Avalon News

Allegheny County Council remained unchanged yesterday as Democrat Michael Finnerty and Republican Matt Drozd -- the only candidates on the 15-member council who faced opposition -- dispatched their challengers.

If you live in, work in, or even visit Allegheny county here's a word of caution: the air you breathe is hazardous to your health.

Heavily armed officers from a number of communities descended on Bellevue during the afternoon rush hour Wednesday when a gunman opened fire inside a doctor's office in the main business district.

This is another in an occasional series of editorial endorsements for candidates in the Nov.

Many drivers and bus riders face major changes in Downtown traffic patterns starting this morning.

A $1.4 million project to widen and improve Route 65 begins today in Avalon, officials said.

A head-on collision shut down traffic in a local neighborhood Friday afternoon. Allegheny County 911 reported an accident on Ohio River Boulevard around 11 a.m. on Friday.

A 28-year-old Allegheny County man is the second person arrested by Penn Township police in connection with a Sept.

Where : Avalon Elementary School, 721 California Ave., continuing to Bayne Park along California and Lincoln avenues Note : The Bayne Library's Fall Festival follows from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Bayne Park.

Emergency crews in one Allegheny County community were busy on Friday morning, after a crash involving a tractor-trailer created a small sinkhole.

A 21-year-old Allegheny County woman is in the Westmoreland County Prison on $50,000 bond for her alleged role in a home invasion Friday in Penn Township.

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Cost : $10 per carload and $5 per two-wheelers. Horses and riders will be admitted free.

Cost : $10 per carload and $5 per two-wheelers. Horses and riders will be admitted free.

Allegheny County sheriff's deputies last night arrested a man wanted in at least eight different crimes, including at least one offense in Colorado.

NOPE, that's not the original of Auguste Rodin's world-famous sculpture, "The Thinker." That one is still safely stowed in Paris's Muse Rodin.

Vietnam War veteran, local volunteer and longtime American Legion officer Clem Stanisauskis can't slow down.

George Jessup was on duty, driving his plumbing company's truck. But when he saw a duck sitting on a storm drain on a busy road in Shaler, he didn't think twice about stopping.

Police, firefighters, river rescue workers and animal control officers proved to be two dogs' best friends yesterday when they rescued the trapped canines from a 75-foot hillside in Avalon.

Two dogs who somehow became trapped on a ledge midway down a 75-foot embankment in Avalon this morning were rescued by firefighters who rappelled down the hillside.