The Allegheny County Board of Health pared back its controversial paid parental leave proposal Wednesday, shaving six weeks off the proposed benefit and loosening requirements after weeks of intense public feedback.

Thank you, Howard. And happy birthday.

Springdale Council is raising some eyebrows with a new policy that restricts the movement of media, and the public, at its meetings.

WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson is closing up the House early, sending lawmakers home Wednesday to campaign for the midterm elections after what he claims is the most productive Congress in decades.

Hazmat crews responded to Pittsburgh’s North Shore on Wednesday afternoon after an envelope containing white powder was found on the sixth floor of the Peoples Gas building, TribLive news partner WTAE reported.

Last week: 10-3 (76.9%)

Mt. Pleasant and Derry have been football rivals since 1961.

Last week: 8-3 (72.7%)

Here’s a look at the don’t-miss matchups for Week 4 in the A-K Valley:

Deer Lakes scored 48 points in last week’s nonconference home game against Freedom.

Prost! Oktoberfest season is in full swing around Pittsburgh, with breweries and communities breaking out the lagers, lederhosen and German food. Here are seven celebrations running from this weekend into early October.

Feeding the Spirit fundraiser

Six years ago, Pittsburgh Pirates center fielder and shortstop Oneil Cruz faced criminal charges for his involvement in a motor vehicle crash in his native Dominican Republic that killed three people riding on a motorcycle.

GENEVA — The head of the U.N. health agency is hailing “encouraging signs” in the fight against an Ebola outbreak in one part of eastern Congo, while warning that case counts are rising fast in another as officials race to tamp down the virus.

Sage’s Army is set to hold its first Recovery Community Softball Tournament on Sept. 19 at Hempfield Park.

Cleveland’s got serious work to do, like remaining a portion of Lake Erie.

Westmoreland County is at a crossroads. For generations, our county government has operated under essentially the same traditional structure: three elected county commissioners and numerous independently elected row offices. While that structure has served the county for decades, the challenges facing Westmoreland County today should cause us to ask a ...

Allegheny Township will have to pay $25,500 back to the state because of an accounting snafu, township officials said.

The execution of a man who killed two real estate agents in Georgia was halted by a judge’s late-night decision, at least for now, while an execution in Texas of a man convicted of a rural triple murder was still expected to take place Wednesday.

State funding will support the purchase of three police vehicles in Heidelberg, along with other projects in the Chartiers Valley area.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Kosovo’s former President Hashim Thaci was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Wednesday after being found guilty of war crimes committed during the war for independence from Serbia in 1998-99.