Braddock News Archives

Getting acquainted with Sue Arlott's cat, Jessie, are Je'Amour Matthews and Lisa Slagel, members of the Black Hat Society Network, a group of practicing witches who gathered for an afternoon brunch at the Arlott home.

As an infantryman who fought in seven campaigns during World War II, including North Africa, Bob Rutter knew well the realities of facing an enemy in combat.

For all of you struggling out there under hard times, this is for you. For anyone with a dream to quit their job and open up their storefront but can't do that due to finances, listen up.

St. Clair Hospital will open three new operating rooms next summer, officials announced Monday.

For community leaders, government officials and Braddock residents, it was an unexpected and painful turn of events.

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's decision to stand fast to its decision to close UPMC Braddock has anger stewing and frustration growing in Braddock.

The city of Braddock, Pa., ranks among America's most difficult places, alongside emblems of decline and depopulation like Detroit and Flint, Mich.

Braddock residents and business owners on Friday said they were stunned and saddened to learn that University of Pittsburgh Medical Center will close its Braddock hospital, where work on a multimillion-dollar modernization appeared to continue.

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In the past half-century, Braddock has lost movie theaters, pharmacies, department stores, homes, thousands of industrial jobs and more than 80 percent of its population.

On a cold, raw Friday, the news hit Braddock like death in the family. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center said it will close the hospital there.

That new multimillion-dollar entrance to UPMC Braddock certainly looks spiffy. You might want to go to the venerable old hospital and check out the significant improvements UPMC completed just four months ago.

Onorato: UPMC Braddock Closure "Unacceptable" Share + Oct 16, 2009 2:54 pm US/Eastern Onorato: UPMC Braddock Closure "Unacceptable" Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato says UPMC's decision to close its hospital in Braddock left him shocked and disappointed.

The annual women's conference sponsored by New & Living Way Apostolic Women of the Word opened Thursday and concludes Saturday.

UPMC announced early Friday that it will close its UPMC Braddock hospital in 90 days.

A group studying the use of Tasers by law enforcement in Allegheny County has presented its recommendations.

Jamie Moore, Eat'n Park's director of sourcing and sustainability, demonstrates canning tomatoes at the Braddock Community Garden last month.

A jury acquitted a Lincoln-Lemington man this afternoon in the 2006 death of North Braddock man.

Braddock, Pa., incorporated in 1867, spans less than one square mile. The town, a few miles from downtown Pittsburgh, houses Andrew Carnegie's first steel mill.