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A woman who was hospitalized after a fire tore through her high-rise apartment complex in Blawnox last week has died from her injuries.

Share + Nov 2, 2009 12:04 pm US/Eastern 1 of 1 The fire caused more than $1 million in damages.

Some residents were returned to their Blawnox apartments Thursday evening after a forced about 90 residents to evacuate a senior high-rise overnight.

Dozens of people were displaced by a fire Thursday morning at a senior citizen high-rise in Blawnox.

Share + Oct 29, 2009 8:03 am US/Eastern BLAWNOX Two police officers are being credited with helping to save a woman from an intense fire overnight at a high-rise apartment building in Blawnox.

Share + Oct 29, 2009 3:16 pm US/Eastern A hotline has been set up for the fire victims and their families: 412-828-0139 BLAWNOX Many of the people forced from their apartments at a Blawnox high-rise early Thursday morning because of a fire were taken to a nearby church.

Police officers charged into a high-rise apartment building in Blawnox and saved a woman trapped by fire early this morning, authorities said.

Share + Oct 29, 2009 11:59 pm US/Eastern BLAWNOX Some of the people who live in a Blawnox high-rise damaged by fire were allowed to return.

Two police officers rescued a woman from her burning apartment in the Blawnox high-rise for the elderly early today.

Dozens of residents were forced out into the cold early Thursday when a senior high-rise caught fire in Blawnox.

Blawnox's mayor of 36 years, Democrat Thomas Smith, goes up against Peggy Albright, who has never held office, in the Nov.

Benny Sasinoski worked six-day weeks and many 16-hour days so his beloved Vera could raise their four children.

"And the kitchen in your home is probably bigger than our police department," said Smith of the one-room police station.

Allegheny Locks : The Army Corps of Engineers has allowed the Allegheny River Locks to deteriorate to a critical level, and it doesn't look like funding to rehabilitate them is coming anytime soon.

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Mary Ann Thomas can be reached via e-mail or at 412-782-2121 x1510. Borough police are trying to get residents to lock up their cars and remove their valuables.

Borough resident Peggy Albright, who is scheduled for trial in Allegheny County for allegedly disrupting a borough council meeting, is running for mayor.

Mary Ann Thomas can be reached via e-mail or at 412-782-2121 x1510. Blawnox and Sharpsburg snagged $350,000 in grants from federal economic stimulus money to repair their aging sewage systems.

No one's calling it an island paradise yet, but the 14 acres of urban wilderness in the Allegheny River near Blawnox is about to get a makeover.