Attorneys representing a man who was sentenced to death more than two decades ago in the murder of a waitress in Fayette County are trying to stop prosecutors from retrying the defendant. (Today)

Emilio Rivera claims that Allegheny County homicide detectives forced him into giving a false confession in the shooting of a Clairton police officer by threatening to arrest his girlfriend and have his infant son taken away. (Yesterday)

State police said a man was struck and killed by a car early Friday in Greene County. (Yesterday)

A Clairton man was found guilty of second-degree murder Friday for the shooting death of a man at a New Year's Eve party last year. (Yesterday)

Attorneys representing a man who was sentenced to death more than two decades ago in the murder of a waitress in Fayette County are trying to stop prosecutors from retrying the defendant. (Yesterday)