Monaca News

A $2 million grant is helping titanium maker NF&M International in Monaca to expand, the Beaver County Times reported over the weekend.

When it comes to spending by the federal government, $470,000 barely would qualify as a drop in the ocean.

In Municipal Court Tuesday, a charge of possession of drug abuse instruments against Michael D. Ludovici, 20, Florida Avenue, Chester, W.Va., was amended to disorderly conduct.

Route 28 between Millvale and the 31st Street Bridge, ongoing construction, $120 million.

Michael Hasch is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-320-7820 or via e-mail. Bridgewater Councilman Gregory Scott Hopkins was involved in a surreptitious relationship with the woman he is accused of killing three decades ago, according to a search warrant unsealed on Monday.

Most of the traffic will be detoured to the Sewickley Bridge as PennDOT begins a project on the Ambridge-Aliquippa Bridge in March.

On September 1st 1979, following the discovery of Catherine Walsh's body, Trooper Matas and Patrolman Gall began interviewing potential witnesses and persons of interest.

BRIDGEWATER, Pa. - As a small town comes to grips with a 32-year-old murder, the talk isn't just about a borough councilman being held without bond in a local jail.

The long-forgotten murder of 23-year-old Catherine Walsh has also brought back memories of those who may have been unjustly accused, as residents ponder the difference between a man's reputation and his true character.

A Beaver County judge denied bail today for the Bridgewater man recently charged in the 1979 death of a Monaca woman.

I teared up when I read this piece ["When it's cold, we make sausage" by Gretchen McKay, Food & Flavor, Jan.

State police made arrests in these cold cases using a federal grant: -- Mary Irene Gency, 16, beaten to death in Fallowfield, Washington County, in 1977 -- Catherine Janet Walsh, 23, strangled in Monaca, Beaver County, in 1979 -- John Mayerchak, 51, shot in Lehigh County in 1985 -- Louis Jones, 81, stabbed in Warren County in 1996 -- Irene ... (more)

The Pennsylvania State Police and the Beaver County District Attorney's Office today announced the arrest of a Bridgewater man who is charged in the 1979 strangling death of Catherine Janet Walsh.

Gregory Scott Hopkins, 65, of Bridgewater, Pa., has been charged in the 1979 murder or Catherine Janet Walsh, who was then 23.

A borough councilman in Bridgewater, Beaver County, has been arrested and charged with killing a young Monaca woman more than 30 years ago.

Michael Hasch is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-320-7820 or via e-mail. A Beaver County borough councilman was arrested overnight on a charge of criminal homicide in connection with the death of a female acquaintance more than 30 years ago.

Huntington Bancshares Inc.'s plan to close 29 branches among its nearly 650 will only touch Pittsburgh slightly, with two branches north of the city to be shuttered.

Congressman Jason Altmire will be meeting with technologically savvy constituents in Monaca next week.