Tarentum News

Tom Yerace is a Valley News Dispatch staff writer and can be reached at 724-226-4675 or via e-mail. A state House bill that would deny unemployment compensation to school bus drivers during the summer appears to be dead.

It's one evening of the year when just about all of us look to the skies in the Central... STAUNTON - Luella Mae Oberg, 94, wife of Norman Walter Oberg, of 116 Red Oaks Drive, died Sunday, Feb.

I just returned from another business trip to the Alle-Kiski Valley and once again want to thank the Valley's citizens for a wealth of inspiration I acquire for my work.

Bill Beckner Jr. is the Valley News Dispatch sports editor and can be reached at 724-224-2696 or via e-mail. The Tarentum native and Natrona Heights resident, an NFL head linesman since 1995, will officiate his first Super Bowl on Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

Pennsylvania powersports dealers are looking toward spring with plans to take advantage of a new law allowing them to sell vehicles on Sundays.

A man convicted in the 1990s of burglarizing and vandalizing churches and schools now faces similar charges after police linked him to an attempted break-in at First United Presbyterian Church in Tarentum two days after Christmas.

A western Pennsylvania prosecutor says he is still mulling whether to seek the death penalty against a man charged with having killed a couple in their rural home last summer.

An afternoon drug deal along East Seventh Avenue led to a car and foot chase that ended in a wooded area near Route 28, police said.

She started working with the unconventional medium not even a month ago, but the Tarentum resident likes making the creations so much, she has started to sell them.

R.A. Monti is a Valley News Dispatch staff writer and can be reached at 724-226-4691 or via e-mail. While many Salvation Army corps in Western Pennsylvania failed to meet their goals for the annual "Red Kettle Drive," the Tarentum facility met -- and surpassed -- its target.

Grace Greeno, 8, of Oakland does an impromtu dance with Steelers mascot Steely McBeam during the 25th annual Mascot Skate at the Schenley Park rink on Saturday.