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An event featuring live entertainment and a procession of emergency vehicles is being held in Lower Burrell this weekend to benefit three area police departments and a foundation supporting injured first responders. The second annual Back the Blue fundraiser will get underway at 12:30 p.m. Saturday with a motorcycle and...

Lower Burrell Volunteer Fire Company is offering a free movie night Saturday at the station along Leechburg Road. The movie, Disney’s “Raya and the Last Dragon,” will be projected on a large screen outside in the fire station parking lot. Residents will need to bring chairs. The movie takes place...

State police on Thursday arrested a Parks Township man who they said slashed another man’s face with a knife during an altercation. David George Ash, 55, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault, two counts of simple assault and harassment in connection with the Sept. 16...

Pittsburgh City Councilman Bruce Kraus has a simple message for people using electric scooters in the city: “You have to use common sense, for God’s sake. Please help us help you.” “You can not ride them through the Liberty Tunnels. You can’t go on the Liberty Bridge with them,” Kraus...

The North Allegheny School Board has moved its Sept. 22 meeting to 5 p.m. and it will be virtual. A link to the meeting will be provided on the district website. The agenda for the meeting will be posted by the evening of Sept. 20. Those wishing to speak must...

Plum Council unanimously passed a resolution that denounces doxing in the wake of Councilman Mike Pastor posting the addresses of Plum Borough School Board members on the internet. Doxing is defined as the act of searching for and publishing private or identifying information about a particular individual on the internet,...

Bingo set for St. Regis Church The Knights of Columbus will sponsor a bingo at 1 p. m. Sept. 26 at St. Regis Church, 517 Homewood Ave., Trafford. The door fee is $15 for 20 regular games. There will be optional special games and a $150 jackpot guaranteed for special...

On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the Plum American Legion Post 980 honored first responders and remembered those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The ceremony was attended by local first responders, including local EMS workers, firefighters, borough and county police. Military veterans and members of Post 980...

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church to hold craft, vendor show A holiday craft and vendor show will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 2 at Mack Hall at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, 200 Leger Road, North Huntingdon. There will be about 40 tables of area crafters...

Light Up Night returns for its 60th year in Pittsburgh, but with a new date. Traditionally held the Friday before Thanksgiving, the celebration this year will be held on the Saturday before the holiday. The date will be Nov. 20, the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership announced Thursday. What is being called...

A section of Route 982 in Mt. Pleasant Township will be closed for more than a month while PennDOT replaces a drainage pipe. The closure, which is set to begin at 6 a.m. Monday, will affect the portion of Route 982 from Route 130 south to Tall Pine Road. It...

After two accidents within the past few weeks, some residents of Plum have been petitioning for stop signs to be added to the Kerr Road and State Route 909 intersection. The Plum Council took notice of that, and unanimously approved to request a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation traffic study at...

Breakthrough covid-19 cases in Allegheny County have risen in recent months, according to data from the Allegheny County Health Department. Breakthrough infections accounted for 23% of cases in August, Allegheny County Health Director Dr. Debra Bogen said Wednesday as she shared the first county-specific breakthrough data. The instances of breakthrough...

Motorists who use Interstate 79 to travel north through Allegheny County can expect another round of traffic delays Friday through early Monday as a third installment of an ongoing $43 million rehabilitation project starts on the Neville Island Bridge. PennDOT District 11 said the northbound lanes of the span will...

Publicize your club meetings, community events and fundraisers for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Freeport to celebrate September By the River Freeport Renaissance Association will host its September By The River Festival from noon to...

Pennsylvania State Police announced a state trooper in Mercer County was arrested Wednesday on charges of falsifying his orders for military service with the Ohio Air National Guard. State Trooper Jamhal Simon, 35, of West Middlesex, is charged with forgery and tampering with records, both first-degree misdemeanors. Simon has been...

Taco Bell is coming to Allegheny Township. Township officials approved land development for the fast-food restaurant last month. The eatery will be a standalone establishment, not a combo KFC/Taco Bell, Township Manager Greg Primm said. “It’s always good to see new businesses coming in, especially giving people more options for...

Sewickley officials have approved a new five-year contract with garbage hauler Waste Management. The borough was one of 11 communities to bid out their trash service through the Quaker Valley Council of Governments. COG Executive Director Patrick Conners said it was done that way to get a better price than...

When business gets slow at Robert “Buster” Burnham’s food truck with deflated wheels, he puts on his full-body hot dog suit and goes to the side of the road in Vandergrift to try to flag down customers. “You need a promotion,” Burnham said. “When there’s no customers here, the suit...

Many Mac Miller fans are still mourning his death just over three years ago. But now, at least, they have a new musical release of the Pittsburgh-born rapper and record producer’s material to look forward to. On Oct. 15, Miller’s mixtape “Faces” will be available on all streaming services as...

Firefighters, police officers, paramedics and other first responders can learn how to properly respond to incidents involving natural gas through a free virtual training program being offered by Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania. The utility also is offering a $1,000 grant or in-kind donation to a local fire department that logs...

Leechburg’s varsity football team will host Clairton on Friday instead of traveling to the Mon Valley school as originally scheduled, and no fans will be allowed in the stadium, the districts said. “It’s directly related to the unresolved crime in the community, the Haunted Hills Hayride shooting,” Clairton Superintendent Ginny...

Pittsburgh police are investigating a stabbing in city’s Homewood South neighborhood. Public Safety spokeswoman Amanda Mueller said officers responded to the incident around 1:15 p.m. along the 600 block of Hale Street. A man was treated for a non-critical stab wound to the back, and another man was taken into...