Murrysville News

Volunteers with the Loaves and Fishes Emergency Food Pantry in Murrysville are hoping the community can help replace one of its biggest donors.

Owners of Rick's Sports Bar along Route 22 in Murrysville want to expand the business' parking lot for better access to the proposed Marketplace at Twenty-Two. That was one of two issues related to the marketplace development discussed by council Wednesday night.

Murrysville Mayor Joyce Somers says she long wondered whether the School Road South Bridge would ever be replaced.

Two men from Murrysville and Trafford were jailed Monday on charges of assaulting a Trafford man who they allege sold them an unknown vegetable matter instead of marijuana last month.

Three teenage girls who ran away Oct. 21 from their foster home in Murrysville were found unharmed Saturday, according to Murrysville police.

Leslie Kelly's alarm clock has a tail, four legs and a wet nose. The Altoona woman, who is deaf, cannot hear a typical alarm clock, but Nokie, her hearing service dog, is a friendly substitute, jumping on her bed and poking her in the face with his nose when it's time to rise and shine.

Marjorie Nelson spent her life teaching her children to love music as much as she did.

Sweeping changes are in store for Murrysville Council in 2010. Only one incumbent - Joan C. Kearns - is among the five candidates on the ballot for four vacancies on council.

On Saturday November 7th, Slacker's Backyard Caf in Murrysville will be donating all proceeds, including waitresses' tips, to the food banks of Harrison City and the Trafford Area.

Police are searching for three girls who ran away last week from a foster home in Murrysville.

A Murrysville couple made a $150,000 profit this summer in reselling the former Hartford Heights Elementary School less than four months after Norwin School District officials accepted their sealed bid for $602,000. In August, Augustine and Barbara Iocco resold the old North Huntingdon school off Ardara Road and 19.3 acres to Unity-based Adelphoi ...

A Delmont woman is in the Westmoreland County Prison after police say she damaged a borough holding cell.

Murrysville police Officer Scott Kettren is brushing up on his Dutch to work with his new partner: Argos, the department's new police dog.

Pittsburgh area residents are being warned to shut their doors, close their windows and prepare for a ladybug invasion.

After his son was killed in Afghanistan in 2008, it would have been easy for Bob Girdano to shut himself off to the world, his friend Al Pulice said Sunday.

In real life, a work of children's literature is spawned slowly. One of teacher Marcy Canterna's manuscripts has been in the "revision" stage for 13 years.

Greensburg City Council will vote next week on a grant agreement that would net the city police department $435,000. During the monthly work session Tuesday, council heard details about the grant, which would enable the city to buy new dispatching equipment using funds from the Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services program, or ...

The 23 singers who will perform tonight at First United Methodist Church in Murrysville will be singing for a better life.

Wishing to go a bit lighter and brighter while welcoming all to its transformed interior, the Calvary Lutheran Church in Murrysville has completed its refurbishment.

After almost a year-long battle, plans for a proposed medical office facility in Murrysville can proceed.