Edgewood News

Share + Dec 18, 2009 10:28 pm US/Eastern Reporting Ralph Iannotti WILKINSBURG Police are investigating a rash of home burglaries in Wilkinsburg's Third Ward, an area bordering Regent Square, Edgewood and Swissvale.

Pennsylvania State Police are advising all drivers to stay off the roads until PennDOT crews are able to take care of the extremely icy conditions Sunday morning.

Last year, Beverly Zanotti retired early from her job as an information coordinator at PPG, Downtown.

Say a town's ambulance service is running out of money. How is a lone municipality -- or even a mid-sized city -- supposed to get the state attention needed to fill the financial gas tank? That's the kind of question the Congress of Neighboring Communities, or CONNECT, was created to answer.

The school board has hired the brother of one of its members to oversee the district's multi-million construction projects.

Adam Brandolph can be reached via e-mail or at 412-765-2312. Ways to get us About 30 people holding signs and distributing fliers outside UPMC's Downtown headquarters protested today against the health system's announcement that it would close its Braddock facility at the end of January.

Barbara Johnson waltzes with Brandon Perpich, a dance instructor at Arthur Murray's, Downtown.

The Three Rivers Film Festival, presented by Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Dollar Bank, opens Friday with a robust, diverse mix of movies.

Don Radovich went to bed Tuesday night trailing by 2 votes for the fourth and final open seat on Moon Area School Board.

A pickup truck rear-ended a car early Sunday morning, shutting down part of the Parkway East in Edgewood.

Retired Judge James McGregor with his dogs, Autumn and Foxy, at his Edgewood home.

An accident caused delays and blocked a lane on the westbound side of Parkway East Friday around noon.

A multivehicle accident has been cleared from travel lanes of the inbound Parkway East near South Braddock Avenue but a fire truck remains on the scene, blocking travel lanes and causing traffic to back to Wilkins.

Bill Seifert's service to the Nabisco plant in East Liberty and to his fellow employees spanned 55 years.

Pitcairn native Dennis Hockenberry became the borough's new police chief after council voted unanimously to hire him last week.

Edgewood police said they have cracked the case in a string of daylight burglaries.

A Clairton man faces a hearing this week in connection with two burglaries in Swissvale.

Important dates in the 140-year history of the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf: Sept.

Jerry Vondas can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7823. When Peg Brennan's family helped her cut her 100th birthday cake at Conneaut Lake a year ago, they were celebrating the life of a spirited woman who swam across the lake as a teenager.

The exterior of the house on Washington Street in Edgewood after a five-year renovation.