WATCH: Former President Obama Campaigns in PA for US Senate Candidate John Fetterman

Watch Former President Barack Obama's full campaign speech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for US Senate candidate John Fetterman on November 5, 2022, just days before the 2022 midterm elections.

Pittsburgh elects Ed Gainey as its first Black mayor

Pittsburgh voters on Tuesday elected state Rep. Ed Gainey (D) as the city’s 61st mayor — and the first Black man to lead a city that has grown more diverse in recent decades as the economy has diversified.

Gainey, 51, will succeed Mayor Bill Peduto, a fellow Democrat he defeated in the May primary.

The Associated Press projected Gainey would defeat Republican Tony Moreno, a retired police officer. Gainey led Moreno 71 percent to 29 percent.

Shurontaya Festa is missing!

Pittsburgh police are asking for help locating a woman who has been missing since yesterday.

Shurontaya "Tay Tay" Festa, 22, was last seen in Oakland on March 31. She is 5 feet 6 inches tall and has brown eyes. She is known to frequent Duquesne, Wilkinsburg and East Pittsburgh, police said in a Facebook post.

Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call Missing Persons Detectives at 412-323-7141.

Barack Obama Statement On The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting

Former United States President Barack Obama released the following statement via Twitter on the tragic and senseless shootings at The Tree Of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

We grieve for the Americans murdered in Pittsburgh. All of us have to fight the rise of anti-Semitism and hateful rhetoric against those who look, love, or pray differently. And we have to stop making it so easy for those who want to harm the innocent to get their hands on a gun.