Lower Burrell News

With her ears flapping in the wind and face flush with grit determination, Sadie Lady once again showed that she is among the fastest Weiner dogs in Pittsburgh.

Candidates for two open seats on the Westmoreland County Court of Common Pleas have spent more than $500,000 through the first half of this year's campaign.

A husband and wife remain hospitalized in critical condition after their car collided with a garbage truck yesterday afternoon.

The investigation is continuing into a fire that caused $200,000 in damages to a corner bar early yesterday afternoon.

A state police fire marshal is investigating the cause of a Tuesday afternoon blaze that gutted a popular Arnold bar.

Liz Hayes can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4680. Council and representatives of Lower Burrell's three fire departments debated the benefits and consequences of keeping each fire station Monday night.

Charlie Ban is a freelance writer for the Valley News Dispatch. Mary Ann Balmer has taught at Bethel United Methodist Church's nursery school in Lower Burrell long enough to see some second-generation students come through her classroom.

Liz Hayes can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4680. Festival organizers and vendors at New Kensington Community Days are watching the weather this weekend as keenly as a meteorologist.

Eighty-four-year-old Carmella Mazziotti has been giving a lot of hugs lately. Old friends, strangers and saviors all get loving embraces when they enter the Nicola Mazziotti Bakery.

Two men have been sentenced in federal court in Pittsburgh for their roles in a bar-based drug conspiracy in New Kensington.

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Prices: Appetizers and sides, 75 cents-$4.49; hoagies, $5.49-$7.49; salads, $3.99-$5.99; pizza, $5.99-$22.99 Pizza is living large in Tarentum these days.

The school board on Tuesday approved the 2009-10 budget, which does not include a property tax increase for the first time in six years.

A man run over and killed by a Port Authority bus in Swissvale rode for hours before getting off at the wrong stop, then ran and fell beneath it as he tried to stop it, witnesses said Monday.

Rex Rutkoski can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4664. Now more than ever, suggests Richard "Utah" Burgess, we need to get back to local roots and take care of each other.

Two teenagers remained in hospital trauma units yesterday after a one-car crash Thursday night along Route 780 near Alcoa Technical Center.

George Guido can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4689. Arnold finally will learn next week where it stands on the stormwater-sanitary sewerage separation issue.

Two years ago, fishermen found the body of Kelly Nicole Smith in Chartiers Creek off the Allegheny River.

Channel 11 News received several angry calls from Lower Burrell residents who are concerned the city will close down one of its fire halls.

A local wedding celebration turned into a tragedy over the weekend when a Lower Burrell woman went from becoming a bride to a widow in just a few hours.