The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center expects to file an appeal after two Allegheny County juries have awarded $12.5 million in damages to the family of a 24-year-old accountant who died in 2003 after an abscess was misdiagnosed as a …
Police say an out-of-control car slammed into the front of an empty western Pennsylvania church but no one was inside at the time. Officials say the driver lost control and struck a utility pole and tree before going airborne and …
A western Pennsylvania woman is set for sentencing on charges that she provided a false alibi for a man later convicted and sentenced to five years in prison for setting fire to his home and an attached business in rural …
A tug pilot distracted by cellphone calls amid a family emergency was sentenced Tuesday to one year and a day in prison for a deadly river crash in Philadelphia that killed two young tourists. Pilot Matthew Devlin of Catskill, N.Y., …
Coaches are likely to get new rules shortly on how they handle concussions sustained by Pennsylvania student athletes. The state Senate voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of the Safety in Youth Sports Act, which would require coaches to remove students …
A bill that would authorize 19 of Pennsylvania’s most-populated cities to install red-light cameras in an effort to improve traffic safety won approval from the state Senate on Tuesday. Senators voted 35-14 to send the bill to the state House …
The owner of a former northwestern Pennsylvania furniture plant destroyed in a fire last year says volunteer firefighters who fought the blaze didn’t try hard enough. The Erie Times-News reports Carl Boone is suing the borough of Union City and …
Allegheny County, Pa., settled two lawsuits by former jail inmates who allege that they were mistreated. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the county settled one case for $30,000 and another for $23,000, but didn’t admit liability in either case. The …
Health officials in Pennsylvania say a suburban Philadelphia woman is the state’s first reported case of someone becoming ill after eating a cantaloupe tainted with listeria. The Pennsylvania Health Department said Tuesday the elderly woman from Montgomery County was hospitalized …
Pittsburgh City Council has approved paying $6,000 to settle an excessive force lawsuit filed by a man serving 10 to 20 years in prison for a bank robbery and 20-mile, rush-hour police chase. Tuesday’s vote settles the lawsuit filed in …