North Versailles News

During her annual "State of Black Pittsburgh" address yesterday, the president of the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh called for local black communities to rise above the weight of fatherless homes.

With 17 grandchildren, Francine Hymes of North Versailles never imagined she would be too young to become a foster grandparent.

Through his Eagle Scout project, Jonathan Driscoll, 15, has made life more pleasant for several adults with developmental disabilities who live in an assisted living center in South Union.

Two of the three men who allegedly robbed a State College apartment at gunpoint turned themselves in on Sunday.

As an infantryman who fought in seven campaigns during World War II, including North Africa, Bob Rutter knew well the realities of facing an enemy in combat.

Though two incumbents lost in the May primary, one of them is waging a write-in campaign in an effort to keep his seat.

Police in North Versailles are exploring all possible connections to burglaries that have been happening recently.

Burglars posing as a religious group may be the scheme behind a break-in at a North Versailles home.

Longtime North Versailles police Officer Ron Masula patrolled the community's roads for years and understood the trauma experienced by those involved in crashes.

The fourth annual Walk of the Dead and Zombie Fest will take place Oct. 11 at the Monroeville Mall on Business Route 22, the site where director George Romero filmed his classic "Dawn of the Dead." The event features a zombie walk with accompanying food drive to benefit the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.

The Army Corps of Engineers will likely delay the start of flood control work in the Turtle Creek Valley until mid-October, its spokesman said.

A 71-year-old woman was shot and killed Sunday night by a police officer in North Versailles where, police said, she may have been lying in wait outside a man's home with a gun.

In North Versailles, Pa., police shot and killed a 71-year-old woman who was reportedly lurking outside her ex-boyfriend's house.

Police were called to Shady Lane in North Versailles for the report of a suspected prowler Sunday night.

Police last night fatally wounded an elderly, armed North Versailles woman who, investigators said, had been preparing to ambush her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend.

One personA was reportedly shot Sunday evening in North Versailles. The shooting happened along the 3700-block of Shady Lane.

A $3.9 million repair project to the Westinghouse Bridge in North Versailles will restrict traffic to the eastbound lanes beginning today.

So it's not vigilante justice but a Pittsburgh man took matters into his own hands by using his cell phone Global Positioning System to track down the alleged crooks who stole his iPhone early Saturday morning.

Jodi Weigand can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7910. A North Versailles commissioner says the township can't afford to continue providing Wilmerding with police protection.

Can Duruk admitted he felt uneasy moments before being robbed at gunpoint Saturday - becoming the third Carnegie Mellon student robbed since students returned to the Oakland campus two weeks ago.