Glassport News

A Pittsburgh-area man could spend up to 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to his ninth and 10th drunken driving offenses.

An Allegheny County judge sentenced a McKeesport man this morning to 5 1/2 to 11 years in prison for guilty pleas to his ninth and 10th drunken driving charges.

It wasn't a great day for people who are worried about the health risks of air pollution.

The numbers are stark and disturbing. They hint at loss, suffering and death. Pittsburghers have known, based on previous reports, of the poor air quality in communities near U.S. Steel's Clairton coke works.

Two census tracts in Allegheny County are among nearly 600 nationwide where people are breathing concentrations of toxic air pollutants that put them at a much greater risk of contracting cancer.

Police in Duquesne are investigating an apparent carjacking, after a woman flagged down officers and said her car was taken at gunpoint.

The Allegheny County Health Department today reported that the Twist and Shout grocery store in Clairton has closed and no longer accepts vouchers issued by the Women, Infants and Children supplemental food program.

Firefighters quickly responded to a blaze at a home in Glassport early Wednesday morning.

The Allegheny County fire marshal spent hours investigating a vacant house fire in Glassport early Wednesday morning.

Family : Corey lives with his mother, Karen, and father, Charles. School : He is a senior at South Allegheny High School.

Memorial Day was somber for residents along Delaware Avenue in Glassport, where they fondly remembered the boy they knew as "Little Augie." August Berg Jr., 13, whose family moved from the neighborhood several months ago, died Sunday when he disappeared beneath the surface while swimming in the Youghiogheny River in White Oak.

Brian Bowling can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7910. A South Allegheny High School junior prefers meeting people to seeing the sights, so she leaped at a chance for a seven-week stay in Russia this summer.

Eric "E.J." Robertson finished first in the Pittsburgh Marathon -- first among first-time marathoners.

George W. Campbell, born May 20, 1924 died April 17, 2009. His parents were George S. Campbell and Nina White Campbell.

The Allegheny County Bomb Squad was called to a home in Glassport Friday evening.

Glassport police and Allegheny County homicide detectives are investigating the discovery of two bodies that were discovered inside a home this evening on Marie Street in Glassport.

Shortly before noon Tuesday, a letter carrier walked into the Greater Pittsburgh Police Federal Credit Union, reached into a heavy box and dropped several brick-sized packages of letters on a front counter.

Michael Hasch can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7820. The deaths of an elderly Glassport couple who neighbors described as devoted to each other since childhood appear to be a murder-suicide, investigators said.

Homicide detectives were called to a house in Glassport Tuesday night, after two bodies were found.

Police say an 83-year-old man shot his ill wife before killing himself in their Pittsburgh-area home.