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Disputes over tens of thousands of pages of documents and at least one key deposition have bedeviled a three-year-old court fight over the late publisher Richard Mellon Scaife's use of a family trust, attorneys revealed at a three-hour courtroom argument Tuesday.

Feb. 19 is the 50th anniversary of the first “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” being broadcast on PBS. To mark the occasion, the Fred Rogers Center in the late Mr. Rogers’ hometown of Latrobe plans to screen that episode at 7 p.m. that Monday in the Fred M. Rogers Building at Saint Vincent College. The show originally aired on Friday, Feb. 19, 1968.

A Wendy’s restaurant employee shot a 27-year-old man in the chest during a confrontation inside the Edgewood restaurant Monday — and then called an Allegheny County police detective and told him about it, according to court records.

“A lot of people say 800,000; some people said — yesterday, first time I heard 650 [thousand]. I also heard 3 million. The fact is, our country was such a mess, nobody even knows what the numbers are."

Former Penguin Jordan Staal was named captain for Carolina Hurricanes home games back in October, an unconventional move because of the idea that you can’t really split a captaincy, but a high mark for Staal’s leadership and profile nonetheless.

A week after Donald Trump came to tour a business in the 18th District, he made it official: the president’s re-election campaign formerly endorsed Rick Saccone, the Republican running to replace Tim Murphy.

Le’Veon Bell’s contract is the most important decision the Steelers have to make this offseason. Bell is important, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the best course of action is to sign him to a long-term deal. In fact, of the three options available, a long-term deal with a lot of guaranteed money makes the least amount of sense. Bell is going to be 27 next February, and most studies suggest that’s when running backs peak and begin to decline.

In the ever-changing Pittsburgh real estate Promised Land that is Market Square, Moe’s Southwest Grill will close on Wednesday for three months to double its size in a build-out into the former Cherries Diner space on Forbes Avenue.

The Pirates promoted former head athletic trainer Todd Tomczyk to director of sports medicine Tuesday and named Bryan Housand the head athletic trainer.

HARRISBURG — House Majority Leader Dave Reed, a Republican from Indiana County, announced Tuesday morning that he is running for an open congressional seat.

As Bryan Rust appears ready to return from an 11-game absence due to an upper-body injury, who he’ll displace Tuesday against the Hurricanes at PPG Paints Arena could offer some intrigue.

Older Pennsylvanians and younger ones with disabilities can now obtain applications to file for rebates from their 2017 property tax and rent payments, the state Revenue Department announced.

Voters in the state's 35th district are taking part Tuesday in a special election to replace Marc Gergely in the Pennsylvania House.

A 54-year-old man leapt from a three-story building into a tree to try to avoid Pittsburgh police around 4 a.m. Monday on the North Shore.

An Armstrong County woman accused of attacking her husband in bed with a hatchet last summer while her terrified children fled their home was charged with homicide Tuesday following his death last month.

Jacob Pavlecic, of Pine, isn't waiting to graduate from college before he puts his studies in politics and philosophy to use: The 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh student is already running against a three-term incumbent, Republican Hal English, to represent the 30th district in the state House of Representatives.

Asking Steelers fans to choose between New England and Philadelphia in Super Bowl LII is like asking them what kind of cough syrup they’d like to choke down. There are no good options. Just less-bad ones.

BENTON, Ky. — A 15-year-old student opened fire with a handgun inside a rural Kentucky high school Tuesday morning, killing two of his classmates, injuring 17 and sending hundreds fleeing for safety.

It might have taken nine decades, but the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences finally produced an Oscars announcement special worthy of, well, an award.

WASHINGTON — A State Department official says multiple American citizens were killed and injured in the Taliban’s weekend attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Pittsburgh goes to the Oscars this year on the shoulders of previous winners who are once again nominees -- France McDormand and Joe Letteri.

The League of Women Voters was looking for plaintiffs in a challenge to Pennsylvania’s congressional map.

Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford remains interested in adding a third-line center who can offer an offensive boost, assuming proper fit and reasonable cost.

Facebook is constantly fiddling with your news feed, and recently the social media site made a major fiddle.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is pushing back against pressure to resolve the state’s case alleging unfair treatment of thousands of landowners by natural gas drilling companies.