A Baldwin Borough contractor accused of taking nearly $100,000 for jobs he failed to perform — while withdrawing tens of thousands of dollars at Pittsburgh’s Rivers Casino — was charged this week with home improvement fraud.

An interim policy for Carnegie Mellon University’s Fence — a student-painted, billboard-style forum for free speech and expression — still leaves some gray areas, particularly on controversial issues, some members of the campus community say.

The first truck transport containing superloads of heavy equipment — weighing up to 380 tons — has been delayed once again.

The Pittsburgh Pirates entered their series opener against the Chicago Cubs trying to figure out how to solve Shota Imanaga, the left-hander who had dominated them over his six previous appearances.

Pennsylvania now leads the nation in confirmed cases of measles this year as an outbreak of the highly contagious disease continues to spread through the state.

PennDOT plans mobile lane restrictions along Interstate 279 next week as crews prepare for preservation work on the Fort Duquesne Bridge.

Jennifer Messaros walked along Broadview Boulevard in Harrison on Friday, American flag in hand, thinking about the unsung heroes from Sept. 11, 2001.

Harrison Brunicke had a brief offseason.

Gordon Felt refuses to forget.

Duquesne wide receiver Ryan Petras knows he’s got big shoes to fill.

An unheralded African American jazz revolutionary from East Liberty whose progressive passages helped pave the way to the genre’s future had a stretch of street in her old neighborhood renamed Mary Lou Williams Way on Friday.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots wide receiver A.J. Brown will be sidelined for a minimum of four weeks because he’s being placed on injured reserve with a right ankle injury, a person with knowledge of the move told the Associated Press on Friday.

Westmoreland County court officials said a growing number of residents are ignoring summons for jury duty.

Several thousand people made their way to the Flight 93 Memorial Plaza in Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Friday to mark the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Ryan O’Hearn earmarked the Chicago Cubs series as his goal to return to the Pittsburgh Pirates from a left quad muscle strain, and the first baseman/right fielder was right on schedule.

NEW YORK — Americans commemorated the 25th anniversary of 9/11 on Friday, remembering the shock, the dead and the sweeping consequences of the al-Qaida attacks on symbols of U.S. might and prosperity.

When children forget their lunch, can’t solve a math problem or don’t know how to get somewhere, the instinct for parents can be to step in immediately. But sometimes, the problem is an opportunity.

NEW YORK — Two decades after U.S. authorities locked Khalid Sheikh Mohammed away at a military detention center in Cuba, the purported mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks sometimes seems barely any closer to being put on trial than the day he arrived.

Pennsylvania’s new RESTART initiative will give young adults in Allegheny County coaching, mentoring and work-based training. Pittsburgh employers adopting AI should borrow that logic.

A brick house built in 1951 boasts something most homes don’t deliver on in the Fox Chapel Area School District — a super-affordable asking price.

Pittsburgh’s food scene is seeing another round of changes, with two businesses closing (including Bravo! Italian Kitchen’s Galleria of Mt. Lebanon location) and two more opening and expanding.

Barry Melrose should be in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Should have been inducted while he was still alive.

CORON, Philippines — The death toll from a fire on a passenger fire in the Philippines has risen to 35, as more bodies were recovered Friday from the burned wreck, with 54 still missing.

HONG KONG — Three Hong Kong activists who organized annual vigils in remembrance of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were sentenced Friday to about five to seven years in prison in a case widely seen as a barometer of the city’s eroding freedoms as Beijing clamps down on dissent.

The Westmoreland Museum of American Art is hosting art exhibits presenting both the majestic beauty of the natural world, and the way that human progress has changed it.