A man who died shortly after a confrontation with Swissvale police officers on Aug. 5 had a similar encounter with police in New Kensington just four months earlier. (Today)
A man was injured last night in a hang-gliding accident in Rostraver, police dispatchers said. ... (Today)
A Jeannette man was sentenced to 13 months in prison yesterday for stealing guns from a Delmont store in January. ... (Today)
The U.S. marshal's Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force arrested a suspect in the robbery and shooting of a man in Penn Hills and netted a second suspect in unrelated cases after finding both men in Arnold. ... (Yesterday)
A Westmoreland County man was killed and another person was injured yesterday when the all-terrain vehicle they were riding went off the side of Route 819 in Bell in the county, state police said. (08/17/2008)