Munhall News

Many parents are cutting spending on vacations and lavish toys, but spending more on board games for home Sunday, July 05, 2009 Pam Panchak / Post-Gazette Brad and Shannon Mocharko play Cranium's Balloon Lagoon with their son Logan, 2, and daughter Brianna, 4, in their Penn Hills home.

Greg Evans, of Munhall, plays the violin during a reenactment of two 18th century weddings at the Oliver Miller Homestead in South Park.

A Munhall man has been indicted on federal charges that he set fire to his own restaurant to collect insurance money.

Intent on avoiding a tax increase, the Steel Valley school board approved a $28 million budget last night that cuts deep into established programs and relies heavily on uncertain federal funding.

A Munhall woman pleaded guilty in federal court to interstate transportation of stolen property and tax evasion.

In 2006, local cartoonist Ed Piskor was hired to draw much of The Beats , a graphic history of the Beat generation.

The Allegheny County Bar Association and the state Attorney General's Office will offer a second free clinic on probate and living trusts this month.

Posted by Mark Rauterkus at 9:53 PM Lorraine Vullo is a friend, neighbor, running mate, parent of a musical boy and wonderful creator.

Their pickups and cowboy hats jammed bridges, filled parking lots and packed Heinz Field on Saturday, rivaling a party usually reserved only for the Steelers.

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Police are looking for a man who last night fled UPMC Mercy, where he was being treated for injuries he suffered when he crashed an SUV during a police chase that ended on the South Side.

The Port Authority of Allegheny County is working to revamp its transit service and officials want to cut a number of bus routes.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a man suspected of having assaulted a woman before forcing her from her vehicle last week in Butler County.

The state will spend $14.8 million on 14 transportation projects in the region that will focus on reducing vehicle use and encouraging walking and bicycling, Gov.

The Carnegie Library of Homestead receives "horrendous" support from government and is seeking more money to combat the effects of the recession on the library's music hall and fitness center, board president Dan Lloyd said.

Pat Golosski's eyes welled up with tears as she looked out at 20 mud-covered teenagers spreading mulch along the hillside in front of her house.

The Allegheny County Sanitary Authority on Tuesday floated proposals for two satellite treatment plants designed to reduce sewage overflows into the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers.

Karen Zapf can be reached via e-mail or at 412-380-8522. Shane Crawford figured taking the SAT preparation class at Steel Valley High School would help him do well on the test.

The Port Authority of Allegheny County asked a court Friday to overturn an arbitrator's ruling that a former employee who left a noose in a supervisor's office is entitled to get his job back.

Liz Zemba can be reached via e-mail or at 724-626-3561. A registered nurse who tried unsuccessfully to hide his past employment as a stripper has accused a Fayette County personal care home and two of its administrators of sexual harassment.