Bethel Park News

Pittsburgh's Urban Redevelopment Authority will lose its finance director, marking the second time in three months that a top, long-serving official has chosen to leave the authority.

Democrats on Allegheny County Council today failed to muster enough votes to put a drink tax referendum on the November ballot.

Sen. Casey seeks to curb high gas prices By John Portella For The Almanac writer@thealmanac.net Jennifer Dos Passos is taking steps to manage the high cost of gasoline.

We kick off our first What's for Dinner recipe installment with one Megan Ward-Robinson of Brighton Heights learned from her parents, Phil and Mary Lou Ward of Bethel Park.

Allegheny County Council set the stage Tuesday to place its referendum question on the fate of the county's 10 percent drink tax before voters in November.

Harriet Bryant, left, buys cherries and strawberries from Lisa Reihl on Thursday at the Dairy Mart parking lot in Hazelwood.

Both imaginative and colorful, the July exhibit at Mt. Lebanon Public Library showcases the lightheartedness and whimsy of a local artist.

Emigrated from Poland when she was 14. When Blanche Warmus was 14, she left her hometown of Wadowice, Poland, to come to the United States.

The following is a transcript of a report by Team 4 investigator Paul Van Osdol that first aired July 7, 2008, on WTAE Channel 4 Action News at 5 p.m. A Team 4 investigation finds some local ice cream shops are ...

Aluong Garang believes that building a few cinder block walls and a tin roof could help redeem an entire country.

Mt. Lebanon residents have been e-mailing their school board for months about a plan to renovate or build a new high school, though it is still in its earliest stages.

PBS's "History Detectives" kicks off its sixth season with an investigation that leads to a Pittsburgh woman.

An Allegheny County man will face Cambria County Court action on charges he stole a laptop computer from a dormitory at Pitt-Johnstown on April 18.

Spare a thought for Polish Americans. For reasons that remain murky, they were selected as the verbal stunt-double whenever a joke called for a stupid protagonist.

"SEUSSICAL, The Musical," based upon the stories of Dr. Seuss will continue Clarion University's Summer Musical Theatre Festival with performances July 3-5 at 8 p.m. in Marwick-Boyd Little Theatre.

A federal grand jury indicted a former employee of a Bethel Park mining industry supply company accused of embezzling more than $20,000. Mary Louise DeMott, 46, formerly of Bethel Park, is charged with two ...

Later this year, a plant in China will begin churning out liquid fuel made from coal, a technology that -- if all breaks right for the coal industry -- is headed to American shores.

Divine aromas wafted heavenward from the St. Thomas More Family Life kitchen as six volunteers baked homemade nut rolls in preparation for the second annual MoreFest this week.

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Bishop David Zubik is set to ordain three men to the priesthood at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 21, at St.