Police say they have charged four men who bought white mice from area pet stores, then killed them by duct-taping them to bottle rockets and igniting the fireworks, all while filming the acts in an ...

Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports ...

A fireworks vendor prepares to open in 2017 in Marion. The city allows fireworks to be set off for limited hours on July 4. (The Gazette) Buy Photo In 2023, eight people were killed and another 9,700 ...

After social media videos showed people lighting up mice with fireworks, Pittsburgh police said multiple young men will soon be facing animal cruelty charges. Detective Alex Castanzo is still taken ...