Turtle Creek News

Help is coming for people living in the flood-prone Turtle Creek Valley. The Army Corps of Engineers intends to start a multi-phase project in the fall to improve flood control in that section of the eastern suburbs, a response to disastrous flooding from a June 17 storm.

A local relief agency helping flood victims in the eastern suburbs is strapped and asking for donations.

If Buster gets busted up again - and, given his track record, there's a good chance he will - Dan Bartoli is prepared.

A Braddock police officer involved in an accident at about midnight Saturday was injured.

In eight of the region's most flood-prone communities, emergency responders are meeting minimum state requirements for emergency planning, but only a third of the response groups have plans tailored to flooding, according to an ongoing University of Pittsburgh study.

Communities throughout the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh continue to bail out from last Wednesday's record storms and the sporadic flooding they caused.

Federal emergency management officials will be in Turtle Creek and Jeannette on Thursday, surveying the damage from last week's flooding.

"Everybody had a plan, and nobody did anything . Now we're at it again. They said it was a 100-year storm.

The wicked weather Wednesday night caused plenty of flash flooding in southwestern Pennsylvania.

Lillian Lantford pauses during the tedious cleanup of her muddy home on Larimer Avenue in Turtle Creek yesterday afternoon.

Leaders in Turtle Creek, Wilkinsburg and Forest Hills declared a state of emergency in those communities following Wednesday night's storms, which flooded roads and basements and knocked out power.

Turtle Creek was one of the neighborhoods hardest hit by Wednesday night's storms.

A slow-moving thunderstorm that flooded parts of the Pittsburgh region also trapped a Turtle Creek child and his parents on their front porch Wednesday night.

Jun 18, 2009 11:47 am US/Eastern Several local communities have declared states of emergency following Wednesday night's severe storms that brought heavy rain, hail and lightning.

Storms ripped through Allegheny County last night, closing some roads and causing power outages and flooding throughout the area.

While the flag flew at half-staff above the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Thursday, tourists who had planned to visit the shuttered city landmark took the occasion to contemplate the tragic events that unfolded there the previous day.

When Alan Boring heard that EarthEcycle LLC had partnered with a number of area organizations in a free electronics recycling program to raise money for the charities, the first thought that crossed his mind was: "I can't compete with that." Mr.

Austin Spolan won't just exhibit work in the arts festival Propel East is set to host Friday.

Every artist chooses a medium. For Stephan Spence, his flesh is the canvas. The Woodland Hills High School junior, who aspires someday to operate a tattoo parlor, has tattoos running up both arms, some drawn from images he created -- the numbers 412 in flames, his nickname, "Steph Money." "It's good because it's yours.

Heidi McDonald couldn't contain herself after her son, Ian, won the lottery last week.