McKeesport News

Two people were flown to Pittsburgh hospitals after a shooting in Mckeesport early Saturday morning.

Supporters of a proposed maglev train from Pittsburgh International Airport to Greensburg wooed state representatives Friday with promises the project could create thousands of jobs in high-tech manufacturing, if the government could pay the $5.3 billion price tag.

Teachers from the area recently took to the Youghiogheny River for a morning of networking, education and recreation.

A 19-year-old Turtle Creek man visiting family in McKeesport on Monday was shot and killed.

The following people were committed to the Armstrong County Jail on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to jail records: * Keith Allen Walker Sr., 41, of 88 Mitchell Road, West Middlesex, by the court, on a charge of driving under the influence.

Held captive for a decade as a sex slave, Tanya Kach's understanding of the world didn't progress much beyond that of the 14-year-old she was when she disappeared, her attorney argued Thursday.

There are new developments in the case of an Allegheny County woman who ran away to live with a McKeesport school security guard when she was just 14, and wasn't seen for 10 years.

A Centre County judge issued an arrest warrant Monday for the McKeesport man who police said robbed three Penn State students at gunpoint Friday in their Beaver Terrace apartment.

A McKeesport man, charged this weekend with a robbery and shooting last year at The Waterfront, already had been in and out of jail on unrelated charges before his arrest in the homicide case.

Police have arrested a man who they said shot and killed a Damon's Grill restaurant worker following a robbery in July 2008.

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

Two incumbents and four newcomers are running for four open spots on the McKeesport Area School Board.

The McKeesport Area school board voted last night to hire Pennsylvania Project Managers, Inc.

The McKeesport police chief has asked the FBI to investigate the arrest of two girls at McKeesport Area High School, where the girls were being suspended.

Ashante Spears, 16, left, and Robin Smith, 17, outside the Family Division of Common Pleas Court yesterday.

One person was hurt when he lost control of his vehicle and it crashed into the Kane Hospital building at 100 Ninth St.

Two adults and one child escaped a fire at their home this morning in McKeesport.

31 because not enough patients are being admitted and the facility is losing too much money.

McKeesport and the surviving plaintiff from a 2004 lawsuit have reached an agreement for making the city's sidewalks more handicapped accessible.