Ambridge News

The Central Valley school directors last week approved a job description for their first high school athletic director, and the job was posted Friday.

The passage of the state budget, which involved hard choices forced by a sour economy, has come home with a vengeance.

A Beaver County legislator has vowed to explore all options to save Old Economy Village, a state-run historic site in Ambridge slated for closure because of funding problems.

The WPIAL has announced the sites for the eight semifinal football games that will be played at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Ambridge police became suspicious when they spotted two people standing in an alleyway soaking wet Wednesday.

Police in Ambridge said they arrested 32-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman after the couple were seen standing - soaking wet - in an alley about 1 a.m. Wednesday.

Two western Pennsylvania residents need attorneys and, perhaps, a plumber. Police in Ambridge say they arrested 32-year-old Douglas Biers Jr., and 33-year-old Elisabeth Moakley, after the couple were seen standing - soaking wet - in an alley about 1 a.m. Wednesday.

Police are investigating after a fisherman found a body in the Ohio River Monday morning near Ambridge.

A body was pulled out of the Ohio River early Monday afternoon in Ambridge, Beaver County.

A sampler lovingly stitched by your great-grandmother or a photograph of a long-ago family gathering is a precious link to generations past.

JULIE Boyde's wedding night was ruined when she discovered she was allergic to her husband Mike's sperm.

The only thing newlyweds Julie and Mike Boyde wanted was a baby. The couple had already begun planning for a family and started to build a nursery in their Ambridge, Pa., home.

Zanafest 2009, annual Richard Zana Music Festival, will take place indoor and outdoor on October 24 and 25, 2009 at The Venue at Harmony Ridge , formerly the Ambridge Country Club.

Even in high school, I loved paintings by Thomas Hart Benton. His works have a kind of all-American goofy energy with a distinctive, slightly distorted style, lots of color and a blend of landscape and humans.

A little history never hurts. So for this Great Date, we will be heading north from Pittsburgh on the trail of one of the more interesting, but obscure, migrations to Western Pennsylvania.

The health care debate in Washington arrived closer to home Saturday. Rep. Jason Altmire met Saturday with dozens of constituents in Beaver County at a town hall meeting in Ambridge, where local residents had the opportunity to get their questions answered concerning what changes lawmakers will make to the health care system.

About 200 people today continued the debate over national health care reform during a sometimes emtional public forum at Ambridge Area High School.

A Beaver County man was charged Friday with operating a $2 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded credit unions in Armstrong, Westmoreland and Luzerne counties.

She has been "the love of his life" for more than 60 years. William Weaver came to Pennsylvania from Chattanooga, Tenn., on New Year's Day, 1949, sent by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to work in this region.

Three local businesses that want to showcase two wind turbines and one solar panel array on property in Bell Acres will have to wait at least a month before learning whether the controversial project can move forward.