Black Lick News

Burrell Township property owners will not face a tax increase next year under a final 2010 budget adopted by the township supervisors Wednesday.

The members of the Greater Johns-town Retired Men's Chorus speak in one voice when it's time to cheer up others.

Burrell Township's supervisors are hoping to avoid a repeat of last December, when they passed the municipality's first tax increase in more than a decade.

Alcohol violations: Campus police reported that at 12:49 a.m. Thursday, Kenneth Orluske, 20, Pittsburgh, was found intoxicated while behind the wheel of a vehicle after he was observed committing a traffic violation in the 400 block of Pratt Drive.

After a three-year hiatus, Burrell Township's central village will once more have a holiday light display, thanks to an assist from the new Black Lick Improvement Group.

Defense attorneys say a 19-year-old western Pennsylvania man charged with fatally beating his girlfriend's toddler shouldn't be executed because tests show the man is mentally disabled.

Three inmates at the Indiana County Jail, including one charged with killing a child, are accused of destroying sprinkler heads in their cells.

BLACK LICK -- Following the lead of several other local municipalities, the Burrell Township supervisors plan to let Comcast know that residents are upset with changes in the company's cable service.

A prosecutor will pursue the death penalty against a 19-year-old man jailed on charges he fatally beat his girlfriend's 19-month-old son.

A western Pennsylvania prosecutor will pursue the death penalty against an 19-year-old man jailed on charges he fatally beat his girlfriend's 19-month-old son.

Burrell Township's supervisors plan to confer with their solicitor on a proposed water tap-in ordinance and a tentative settlement with Chestnut Ridge Golf L.P. over property tax credits claimed retroactively to 2005.

Two Pittsburgh men who tried to flee an Indiana County house during a probation check were arrested on drug charges, state police said.