Clairton News

Will produce an estimated $190 million to $355 million in impact fees annually over 15 years.

Gov. Tom Corbett may not have thought the after-school and summer tutoring program operated by the Clairton City School District for students performing under grade level was important when he cut the funds that supported it in his 2011 budget and maintained that cut in his 2012 budget proposal Tuesday.

Dormont is now seeking to fill several of its top non-elected positions after borough Manager Gino Rizza and Solicitor Deron Gabriel tendered their resignations this week.

Just before Hines Ward joined students at Clairton High School to mentor one of them as part of an NFL program , the students spoke their minds to Hear Me .

Robert Tomasic says the only way he could get $60,000 for his house in North Braddock would be if he put in $10,000 to $15,000 worth of renovations first.

Two men accused in a shooting that severely injured a Clairton police officer are asking for their confessions to be thrown out, saying they were pressured into it.

A Clairton man was found guilty of second-degree murder Friday for the shooting death of a man at a New Year's Eve party last year.

Emilio Rivera claims that Allegheny County homicide detectives forced him into giving a false confession in the shooting of a Clairton police officer by threatening to arrest his girlfriend and have his infant son taken away.

There are new developments today from the hearing for two men accused in connection with a shooting that left a Clairton police officer wounded.

Legislation proposed by state Rep. Eugene DePasquale, D-York, would direct $30 million in state funds to 18 academically and fiscally distressed school districts to be used to improve academic achievement.

Two men accused of shooting a Clairton police officer during a home invasion last April asked an Allegheny County judge to throw out their confessions.

A Pittsburgh-area man will spend 22 to 44 years in state prison for murdering his wife's 2-year-old grandson while the boy was in his care.

Shootings, homicides and drug arrests are just a few of the times when many young African-Americans are highlighted and featured in the media, while there is a greater majority of positive stories and images often overshadowed by the negative.

This year, the Montour Run Watershed Association plans to curb the effects of stream bank erosion throughout Moon, Robinson, Coraopolis, North Fayette and Findlay.

After working as a reporter in a Johnstown TV newsroom for 10 years, she had an epiphany - all over the purchase of a new couch.

The FBI and Allegheny County district attorney said Wednesday that they will review the facts surrounding the arrest of a 76-year-old man who was hospitalized with head and facial injuries to determine whether Clairton police officers used excessive force or committed civil rights violations.

Clairton police pulled over 76-year-old Robert C. Ruffing on the morning of Dec.

Property owners in the Boston section of Elizabeth Township said they've been looking at -- and smelling -- an eyesore of uncollected garbage since before Christmas.

Craig Smith is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-380-5646 or via e-mail. Sonia Ewell hopes her sons can one day return to a full period of physical education at school instead of what they refer to as recess.

Jennifer R. Vertullo is a McKeesport Daily News staff writer and can be reached at 412-664-9161 x1956 or via e-mail. The Braddock Healthier Communities PartnerSHIP, which recently changed its title to the Partnership for a Caring Community, has carried out the State Health Improvement Plan's true mission of community health awareness by bringing ... (more)