Swissvale News

Adam Brandolph can be reached via e-mail or at 412-765-2312. Ways to get us About 30 people holding signs and distributing fliers outside UPMC's Downtown headquarters protested today against the health system's announcement that it would close its Braddock facility at the end of January.

Police in Swissvale are investigating an apparent home invasion on Westmoreland Avenue.

A former Braddock police sergeant claims in a federal lawsuit that the borough fired him after he complained about other officers violating people's rights.

Police officers from eight departments swept through Penn Hills today searching for 38 people wanted for drug-related charges, District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr.

Police in Penn Hills arrested dozens of suspected drug dealers in a roundup Friday morning.

African-American men in their early 30s have been found to be twice as likely to have prison records than bachelor degrees.

The book is closed on Monaca after its 27-0 loss to Avonworth in the opening round of the WPIAL playoffs, but Center still has a chance to make history.

While crews cleared an accident on the Parkway East late Wednesday night, another accident occurred in the opposite direction.

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A man trying to catch a Port Authority bus in Oakland fell while running alongside and may have been hit by it, authorities reported Friday afternoon.

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One three men charged in a scheme that involved allegedly stealing more than $400,000 from the Meadows Casino was in court on Thursday.

John "Squirrel" Mosley, a local jazz musican, plays the trumpet at the Union Baptist Church in Swissvale.

Three people were hospitalized following a traffic accident early this morning in the outbound lanes of the Parkway East in Edgewood.

Sean McDonald started out playing drums with No Shelter, one of Pittsburgh's first punk bands.

Police followed reports of gunfire to a Swissvale address when an alleged robbery turned ugly.

Flames and thick black smoke could be seen shooting from a car along the Parkway East Thursday evening.

An overturned SUV is one of two vehicles, involved in an accident, near Squirrel Hill that closed the Parkway East outbound lanes during rush hour traffic this morning.

Police are investigating an attempted purse-snatching and an attempted robbery in Swissvale.

An accident caused delays and blocked a lane on the westbound side of Parkway East Friday around noon.