Castle Shannon News

Jan. 29 The Dormont Police Department assisted the Castle Shannon Police Department in responding to a report of a fight at Brewtopia on Grove Road in Castle Shannon.

The Karen Tobias Dance Company is sponsoring a Valentine's oldies dance on Feb. 11, from 7 to 11:30 p.m. in the St.

Students from all over the South Hills are gathering this week to put on an unusual play that can only be described as "Grease" meets "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." The Center for Theater Arts , which is based in Castle Shannon, is kicking off its annual play Tuesday night with a show of "Zombie Prom." Nearly 50 students from Chartiers Valley , ... (more)

Bobby Kerlik is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-391-0927 or via e-mail. Allegheny County courts officials have frozen hiring and proposed other cost-saving measures, including possibly cutting two vacant Common Pleas judge seats to fill a $3.5 million budget hole.

The man charged in the stabbing death of a 21-year-old Baldwin Borough woman who was found slain on the side of a Washington County road Jan.12 was arraigned this afternoon before a district judge in Cecil.

Negotiations on a crucial long-term contract between the cash-strapped Port Authority and its largest labor union are expected to begin this week, with Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald taking on the role of unofficial mediator.

The woman told police that 23-year-old Alex Pimpinella contacted her on MySpace and later forced her to have sex with him at least twice over the summer at her Castle Shannon home.

A Monroeville man has been arrested on charges that he raped a mentally challenged woman on two separate days beginning this summer.