North Braddock News

Holiday shoppers hunting for bargains packed Western Pennsylvania malls and stores before dawn on Black Friday.

Margaret Harding can be reached via e-mail. or at 412-380-8519. For the past 17 years, no matter rain, sleet or snow, Vince Guerrieri shows up at a Best Buy parking lot in the wee hours of the morning on Black Friday.

Elected officials in two east suburban communities approved formal resolutions opposing a plan by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to close its hospital in Braddock.

A Sunday morning fire in the 500 block of Center Street in Braddock damaged a duplex.

By the time she was 7 years old, Janet Naughton knew what she wanted to do. "I started dancing at 3," said Naughton, owner of Janet's School of Dance in Irwin.

The fight to keep UPMC Braddock open seemingly took a backseat to squabbling among community leaders at a meeting Thursday night.

Every now and then, Munch likes a good gimmick. And by golly, Braddock's Street Side has got one.

Getting acquainted with Sue Arlott's cat, Jessie, are Je'Amour Matthews and Lisa Slagel, members of the Black Hat Society Network, a group of practicing witches who gathered for an afternoon brunch at the Arlott home.

Sharon Cassidy of North Braddock tells her sons -- Donny, 14, and Jacob, 13 -- to get right to their homework when they come home from their school day at Good Shepherd Catholic School.

In the past half-century, Braddock has lost movie theaters, pharmacies, department stores, homes, thousands of industrial jobs and more than 80 percent of its population.

A man was stabbed in the leg at about 5 p.m. today outside a house on the 200 block of North Braddock Avenue in North Point Breeze, police said.

The Allegheny County "Use of Force" working group will have its final meeting on Thursday morning.

A jury acquitted a Lincoln-Lemington man this afternoon in the 2006 death of North Braddock man.

For the first time in more than four months, North Irwin has a police officer. Borough council hired Michael G. Kresich as a part-time patrolman at a special meeting last night.

National OCD Awareness Week is Oct. 12-18. Among events in Western Pennsylvania for students, teachers and parents: * OCD Support Group meeting, 6 p.m. Oct.

Helen Baynes, owner of Montage Interior Design Studio in Point Breeze, has filled 8,000 square feet of space with furniture and home decor items.

Share + Sep 4, 2009 4:51 pm US/Eastern FEMA has denied a second request for federal assistance to the victims of damage created by severe storms back in June.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009 [PA] Ex-Police Chief Briston's DV charges dropped ...Ms. McDaniel testified at the hearing yesterday, but Judge Martini decided there wasn't enough evidence to hold Mr.

Share + Sep 2, 2009 10:29 pm US/Eastern NORTH BRADDOCK A homicide in North Braddock remains unsolved.

A former Rankin police chief who was fired in 2003 after being convicted of stealing more than $5,000, is in trouble again, this time for allegedly assaulting his ex-girlfriend. Darryl Briston, 46, of North Braddock, was arrested yesterday after ex-girlfriend Maria McDaniel told police Mr.