Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh's postmaster has been charged with threatening to retaliate against employees if they reported seeing him opening parcels and removing the illegal drugs inside.
Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. announced the charges Tuesday against 50-year-old Daniel Davis, who transferred to Pittsburgh from Toledo, Ohio, last year.
Davis is charged with intimidating witnesses and official oppression.
The district attorney's spokesman says any drug charges related to the case would fall under federal jurisdiction. State prosecutors say the drugs included cocaine and heroin.
Pittsburgh police were searching for two shooters who opened fire on a gathering at a residence and wounded two children and an adult at about 9 p.m. Wednesday.Police said the 3- and 12-year-old victims were taken to Children's Hospital in stable condition. The 12-year-old was struck by a bullet — though police wouldn't say where — and the toddler was grazed by another bullet. The 49-year-old female was taken to UPMC Presbyterian, also in stable condition.
Wilkinsburg district to close high schoolWILKINSBURG — An impoverished suburban school district plans to close its 7-12th grade secondary school and send those 200-plus students to the Pittsburgh School District next year.The Wilkinsburg district plans to spend $10 million to renovate its two elementary schools.But there are no plans to fix the middle/high school built in 1910 because the district expects only 217 students to be enrolled there next year.If the plan is approved in October by both districts, Wilkinsburg will become the second poor Allegheny County school district to close its high school and send students elsewhere. Duquesne has done that since 2007.