Monongahela News

It's not unusual for Donora native Kim Moses to have reflections of her hometown in the popular CBS-TV series, "Ghost Whisperer," produced by her and her husband, Ian Sander.

Pittsburgh's newest stretch of reclaimed riverfront is still a bit dusty and its freshly planted landscaping has yet to flourish.

This article has been read 998 times. A Donora man whom investigators believe was a significant heroin dealer in the Monongahela Valley was arrested Tuesday morning by members of the Washington County Drug Task Force.

Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation has used 12 pounds of explosives to bring one of the state's most structurally problematic bridges crashing into a river.

The center span of the 79-year-old Albert Gallatin Memorial Bridge begins to fall into the Monongahela River at Point Marion after an implosion this morning.

If city council has its way, the taxpayers will receive great news in December. That's because if council adopts the tentative 2010 budget it unveiled Wednesday, property owners will save money.

City Council is considering a ban on pets in Chess Park because some owners aren't cleaning up after their animals.

World War II veteran James Nolan has traveled the globe, but always called Mt. Washington home.

At 2:28 a.m. Sunday, Bradley Campbell II, 20, Reynoldsville, was found intoxicated in the passengers seat of a vehicle in the 300 block of South 13th St., according to borough police.

"With the end of every day there is felt a more pressing need in this valley for a Monongahela Valley Chamber of Commerce." Those words sound familiar, right? Perhaps they were spoken or written in recent years by proponents of the time-honored theory of strength in numbers.

The Tribune-Review can be reached online or at 412-321-6460. Ways to get us The Allegheny County Board of Health on Wednesday approved an extended 60-day public comment period for a proposal to improve air quality in the Monongahela Valley.

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Stacy Levy, an artist from Spring Mills, has recreated a 924-square-foot stone map of the Spring Creek watershed, pictured below, at the H.O. Smith Botanical Gardens at the Penn State Arboretum this summer.

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A Washington County coal company Friday submitted a guilty plea to one misdemeanor count each of pollution and unlawful conduct before Fayette County Judge Steve Leskinen.

The annual "Showboat" is set to sail this weekend as Mon Valley senior citizens will dance, sing and perform for a good cause.

Criminal charges are pending in connection with the stabbing early Friday of a Frazier school board member in his Fayette County home, according to state police.

This article has been read 643 times. Like a department store that's firing up "Jingle Bells" before Halloween, the flu has hit the region early this year.

Until he left home for Navy boot camp, John Edward Allen had never been on an airplane.

The man who allegedly gunned down 21-year-old Christopher Martin on the 800 block of Fourth Street in late June pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in Marion County Circuit Court Thursday.