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A Wilkinsburg man was sentenced Thursday to 17½ to 40 years in prison for killing a man in Homewood last year. Khatrell Haynes-Morgan, 20, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and aggravated assault in March after reaching a plea deal with the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office, court records show. As ....
A West Mifflin man was sentenced Thursday to 15 to 35 years in prison for violently beating his 80-year-old mother and leaving her to die in their basement in 2019. Kenneth Burdick, 45, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to third-degree murder in the death of Dolores Burdick. Heath Leff, a ....
A Pittsburgh activist and art curator said that when she attempted to start a fire at two different pizza shops one night in October 2019 that she was mentally exhausted from fighting against a racist system. “My brain broke,” Nicky Jo Dawson told a judge on Thursday. “It, literally, was ....
An Allegheny County judge scolded a man who has gone through a half-dozen defense attorneys in the five years he’s been awaiting trial on double homicide charges, saying he could find himself in the position of having to represent himself in a death penalty case. “Words get around quickly,” Common ....
TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. For nearly an hour, Allegheny County homicide detectives pleaded with Douglas Berry to tell them where the body was. It had been 25 days since 67-year-old Elizabeth “Betsy” Wiesenfeld had gone missing, and weeks of investigation had pointed the detectives directly at Berry, a handyman who had worked for her. Video from Wiesenfeld’s Whitehall neighborhood showed Berry’s distinctive pickup truck in her driveway on the morning she went missing, the investigators told him. They found her debit card albeit burned at Berry’s house in Liberty. ....