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Thomas Olson can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7854. Howard "Hoddy" Hanna III politely asked to reschedule a recent appointment because some visitors from "a major market" were dropping in to discuss a business combination.

A sample assessed value on a house in Fox Chapel is $200,000, according to borough officials.

A slippery criminal with a penchant for escaping from authorities was convicted yesterday in the first of 18 trials scheduled in connection with a crime spree five years ago in the city and suburbs.

They boarded buses before dawn, despite the interruption to busy holiday-season schedules.

Most residents in the Alle-Kiski Valley will not see a property tax increase for next year, according to the 2010 preliminary budgets of local governments.

By JoAnne Klimovich Harrop , TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, December 8, 2009 Last updated: 4:15 pm Photos click to enlarge Rivadeneira design Submitted click to enlarge Neumeyer design Submitted When : 7-9 p.m. Saturday Cost : $15 in advance, $20 at the door Where : Butler Art Center, 344 S. Main Street, Butler Details : 724-283-6922 or Web site JoAnne ...

U.S. News and World Report has included more than a dozen Western Pennsylvania high schools as among the best public schools in the nation in its 2010 America's Best High Schools.

The following page was sent to A copy was sent to your e-mail address Send Another E-mail Share + Dec 8, 2009 2:22 pm US/Eastern FOX CHAPEL Officials in Fox Chapel announced today thatA they're building a new library on a parcel of land adjacent to the municipal building.

The Fox Chapel Garden Club produced its first cookbook, "Things We Grow in Our Kitchens," in 1934, three years after the club was formed.

Fox Chapel officials pledged $1 million on Tuesday from the borough's Land Fund reserves toward the next chapter of the Lauri Ann West Memorial Library.

Fox Chapel Council has donated $1 million toward a $6 million fund-raising campaign to build a new library next to the borough building.

Here's a new feature. This is from a blog called Beaver County Blue . But the question is: who do we get to run against him.

The iconic, yet largely unused, St. Mary Church in Sharpsburg will come alive with music during the inaugural fundraiser for St.

Share + Dec 2, 2009 4:20 pm US/Eastern O'HARA TOWNSHIP 1 of 1 Police searched for a suspect who was wanted in connection with a burglary attempt on Tuesday, but the suspect got away.

A Fox Chapel couple who owned and operated a talent search company pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to not paying federal income taxes on about $1 million in profits.

A pistol-packing former Marine confronting a burglar, a police officer stranded on a cliff 200 feet above Freeport Road and a bogus hostage situation combined to give Lower Valley police a busy -- and bizarre -- Monday morning.

A burglar who may be responsible for a series of thefts in Aspinwall, Sharpsburg, O'Hara and Fox Chapel eluded police on Monday after a chase down a hillside.

A Fox Chapel couple who ran a talent-scouting agency for children that held conventions in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles pleaded guilty today in federal court to tax evasion and structuring currency transactions to avoid IRS reporting requirements.

Many Americans still didn't know what to make of airplanes in 1909, six years after the Wright brothers' first successful flight.

Allegheny County officials have hired a former fundraiser of the SouthSide Works development to raise money for county parks.