Cranberry Township
CRIME & SAFETY
"Suspicious person" at center of massive Cranberry Township search found dead
CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) -- A man is dead after a massive search in Cranberry Township prompted a shelter-in-place order for all residents on Tuesday afternoon, police said. The police chief said Cranberry Highlands Golf Course employees called after they saw a broken down car with weapons inside and a man who wasn't quite coherent on Turfgrass Drive off of Freshcorn Road."Our officers arrived there a short time later. The vehicle was unoccupied and there were weapons in the vehicle," Cranberry Township Police Chief Kevin Meyer said. "As they were going through the vehicle and securing the contents and getting ready...
Fire Damages Townhouse In Cranberry
A townhouse was damaged following a fire Monday afternoon in Cranberry Township. It was around 2:30 p.m. when crews were called to a house fire in the Cranberry Pointe housing development, which is just off Haine School Road. When crews got on scene, there were no visible flames showing. However,...
'Our entire building was trashed': Pittsburgh all-stars cheer gym vandalized, left with thousands of dollars in damage
PITTSBURGH — A cheer gym in Pittsburgh was vandalized Monday morning and left trashed, according to the owner. Kathy Long, owner of Fire and Ice Allstars, said Pittsburgh police are investigating the Monday morning break-in. Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 reached out to police on Tuesday for the latest on...
Man Charged After Threatening People At Gas Station
A Chicora man is facing charges after threating two people with a weapon at a gas station in Butler Township. Township Police were called to the Get Go on North Main Street this past Friday after a dispute broke out. 41-year-old Matthew Alexander is accused of brandishing a taser and...
Man Flown To Hospital After I-79 Crash
A man was flown to a Pittsburgh trauma center after a crash that shut down I-79 for hours last night. The accident happened just before 8 p.m. in the northbound lane of I-79 in Muddy Creek Township. State police did not reveal any identities but say the driver of a...
Boy trapped in burning Pittsburgh-area home rescued after calling mom's cellphone
INGRAM, Pa. (KDKA) -- An 11-year-old boy trapped inside a burning home in Ingram used his cell phone to call his mom and help firefighters find him. Pittsburgh firefighters said they were called to help with a fire on Leslie Street just before 10:45 p.m. When they got there, a woman said her son was trapped up on the third floor, where arriving crews had reported heavy smoke. The boy used his cell phone to call his mom, telling her he was in a low closet area up on the third floor, firefighters said. The chief in command asked if the child could yell so firefighters could hear him, but his mom said he couldn't. So the chief told the mom to tell her boy to bang on the wall instead.Crews made their way to the third floor and found the boy in a small storage closet. He was conscious and alert and was taken to medics for evaluation.In a post on social media, the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire thanked those involved in the rescue, writing, "Excellent work by all!" Officials didn't say how the fire might have started.
Leader says it's time to fix mental health treatment after 2 random attacks Downtown
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Two random attacks on innocent people in Downtown Pittsburgh in June have raised public alarm and concerns about the criminal justice system being broken.In each of these attacks, the alleged attacker has been known to police, who said they are experiencing homelessness and suffering from addiction, mental illness, or both. They've been arrested time and again but have seen little or no jail time or have not gotten the help they need. Last week, police arrested Jameel Huff for randomly attacking 73-year-old Jan Levinson, who fell to the sidewalk and cracked his head on the concrete....
Gun found at Pittsburgh airport security checkpoint during busy travel week
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- TSA officers at the Pittsburgh International Airport said they found a man's loaded gun inside his wife's carry-on bag during a busy holiday travel week. Transportation Security Administration officers stopped the West Virginia couple at a security checkpoint after finding a .22 caliber handgun loaded with five bullets in the wife's bag. She told officers she didn't know it was in there and that it belonged to her husband. He was traveling with her and confirmed it was his, officers said. He faces a stiff federal financial penalty for having a gun at a checkpoint, the TSA said. Allegheny...
Two bodies found in Moon Township's Montour Run Creek Friday
MOON TWP. ― Police report bodies of two men were found floating in the Montour Run Creek on Friday afternoon. According to first responders, the call of a body located in a Moon Township portion of the creek was first received shortly after 4 p.m. June 28. As divers worked to recover the body from around 6 feet of water, they soon found a second body nearby in a portion of the creek that was around 10 feet deep.
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