Churchill News

PennDOT is reminding motorists that the inbound lanes of the Parkway East will close this weekend between Monroeville and Churchill.

The Woodland Hills School Board will meet at 6 tonight at the Administrative Building on Greensburg Pike in Churchill to discuss the proposed 2009-10 budget, which includes a tax increase from 24.65 to 25.65 mills.

Jessica Turnbull can be reached via e-mail. Despite several residents voicing their opposition, the Woodland Hills School Board voted 6-3 Monday night to pass a $88.8 million budget with a 1-mill tax increase for the 2009-10 school year.

When Bernard Madoff's attorney, Ira Lee Sorkin, appealed to US Federal District Court Judge Denny Chin to go easy on his client just before the Ponzi-scheme king was sentenced on Monday, his argument was: "Vengeance is not the goal of punishment." There is no way of knowing what the judge thought of that.

Even with the deadline less than a week away, it's impossible to predict when a state budget agreement will be reached, or what it will look like.

PITTSBURGH a ' Allegheny County today declared a disaster emergency at 4:30 p.m. as a result of the flooding that took place due to several powerful storm systems that passed through the region on Wed., June 17.

Allegheny County this evening declared a disaster emergency as a result of Wednesday night's floods, which caused major damage to homes, roads, bridges, public property, sewer systems and culverts.

Swissvale's police chief is concerned budget cuts will leave only one uniformed officer working next year at Woodland Hills Junior High School.

Brendan Gleeson doesn't shirk from acting challenges, veering from the likes of Mad-Eye Moody in the Harry Potter films to an enthusiastic tourist-hit man in "In Bruges." But he hesitated before taking on Winston Churchill in HBO's "Into the Storm." The film debuts Sunday as the sequel to 2002's Emmy-winning "The Gathering Storm," in which Albert ...

Sir Winston Churchill's grandson has described as "offensive and disgusting" a decision by the BNP to use his image in a party election broadcast.

Nine years after Richard S. Baumhammers went on a racially motivated killing rampage, the civil court saga came to an end last month with a quiet settlement paid out from the killer's family to those of his six victims.

If you want to learn how the Allies really won the war, Andrew Roberts' impeccable new history retraces the secret meetings between FDR and Churchill.

One down; 2,999 to go. Workers at Rivers Casino on the North Shore set in place the first of 3,000 slot machines Monday.

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Only his most sycophantic admirers might compare Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter with Winston Churchill, but the two do have something in common.

But he avoided questions about holding members of the Bush-Cheney administration to account for sanctioning the use of those techniques.

Justin Vellucci can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7847. Two Woodland Hills second-graders could be expelled for bringing a knife to school.

'And your little dog too...' Justin Merriman/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review click to enlarge Learning on the set Justin Merriman/Tribune-Review Follow the yellow brick road What : Woodland Hills High School students will perform in "The Wizard of Oz" When : 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday, April 30 and May 1-2. Students will perform matinees at 1 p.m. Saturday ...

When the transmission in Amaka Hurst's 1996 Chevy Lumina went out two years ago, she worried how she would get by.

People are gathering signatures in an effort to change how Woodland Hills elects its school board members.