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During a drive between the Mon Valley towns of McKeesport and Elizabeth, a man named Ray was overheard calling into a local radio station to talk about the subject of the hour: November's presidential election.

Jerry Vondas is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-320-7823 or via via e-mail. Stanley Kawa's analytical skills served him well as a designer of one-man submarines and as a designer of nuclear storage facilities.

Few people are fortunate enough to transform a passionate hobby into a thriving career, but fly fishing enthusiast Chuck Furimsky, 69, of Rockwood felt the pull of fate's current and waded right on in.

Salena Zito is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-320-7879, via e-mail or on Twitter.

Carol Waterloo Frazier is the McKeesport Daily News lifestyles editor and can be reached at 412-664-9161 or via e-mail. When she was 7 years old, Dorothy Fulmer saw a picture of the Shroud of Turin and said she was going to draw what she saw.

Helen Richey was a female aviation pioneer who proved women could fly planes, break aviation records and even instruct men in the military on how to be pilots.

Allegheny County sheriff's deputies on Wednesday arrested a man wanted in connection with a shooting at a Sweet 16 birthday party that left one teen dead and seven others wounded in Duquesne.

Mike Wereschagin is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-320-7900, via e-mail or on Twitter.

Some photo array evidence will be allowed in the trial of Melvin "Rock" Smith later this year, and some will not.

Mary Pickels is a Tribune-review staff writer and can be reached at 724-836-5401 or via e-mail. A third man has been charged in a November armed robbery in Indiana Borough, and a warrant has been issued for the arrest of a fourth, police said.

The McKeesport High School Alumni & Friends Association is accepting nominees for induction into the McKeesport High School Hall of Fame.

A man has been arrested following a December Sweet 16 party shooting that killed one person and injured seven others at a western Pennsylvania home.Allegheny County authorities took 25-year-old McKeesport resident Quentin Ingram into custody Wednesday at an apartment in Versailles , near Pittsburgh.Ingram is charged with criminal homicide and seven ... (more)

Police say gunmen from a radical Islamist sect have attacked another police station, killing one officer in a north Nigeria city where they killed 185 people last week.

A man has been arrested following a December Sweet 16 party shooting that killed one person and injured seven others at a western Pennsylvania home.

County sheriff's deputies this morning arrested a man wanted in connection with a shooting at a birthday party that left one teen dead and seven others wounded.

The creator said when you use his product you can see the muscles working and feel a difference right away.

The UPMC ophthalmologist saw two people at the clinic who had once been his own private patients.

Michael DiVittorio is a McKeesport Daily News staff writer and can be reached at 412-664-9161 or via e-mail. Keith Wright, 26, stood silently in Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Judge Edward J. Borkowski's courtroom Friday as a jury foreman delivered the guilty verdict of murder in the second degree, burglary and criminal conspiracy.

The following reports were taken this week by the Edgewood police department: Jan.

Nineteen states have banned the use of carbon monoxide gas chambers for domestic animals, but Pennsylvania isn't one of them.