A former strip club owner convicted of federal tax charges was found Thursday evening in his home after an apparent suicide attempt.

At 17, Antowian Kelly was jailed on charges of robbery with an unloaded gun. The Hill District sophomore had no prior record but spent 17 months in Allegheny County Jail before a judge decided his case should be heard in juvenile court.

There isn't much to console the heart in the desperately sad case of 13-year-old Rachel Booth, an apparent victim of rape and physical abuse. She admitted to shooting her father to death as he lay sleeping in a squalid rental house in Elizabeth Township on July 30.

Having undergone years of alleged emotional and sexual abuse, 13-year-old Rachel Booth aimed a shotgun at her sleeping father's face and pulled the trigger.

A stripper testified yesterday about setting off an argument that ended in the deaths of two guests at a birthday party in Penn Hills in 2005.

When the jury returned its "not guilty" verdict yesterday in federal court, Greg Lowery stood up and began praising God.

William Thompson was convicted yesterday of three counts of first-degree murder in the triple slaying in 2002 of an 8-year-old girl, her father and a suspected drug dealer.