Ambridge News

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.

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On Oct. 17, Old Economy Village will host Scherenschnitte, a holiday paper-cutting workshop that aims to teach participants how to create holiday artwork through scissor cutting.

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Officials from the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh offered Monday to release about 100 priests and deacons from the diocese rather than strip them of their ordinations.

ModCloth Inc., an Internet commerce company for women's clothing, expanded its warehouse space with a new lease at Gateway View Plaza, West Carson Street in Pittsburgh.

More than 100 pounds of potatoes have to be peeled by volunteers from St. John's Lutheran Church in Ambridge to feed the hundreds of visitors expected for the Erntefest harvest celebration Saturday.

A man suspected of robbing a bank in Beaver County and his alleged accomplice were arrested a short time after Thursday's holdup because of information provided by an alert bystander.

Dave DeSimone is a member of the American Wine Society. He can be heard daily on KQV Radio with the Wine Cellar reports.