Irwin News

Eric Heyl is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review columnist and can be reached at 412-320-7857 or via e-mail . The band was the Magpies, a popular Pittsburgh rock 'n' roll outfit for whom he played guitar.

Irwin officials might have to redesign portions of a popular play structure in Irwin Park, after the borough was turned down for a grant to repair it.

Last week, officials discussed potentially paving portions of seven streets, patching several roadways, and using tar and chips to fix portions of seven others.

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A Jeannette couple pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of endangering the welfare of their four children filed by city officials who inspected their house and found the family living in filth amid cockroaches and feces.

Dozens of residents in the Norwin area could benefit this summer when hundreds of volunteers provide free home repairs to those who are elderly, handicapped or in financial need.

Rossilynne Skena is a Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 724-836-6646 or via e-mail. Council set aside $32,500 in its 2012 budget to buy a police car.

An Allegheny County developer that tried to buy the former Brownsville General Hospital in Fayette County in 2010 sued Parkvale Bank in federal court on Monday, alleging the bank interfered in the deal, costing it an estimated $1 million a year in profit.

Joan was born May 3, 1934, in McKeesport, Pa., to John and Anna Novak. She was reared and educated in Irwin, Pa., and graduated from North Huntington High School there in 1952.

Ten years after it was initially proposed, a Walmart Supercenter has opened in North Huntingdon, with about 100 employees, and eager shoppers attending a 7 a.m. ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday.

Several restaurants plan to warm up downtown Irwin next week with cups of chili and chicken wings during the Irwin Business & Professional Association's Chili Cook-Off & Wing Thing.

Mary Pickels is a Tribune-review staff writer and can be reached at 724-836-5401 or via e-mail. A story by a North Versailles man who said he was picking up an employment application from a personal care home at 10:30 p.m. Saturday did not ring true to an Irwin police officer.

The attorney for the family of a western Pennsylvania woman killed by a downed power line wants the state Public Utility Commission to investigate how a utility's workers were allegedly instructed to clean spliced power lines to keep them from overheating and failing.