Penn Hills News

For Nancy Murrell, it was "a big nothing." For Anthony Cottman, it was everything.

Jun 26, 2009 7:32 pm US/Eastern Reporting Jon Delano Next Wednesday, July 1st 2009, marks the start of the next fiscal year for most school districts.

The man accused of bludgeoning his girlfriend's two teenagers to death and seriously wounding her will stand trial on homicide and other charges, a district judge ruled this afternoon.

Growing up in North Braddock, Rich Sullivan impressed others with his intelligence, even earning a college recommendation from a teacher who had helped with the Manhattan Project -- the atomic bomb -- said his son.

When Joseph Pasquerilla argued that Dean's Dairy Products Co. should get Brookfield Local School District's milk contract, he had not seen the bids tendered by Dean's and Turner Dairy Farms Inc.

Jun 26, 2009 8:55 am US/Eastern A man who's accused of killing two Penn Hills teenagers and wounding their mother will have to wait a little longer for his day in court.

A preliminary hearing for the man accused of beating his Penn Hills girlfriend's children to death has been postponed.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 12:13 am BREAKING NEWS Routine cleaning to cut Squirrel Hill Tunnel traffic to 1 lane Traffic in the Squirrel Hill Tunnel will be reduced to a single lane three nights this week for routine cleaning, a Department of Transportation official said.

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Allegheny River Boulevard is expected to be closed until at least noon after a car crashed into a utility pole near Nadine Road in Verona, officials said.

Lower Lougeay Road in Wilkins and Penn Hills will remain closed through at least this morning because of flood damage, said Kevin Evanto, spokesman for County Executive Dan Onorato.

Video: Watch Shannon Perrine's Report Mena Ogbomon was diagnosed at age 4 with a rare form of skin cancer that usually afflicts teenagers.

Police near Pittsburgh say a 5-year-old girl and her mother returned from a Make-A-Wish trip to Disney World only to find that their home and vehicle had been burglarized.

Two young children playing with matches apparently sparked a blaze Saturday night that damaged a home in the 7500 block of Mt.

Ramp closures will continue nightly this week on the inbound Parkway East. Closures will occur at the Plum, Monroeville and Penn Hills interchanges from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. weeknights through Saturday morning, PennDOT officials said.

A slow-moving thunderstorm that flooded many parts of the Pittsburgh region and prompted a tornado warning at one point also produced a lightning strike that burned a house in Plum.

Penn Hills firefighters have a new weapon in their arsenal of rescue gear -- oxygen mask kits that will allow them to resuscitate pets that are overcome by smoke.

Daveen Rae Kurutz can be reached via e-mail or at 412-380-5627. The Rev. Emilie Theobald-Rowland wishes there had been a ceremony to praise God for her accomplishments when she graduated from Pittsburgh Public Schools.

Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato fired six workers and a supervisor Thursday at Shuman Juvenile Detention Center and threatened to close the facility if employees don't do their jobs better.

Police from Penn Hills and other departments searched for a burglary suspect in a wooded area of Monroeville Friday.