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When Greg Brown entered a plea 27 years after a fire on Pittsburgh’s Bricelyn Street killed three city firefighters, the government saw it as a victory. Though the unusual Alford plea made earlier this year allows Brown to continue to proclaim his innocence and carries no additional sentence, he took
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Callers to Montgomery County 911 reported gas odors in the borough of Pottstown 127 times in the 29 months before a tremendous explosion in late May destroyed a duplex and killed four children and an adult, according to public records obtained by The Morning Call.
By the time three people were gunned down in mid-­October at a North Side bus stop, Pittsburgh police had already spent the year cleansing the city of hundreds of firearms. Lost guns, stolen guns, crime guns — officers had been taking them all out of circulation at a rapid clip.
At least six people were injured after a shooting erupted on Friday outside a church in Pittsburgh where a funeral was taking place, according to Pittsburgh Police Commander Rick Ford.
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Seventy-five days after four children and one adult were killed in a massive explosion that blew apart their Pottstown home, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Pottstown Police Department disagree on which one is leading the law enforcement investigation.