Bellevue News

Police, firefighters, river rescue workers and animal control officers proved to be two dogs' best friends yesterday when they rescued the trapped canines from a 75-foot hillside in Avalon.

Except for a hiatus during World War II, fireworks have lit up the sky over the Avalon Athletic Fields every year since 1911 for the Fourth of July.

Amanda Lewan, who is going into fifth grade at Bellevue Elementary School, doesn't want to go to the after-school program anymore.

Outbound travelers of Interstate 279 should prepare for single-lane traffic midday today and Tuesday, according to PennDOT.

Jun 18, 2009 11:47 pm US/Eastern Reporting Alison Morris It's a scene emergency officials don't want to see again.

Trib readers who responded to the letter 'PSSA gap: Language' by Erin Donnelly of Richland, a University of Pittsburgh senior working on her honors thesis on the phonetics of Pittsburgh African-American English, aren't buying her notion that Allegheny County students in more or less affluent districts perform differently on proficiency tests ...

Sam DiBattista, who has owned four businesses in Bellevue and still owns Vivo Restaurant on Lincoln Avenue, stands in front of 517-521 Lincoln Ave., which he used to own.

Construction will cause alternating single-lane traffic on Union Avenue from Means Avenue in Bellevue to Casper Avenue in Ross, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced.

A threat phoned in from Eastern Texas led police officers across Allegheny County on a wild goose chase to find a nonexistent double shooting at a nonexistent address.

Negotiators with the North Hills special response team last night were trying to find a man calling himself "Sam," who called a local hospital and claimed to have killed two people.

A fire just outside Pittsburgh that killed a culinary student from New Jersey has been ruled arson.

Jeremy Boren can be reached via e-mail or at 412-765-2312. A decade-long fight to transform the former Garden Theatre from a porn parlor into a movie house or performance hall is mired in yet another intermission with no clear end in sight.

It's an occasion that brings all the neighbors outdoors and signals the start of summer.

Battling a federal indictment, the young lawyer and the former Pennsylvania Senate majority leader formed a friendship.

Mehran Memon moved to Pittsburgh to pursue his passion. The 22-year-old South Plainfield resident always loved cooking.

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The identity of the Pennsylvania Culinary Institute student who died Friday in an apartment fire in Bellevue has been released.

A Bellevue apartment fire that killed a man this morning is considered to be suspicious, fire officials said.

Officials said a 22-year-old male Culinary Institute student died in an early-morning fire in Bellevue on Friday.

For the first time in two decades, the mayoral race in Bellevue is contested. Incumbent mayor George Doscher will face newcomer Mike Braunlich in the May 19 primary.