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After all, it would be difficult to ruin a marriage that happened more than 200 years ago.

ThePittsburghChannel.Com updated Oct. 30, 2009 HOMESTEAD, Pa. - THE PITTSBURGH CHANNEL.com It's been said that cats have nine lives, but one woman is crediting her 7-month-old kitty for saving one.

The Pennsylvania Charter School Appeal board voted today to allow Propel Schools to open a second charter school within the Woodland Hills School District.

Tom Ragan spent more than 20 years serving St. Michael the Archangel Church, greeting parishioners and collecting the offering each week.

An arrest has been made in a fatal 2008 shooting at a Pittsburgh-area restaurant.

During the festive season of Halloween, many people follow tradition of visiting haunted houses.

A man facing two separate homicide trials in Allegheny County was convicted of third-degree murder yesterday in one of the cases -- a 2006 shooting outside a Strip District bar.

During the iron-cold winter of 1944-45, Steve Kepchar camped under a grim exhortation.

Traffic is flowing again across the Homestead Grays Bridge, after the span had to be shut down for repairs on Thursday morning.

AFI could get wild at Club Zoo on Sunday night. ALL WEEKEND Nightmare is on The Nightmare at Station Scare returns from the dead, having been deep-sixed for two years while the Amphitheater at Station Square was a parking lot.

The man named West Mifflin police chief four years ago to turn around a department rocked by scandal finds his retirement setting off a controversy.

Reading Eagle: Ben Hasty Conrad Weiser Homestead buildings in Heidelberg Township were closed in September after state funding was cut.

Lorraine Musial, left, talks with fellow employee Mary Helgerman. If it were only for the fact that Lorraine Musial, who is deaf and blind, has held down a 30-hour-a-week restaurant job for the past 12 years, that alone would constitute a good story for October, which is National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

A dream that began in 1975 with the abandonment of 87 miles of railroad line from Cumberland, Md., to Connellsville -- a biking/hiking trail that would connect Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C. -- is on the verge of coming true.

Two former nursing home employees pleaded guilty to reduced charges today for their roles in harassing and abusing a 94-year-old Alzheimer's patient at the John J. Kane Regional Center in Glen Hazel last year.

Reading Eagle: Bill Uhrich Overseer and birthright Quaker member with the most "weight," Winfield Keck, 92, of Boyertown sits quietly in a facing bench that at one time was used by elders in the Exeter Friends Meetinghouse, Exeter Township.

Once upon a time, people in Western Pennsylvania knew authoritarianism when they saw it.