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Police: Incident with van outside Huston Middle School not an attempted abduction
An incident in which a man told a young girl to get into his van was not an attempted abduction, Lower Burrell police said Friday. The department said it was notified Friday of the incident that happened around 8:10 p.m. Thursday. An officer said the entire matter may have been...
Highlands mother angry bus driver left autistic son alone outside school
Rachael O’Connor said that her 9-year-old son sat and cried when he was unable to find an open door to his elementary school Thursday morning after a bus driver dropped him off late and left him alone. O’Connor said her son, who has autism, pulled at the door he would...
‘Produce to People’ food bank finds new winter home in Tarentum
A program that provides fresh produce to people in need will be one of the first community services operating out of the former Rite Aid building in Tarentum. “Produce to People,” a program of the Allegheny Valley Association of Churches, will distribute food from the building at 411 Corbet St....
Grants support medical, senior shuttle services in Alle-Kiski Valley area
Free rides for seniors and a medical shuttle to UPMC facilities in the Alle-Kiski Valley area are among the services being funded with nearly $625,000 in grants from the St. Margaret Foundation. Of that amount, nearly $260,000 is going to shuttle services. “The stress of hearing bad news regarding your...
Veterans’ stories featured at Tarentum Pearl Harbor program
Excerpts from the Pearl Harbor edition of “Duty, Courage, Honor: Southwestern Pennsylvania Goes to War” will be shown at the Allegheny-Kiski Valley Historical Museum in Tarentum on Saturday. Saturday — Dec. 7 — is the 78th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 that propelled the United...
Chase expansion includes New Kensington ATM
A new ATM in New Kensington is part of JPMorgan Chase’s expansion in the Pittsburgh area. The standalone machine in Riverview Plaza along Tarentum Bridge Road, next to Donut Connection, is scheduled to be operating before the end of the year, said Ashlei Bobo, vice president of regional communications for...
Repair cost of Highlands Elementary clock tower up $5K
The projected cost to repair the clock tower at Highlands Elementary School in Tarentum has gone up. The school board has approved paying the masonry contractor, Marsa, about $5,150 more on top of the district’s original $60,800 contract. Marsa was hired in August to restore the masonry of the tower,...
Longtime head of Highlands School Board loses bid to retain presidency
Debbie Beale has been a member of the Highlands School Board for nearly a quarter of a century, with half of that spent as its president. But the new school board that was seated on Tuesday ousted Beale from her post as president, and any other leadership position. The board...
Judge sends Tarentum billboard case back to borough’s Zoning Hearing Board
A company denied permission to place a billboard next to the Tarentum Bridge scored a victory Tuesday with an Allegheny County judge ruling that Tarentum’s Zoning Hearing Board must determine whether the borough’s zoning bans billboards. Common Pleas Judge Joseph James issued the single-sentence order in America First Enterprises’ appeal...
Public performance part of Honor Band Festival at Valley High School
Valley High School in New Kensington will host the annual Westmoreland County Senior High Honor Band Festival on Friday. The concert is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium. It is open to the public. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children under 10....
Cope named new president of New Kensington-Arnold School board
As he prepares to retire from his nearly 50-year teaching career, the new president of the New Kensington-Arnold School Board said he wants to be involved in the district’s schools as much as he can. “It’s an honor, it’s a duty, it’s a privilege,” John Cope said shortly after taking...
Average gas prices drop in Pittsburgh, U.S.
Gas prices moved lower in the Pittsburgh area and across the nation in the past week, according to the price-tracking website GasBuddy.com. In the Pittsburgh area, the average price dropped 1.2 cents per gallon to an average of $2.85, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 731 stations. That’s 2.3 cents per...
Black Friday deals lure shoppers into Alle-Kiski Valley stores early, often
Natalie Cale was moving through the Pittsburgh Mills mall in Frazer, two stuffed bags in each hand, with a destination in mind. It was her car, where she planned to drop off her load of gifts before heading back in for more. Cale was finding the deals on this year’s...
Harrison preps tree, plaza for Christmas parade and festival
Organizers of Harrison’s Christmas parade and festival plan to hold the festival under a tent this year to avoid a repeat of last year, when Mother Nature was a Grinch and rained out the festivities. Rain or shine, the parade will begin at 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, and is...
Week in review: Pirates’ new manager, Steelers’ new quarterback, John Shumway off radioVideo
This past week saw big changes with Pittsburgh’s sports teams — a new manager for the Pirates and a new starting quarterback for the Steelers. Also: John Shumway stepped down at KDKA Radio and a Mt. Pleasant Area Senior High School, who married his high school sweetheart, lost his battle...
Deer Lakes turkey trot raises money for cystic fibrosis research
Rebecca Dick figured she’d work off some calories before consuming more by taking part in the Deer Lakes Turkey Trot with her father, Robert. “He likes to run, and I like to eat a lot on Thanksgiving,” Dick, of West Deer, said Thursday morning after stretching outside of Deer Lakes...
Alle-Kiski Valley volunteers ensure no one goes hungry, lonely on Thanksgiving
While many are thankful for their own family on Thanksgiving, Madolyn Hyde was thankful for another. Hyde was among those who came to Cross Roads Community Presbyterian Church in Leechburg on Thursday for the free dinner now in its 10th year put on by Jamie Rimmel, members of her family...
Vandergrift brothers’ Turkey Bowl spans 3 generations of family, friends
Between 50 and 60 years ago, three brothers decided to play football in their small Vandergrift backyard on Thanksgiving. Pete Guerrera was 12 or 13; Michael Guerrera was 7; and Anthony Guerrera was 5. Now that they’re in their mid- to late 60s — or early 70s in Pete’s case...
Police: Man stable after being shot twice in East Hills
A man has been upgraded from critical to stable condition after being shot in Pittsburgh’s East Hills neighborhood Wednesday night, according to police. Officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert and 911 calls of dozens of shots fired in the 2300 block of East Hills Drive just before 9:15 p.m. Officers...
Police: Woman says juveniles shot at her after she confronted them for targeting Mt. Washington cars
Pittsburgh police detained two juveniles early Thursday morning after a woman reported one of them fired a gun at her on Mt. Washington. According to police, officers went to a convenience store on Bailey Avenue just before 12:20 a.m. for a report of a person who was shot at in...
Closed stretch of Nadine Road reopens earlier than expected in Penn Hills
A section of Nadine Road in Penn Hills that has been closed since a collapse in July has reopened to traffic, Allegheny County Public Works announced Wednesday. Nadine between Allegheny River Boulevard and Lincoln Road closed on July 12 after storms caused a retaining wall to fall over and part...
Hempfield residents evacuated after crash damages natural gas line
About 20 residents in a Hempfield neighborhood were evacuated from their homes late Tuesday night as a precaution after a natural gas line was damaged during a car crash. The crash happened after 11 p.m. in the area of Swede Hill Road and Brownfield Drive, the Trib’s news partner, WPXI-TV,...
Crash causes outage, delayed start for Highlands ElementaryVideo
Highlands School District issued a two-hour delay for its elementary school in Tarentum on Tuesday. According to the district, a crash late Monday evening caused a power outage. Power was to be restored by mid-morning Tuesday. The delay affected only elementary students and staff. HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY FAMILIES: Due to an...
National Weather Service issues wind advisory for Pittsburgh region
The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for most of the area beginning at 10 a.m. Wednesday and continuing into Thursday morning. The wind is expected to start picking up in the mid-to-late morning Wednesday and continue through the afternoon, meteorologist Bill Modzelewski said. Sustained winds of 15...
Medical examiner: Monroeville woman died of brain injury 4 days after crash
The Allegheny County Medical Examiner determined the cause of the unexpected death of a 41-year-old Monroeville woman four days after a crash this month. Nicole Hilla died from a hypoxia brain injury, the medical examiner’s office said. She died at Forbes Hospital on Nov. 8 while being treated for injuries...
