Castle Shannon News

Crime fighting is going high-tech in a local community with the launching of an online system.

After all, it would be difficult to ruin a marriage that happened more than 200 years ago.

County leaders have been unwilling to conduct politically unpopular property reassessments, so the state soon might have to step in and force them to do so, a top state House Republican said Thursday.

As an international banking consultant, Linda Lockhart visited Nairobi, Kenya, three years ago to talk business.

For years Light Rail Transit made its way through Beechview, Dormont and Mt. Lebanon on the way to its final destination, South Hills Village.

Bonnie Critchlow surprised her husband, the Rev. Robert Critchlow, better known as "Pastor Bob," with a celebration in honor of his 50th year as a minister but found it tough to keep it a secret from him.

From left to right, Loran Skinkis, 38, of Whitehall, Nate McDonough, 21, of Mount Washington, and John Towers, 35, of Bellevue, begin the challenge of completing a 24-page comic in 24 hours at the Pittsburgh 24-Hour Comics event Saturday at Time Tunnel Comics and Collectibles in Castle Shannon.

I wanted to make sure that an unsung group got appropriate kudos for a job well done.

Standoff in Mt. Lebanon ends tragically By Terri T. Johnson Almanac staff writer tjohnson@thealmanac.net A more than four-hour standoff in the Sunset Hills section of Mt.

The Dormont Historical Society formally dedicated a granite marker commemorating the site of the former Dormont High School .

Mt. Lebanon police plan to open a shelter for residents of Old Farm Road who have been locked out of their homes because of a police standoff with a man in the 400 block of the Sunset Hills street.

Several streets in the Sunset Hills area of Mt. Lebanon remain closed this afternoon because of a gunman inside a home on Old Farm Road.

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A study by Kimball Architecture released last night has determined that buildings in the Keystone Oaks School District are underutilized and class sizes are not as full as they could be.

The go-ahead has been given for some G-20 protestors to draw attention to the situation in Darfur.

Good Shepherd Award accepted by Bishop Zubik 'for all of our priests' Nineteen diocesan seminarians were on hand Aug.

Downtown will be ground zero for G-20 protesters, but law enforcement, energy companies and other industrial firms are taking steps to protect facilities outside city limits as well.

An initial request for reimbursement from state and federal officials for the G-20 included: * $1.68 million for 863 extra Pittsburgh police officers at overtime rates for 48 hours * $425,000 for staffing Allegheny County 911 centers for seven days on 12-hour shifts * $9.5 million for 3,100 additional police officers working 16 hours a day for ...

The Allegheny County Health Department today reported that GetGo on Frankstown Road in Penn Hills has dropped out of the Women, Infants and Children supplemental food program because it no longer stocks the minimum inventory of WIC foods.

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