Birmingham News

The two southbound lanes of the Glenwood Bridge will be closed from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday while a contractor resets frozen rocker bearings, the same type of condition that, when left unchecked, caused a ...

A West Chester man suspected in a Philadelphia homicide and abduction killed himself Monday after a nine-hour standoff in an upscale restaurant's parking lot, West Chester police said.

HIT AND RUN: Chambersburg Police are investigating a hit-and-run accident that occurred at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday at 680 Broad St.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation plans to spend $175 million to rehabilitate 66 substandard bridges in the greater Pittsburgh area.

There was a shock of familiarity when speaking with Andris Nelsons for the first time.

Kim Kindelsperger and Jessie Duco try to come up with a complaint for complaint collector Dan Gasiewski.

Homes in the southern part of the county will be open on Oct. 4 for Chester County Day.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to tell Cabinet ministers he is determined to provide leadership by "squaring up to hard truths, being open with the British people about the choices we face, and making tough ...

Officials from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation met at a heavily traveled but damaged bridge on Friday to announce when it will officially reopen.

The country superstar, who headlined Saturday's Dollar Bank Jamboree at Point State Park, Downtown, seems just as at home onstage as she would be in her living room.

Unless you are an engineer or contractor, the least sexy word in the English language may be infrastructure.

A Pittsburgh councilman concerned about the condition of the city's aging bridges plans to a host a public meeting today with some of the region's top transportation leaders to devise a strategy for keeping the ...

The state plans to borrow $365 million to help whittle down the nation's largest collection of structurally deficient bridges.

Gov. Ed Rendell speaks during a news conference below the Parkway East on Rodi Road in Penn Hills.

Two Western Pennsylvania bridge collapses in the past three years are reshaping how PennDOT checks bridges statewide.

Following a structural problem on the Birmingham Bridge in Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said Tuesday that it discovered eight other bridges with similar issues that needed repairs.

Back in 2002, Geneva College professor Todd Allen established the Returning to the Roots of Civil Rights tour with 13 participants.

A forensic engineering analysis released today has confirmed previous information suggesting "frozen" rocker bearings caused a southbound approach span of the Birmingham Bridge to collapse onto a pier on Feb.

Only 52 when she retired, Elsie Schaefer has found many activities to occupy her over the past 58 years.

Corrosion Figured in Bridge Shift; Repairs Start A Pittsburgh bridge shifted nearly nine inches downward last February 8 when corrosion of a rocker bearing caused one of the bridge's concrete piers to move and ...