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The warden at the Macomb Correctional Facility has been removed from his position amid an internal investigation, state officials confirmed Monday.

Jurors in Allegheny County deliberated for about six hours over two days before convicting Martell Smith of three counts of second-degree murder in the December 2017 fire.

A Pennsylvania man previously convicted of setting a house fire in Pittsburgh that killed a child and two women faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man convicted of having set a house fire that killed a young child and two women in Pittsburgh 4 1/2 years ago now faces a life prison sentence without possibility of parole.

Prosecutors said Martell Smith intentionally set the fire on Bennett Street in Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood back in 2017 after a fight at a bar in Penn Hills.

An Allegheny County jury on Thursday convicted a man of three counts of second-degree murder in connection with a Homewood fire that killed three people in 2017. The charges carry a mandatory sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole for Martell Smith, 45, who had a home

The victims didn’t have a chance. Sandra Carter Douglas. Shamira Staten. Ch’yenne Manning. None of them, said Deputy District Attorney Brian Catanzarite, played any role in a fight Martell Smith had early on the morning of Dec. 20, 2017. A fight, the prosecutor continued, that drove Smith into such a

Martell Smith spent nearly eight hours in a Pittsburgh police interview room on Dec. 20, 2017, being questioned about a fire in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood that killed three people earlier that day. Investigators suspected the fire had been purposefully set and that gasoline was used. They also knew that when

In the minutes and hours after a home on Bennett Street in Homewood burned, the man accused of setting the fire walked back and forth along neighboring streets, his image captured repeatedly. During that time, witnesses testified Friday, Martell Smith bragged about what he’d done. “The defendant was at the

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A death penalty trial has begun for a man accused of having set a house fire that killed a young child and two women in Pittsburgh 4 1/2 years ago.