McKeesport News

More trains carrying crude oil to East Coast refineries mean a greater risk of accidents.

Moving to Warren from Zanesville, Ohio, is a return to western Pennsylvania for the Campbells - Ralph was born in New Brighton and lived in Beaver Falls, and Diane was born and lived in McKeesport.

With the U.S. steel market being flooded with imports of pipe from South Korea and other nations, state-side manufacturers are being forced to idle or shutdown factories, putting at risk nearly 600,000 American jobs related to the industry.

Jason Norris oversees fields of steel pipe destined to carry natural gas from Marcellus and Utica shale wells to processing plants, distribution systems and eventually homes and businesses.

Tribune-Review owner and philanthropist Richard Mellon Scaife, whose vision and funding reinvigorated conservative politics in America, died Friday, July 4 in his home.

Any praise and self-congratulation on the two consent decrees announced Friday in Harrisburg between UPMC and Highmark should be put on hold until the accord gets a reality check, say, a year or so from now.

County officials could tap two new special fees to pay for demolition of blighted buildings under legislation approved Friday by a Senate panel.

Four hospital administrators have left UPMC in recently months to be replaced by people who are already leading hospitals, giving them two jobs.

As the final days of the Congressional session wind down, a bill that would fund improvements to rail infrastructure remains in limbo in the Senate.

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Munhall Police Chief Pat Campbell said one of his officers saw the boy walking in ankle-deep water in a creek about a half-mile from his home.

A woman who dressed as a nurse and abducted a 3-day-old boy from a Pittsburgh hospital in a handbag has been sentenced to 2A1 2 to 5 years in prison followed by 10 years' probation.

The event at the UPMC East Conference Center, ground level, 2775 Mosside Blvd., Monroeville, is free, as is parking and light refreshments.

Roeback will be replaced by David Gibbons , who will also continue in his capacity as vice president and COO UPMC Hamot in Erie.

Neighbors say the latest victim was shot and killed around 7:30 p.m. Friday in the hallway of a building on Pin Oak Drive in the Crestview Gardens apartments in New Castle.

Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane today announced the arrest of an upper-level heroin dealer in Allegheny County, which resulted in the seizure of 10 bricks of heroin that contained the stamp "Play Dead."

Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has won the Dick McCann Award for his contributions to coverage of pro football.

A western Pennsylvania man already on probation for holding several people hostage with a fake bomb inside a bank in 2008 has now been accused of arguing with a neighbor and barricading himself in an apartment, which brought a SWAT team to the scene.

Washington, DC- After recent train derailment accidents in Philadelphia, Vandergrift and McKeesport, U.S. Senator Bob Casey called on Congress to pass legislation that would bolster the safety of crude oil shipments.