Brackenridge News

An autopsy is planned in the death of a man whose body was found inside the van where officials say he apparently lived in western Pennsylvania.

Allegheny County homicide detectives are investigating the death of a man whose body was discovered this afternoon inside a van in Brackenridge.

Penelope Walker "Penny" MEHAL, 89, of Genesee, PA, formerly of Old Tappan, NJ, died Sunday, April 15, 2012 in the Sweden Valley Manor, Coudersport, PA.A A Born April 2, 1923, in Brackenridge, PA, she was the daughter of Todd and Elzada Mae Buzzard Walker.A A On June 25, 1944, in Natrona, PA, she married Lawrence R. Mehal, who survives.A A A ... (more)

Bob Frye is the Tribune-Review outdoors editor. He can be reached at 724-838-5148 or via e-mail. The New Kensington man worked the midnight shift Friday but, given the option of going home and sleeping or going fishing on opening day of trout season, he hooked up with his dad, Clair, and went to Lower Deer Lake.

Three people initially pulled over for allegedly breaking into a soda machine in Fawn early Monday later were charged in Tarentum with driving in a truck that contained used heroin paraphernalia and a toddler, police said.