Wind gusts of up to 45 miles an hour and up to an inch of rain are expected here in Pittsburgh, but the most severe weather will hit communities in the Laurel Highlands.
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Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop’s biggest names of the 1990s with hits including “Gangsta’s Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage,” has died. Manager Jarez Posey tells The Associated Press that Coolio, whose legal name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr., died at the Los Angeles home of a friend on Wednesday.
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WESA is collecting stories and questions regarding abortion access.
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A federal judge has ordered the FBI to speed up the release of records about the agency’s search for buried Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania.
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Southwestern Pennsylvania will experience wet, cold and even snowy weather Monday.
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Pennsylvania’s Labor and Industry secretary says the state “continues to rebound strongly” from the COVID-19 pandemic with unemployment dropping by two-tenths of a point in March.
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Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins has been killed in an auto accident in Florida. Haskins’ agent, Cedric Saunders, told ESPN about the quarterback’s death, and the Steelers released a statement extending their condolences.
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Pressley Ridge says it has received a $10 million donation from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.
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State police say a deadly pileup involving 80 vehicles on a Pennsylvania interstate during a snow squall killed six people.
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A Pennsylvania county coroner says at least three people died in a collision involving dozens of vehicles on an interstate and more than a dozen people sought treatment at area hospitals.
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State police have opened a driving under the influence investigation following the deaths of two Pennsylvania troopers and a civilian struck by a vehicle on an interstate in Philadelphia early Monday.