A jury on Tuesday returned a split verdict for two men charged with killing a teenager in Wilkinsburg in 2021. The panel found Deontae Nalls, 24, of Plum, and Daeshuan Smith, 22, of Penn Hills both not guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. However, the jury
Allegheny County homicide detectives never followed up on information they received more than 2½ years ago that a gun seized in a traffic stop matched one used to kill a teenager in Wilkinsburg four months earlier. The gun’s existence was a surprising piece of evidence that suddenly appeared this week
Being a mom isn’t for the faint of heart. Gone are the days when the mother of the household was expected to stay at home, raise children, cook and clean. Today’s moms hold down 40-hour-a-week-plus jobs. They volunteer. They run businesses, home-school their kids — and so much more. Overcoming
Police on Friday continued to search for two suspects connected to the killing of a 15-year-old waiting in a school van in Pittsburgh. Marquis Campbell was sitting in the van waiting to go home after school about 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday outside Oliver Citywide Academy. The school, in Marshall-Shadeland, is
Shantel Pizaro wonders how her daughter will be able to get through a birthday without her twin brother by her side. After 15 years of birthdays together, 16 will be bittersweet. “How can she have a birthday every year with her twin, and now one of the biggest birthdays they