Braddock News

"If the individuals and families most affected during the Great Depression had photographed themselves instead of being shot by government-commissioned photographers," asks the artist LaToya Ruby Frazier, "what would their own self-representation look like?" For the past 10 years, Frazier, 30, who grew up in the blighted steel town of Braddock, ... (more)

A North Side man accused of leaving the Allegheny County Courthouse on Wednesday before the start of his trial on charges of molesting a 13-year-old was found several hours later in a house in Braddock, said Allegheny County Sheriff's Lt.

Ever since Savannah Scholl was born six years ago, her father, Larry, has been waiting for something like PT Raceway in Level Green.

A suspended Braddock police officer awaiting trial in Westmoreland County on charges of burglarizing a Donegal campground and stealing cocaine from the police evidence room is now accused of scamming a deaf man.

Carlow University has received the largest gift in its history: $5 million from Rita M. McGinley, a 1940 alumna, honorary degree recipient and a Carlow Woman of Spirit.

Robert Tomasic says the only way he could get $60,000 for his house in North Braddock would be if he put in $10,000 to $15,000 worth of renovations first.

New statistics from Allegheny County's eastern suburbs indicate that an $11 million reassessment may not have eliminated disparities between properties in poor communities assessed too high and properties in wealthier communities assessed too low, a lawyer at the center of the case said Thursday.

Shootings, homicides and drug arrests are just a few of the times when many young African-Americans are highlighted and featured in the media, while there is a greater majority of positive stories and images often overshadowed by the negative.

Bar Marco has opened in the Strip District after nearly 6 months of remodeling work in the former No.

Venerable bus routes serving Mt. Lebanon, Coraopolis, Green Tree, Mount Washington, Oakmont, Edgewood and Sewickley will be among 45 routes eliminated by the Port Authority in September if there is no solution to a statewide transportation funding crisis.

Mary Ann Thomas is an Aspinwall Herald staff writer and can be reached at 412-782-2121, Ext.

Jennifer R. Vertullo is a McKeesport Daily News staff writer and can be reached at 412-664-9161 x1956 or via e-mail. The Braddock Healthier Communities PartnerSHIP, which recently changed its title to the Partnership for a Caring Community, has carried out the State Health Improvement Plan's true mission of community health awareness by bringing ... (more)