The Latest Breaking News from Pittsburgh

The bottom half of my white dress shirt was covered with black toner ink. Less than a month into my stint in the typing pool at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, I was earning my reputation as the paper’s worst clerk EVER!

PITTSBURGH — I am going to write a sentence I never thought I would write:

PHOENIX — The more pessimistic Pirates fans in Pittsburgh might argue the team phoned it in a while ago this season. Even if one doesn’t subscribe to that theory, the evidence in Wednesday night’s 6-4 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks was a little on the nose.

PITTSBURGH — The next solo Coen brother outing is going to be setting up shop around western Pennsylvania next month.

PITTSBURGH — "We would love to have him be with the Steelers for the rest of his career."

WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania's U.S. lawmakers are urging the State Department to recognize the plight of a Pittsburgh-area resident who has been sentenced to hard labor in Russia, and they are asking why the administration has not highlighted his case among other detained citizens, including WNBA player Brittney Griner and former…

PITTSBURGH — I still have no idea what retired federal judge Sue L. Robinson was thinking when she recommended such a shamefully short suspension of Deshaun Watson.

PITTSBURGH — Diontae Johnson has his flaws.

PITTSBURGH — The Pirates’ messaging over this season has been consistent. They’re certain they’ve improved throughout the year, and they have a stat to tell you why.

PITTSBURGH — The Steelers have signed receiver Diontae Johnson to a new three-year contract, the team announced Thursday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but sources told the Post-Gazette the deal is worth $39.5 million.

PHILADELPHIA — In his ads, and much of the public imagination, John Fetterman is a tattooed everyman from a rugged steel city outside Pittsburgh.