Beaver News

This five-bedroom Spanish Colonial in Hampton is on the market for $575,000. Hampton's roots reach all the way back to the late 18th century, when it was a portion of the Depreciation Lands reserved for Revolutionary War veterans.

State police told Channel 11 News they busted an illegal gambling operation in Monaca, Beaver County, Monday afternoon.

Two teens were injured in a two-car crash on Taggart Road in Darlington, Beaver County, at 7:45 p.m. Saturday.

Jun 24, 2009 1:11 pm US/Eastern Anyone with information is urged to call police in Rochester Township at 724/774-3986 ROCHESTER TWP Police in Rochester Township, Beaver County are looking for the vandals who toppled dozens of tombstones in two area cemeteries and vandalized a nearby church.

A single-engine plane flipped over after landing today at Beaver County Airport in Chippewa, but the pilot walked away uninjured despite substantial damage to the aircraft.

When Bernadette Bove started teaching eight years ago, it was fairly easy to block students' line of communication with their peers in class by intercepting the notes they passed back and forth.

Beaver County authorities hope to resume their search today for a 17-year-old Brighton Township resident who has been missing since Monday morning.

A tenant has been charged with the slaying last month of his landlady in Beaver County, Freedom police Chief John Hill said Wednesday.

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Police charged a man in the stabbing death of a Beaver County landlord. Benjamin Dennerlein, 33, is accused of stabbing Elizabeth Grosskopf.

Firefighters in two counties were busy on Tuesday morning, trying to save two homes.

A traffic stop in Harmony, Beaver County last night ended in a brief standoff and the arrest of a man wanted for his role in at least one violent crime, Beaver County dispatchers said.

Former state Rep. Mike Veon and a top aide from his Beaver Falls office were rearrested in Dauphin County today on charges related to a nonprofit they ran.

A former Pennsylvania legislative leader who is fighting corruption accusations said in a court filing Tuesday that state House Democratic Whip Bill DeWeese and his staff have engaged in the same behavior for which others are facing criminal charges.

Pittsburgh Technical Institute President Greg DeFeo at the new student apartment building on the North Fayette campus.

Matthew Santoni can be reached via e-mail or at 412-380-5625. Gov. Ed Rendell stood beneath the Beaver-Rochester Bridge on Wednesday and touted its $10 million rehabilitation as the first project in southwestern Pennsylvania paid for with federal stimulus money -- and as a step toward fixing the state's thousands of crumbling bridges.

May 27, 2009 8:27 pm US/Eastern ROCHESTER It's been a couple months since President Obama and the Congress passed the $787-billion stimulus package.

Repairs on a rusty, rickety bridge spanning a Pittsburgh-area river is the first federally-funded stimulus project in western Pennsylvania.

The state Attorney General's Office on Wednesday refiled criminal charges against former Democratic Whip Mike Veon and claimed the district judge who dismissed the charges made his decision before hearing all the evidence and applied a legal standard that exceeded his authority.

Governor Edward G. Rendell today announced the start of the $10 million investment to rehabilitate and preserve the Route 51 Beaver-Rochester Bridge -- the first project started in the region with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or ARRA, funding.