Penn Hills News

An accident involving several vehicles and a tractor-trailer in Penn Township has shut down a section of Route 8. At least one person was killed in the crash, police said.

A new citizens' advisory committee is developing recommendations about what Penn Hills should do with its aging and empty school buildings.

An accident involving several vehicles and a tractor-trailer in Penn Township has shut down a section of Route 8. At least one person was killed in the crash, police said.

When prosecutors refused to reveal the identity of a confidential informant who has been used in as many as 100 cases, criminal charges were dismissed against an Allegheny County man accused of drug dealing.

Speak Out: What would make you feel safer in your community? The recent surge of shootings in the first two weeks in July has renewed questions of safety, especially in the wake of a home invasion/double ...

The former Maine's Tavern and Hippo's Pub in Penn Hills is in danger of coming down after a suspicious fire gutted the structure early Thursday morning.

Every night, Zach Marfin enters his room and furtively closes the door behind him to be alone with what's inside.

Charlene Smith, who is about to be evicted from her apartment in Crum Lynne because of unsafe living conditions, had her day in court Wednesday after filing a petition for a temporary injunction to prevent her ...

Firefighters pour water onto the building that had been home to Hippo's Pub. Dave "Hippo" Grasso Sr.

Penn Hills officials believe they are close to removing the community from the requirements of a federal consent decree involving the municipal sewer system.

Wendy was scared and confused in her new surroundings. She couldn't find food or shelter.

Several roads have been closed in Penn Hills this morning as crews battle a fire at a building along Verona Road.

Pittsburgh Police say two men savagely beat an 18-year-old man with a table leg inside a store in East Liberty.

A Penn Hills woman will stand trial for allegedly taking a diamond ring from a elderly patient in an Oakmont nursing home.

Relatives beat their cousin using a table leg at a Pittsburgh newspaper store on Friday, police said.

A Penn Hills man helped rescue a 2-year-old from a burning building in McKeesport Friday, as the floor below them collapsed.

Heavy smoke and flames are seen from one of the HiView Gardens apartment buildings in McKeesport as a firefighter climbs the laddler to the roof yesterday.

Two people are in the hospital Friday morning following an overnight shooting in Penn Hills.

Kerr Presbyterian Church had no choir for a long time. A sixfold increase in members during the past decade has given the Penn Hills church both a choir and a congregation.

Gov. Ed Rendell speaks during a news conference below the Parkway East on Rodi Road in Penn Hills.