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Heidi Goeller, a Fox Chapel resident who competes for the Harts Run Hunt Pony Club, is a local equestrian.

A Team 4 investigation finds more than half of all areas in western Pennsylvania have high levels of radon -- a cancer-causing gas.

National and local conservative activists rallying in Schenley Park Saturday said their organizational firepower is leagues ahead of where they were in 1994, when Newt Gingrich's Republican Revolution picked up dozens of congressional seats.

Environmental stewardship is second nature for borough parks commission chairwoman Nancy Fales.

Mahnaz Harrison joined others in Market Square on Tuesday to support the protesters in Iran.

By Tamara Simpson Girardi , FOR THE VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH Friday, June 26, 2009 Last updated: 4:47 pm Photos 'Over the Tavern' Mountain Playhouse 'Over the Tavern' When: Tuesday through July 12 with shows at 8 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. matinees on Wednesdays and Fridays, and 3 p.m. matinee on Sundays.

Jerry Vondas can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7823. Whether he was serving his country as an Army Air Corps officer or operating the family business, Jim McNulty did it with a sense of pride and accomplishment.

ThePittsburghChannel.Com updated June 26, 2009 FOX CHAPEL, Pa. - THE PITTSBURGH CHANNEL.com Emma Bursick was only 7 years old when she died in her sleep from SUDEP .

A federal grand jury indicted a Sewickley woman Tuesday on mortgage fraud charges.

In 1957, the number of school districts in Pennsylvania was dramatically reduced from 2,700 to the current 501.

Paul Kogut can be reached via e-mail . Funded by donations, St. Joseph High School opened its new gymnasium in December.

It sounds like something you might see on the back of a T-shirt. But to hear Zach Skrinjar say it, with confidence, is to understand his conviction in the simple phrase.

Both as a mom and a pediatrician, Dr. Laura Voigt of Fox Chapel says neither cloth nor disposable diapers clearly trumps the other in the Great Diaper Debate: What kind should we use, and why? Disposable diapers and their reusable cloth counterparts each have advantages and disadvantages, says Voigt, who chose to use disposable diapers on her two ...

State agricultural officials are waving large nets throughout Western Pennsylvania this week, hoping to catch not butterflies but invasive insects mounting a threat on trees.

The Allegheny County Health Department told Fox Chapel School District officials that a student at Fairview Elementary School may have contracted the H1N1 virus commonly known as swine flu.

Sherry Kloss, the Crafton native who was a student of violin great Jascha Heifetz, will bring her annual music workshop back to Shady Side Academy in Fox Chapel Sunday.

Squaw Valley Park in O'Hara has a new rival. Fox Chapel's McCahill Park, formerly a wooded lot off Squaw Run Road, now boasts nearly $20,000 in new playground equipment.

PITTSBURGH a ' The Allegheny County Medical Examinera TMs Office is once again requesting assistance in identifying three bodies that have been held in the County Morgue since their deaths.

Penn State has landed yet another WPIAL football player from the class of 2010. Tom Ricketts, an offensive lineman at North Allegheny High School, decided today that he will attend Penn State.

One of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's most prominent and well-paid physicians has stepped down from his role as chairman of the department of neurological surgery.