Wilmerding News

A hit-and-run traffic accident on Friday night ended in life-threatening injuries to an East Deer woman and serious charges filed against a Pittsburgh-area man.

Allegheny County Fire Marshal's office is investigating a fire in Wilmerding. Authorities said the three-story structure was a rental property with no utilities.

The search is over for a man accused of assaulting his wife, threatening a child and touching off a standoff earlier this week.

Michael DiVittorio is a McKeesport Daily News staff writer and can be reached at 412-664-9161 or via e-mail. Police are searching for a Wilmerding man who allegedly struck his pregnant wife twice with a gun, and pointed it as his 11-year-old stepdaughter.

Police took one man into custody and have issued an arrest warrant for another following a lengthy, overnight standoff in Wilmerding.

One man is in police custody following a SWAT standoff, but another is still inside the Wilmerding home, authorities said.

Compass Savings Bank of Wilmerding is providing a four-bedroom house to the Aversa family, which lost its Swissvale house to foreclosure, said Marisa Aversa, 43.

The Port Authority says it will raise bus and trolley fares and eliminate dozens of routes this year under a plan to cut service by 35 percent if the state does not come up with more dedicated annual funding.