Edgewood News

The school board has hired the brother of one of its members to oversee the district's multi-million construction projects.

Adam Brandolph can be reached via e-mail or at 412-765-2312. Ways to get us About 30 people holding signs and distributing fliers outside UPMC's Downtown headquarters protested today against the health system's announcement that it would close its Braddock facility at the end of January.

Barbara Johnson waltzes with Brandon Perpich, a dance instructor at Arthur Murray's, Downtown.

The Three Rivers Film Festival, presented by Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Dollar Bank, opens Friday with a robust, diverse mix of movies.

Don Radovich went to bed Tuesday night trailing by 2 votes for the fourth and final open seat on Moon Area School Board.

A pickup truck rear-ended a car early Sunday morning, shutting down part of the Parkway East in Edgewood.

Retired Judge James McGregor with his dogs, Autumn and Foxy, at his Edgewood home.

An accident caused delays and blocked a lane on the westbound side of Parkway East Friday around noon.

A multivehicle accident has been cleared from travel lanes of the inbound Parkway East near South Braddock Avenue but a fire truck remains on the scene, blocking travel lanes and causing traffic to back to Wilkins.

Bill Seifert's service to the Nabisco plant in East Liberty and to his fellow employees spanned 55 years.

Pitcairn native Dennis Hockenberry became the borough's new police chief after council voted unanimously to hire him last week.

Edgewood police said they have cracked the case in a string of daylight burglaries.

A Clairton man faces a hearing this week in connection with two burglaries in Swissvale.

Important dates in the 140-year history of the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf: Sept.

Jerry Vondas can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7823. When Peg Brennan's family helped her cut her 100th birthday cake at Conneaut Lake a year ago, they were celebrating the life of a spirited woman who swam across the lake as a teenager.

The exterior of the house on Washington Street in Edgewood after a five-year renovation.

Because of the state's ongoing budget problems, Gov. Ed Rendell plans to lay off 255 more state workers as of Aug.

Members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency will be back in the Pittsburgh region on Friday to take a look at more areas that were damaged by last month's flooding.

Federal officials saw chunks of brick and cement left piled along Electric Avenue since June's floods; they saw the collapsed walls along several creeks and heard stories from people they hadn't heard from before.

A tractor-trailer hit the jersey barrier on the inbound Parkway East and jackknifed near the Edgewood/Swissvale exit.