Swissvale News

July 4 fireworks across the skyline of Pittsburgh last night. Two of the things that Pittsburgh is known for -- fireworks and a spirit of competition -- played out in the sky last night as Pyrotecnico presented the city's annual Fourth of July display over Point State Park, replacing longtime fireworks company Zambelli.

For nearly two decades, I've lived in Swisshelm Park, a quiet neighborhood in the southeast corner of Pittsburgh abutting the Monongahela River and Frick Park.

Craig McPherson's "Braddock" is among David Conrad's gifts to the Kiski School. To television viewers, David Conrad is Jim Clancy, former firefighter and husband of Jennifer Love Hewitt, who plays the title role in the successful series "The Ghost Whisperer." To local theatergoers, he's the energetic man who produced, directed and starred in a ...

A 12-year-old boy remained in critical condition Wednesday at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh after nearly drowning in Nine Mile Run in Frick Park.

An Allegheny County man considered one of the area's Most Wanted Fugitives by the U.S. Marshal's Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force was arrested Thursday while sitting in a vehicle on Fifth Avenue near Stanwix Street, Downtown.

Pittsburgh Public Works employees on Wednesday surveyed the area of Frick Park surrounding the section of Nine Mile Run where a 12-year-old boy nearly drowned.

A man wanted in an April shooting in Johnstown was arrested Downtown today, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force said.

Brenda Smith, executive director of the Nine Mile Watershed Association, looks over the creek's "plunge pool" area, where Malei Jones, 12, of Swissvale, nearly drowned Tuesday evening.

A 12-year-old boy who fell into a deep creek at a Pittsburgh park and was under water for about 20 minutes remains in critical condition at Children's Hospital of UPMC.

JUNE 18 - The Word of God Parish, 7446 McClure Ave., Swissvale, will host its Annual Festival at the Word of God School playground at 7436 McClure Ave., Swissvale.

As one of 10 children raised by immigrant parents during the Depression, Josie Sobek lived the heartaches and despair of the times.

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.

A 79-year-old man killed by a bus near Pittsburgh may have been drinking before he missed his stop, got out of the bus, and started chasing it before he was run over.

A man run over and killed by a Port Authority bus in Swissvale rode for hours before getting off at the wrong stop, then ran and fell beneath it as he tried to stop it, witnesses said Monday.

Authorities this morning released the identity of a man run over and killed by a Port Authority bus at a Swissvale bus station.

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Justin Vellucci can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7847. An elderly man was fatally injured Sunday evening when a Port Authority bus ran over him at a Swissvale bus station.

No divine lights of inspiration. No crashing thunderbolts. No revelations on the road to Zelienople, or wherever one travels to for insight in Western Pennsylvania.

With World War II raging around them, Dorothy Iovino decided that she and her children would be safer on higher ground.

Archaeologist Dick George was considered a major scholar of Monongahela Indian Culture, and he was recognized for encouraging young people to enter his profession.