Jefferson Hills News

Jerry Vondas can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7823. It was Kathy Cecotti's goal to make sure that every student in her drama club was given an opportunity to perform.

A female was hurt when her Ford Explorer crashed on Route 51 just before 12:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Karen Zapf can be reached via e-mail or at 412-380-8522. Plum Council has hired a new solicitor for the borough's civil service commission whose first order of business will be updating the commission's regulations.

The economy seemingly has affected everyone and everything, and the Jefferson Hills recreation program is no exception.

How hot a topic is natural-gas drilling? Consider a May 28 town meeting about the big Marcellus Shale gas deposit, held at the Elrama Fire Hall, in Washington County.

Occupation: Heaney is a full-time air reserve technician for the Air Force Reserve's 911th Airlift Wing in Moon.

Erin Raimondi of Squirrel Hill, left, and Sally Carey of Mt. Lebanon keep legs high in the Bhangra class at the Wightman School in Squirrel Hill.

John Koenig does many self-portraits, but really likes to draw people he admires.

A hazardous substance, possibly leaked from a factory or other industry, flowed through the West Elizabeth sewer system this morning.

Allegheny County property owners are now receiving an invitation that, until recently, only went to folks in rural areas of Western Pennsylvania.

Richard Mudron hopes his plea against drilling a gas well in Beedle Park didn't fall on deaf ears.

Firefighters in Jefferson Hills' three departments must adhere to safety standards approved last week by borough council.

Senate Republican leaders said Monday they were stunned that Gov. Ed Rendell signed a $201 million contract with a Minnesota firm to develop a high school graduation exam even though the Legislature hasn't approved such a test.

Sentencing for a Pittsburgh man found guilty of third-degree murder has been postponed while authorities search for the victim's body.

Annie Davis and Pam Vennare may have taken different paths to Horse 'N Soul Riding Academy in Washington, but now, they are both traveling in the same direction.

Paul and Edward De La Torre expanded the braces shop their parents started in the family's Hampton home in 1962 into an orthotics and prosthetics business that today has eight clinical offices, plus a headquarters and manufacturing site in Blawnox.

Jefferson Hills Councilman Dominic Serapiglia never thought that donating $10,500 to the borough library would give him so much fulfillment.

The West Jefferson Hills School board last week approved more than $62,000 in technology upgrades for McClelland, Jefferson and Gill Hall Elementary Schools.

"I hope this is not a funeral," one participant said before yesterday's meeting of the executive committee of the Mon-Fayette Expressway and Southern Beltway.

Traffic on southbound Route 837 in Clairton, Jefferson Hills and West Elizabeth will be reduced to a single lane starting today and continuing around-the-clock through late next month, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced.