Braddock News

Share + Jul 7, 2009 5:40 pm US/Eastern NORTH BRADDOCK Police believe a 17-year-old man found shot to death in North Braddock this morning may have been the victim of a turf war.

Edward Bujakowski's Santa Claus-like laugh always made others in his family smile.

Police in North Braddock said a 17-year-old boy was shot and killed Tuesday morning.

A 17-year-old boy was found shot to death in North Braddock on Tuesday. Police were called to the scene after the body of Jamal Hollyfield, of North Braddock, was found in a vacant lot at the corner of Bell Avenue and Robinson Street.

Rick Wills can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7944. When tens of thousands of wild bees colonized a first-floor wall at a dilapidated, abandoned building in Braddock, the neighborhood was abuzz.

The Capital Research Center's Matthew Vadum is asking the question just about everybody wants an answer to: Who got to John Conyers? The powerful Democrat House Judiciary chairman said it was "the powers that be" who scotched the congressional probe into ACORN's alleged voter-registration fraud shenanigans.

Growing up in North Braddock, Rich Sullivan impressed others with his intelligence, even earning a college recommendation from a teacher who had helped with the Manhattan Project -- the atomic bomb -- said his son.

Craig McPherson's "Braddock" is among David Conrad's gifts to the Kiski School. To television viewers, David Conrad is Jim Clancy, former firefighter and husband of Jennifer Love Hewitt, who plays the title role in the successful series "The Ghost Whisperer." To local theatergoers, he's the energetic man who produced, directed and starred in a ...

Walter F. Roche Jr. can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7894. Another ACORN worker was ordered held for trial on election law charges following a 20-minute hearing today before Senior District Judge Richard H. Zoller.

A Braddock police officer involved in an accident at about midnight Saturday was injured.

The 1,900 families who define Good Shepherd Parish are no strangers to overcoming artificial boundaries.

Federal and state emergency officials plan visits this week to eight flooded Allegheny County towns operating under a disaster emergency declaration, municipal leaders said Wednesday.

Rob Zellers' new play at Pittsburgh Public Theatre reminded me of an interview I did with sage local filmmaker Tony Buba some years back.

As one of 10 children raised by immigrant parents during the Depression, Josie Sobek lived the heartaches and despair of the times.

PITTSBURGH a ' Allegheny County Public Works today announced intermittent traffic stoppages between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on Fri., June 19, on Kenmawr Avenue in Rankin Borough, directly below the Rankin Bridge, for installation of steel girders in the bridge structure.

Justin Vellucci can be reached at or . Woodland Hills is moving forward with changing the way the district's 12 communities elect school board members.

Long before the current economic downturn in the United States, the town of Braddock, Pennsylvania , was already down on its luck.

A Westmoreland County man, indicted last year on cocaine trafficking charges, was sentenced yesterday to five years in federal prison, the U.S. Attorney's office said.

Carmen Bell remembers the Braddock of her youth, when Braddock Avenue, the borough's main thoroughfare, bustled with people and storefronts.

Once the hub of U.S. steelmaking, Braddock, Pennsylvania is today a mix of abandoned buildings, empty lots and closed shops.