Mount Oliver News

Holiday shoppers appear to be rekindling their love affair with live Christmas trees.

Friends and family gathered for a candlelight vigil Wednesday night to remember a local teen killed one year ago.

Jill King Greenwood is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-321-2160 or via e-mail. Friends and family of a Brashear High School student will gather tonight at the spot where a gunman killed him a year ago today.

April 4, 2009: Pittsburgh police officers Stephen J. Mayhle, 29, and Paul J. Sciullo II, 36, and Eric G. Kelly, 41, were killed in a Stanton Heights shoot-out that was the deadliest in the city's history.

Fire investigators are looking into what they describe as a small fire in a Mount Oliver apartment building early Monday morning.

A house fire broke out late Sunday night in Mount Oliver. According to firefighters, some trash in the basement of a home caught fire shortly before midnight.

A district judge Friday ordered three men to stand trial in the shooting death of a Beltzhoover man.

Three men were held for trial this morning in the fatal shooting of a Beltzhoover man during a robbery in October.

Pearl Mackey came to Northside Urban Pathways Charter School looking for a fresh start.

Jim Martin, director and puppeteer with "Sesame Street," and his wife Crystal, created a monkey puppet in 2005 for Prime Stage Theater's "A Little Princess." For the play, he taught Lisa Ferrugia, right, how to make a monkey puppet come to life.

Some residents have been without telephone service for several hours in Mount Oliver Borough and in the Allentown section of Pittsburgh, police said.

A tip from a reader of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review led to the arrest Tuesday of one of the U.S. Marshal's Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force's "Most Wanted" fugitives.

Two suspects have been arrested in the robbery and killing last week of a Beltzhoover man on his front porch.

A man who just returned home in Pittsburgh's Beltzhoover neighborhood overnight was shot and killed during a robbery, police said.

There is a set of city steps just west of 123 Pius street leading to "18th Street extension, then the to Browsville Plank Road.

Luis Fabregas can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7998. Worried about a high rate of unexpected infant deaths south of the city, experts on Saturday urged parents to learn about lowering the risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

In a last-ditch effort, hundreds of parents and students in Allegheny County lined up for immunizations.

Pittsburgh -- I live in the Mt. Oliver section of Pittsburgh and work at Carnegie Mellon University at the Tepper School of Business.

For the second year in a row, the New Pittsburgh Courier's 50 Women of Excellence gathered in the Westin Convention Center to be recognized for their achievements.

A routine fugitive sweep in Allegheny County took a bizarre turn for U.S. marshals.