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Candidate fundraiser A buffet dinner fundraiser for candidate Eric Casteel for Allegheny County Council District 8 will be at 6 p.m. Sept. 16 at Veltre’s Wedding and Event Center, 324 Coxcomb Hill Road in Plum. Speakers at the event will be Casteel, County Councilwoman Cindy Kirk and County Chairman and...

Class of 1975 reunion The Penn Hills High School Class of 1975 will celebrate its 45/46-year reunion from 6 to 11 p.m. on Sept. 25 at Green Oaks Country Club, 5741 Third St., Verona, PA 15147. The cost is $45 per person or $80 per couple. The reunion will feature...

Family Fun Festival Calvary Baptist Church will host a Family Fun Festival from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sept. 25. This free event is for all ages. There will be games, activities, food and prizes. The Church is at 4765 S Pioneer Road, Allison Park, PA 15101. For more...

Tennis shoe recycling The Fox Chapel Garden Club is collecting used sneakers and putting them to good use via the NIKE recycling program in Grove City. Sneakers will be collected through Oct. 1 The sneakers will be recycled and used to build tennis and basketball courts, playgrounds, and running tracks....

Richland leaf pickup dates Richland has set the schedule for its fall leaf pickups. If your Vogel collection day is Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, your leaf collections will be on Oct. 20, Nov. 10 and Dec. 1. If your Vogel collection day is Thursday or Friday, your leaf collections will...

A jackpot Match 6 Lotto ticket worth $3.74 million was sold Sunday at a Sheetz store in North Huntingdon, state lottery officials announced. Lottery officials said the ticket was bought at the convenience store location on Ronda Court, near the Walmart along Route 30. The ticket matched all six winning...

A state police fire marshal is investigating the cause of a weekend fire that gutted the garage of an abandoned house in Delmont, according to fire officials. Fire Chief Don Cline reported that firefighters quickly contained the fire in the two-car attached garage at the East White Oak Drive home...

Adam Garvin found the greatest pleasures in life from simple things — spending time with family and friends, exploring nature and listening to and playing music. But when it was time to get away from it all, he loved nothing more than the simple joy of riding the open road...

A 49-year-old Penn Township man was arrested last week on charges of firing multiple rounds from a handgun at a nearby home. Jon P. Petrush was arraigned on charges of criminal mischief and discharging a firearm at a structure by township police. He was ordered held in the Westmoreland County...

Cub Scouts sign-up night Cub Scout Pack 243 (first through fifth grade) will have its sign-up night from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Sept. 21 in the basement of the Sewickley Presbyterian Church, 414 Grant St. Pack 243 follows the Presbyterian Church covid protocols. Masks are required for all attendees. For more information,...

The Block Northway Farmers Market The Block Northway continues to feature weekly entertainment during the Farmer’s Market and Food Truck events. Brandon Krul will perform on Sept. 17. The Farmer’s Market, produced in partnership with I Made It Market, is a weekly farmer’s market featuring a diverse collection of local...

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Pittsburgh police arrested one man and obtained an arrest warrant for a second man after a suspected methamphetamine lab was discovered early Sunday in a Squirrel Hill apartment. About 1:15 a.m. Sunday, police were called to a residence in the 6300 block of Darlington Road after a resident reported a...

Pittsburgh police detectives are asking the public’s help locating a missing 11-year-old boy. Ronnell Miller is 5 feet tall, weighs 100 pounds and has black hair and brown eyes. According to police, he was last seen in Homestead wearing a red hoodie and blue jeans. Miller is also known to...

A revival rally Sunday at the Shields Farm in Delmont paid tribute to the heroes of 9/11 as well as the thousands who died over the past 20 years in Afghanistan and Iraq. The “Let’s Roll America” rally, which attracted about 200 people, featured all the elements of a summer...

Finding the way out is just the first challenge at Gearhard Farms’ annual corn maze in Murrysville. There are animal cutouts for children to find, and trivia questions for adults about the town and the bicentennial farm family whose members have created, cut and run the corn maze for the...

Freeport Area School District officials have partnered with the Allegheny County Fire Academy to offer a new program for students. School board members unanimously voted Thursday night to offer a dual enrollment program for entry level fire training. “I think it’s a great thing,” board president Dan Lucovich said. “The...

An O’Hara restaurant has permanently closed. Patron Mexican Grill in Fox Chapel Plaza along Freeport Road posted a sign announcing the closing on its locked front door. The notice offers no explanation for closing and read “we are closed for good.” The letter, written by owner Martin Bolanos, went on...

A covid-19-positive inmate in the Allegheny County Jail died Sunday, Warden Orlando Harper said. It’s the first covid-related death for the facility. The name of the inmate wasn’t released, but he was a 48-year-old man who had been hospitalized since late August. He died Sunday at a local hospital. He...

A Blairsville-area woman was jailed without bail Saturday in the Indiana County Jail on charges of stemming from the Friday evening shooting death of her boyfriend. State Police from Indiana County say Matraca Lynn Vrana, 28, was arraigned Saturday afternoon before District Magisterial Judge Christopher Welch on charges of voluntary...

Bellevue Frederick Teckmeyer sold property at 608 Forest Ave. to Marlex Properties LLC for $49,818. Jeremy Schliecker sold property at 660 Forest Ave. to Streamlined One LLC for $85,000. Douglas Sheerer sold property at 4437 Ohio River Blvd. to 4449 ORB LLC for $180,000. Cameron Hunter Pitaro sold property at...

Chalfant P & L Investments & Holdings X L.P. sold property on Electric Ave. to TRD Properties LLC for $70,000. Churchill Alec Hanley sold property at 3856 W. Rural Court to Madia & Associates Inc. for $200,000. Delmont Dorothy Catarinella sold property on Dogwood Road to Zachary and Monica Bruno...

Blawnox Tina Burns sold property at 310 Carla Drive to Schaely Rae Renfrew for $185,000. Etna Agnes Ann Grogg sold property at 34 High St. to Brian Campbell for $67,000. Fox Chapel Estate of Raimund Rueger sold property at 108 Ridgedale Lane to David and Carla Nernberg for $849,900. Malcolm...

Authorities are looking for anyone who witnessed or has cellphone video of a shooting Saturday evening at a hayride in North Versailles that left one 15-year-old dead and another teen critically wounded. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office said Steven Eason of Wilkinsburg was pronounced dead of gunshot wounds at...