Rankin News

PITTSBURGH a ' Allegheny County Public Works today announced intermittent traffic stoppages between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on Fri., June 19, on Kenmawr Avenue in Rankin Borough, directly below the Rankin Bridge, for installation of steel girders in the bridge structure.

Tony LaRussa can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7987. A judge dismissed a disorderly conduct charge against a Woodland Hills teacher accused of shaking a student.

In a field of knee-high grass behind the hulking frame of what is left of Carrie Furnace -- an expanse of blast furnaces that once produced as much as 1,200 tons of iron per day for the former Homestead Works of U.S. Steel mill -- sits a rusted torpedo car.

Allegheny County homicide detectives and Rankin police are investigating a shooting that occurred about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at a basketball court in Hawkins Village, county emergency dispatchers said.

A man was shot while playing basketball in Rankin on Wednesday. Allegheny County homicide detectives called to the scene at the Hawkins Village complex told WTAE Channel 4 Action News that a man in his 20s was shot in the stomach and was taken to UPMC-Presbyterian in an unknown condition.

The Woodland Hills School Board has voted to close Rankin Intermediate School at the end of the school year.

A divided Woodland Hills School Board voted 5-4 Monday night to close Rankin Intermediate School at the end of the school year.

The Tribune-Review can be reached online or at 412-321-6460. Intermittent traffic stoppages will occur Tuesday on Kenmawr Avenue in Rankin, directly below the Rankin Bridge, while crews install steel girders in the bridge, Allegheny County Public Works said today.

Frank Aggazio, executive director of the Allegheny County Housing Authority, stands in the Burns Heights public housing complex in Duquesne.

Allegheny County has been authorized to seek bids for construction of infrastructure such as water and sewer lines, at the Carrie Furnace site in Swissvale and Rankin.

Allegheny County is getting ready to move ahead with the proposed redevelopment of the Carrie Furnace site in Rankin and Swissvale nearly 30 years after it shut down.

Three men were arrested on drug charges yesterday in Rankin after Pittsburgh narcotics detectives and SWAT officers and Rankin police executed a search warrant at 420 Antisbury St.

Sam Spatter can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7843. Since Renee Robinson moved to Homestead 13 years ago, she cut the grass, trimmed the shrubs and cleaned the rubbish on the lot next to her house.

Estimated 30,000 Students Countywide May Lack Required Immunizations The Allegheny County Health Department has scheduled more free clinics this month to help families get their children caught up on school vaccinations.

APRIL 15 - The Youth Ministry of Mt. Olive First Baptist Church, 451 Park Ave., Clairton, will host a Youth Revival at 7 p.m. The theme is "Don't Play in the Streets." For this revival several youth ministers will speak on the theme.

The Allegheny County Health Department has scheduled more free clinics this month to help families get their children caught up on school vaccinations.

APRIL 1 - First Baptist Church of West Mifflin, 3427 Cypress St., West Mifflin, will host a Spring Music Workshop at 7 p.m. The workshop will feature Dr.

Allegheny County Public Works plans to close the main span of the Rankin Bridge for steel repairs from 10 p.m. Friday until 6 a.m. Saturday.

People are gathering signatures in an effort to change how Woodland Hills elects its school board members.

Hermitage city officials were happy with the bids submitted for the first phase of building an athletic field complex on South Darby Road.