Whitehall News

When Caste Village merchants sponsor their annual fireworks celebration the Friday before the holiday, the surrounding neighborhoods brace for the worst: drunken drivers, litterbugs and illegally parked cars.

The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to buy two types of energy drinks packaged in test-tube like vials, saying that utility knife blades were found in two vials in an apparent case of tampering.

Whatever it took, Dr. Mary Ravita did what she had to do to make the South Fayette School District better.

For the second consecutive year, taxpayers in the Baldwin-Whitehall School District will enjoy a reduction in the millage rate.

Following the resignations of three administrators in the past month, the Baldwin-Whitehall School District promoted a long-term substitute teacher to handle disciplinary problems at the high school.

Maybe Harold and Kumar can go to Whitehall , too. White Castle, the fast food chain adored by certain burger aficionados and -- ahem -- chemically altered partyers, wants to open a restaurant on MacArthur Road in Whitehall Township.

The "chipper" applies a layer of gravel over a hot steaming coating of the E-3 modified oil on the surface of East Willock Road in Whitehall last week.

A tiny country church in Washington County has been transformed into a retirement home for a former nurse.

When you enter a piercing parlor, you're really entering the halls of history. Ear piercing is one the oldest recorded forms of body modification.

Teachers at a western Pennsylvania-based cyber charter school have voted to unionize in what the union says is the first such action in the United States.

Retirement will be taking Whitehall police officer Bruce Marchetti away from the DARE program he helped found, but he'll still work with kids.

New stores and restaurants will open soon in the Caste Village shopping center in Whitehall.

Eric Heyl is a Tribune-Review staff writer. He can be reached via e-mail or 412-320-7857. View Heyl's Archive Marcie Weaver doesn't expect her light-rail vehicle stop to be spotless.

The Baldwin-Whitehall School District is investigating a discrepancy in a check written from the school renovation fund.

'Babushkas and Hard Hats Tour' What: The half-day bus tour focuses on immigrants' impact on the steel industry and includes an ethnic cooking class Presented by: Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area Tours When: 9 a.m. June 13, July 11 and Aug.

Whitehall council last night heard encouraging comments from Tom Caste, the vice president of Caste Enterprises, regarding the future of the Caste Village Shopping Center.

There's no better way for Chuck and Patty Hosler to celebrate 50 years of families coming together in the sun, splashing in the pool, and enjoying a barbecue or picnic at the Whitehall Country Club than just being together.

NORTH WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. -- Richard "Dick" Matthews died Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at home in the comfort of his family.

Allison Toth of Phillipsburg scores a run as catcher Sam Rayhon of North Hunterdon reaches for the wide throw.

In Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, divers have recovered the body of a young man who jumped into a quarry while swimming with friends.