Allegheny Neighborhoods News
Hampton High seniors create mosaic mural for school
By Bethany HofstetterA group of senior Hampton High School art students has left a permanent and colorful mark on the school district. Karen Vachon-Thaner's Honors Studio Art students spent four months working with artist-in-residence Laura Jean McLaughlin to design and create a mosaic …
Your Alle-Kiski Valley News
Bear — baited with doughnuts — captured in West Deer
By Chuck Biedka 10:48 p.m.The three bears have been roaming the area recently, but this time, one of them was caught when they ate someone else's food. (Spoiler alert: It wasn't Goldilocks'.) The bear, estimated to weigh about 200 pounds, was caught behind the …
- Kiski Area board close to approving budget 11:44 p.m.
Your Cranberry News
Former racehorses start new lives at local stable
By Deborah DeasyOut on the Street, a former thoroughbraed race horse might have been exactly that — out on the street — if it weren't for thoroughbred lovers like Kristi Airgood of Mars. The big, bay gelding might have gone to auction, …
Your Carlynton News
Carnegie library to be featured on Biography's 'My Ghost Story'
By Jeffrey WidmerGhostly stories from the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall in Carnegie will get national attention this summer. Some of the "evidence" that was captured during a paranormal investigation in January will be displayed on A&E Biography's "My Ghost Story." …
Your FoxChapel News
Police call in beekeeper to help with Aspinwall swarm
By Tom McGeeThe Aspinwall Police paid a visit to James Mitnick's office on May 1, hoping he could help them with an unusual case. A swarm of bees was reported on Brilliant Avenue, down the street from Mitnick's office. The officers, knowing that …
Your Hempfield News
Hempfield man accused of stalking receiving counseling, attorney says
By Paul PeirceA retired engineer who was arrested in March for allegedly sneaking into the Hempfield apartments of two young women has been undergoing medical counseling, his attorney said on Tuesday. John W. Bennish, 60, of 1052 Rimrock Road, Hempfield, yesterday waived …
Your Latrobe News
Worker pinned in Latrobe parking garage
By Joe NapshaA worker was injured at Latrobe's downtown parking garage renovation project Wednesday morning when he became entrapped inside a construction vehicle that fell through the floor and became wedged between the basement and first floor, Latrobe police said. The construction …
Your McKeesport News
West Mifflin council president Stephenson dead at 61
By Eric SlagleA longtime member of West Mifflin council has died. Regis L. Stephenson - who was elected to council in 1993 and was its current president - succumbed early Tuesday morning from heart problems. He was 61. Stephenson had been council …
Your Monroeville News
Shopping-center owners awaiting DEP approval on sinkhole solution
By the Tribune-ReviewGrass is growing in a massive sinkhole at the Monroeville Hills Shopping Center on William Penn Highway, and there's nothing the municipality can do about it. Property owners are awaiting approval from the Department of Environmental Protection to move forward …
Your Mon Valley News
Ringgold drops summer school; others provide it
By Jeremy SellewStudents planning to attend Ringgold summer school to avoid failure or earn credits required for graduation need new plans. Days after releasing information about summer school for middle- and high school-level students, Ringgold announced that the program has been eliminated. …
Your Moon Twp. News
Lawmaker disputes 911th cost figures
By Tom FontaineThe Air Force rates the Air Force Reserve's 911th Airlift Wing among the nation's costliest for flying outdated C-130 cargo planes, but that hasn't convinced Western Pennsylvania congressmen that closing the base would make financial or strategic sense. The Air …
Your Murrysville News
Murrysville student wins visit from Super Duper show and tell guest
By Daveen Rae KurutzTelevision cameras and photographers swarmed around Shannon Bassett as she made her way to her second-grade classroom at Sloan Elementary. After arriving at school that morning in a stretch limousine, she felt like a superstar. Make that a super-"Duper" star. …
Your North Hills News
Samaritan camps offer solace for children dealing with loss
By Natalie BeneviatChildren who have lost a parent, other relative or friend should know they are not alone, and there are places for them to turn. Camp Erin and Camp Good Sam, two overnight bereavement camps, are for children and teens just like …
Your Norwin News
Norwin defends 7th-grade textbook
By Rossilynne Skena 11:04 p.m.Norwin administrators are defending a middle school social studies textbook that a local pastor called "an Islamic Trojan horse" in requesting that the district revise its curriculum involving the religion. In an administrative report this week, Superintendent William Kerr said …
Your Penn Hills News
Top witness in Penn Hills gun case encounters legal trouble
By Margaret HardingA former probation officer whose visit to a gun collector's home resulted in more than 150 illegal firearms charges against that man is facing a criminal offense of his own. But the charge against Terrence Muir, 36, of Plum for …
Your Penn Trafford News
Organization salutes tireless 'community grandmother'
By Chris ForemanOfficially, Lucy DeHaven's family tree includes three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. But every year, she adds new branches of children from the Penn-Trafford School District that she said she loves as her own as the advisor of the Trafford Leo …
Your Plum News
Plum-based team finds home on Penn Hills field
By Patrick VarineWhen members of Team United, a travel baseball team for 10-year-olds, left their hometown baseball association in Plum, they needed a place to practice and play their games. Thanks to Penn Hills municipal officials, local businesses and volunteers, they've found …
Your Sewickley News
QV graduate on national tour of ‘South Pacific’
By Joanne BarronDrew Mauney's acting career began with a temper tantrum when he was in third grade. Now on a national tour of "South Pacific" with NETworks Presentations, Mauney, 26, said he remembers being dramatic about not wanting to eat his broccoli …
Your South Hills News
Baldwin police detective earns award for work with children
By Stephanie HackeTony Cortazzo spent his nights watching pro wrestling. It wasn't that he enjoyed the shenanigans of World Wrestling Entertainment. The Baldwin Borough police detective just wanted to learn more about the sport so that he shared a common interest with …
Your Twin Boros News
'A Taste of Two Towns' turns Oakmont Carnegie Library into a bistro with books
By Julie E. MartinIts name might capitalize on the Dickens classic "A Tale of Two Cities," but for those who attend the Oakmont Carnegie Library's "A Taste of Two Towns", the food-sampling fundraiser will offer only the best of times. The Sunday library …
