Versailles News

With 17 grandchildren, Francine Hymes of North Versailles never imagined she would be too young to become a foster grandparent.

Longtime North Versailles police Officer Ron Masula patrolled the community's roads for years and understood the trauma experienced by those involved in crashes.

The Army Corps of Engineers will likely delay the start of flood control work in the Turtle Creek Valley until mid-October, its spokesman said.

A 71-year-old woman was shot and killed Sunday night by a police officer in North Versailles where, police said, she may have been lying in wait outside a man's home with a gun.

In North Versailles, Pa., police shot and killed a 71-year-old woman who was reportedly lurking outside her ex-boyfriend's house.

Police last night fatally wounded an elderly, armed North Versailles woman who, investigators said, had been preparing to ambush her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend.

Police were called to Shady Lane in North Versailles for the report of a suspected prowler Sunday night.

Allegheny County Treasurer John Weinstein this afternoon shut down two bars for failing to pay the county's 7 percent drink tax, and a third narrowly avoided closure when it agreed to pay all back taxes by Monday.

A South Oakland man, suspected of robbing a hotel in Westmoreland County overnight, was captured early today after a police chase and manhunt across two counties.

Paul Paterra can be reached via e-mail or at 724-836-6220. A Pittsburgh man was taken into custody Wednesday morning after a five-hour pursuit by officers from at least a dozen police departments that started after an armed robbery at a Hempfield Township motel.

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State police in Westmoreland County have identified a man a robbery suspect who was arrested early Wednesday morning after allegedly firing shots at police.

Port Vue police have obtained a warrant for the arrest of a McKeesport police officer, saying he took a car from a Port Vue woman without her permission.

Police have identified two of the suspects from a car chase Friday through three communities.

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A McKeesport man was killed Saturday morning in a motorcycle crash in Versailles.

A 22-year-old man died in a motorcycle crash overnight. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office identified the man as Zon Fleckenstein, of McKeesport, saying he lost control of his motorcycle and struck a building in the 4900 block of Walnut Avenue in Versailles.

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White Oak and McKeesport police charged four Westmoreland County men with robbing a KFC in Versailles yesterday.

A North Versailles commissioner and three of his siblings have appealed a judge's decision that they must pay thousands of dollars in delinquent taxes on a home they own, according to court records.