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A woman suffered serious burns and three firefighters were injured on the scene of a fire at a Pitcairn apartment complex on Saturday.

One woman was critically burned and four other people were rescued from a four-alarm fire early today in Pitcairn.

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Share + Dec 31, 2009 9:33 pm US/Eastern Reporting Ralph Iannotti HOMEWOOD There was a candlelight vigil in Homewood for a teenager shot to death in a parked car in Pitcairn.

A man was shot to death by a passenger in his car Tuesday afternoon in Pitcairn, police said.

A teenager shot in Pitcairn has died Tuesday night, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office said.

Pitcairn officials are seeking candidates to fill the council seat vacated by Kurt Seibel, who resigned two days after four new members were voted into office.

As Pitcairn's first new mayor in 20 years, John McCreary Jr.'s first priorities will be mending fences with the police department and working with its new chief to cut crime.

JoAnne Klimovich Harrop can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7889. For Vic Vereshack, the path he travels is not clear, but that doesn't keep him from making the journey.

Pitcairn Elementary students are getting a chance to chow down with a healthy snack and learn a thing or two about it.

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

A point of contention between Pitcairn's two candidates for mayor is police officer scheduling, a hot topic in the borough since the police chief resigned over the issue.

A senior staff writer for People magazine and IUP alumna will be sharing her experiences in TV/entertainment/magazine journalism with IUP journalism majors at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Beard Auditorium in Stouffer Hall.

A new book, "Remembering Monroeville: From Frontier to Boomtown," by Zandy Dudiak has been released by The History Press in Charleston, S.C. In the book, Dudiak, news editor of the Times Express in Monroeville - a Trib Total Media newspaper - relates 28 stories detailing Monroeville's evolution as part of Plum through its days as rural Patton ...

One night I awoke in the middle of a dead sleep with a song running through my mind.

Mutiny, a revolt against constituted authority in the armed forces, or aboard any ship at sea.

Pitcairn native Dennis Hockenberry became the borough's new police chief after council voted unanimously to hire him last week.

The front steps at Lisa Olsakovsky's red-brick home are crumbling. Her family is in a constant fight to scrub away mold in a musty-smelling basement.

In the world of music, the legendary 1720 "Red Mendelssohn" Stradivarius stands out as one of the most recognizable musical instruments.