Pittsburgh region again gets a failing grade for air quality in "State of the Air" report

Pittsburgh is in the top 12 and top 16 for the two worst air quality categories (smog and soot related air quality), worse than last year's report.

• Apr 23, 2025

Mike Patrick, longtime football and basketball broadcaster, dies at 80

Mike Patrick called countless college football and basketball games, and is best known for his work on ESPN's "Sunday Night Football" from 1987 through 2005.

• Apr 22, 2025

Record number of travelers plan to hit road for summer vacation, survey shows

A recent survey shows summer 2025 is shaping up to be the season of exploration.

• Apr 22, 2025

FDA stops short of synthetic food dye ban, calls on industry to stop use

Federal health officials want companies to swap out certain food dyes with natural alternatives.

• Apr 23, 2025

Cincinnati football player Jeremiah Kelly, 18, dies unexpectedly at home

Cincinnati football player Jeremiah Kelly died unexpectedly at his residence early Tuesday.

• Apr 22, 2025

Student loan borrowers in default face garnished wages

Nearly 10 million borrowers could be in default within a few months, according to the department.

• Apr 22, 2025

Walgreens to pay $300 million settlement in opioid prescriptions case

Walgreens has agreed to pay the government $300 million to settle claims that it unlawfully filled millions of invalid prescriptions.

• Apr 22, 2025

Instagram uses AI to crack down on teens posing as adults online

Instagram is expanding its use of AI to determine if kids are lying about their ages on the app, parent company Meta said on Monday.

• Apr 21, 2025

Trump takes aim at Biden, "Radical Left Lunatics," courts in Easter message

Minutes after sharing a more traditional Easter message on Truth Social, President Trump posted a longer, grievance-filled message.

• Apr 20, 2025

Steelers don't have a QB of the future. Finding one in the 2025 NFL draft is far from a sure thing

The Pittsburgh Steelers have plenty of questions as they prepare for the NFL draft.

• Apr 20, 2025

What's open and closed on Easter 2025?

Check out the list of the supermarkets, retailers, and fast food chains that are open on Easter and which are closed.

• Apr 20, 2025

Anti-Trump rallies held across the U.S. to protest administration's policies

Some of the protests, dubbed "50501 movement," "No Kings" and "Hands Off!," are drawing on themes from the American Revolutionary War.

• Apr 19, 2025

Judge strikes down an Ohio law limiting kids' use of social media as unconstitutional

A federal judge has permanently struck down an Ohio law that would have required children and teens under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps.

• Apr 19, 2025

In East Palestine derailment trial, railroad and chemical maker agree on who pays residents

Norfolk Southern reached an agreement with one of the two companies it has been trying to force to help pay for the $600 million class-action settlement it agreed to over its disastrous 2023 train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and the toxic chemicals that were released and burned.

• Apr 22, 2025

Remembering the Oklahoma City bombing victims, 30 years later

The Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995, is still the deadliest example of domestic terrorism in United States history.

• Apr 19, 2025

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