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The man who was shot twice in the chest last night in Market Square has died, confirmed just moments ago by Pittsburgh Public Safety. The 19 year old got into an altercation with a known actor, and that person according to police shot the teen around 11 o clock last night. He was transported to the hospital but as we've just learned, he has died. The identity of the person who died has not been id...

A push to remove lead from school drinking water moves forward after a Senate hearing in Upper St. Clair today. Lawmakers heard testimony on Sen. Devlin Robinson’s Senate Bill 759, which would require schools to replace outdated drinking fountains. Advocates, including David Masur, with Penn Environment backed the proposal, saying current lead testing policies have fallen short. The bill would req...

The newly refurbished and refreshed Market Square in Downtown Pittsburgh has some new policies in place. The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership and the City of Pittsburgh has implemented a temporary restriction that requires anyone under the age of 18 must be accompanied by someone over 21 years of age in Market Square during certain hours. For now, that policy is in effect from Thursday through Sund...

Two people are dead after an apparent murder-suicide at a Butler County home early this morning. Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Bertha Cazy tells KDKA Radio the shooting happened around 1 a.m. along Graywyck Drive in Seven Fields. Trooper Cazy says a woman was found shot to death inside the home. A short time later, a man was found dead in a wooded area behind the house in neighboring Cranberry...

Will teens be welcome at the NFL Draft? Officials with the Pittsburgh Police, Pittsburgh Public Schools and Community organizations held a news conference to say they are welcome, but bad behavior is not. Pittsburgh Police Chief Jason Lando says there will be zero tolerance for bad behavior. And Lieutenant Bob Monticelli of the Downtown Public Safety Center says, they are well aware of social medi...

Pittsburgh Regional Transit officials have proposed a 588-million-dollar preliminary budget package for the new fiscal year. This budget features no service cuts, layoffs or fare increases. This proposal marks a major turnaround for PRT from the previous year, when severe cuts were threatened due to funding shortages, but was avoided thanks to state funding support.

Port Authority Police are investigating a fight involving juveniles on a Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus Friday. Pittsburgh Regional Transit says an investigation is underway after a video circulating online shows several juveniles involved in a physical altercation on a PRT bus. The footage appears to show multiple people yelling inside the bus before one person punches another, triggering a larg...

Officials at Pittsburgh International are preparing for a dramatic uptick in traffic during the NFL Draft, both commercial and private. Airport spokesman Bob Kerlik telling KDKA Radio that while they're not seeing extra flights being added, they do expect the number of people on those flights to be very high.

ICE agents are no longer conducting security checks at Pittsburgh International. The Airport Authority confirms for KDKA Radio the agents have left. They were sent to multiple airports last month by the President to help ease the congestion at security checkpoints....after Homeland Security funding was shut off----and employees who weren't getting paid weren't showing up.

A toddler was lightly injured by a wolf at a Pennsylvania theme park zoo after he crawled under a fence and stuck his hand into the animal’s enclosure. Officials at the ZooAmerica North Wildlife Park, part of the HersheyPark Theme Park,onfirmed Sunday that an unsupervised child reached the metal enclosure around the wolf habitat on Sunday morning and put his hand through. That's when a wolf approa...

Excitement is building over tonight's Pirates home opener - less than 4 hours away!

Beginning June 5th, drivers caught on their phones will face a $50 fine plus court costs. The law, named for Paul Miller, who was killed by a distracted driver in 2010, allows hands-free calls and GPS but bans texting or scrolling while driving. Nearly 10,000 crashes in 2024 involved distracted drivers, resulting in more than 6,000 injuries and 49 fatalities and officials say just a moment of inat...

The price for a gallon of gas continues to skyrocket, both nationally and locally. The national average for a gallon of gas rose above $4 today. Prices have increased more than $1 since the US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28th. In Pittsburgh, Triple-A reports the average is $3.97. The last time gas was above $4 per gallon was in 2022 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Another non-profit is giving the City millions of dollars. The University of Pittsburgh's $5 million, 5 year investment will be used by the City to target three key areas: neighborhood parks, main street business districts and public safety.

Police have been preparing this week for a possible Downtown takeover just days after a brawl at Market Square. Planning started as soon as one of the department's crime analysts spotted a flyer on social media calling for a youth takeover. Police Chief Jason Lando talked about it with KDKA's Marty Griffin. The time and location is unclear. Chief Lando said on-duty officers are being moved from ot...

Pittsburgh Public Schools is urging parents to discourage students from attending a planned “Downtown Takeover,” saying the event is unsanctioned and raises safety concerns. Public Safety Director Sheldon Williams tells Marty Griffin the city is seeing what he calls an informal youth culture — a description he says has drawn criticism. Williams says he wants to focus more on “prevention and interv...

The Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office served a search warrant Monday on the City of Pittsburgh. The warrant is sealed but sources say it involves no bid contracts under the Gainey administration. A statement from the DA's office said the warrant was sealed for “good cause” without elaborating further. A spokesperson for Mayor Corey O’Connor’s administration declined to comment on the inv...

Reaction is coming in to legislation introduced today in Pittsburgh Council that would prohibit police from working with ICE. The City GOP issued a statement saying federal immigration enforcement is the responsibility of federal agencies....adding the bills would set a dangerous precedent about selectively cooperating with federal authorities. Some public commenters agreed. But supporters spoke o...

A month before Pittsburgh hosts the NFL Draft, Commissioner Roger Goodell gave KDKA Radio's Michael Bartley an exclusive interview this morning. Goodell says the draft has changed a lot in his more than 40 years with the League....going from a hotel ballroom event to an internationally-attended three-day spectacular. He says it will give Pittsburgh a chance to shine...as the city where memories ar...

Community College of Beaver County is the victim of a cyber-attack. Marty Griffin broke the story on KDKA just moments ago. It is an encryption-based attack on their data (cryptolocker). All college IT resources are currently locked down and the campus closed as of 9:30 a.m. Students and faculty are on spring break this week.

Some state lawmakers want to know why gasoline prices have gone up about 25 cents a gallon since late February. Two Democratic State House members from Eastern PA want Attorney General Dave Sunday to investigate the sudden spike in prices. Joe Ciresi and Jim Haddock accuse some gas station owners of hiking prices immediately after the US struck Iran---even though the fuel in their tanks was alread...

Two women were found dead on Wednesday in Zelienople and a man also deceased in Hillside, Illinois after a murder-suicide. Sources say they were a husband, wife and daughter. State Police say the man was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after he reported the women's deaths in Pennsylvania. Officers sent to a home in the 2-hundred block of Dior Drive in Zelienople, found the women dea...

Fans looking to take part in next month's NFL Draft can now register for activities. News Radio KDKA's David Ballarotto has details. Fans can sign up for free entry to events by downloading the NFL One Pass app or visiting NFL Dot com/Slash Draft Access. The NFL Draft Experience---an interactive football theme park with sections both inside Acrisure Stadium and Point State Park. That's where fans...

Allegheny County officials have released a statement about the hateful and threatening messages heard Monday afternoon and agian today on public safety radio channels. Emergency Services says the system was not hacked and an unknown user transmitted the music and messages, which included a death threat against Mayor Corey O'Connor. An investigation involving Emergency Services, County Police and F...