Two women are suing the West Homestead police after an officer chased a suspect at speeds greater than 100 mph on East Carson Street, resulting in the suspect crashing head-on into their car, injuring them and killing himself. Lexis Windsheimer, of McKees Rocks, and Kayona Smart, of Brentwood, filed the
Jean Armany suffered serious injuries on June 15, 2018, when her car was broadsided by a man driving recklessly in Plum. The Shaler woman had 25 fractures that required immobilizers and surgery and her lacerated lungs required chest tubes. Her 90-year-old mother, Olga Kocon, a passenger in Armany’s car, was
A Pittsburgh district judge on Wednesday dropped attempted homicide charges against four city teens accused of shooting an unconscious man with a BB gun multiple times as he was lying in a Downtown alley in late November. The man, identified as Christopher Gaylor, 50, of Cadiz, Ohio, later died of
A former University of Pittsburgh neuroresearcher convicted of poisoning his wife with cyanide lost his appeal in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court on Thursday. Robert Ferrante, 73, who is serving a sentence of life in prison without parole at the State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, was found guilty of first-degree
The operator of concessions at Pittsburgh International Airport has accused Allegheny County Airport Authority of using bullying tactics to try to get out of its lease with the company and then, when that didn’t work, illegally terminating the contract. Fraport Pittsburgh filed a lawsuit against the authority in Allegheny County