Homestead News

If Brian Wilson were still taking stages with Mike Love and Bruce Johnston, would we have been bundling up to go see him on a November night at the Carnegie Library Music Hall of Homestead? No way.

Two Western Pennsylvania women were among the victims in Thursday's shooting rampage in Fort Hood, including a 55-year-old lieutenant colonel who was one of 13 people who died in the attack.

Traffic on the Rankin Bridge will be shifted to the newly-reconstructed side of the deck starting tomorrow morning and the sidewalk will be closed to pedestrians so crews can work on the other half of the bridge, officials said.

Blue Dust, at first, seems like it took a wrong turn on the way to Lawrenceville, and got lost out here in between the massive national chain restaurants of the Waterfront and the few crumbling dives left on the main drag in Homestead.

Patrons of the Rainbow Kitchen food pantry eat Thanksgiving dinner together in this photo from November 1985.

After all, it would be difficult to ruin a marriage that happened more than 200 years ago.

ThePittsburghChannel.Com updated Oct. 30, 2009 HOMESTEAD, Pa. - THE PITTSBURGH CHANNEL.com It's been said that cats have nine lives, but one woman is crediting her 7-month-old kitty for saving one.

The Pennsylvania Charter School Appeal board voted today to allow Propel Schools to open a second charter school within the Woodland Hills School District.

Tom Ragan spent more than 20 years serving St. Michael the Archangel Church, greeting parishioners and collecting the offering each week.

An arrest has been made in a fatal 2008 shooting at a Pittsburgh-area restaurant.

During the festive season of Halloween, many people follow tradition of visiting haunted houses.

A man facing two separate homicide trials in Allegheny County was convicted of third-degree murder yesterday in one of the cases -- a 2006 shooting outside a Strip District bar.

During the iron-cold winter of 1944-45, Steve Kepchar camped under a grim exhortation.

Traffic is flowing again across the Homestead Grays Bridge, after the span had to be shut down for repairs on Thursday morning.

AFI could get wild at Club Zoo on Sunday night. ALL WEEKEND Nightmare is on The Nightmare at Station Scare returns from the dead, having been deep-sixed for two years while the Amphitheater at Station Square was a parking lot.

The man named West Mifflin police chief four years ago to turn around a department rocked by scandal finds his retirement setting off a controversy.

Reading Eagle: Ben Hasty Conrad Weiser Homestead buildings in Heidelberg Township were closed in September after state funding was cut.

Lorraine Musial, left, talks with fellow employee Mary Helgerman. If it were only for the fact that Lorraine Musial, who is deaf and blind, has held down a 30-hour-a-week restaurant job for the past 12 years, that alone would constitute a good story for October, which is National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

A dream that began in 1975 with the abandonment of 87 miles of railroad line from Cumberland, Md., to Connellsville -- a biking/hiking trail that would connect Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C. -- is on the verge of coming true.

Two former nursing home employees pleaded guilty to reduced charges today for their roles in harassing and abusing a 94-year-old Alzheimer's patient at the John J. Kane Regional Center in Glen Hazel last year.