McKeesport News

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

Authorities in western Pennsylvania say a contractor was shot to death and a man he worked with was injured outside a vacant home being remodeled in Pittsburgh.

Eileen Kummant, M.D., has joined the Seton Family Health Center at 11087 Main Street in Martin.

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.