Belle Vernon News

Earlier this year, we alerted Belle Vernon Area taxpayers that the school board had entered into a generous new contract with the teachers union without identifying how it expects to pay for the estimated $16.2 million in added costs through 2013-14. We wanted people to know we didn't create this prohibitively expensive deal, but we will be ...

Two related crashes on a stretch of Interstate 70 in Westmoreland County brought traffic to a near standstill for several miles for about two hours yesterday.

Westbound traffic on a section of Route 70 in Westmoreland County is at a near standstill this morning because of an accident.

The Belle Vernon Area School Board will make up for a tax credit erroneously withheld this year by issuing a real estate tax credit next year.

A 28-year-old Fayette City woman has been charged with aggravated assault of an unborn child as a result of an incident that took place last week in Fayette City.

A Fayette County attorney, who is a Frazier School Board member, testified Friday that after he reprimanded an acquaintance for spilling a drink in his home last month, the man stabbed him.

The shock of being laid off barely had time to set in before Jim Wessel began looking for another job.

Council hired a dog law enforcement officer Tuesday in reaction to an attack that allegedly took place Aug.

Police in Washington County were looking for a man Saturday night who robbed a credit union in California Borough.

State police reported that a man robbed the Cal-Ed Federal Credit Union at 7:40 last night in California Borough.

Faced with delays from one bridge closure and major construction on a second span, the Mid Mon Valley Transit Authority announced revisions to the bus line that services the Rostraver Township shopping district.

The shock of being laid off barely had time to set in before Jim Wessel began looking for another job.

A Belle Vernon native who spied on a teenage girl in a public bathroom in England has pleaded guilty to a charge of voyeurism.

A few concerned citizens turned out for the first neighborhood watch meeting in Dawson Borough Thursday night.

A soldier from Belle Vernon was just minutes away from the building -- which he often visits -- where 12 people were shot and killed at the Fort Hood Army post.

Despite rumors that as many as six students at the middle school have H1N1, Southmoreland Superintendent John Halfhill said there have been no cases there or anywhere else in the district.

Two Fayette County prison guards accused of pushing an inmate into a dumbwaiter will be suspended for 30 days without pay.

The timing was right for the Belle Vernon Area School District to establish a multiuse facility.

The Great Treasure Hunt, a company that appraises and buys collectibles, will be in Belle Vernon for three days starting Thursday to appraise and buy collectibles.

You gotta love 'em! Only five or 10 people called about their sewage bills. They just got them! If I had not called my neighbors, they probably would not have even opened them yet.