Sources: WPXI
A suspect, identified as Luigi Mangione, is arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States, for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. 2024-12-9
A presidential debate hosted by ABC News between U.S. vice president and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and former president and Republican nominee Donald Trump takes place at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 2024-09-10
Escaped U.S. fugitive Danilo Cavalcante is captured in Pennsylvania by a team of tactical officers after a two week manhunt. 2023-09-13
The perpetrator of the 2018 mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, is sentenced to death. 2023-08-2
The United States Census Bureau announces the country's total population to be over 331 million people, thereby marking the second-slowest growth rate in its history. It also announces that Texas will gain two congressional seats during the redistricting process, with Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon gaining one seat each; California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia will each lose a seat. 2021-04-26
Pennsylvania reports 12,884 new cases in the past 24 hours, a new single-day record since the pandemic began. 2020-12-5
A gunman opens fire at the Tree of Life - Or L'Simcha Congregation synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, killing at least 11 people. The perpetrator 46-years old Robert Bowers was an active user of the social media service Gab where he had posted anti-Semitic and racist content as well as one before the shooting that said "HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I'm going in". 2018-10-27
Two missionaries from the United States are found slain in separate areas of rural St. Mary parish in Jamaica. Randy Hentzel and Harold Nichols both worked for a Pennsylvania-based Christian charity called Teams for Medical Missions. 2016-05-1
Pittsburgh police arrest Ryan Williams for the October 18, 2014 McKeesport, Pennsylvania arson attack and charge him with arson, burglary, and six counts of criminal homicide. The victims include four children ages 2 through 7. 2015-01-16
A gunman kills one person and injures seven others before himself being shot dead at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 2012-03-8