| 'Jihad Jane's' extreme views were unknown to her Penn state neighbours The Pennsylvania woman linked this week to an alleged terrorist plot involving militant Muslims was not known in her neighbourhood for her extreme religious... | |
| Witness Turns Suspect In Stabbing kwarco@observer-reporter.com A man who initially told Canonsburg police that he was a witness to the stabbing death of a Honduran national last month now faces homicide charges. Samuel Juarez Cruz,... |
| Authority Eyes Land For Sale To Developer mbradwell@observer-reporter.com The Washington County Authority plans to sell 67 acres of land it is buying from the state across Interstate 79 from Southpointe to a company that is developing a much... |
| Hearing On Gas Company's Appeal In Mt. Pleasant Is Standing Room Only chriscam@observer-reporter.com HICKORY - A zoning hearing appeal by MarkWest Liberty Midstream to expand two natural gas compressing stations in Mt. Pleasant Township drew a large crowd Tuesday... |
| Fundraiser To Aid Young Athlete Injured In 2008 5 Current rating: But at a weekend tournament in Philadelphia in April 2008, just as he was about to head a ball punted high in the air by the opposing goalie, Bakaitis was pushed from behind... |
| Teen Faces Child Porn Charges kwarco@observer-reporter.com A South Franklin Township teenager was arrested Tuesday by state police on charges of sexual abuse of children for allegedly sharing child pornography via the... |
| Panel Proposes Single Standard For All Schools A panel of educators convened by the nation's governors and state school superintendents proposed a uniform set of academic standards on Wednesday, laying out their vision for what all the nation's... |
| Defense Rests Without Testimony By Veon, Others The four defendants in the Harrisburg legislative corruption trial wrapped up their case Wednesday without taking the stand, and jurors will soon begin deliberations in a proceeding that already has... |
| Jordan Miles Case Sparks Call For Change Jordan Miles, a student at Pittsburgh CAPA, claims three plainclothes officers beat him Jan. 12 because they assumed he was a troublemaker.Pittsburgh city council member the Rev. Ricky Burgess... |
| Man Shot In The Hill District Pittsburgh police robbery detectives are investigating a shooting that occured Wednesday evening in the Hill District. The victim showed up at UPMC Presbyterian with a gunshot wound to the stomach... |
| Mckees Rocks, Carnegie Preparing For Flooding McKees Rocks residents can learn what to do to protect themselves and their property from possible flooding at 5:30 p.m. today in St. Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox Church on Ella Street. And, Carnegie... |
| Pg West: Lincoln Park's 'shall We Dance' Looks More Like A College Production Than A High School Program Rumors of the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center kingdom in Midland have been filtering back to Pittsburgh for some time, so in pursuit of my long-range impossible dream of seeing a musical in every... |
| Landfill Odors Rise; Search On For Source Complaints of foul odors around Findlay's Imperial Landfill have spiked recently, but landfill officials haven't pinpointed the source of the stink. "We had a great run there for a while," manager... |
| Plum 911 Center To Close Earlier, Aug. 1 Plum council President Mike Doyle said he feels so strongly that the borough needs to close its police dispatch center and switch to the county's 911 service that winning the lottery wouldn't change... |
| Furlough Is More Than Usual In Penn Hills Schools The Penn Hills School District will soon send furlough notices to 64 of its 417 teachers for the upcoming school year. The district is required by its contract with the Penn Hills Education... |
| Walking In Another's Shoes: Students Learn About People With Disabilities Kindergarten student Sami Garbowsky learns to use a walker at the Gill Hall Elementary School as their class learns about disabilities and how people live with them from Easter Seals of Western... |
| Carriers Shift, But Mail Won't Change In Millvale, Ross Plans to transfer about a dozen mail carriers from a post office in Millvale to one in Ross should not affect either local mail delivery or window services. That was the message repeated several... |
| Seneca Valley Blocks Vo-tech Financing Because the Seneca Valley school board Monday rejected a financing proposal for an $11 million building project at Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School, the school will have to find another... |
| New Right To Know Law Costly, Mt. Lebanon Schools Say A year after Pennsylvania's new Right to Know law took effect, Mt. Lebanon School District is facing unexpected costs to comply with an increasing number of requests for e-mail correspondence. Since... |
| Rep. Metcalfe Running For Lieutenant Governor Rep. Daryl Metcalfe would be happy to run with either Tom Corbett or Sam Rohrer. And if they strayed from his vision of small government conservatism, he'd be happy to run against them. Mr.... |
| Council Votes To Study Parking Garages' Worth, Despite Objections Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's pension bailout proposal is facing a dogfight in Pittsburgh City Council. Council tentatively approved a financial study of the city's parking garages and meters Wednesday,... |
| Mayor Makes Pre-emptive Strike On Flooding Emergency Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl declared a state of emergency on Wednesday in anticipation of flooding expected to occur this weekend. "We are going to experience flooding, there's no doubt," Mr.... |
| Panel Suggests Uniform Standards For Public Schools Nationwide A panel of educators convened by the nation's governors and state school superintendents on Wednesday proposed a uniform set of academic standards, laying out their vision for what all the nation's... |
| Officers Were With Roethlisberger When Ben Roethlisberger went bar-hopping in Georgia on the night he allegedly sexually assaulted a local college student, a pair of lawmen from Western Pennsylvania were on vacation with him. ... |
| Flea Market Coming To The Strip At first blush, the Pittsburgh Flea sounds like something you'd want to avoid. But Janis Surman is hoping a lot of people will get the itch. Rather than some annoying insect, the Pittsburgh Flea is... |
| Random Acts Of Kindness Stranger wanted no thanks for buying others' dinners At a Jefferson Hills restaurant an unusual act of kindness was bestowed on us. An unknown gentleman came to our table and handed us two crisp $20... |
| Man Jailed For Homicide By Vehicle It wasn't so much that Judah Simon hit Samuel Reed while driving along the Parkway East about 2:30 a.m. on Sept. 1, 2007. It was that the man, now 30, left the University of Pittsburgh sophomore on... |
| Hill District Man To Stand Trial In Dispute Over Parking A Hill District man Wednesday was ordered to stand trial on charges that he fired bullets at police who responded to a fight between the suspect and the boyfriend of his neighbor. Errol Parker Sr.,... |
| Divergent Accounts In Braddock Child's Death William Page stood a distance away from his 23-month-old daughter and listened to her cry. Then, he left Nyia in a wooded area of Rankin, on a February day with a subzero windchill factor, and... |
| Obituary: Samuel Drake / One Of The First Black Major League Players When Samuel Drake played minor league baseball in Macon, Ga., in 1955, he was called unspeakable, unprintable things simply because of the color of his skin. "And these are my home fans," he once... |
| Obituary: Emmanuel I. Osagie / Chancellor Of Penn State Fayette, Eberly As chancellor of Penn State Fayette, Eberly Campus, Emmanuel I. Osagie worked to bring the campus closer to the community and to the world at large. Under his watch, the campus started new events to... |
| Obituary: James Ruttiero / Left His Supermarket Work To Become A Catholic Priest The Rev. James Ruggiero, 74, who left a career in supermarket management to become a Catholic priest, died Tuesday of cancer. "He brought a businessman's perspective to his pastoral work, in that he... |
| Six-week Bonusgate Trial Coming To A Close HARRISBURG -- Closing arguments are expected today and Friday in the criminal trial of former state Rep. Mike Veon and three former aides. Fifty-two witnesses testified during the six-week trial,... |
| Hafer Won't Seek To Fill Murtha's Vacant Position In an outspoken, iconoclastic career spanning three decades and two parties, Barbara Hafer has earned plenty of headlines in campaigns, mostly successful, for an array of state and local offices. ... |
| Homewood Residents Criticize Police Yvonne F. Brown of the Hill District expresses her outrage over the beating of 18-year-old Jordan Miles by city police officers at a public hearing with Pittsburgh City Council at the Carnegie... |
| Fumo Friend Charged With Obstruction Mitchell Rubin, fired a year ago as chairman of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, was charged Wednesday with obstructing a federal investigation into his longtime friend, former State Sen.... |
| Wolf May Have Killed Slippery Rock Native In Alaska Authorities in Alaska are investigating whether Candice Berner, a 32-year-old schoolteacher originally from Slippery Rock whose body was found in the woods of a remote Alaskan village, was the... |
| Harrah’s Ups Ante, Will Hire 500 New Workers Harrah’s Chester Casino and Racetrack will be hiring 500 new employees to fill vacancies that will be be created by the addition of table games such as poker and... |
| Ex-fire Company Treasurer Gets Jail For $103,000 Theft MEDIA COURTHOUSE – A Glenolden woman cried during her sentencing Wednesday as she apologized for stealing from the Briarcliffe Fire Co. in Darby Township and detailed how her life spiraled... |
| Chester Hgts. Navy Doctor Back At Home kcarey@delcotimes.com Back in the United States after six months of serving in Iraq, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Kristie Robson has begun to adjust to civilian life after working as a combat... |
| Public Expresses Health Concerns At County Council Meeting arose@delcotimes.com MEDIA — A recently completed study of health coverage in Delaware County was the topic du jour at Tuesday’s county council meeting.An executive summary of the study,... |
| Suspects Sought In Home Invasion In Concord CONCORD — State police investigators are still trying to identify two of the suspects in the Jan. 17 home invasion on Ivy Mills Road.Shortly after 5 p.m. that Sunday, three black men, one armed... |
| Betsy Ross Bridge Faces Lane Closure Today PHILADELPHIA – The right lane and shoulder from I-95 North to the Betsy Ross Bridge will be closed between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. today for pothole... |
| Church Offers Help For Adults Dealing With Teens’ Suicides tlogue@delcotimes.com NORWOOD — For the next three Thursdays, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church will open its doors at 7 p.m. for prayer, encouragement, counseling and healing for adults... |
| Radnor Officials Hire New Township Manager By BLAIR MEADOWCRAFTSpecial to the Times RADNOR — A year since Township Manager David A. Bashore was fired, and after a difficult and long search for a replacement, the commissioners Monday... |
| Primary Candidates Submit Nominating Petitions arose@delcotimes.com State Rep. Bryan Lentz, D-161, of Swarthmore, reported filing more than 5,200 signatures on nominating petitions for the 7th Congressional District Tuesday, a figure his... |
| Pa. Tops In Stimulus Speed jroman@delcotimes.com Pennsylvania is the top-ranked large state — third overall — for the speed with which PennDOT started and delivered projects funded by the American Recovery and... |
| Upper Chi Family Homeless After Fire Rips Through House UPPER CHICHESTER — A fast-moving fire gutted James Reilly’s home on Larkin Road Monday night, leaving him and his two children homeless.The small family, which has seen its share of... |
| Rooftop Antennas Approved In Marple By Leslie Krowchenko, Times Correspondent MARPLE — The commissioners granted conditional use to Metro PCS to install six rooftop antennas on the office building at 1974 Sproul Road. The... |
| Hearing Ongoing For Costco Store CONCORD — Supervisors turned their thoughts to traffic as they continued the conditional-use hearing regarding the possibility of a Costco behind Brinton Lake Corporate Center, Baltimore... |
