesday it will close nearly 1,000 stores.
A powerful March winter storm is rolling through Colorado and could drop a foot or more of snow in Denver. Several winter storm warnings are in effect for Colorado, including Denver.
Troopers say they found 273 pounds of marijuana — which has a street value of about $400,000 — and two handguns during the traffic stop.
Zicarelli says Qingxue Guo and Tingting Huang are facing manufacture, delivery or possession with intent to deliver charges.
HEMPFIELD TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Two people are facing charges after troopers in Westmoreland County say they found $400,000 worth of marijuana in their car during a traffic stop
Westmoreland County District Attorney Nicole Ziccarelli said this incident began when troopers stopped a car on eastbound I-76 in Hempfield Township for traffic violations on Monday.
Those troopers reportedly noticed “multiple indicators of criminal activity” and requested a K-9, who alerted to the odor of narcotics.
Moscow is ready to use nuclear weapons if there is a threat to the existence of the Russian state but “there has never been such a need,” President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with state media published Wednesday.
Donald Trump has clinched the Republican nomination for president, CNN projects, setting up a rematch with Joe Biden, the incumbent president who secured the Democratic nomination earlier Tuesday night.
The judge overseeing the Georgia 2020 election interference case has dismissed some of the charges against ex-President Donald Trump, but others remain. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee wrote Wednesday in an order that six of the charges in the indictment must be quashed, including three against Trump.
The US House of Representatives passed a bill to ban TikTok in the US unless its Chinese owner sells the video-sharing app. But the measure faces a less certain future in the Senate. Even if it becomes law, there are sure to be a wave of legal challenges. Alex Barinka reports on “Bloomberg Technology.” (Source: Bloomberg)
PITTSBURGH — The city of Pittsburgh is preparing to clean up a homeless encampment downtown on Wednesday.
A sign posted by the encampment on Fort Pitt Boulevard, near Grant Street, says everyone has until 5 p.m. Wednesday to vacate the tightly packed area currently lined with tents, trash, blankets, and even boxes of Narcan.
This is the second time in a matter of months that the city is clearing a downtown homeless camp.
Illinois State Police responded to a traffic crash involving a commercial vehicle and a school bus on Monday.
RUSHVILLE, Ill. (WICS) — Two adults and three children are dead after a school bus crashed into commercial vehicle on Monday.
According to the Illinois State Police, the bus was traveling east on U.S. Route 24 at Parkview Road around 11:30 a.m. and for an unknown reason crossed the center line and was hit by a semi-carrying sand.
Both vehicles became engulfed in flames as a result. The bus driver, truck driver, and all three students on the bus were pronounced dead on the scene.
ISP says the accident is still under investigation.
Sky 4, Pittsburgh’s only news helicopter, saw police and medics blocking off the road in response to the crash. Crews could be seen transporting the damaged SUV and pickup truck.
Rescue crews had to extract the woman driving the SUV from the vehicle, a Public Safety spokesperson said. The driver was taken to a hospital, where she later died.
The driver of the truck was taken to the hospital in serious condition.
A third vehicle was hit in the crash but sustained minor damage. The driver of that vehicle reportedly had no injuries.
East Carson Street was closed off around the crash site until about 4 p.m.
It is unclear what caused the vehicles to crash. Pittsburgh police are investigating.
A Pennsylvania Lottery Match 6 lottery ticket hit for nearly $900,000 on Sunday night. The ticket matching all six numbers, 5,8,18,23,30 and 37 was sold at the 7-Eleven location on Route 30 in Irwin.
Benny Safdie, from left, Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., and Josh Hartnett, winners of the award for the award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture for “Oppenheimer,” pose in the press room during the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
NEW YORK (AP) — The Oscars are poised to do something on Sunday that they haven’t done in a very long time: Hand its top award to a blockbuster.
After years of favoring smaller movies like “The Shape of Water” and “Nomadland, ” the clear best-picture favorite “Oppenheimer” — with just shy of $1 billion in tickets sold — is steam rolling toward the kind of big-movie dominance the Academy Awards hasn’t seen in two decades.
You have to go back to Ben Affleck’s “Argo” (2012) to find a best-picture winner that’s grossed more than $100 million domestically. Academy voters’ tastes have instead largely favored smaller independently produced films like “Moonlight,” “Nomadland” and “CODA,” an Apple release with zero reported box office in North America. Last year, the scrappy, distinctly un-Oscar-like indie “Everything Everywhere All at Once” played the role of awards-season underdog until it became an unlikely Academy Awards heavyweight.
Pending free agent QB Russell Wilson won’t be available to sign anywhere until he officially becomes a free agent on Wednesday with the start of the new league year, but he was granted permission by the Denver Broncos to get an early start on his visits to find his next landing place.
Three people were injured after a sedan and bus were involved in a crash in Pittsburgh.
A local man is behind bars after police said he assaulted a female and impersonated an officer.
