Penn Hills News

ThePittsburghChannel.Com updated Dec. 9, 2009 PITTSBURGH - THE PITTSBURGH CHANNEL.com A judge has overturned two convictions against a Penn Hills High School student accused of harassing another student with a T-shirt. David Hood, his brother and two of his friends wore shirts to school last spring bearing the words "not guilty." Hood and his ...

On any given day, Pennsylvania has more than 31,000 former prison inmates free on parole, typically freeing about 1,000 inmates a month.

Share + Dec 7, 2009 7:42 pm US/Eastern PENN HILLS 1 of 1 A neighbor found one of the guns connected to the shooting death of a Penn Hills police officer and a man in Penn Hills.

Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla needs no reminder that he or any one of his deputies could be killed at any moment in the line of duty.

Congressman Joe Sestak issued the below statement following news that a police officer was shot and killed tonight in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania: "Tonight, we all mourn the loss of the Penn Hills police officer shot and killed in the line of duty.

By Sadie Gurman, Bill Schackner, Jim McKinnon, Jerome L. Sherman and Torsten Ove, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette This is the Johnston Road home where the first shooting was reported to police.

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.

An officer in Penn Hills was shot by a man with an assault rifle on Sunday, Allegheny County 911 dispatchers say.

Although federal law prohibits the use of marijuana, Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington permit the use of marijuana for medical purposes.

A South Side nonprofit organization that operates five charter schools in Allegheny County now owns a building in Braddock Hills to open a sixth school.

The Penn Hills school board is set to vote Monday on whether to approve an $18,400 payment to the superintendent for unused vacation days even though he already was paid for them in July.

A Fox Chapel couple whose talent-scouting agency for children held conventions in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles for a fee pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to tax evasion and structuring currency transactions to avoid IRS reporting requirements.

A man was found slain this morning in Wilkinsburg. The body of Kristopher Campbell, 29, of Penn Hills was found around 7:30 a.m. by a passerby among the brush off Princeton Boulevard near Hill Avenue.

Many shoppers who braved Black Friday crowds likely found 2009 deals to be even better than last year's sales.

A federal judge on Friday revoked probation for a man convicted in state court of killing and mutilating a red-nosed pit bull.

Students at Washington Elementary School listen to Penn Hills police Officer Dennis Lynch when he is in their school.

Penn Hills cornerback Cullen Christian announced Tuesday that he plans to play for Michigan starting next fall.

Karen Zapf can be reached via e-mail or at 412-380-8522. When Ruth Boozer coordinates bingo at the Plum Community Center, she counts on one person to keep track of other volunteers.

Speak Out...What will you be giving thanks for this Thanksgiving? Written by Courier Newsroom Thursday, 19 November 2009 11:34 Most of us will celebrate Thanksgiving Day with family and friends.

Students in the Penn Hills school district are on a two-hour delay Thursday morning, but staff are to report on time.