White Oak News

Federal and state emergency officials plan visits this week to eight flooded Allegheny County towns operating under a disaster emergency declaration, municipal leaders said Wednesday.

Video: In White Oak, the bridge connecting the Scarpone family's driveway to Jacks Run Road snapped off when Jacks Run flooded, wiping away the bridge and a portion of their front yard.

Jun 18, 2009 11:58 am US/Eastern The severe weather Wednesday has caused plenty of closures and detours around Pittsburgh and the surrounding areas today.

Gaylene Samples planned to retire from nursing last year. "But then my husband passed away in October and, at that point, I was grateful to have my job because it was a lifeline for me," said Samples, 68, of White Oak, a registered nurse at UPMC Shadyside.

Allegheny County has been added to a list a counties where "spot appeals'' of property assessments would be forbidden if new legislation is enacted.

Memorial Day was somber for residents along Delaware Avenue in Glassport, where they fondly remembered the boy they knew as "Little Augie." August Berg Jr., 13, whose family moved from the neighborhood several months ago, died Sunday when he disappeared beneath the surface while swimming in the Youghiogheny River in White Oak.

Crews searching the Youghiogheny River have found the body of a missing boy. Divers found the body of August Berg, 13, of Versailles, shortly before midnight Sunday.

Two firefighters are recovering after being hurt while battling a house fire in White Oak.

Plans for a drive-in restaurant in North Huntingdon could be stalled. Planning Director Andrew Blenko told commissioners Thursday that PennDOT will not issue a highway occupancy permit for a proposed Sonic at Billot Avenue and Route 30 unless Billot Avenue's access is changed to allow motorists to make right turns in both directions.

A fire truck fell on its side while heading to a call in White Oak today, injuring three firefighters, according to Allegheny County 911.

Emergency officials in Allegheny County said four firefighters were hurt when a rescue truck overturned in White Oak.

A scar occupies the spot on Sam Weinreb's left forearm that once read A4659. The Nazis inked the number there to remind him he was a Jewish prisoner, as if the conditions at Auschwitz would let him forget.

Jeremy Boren can be reached via e-mail or at 412-765-2312. George Matta said he's using his political connections to help owners of Pittsburgh's lone casino meet their August deadline to open.

The Versailles Borough mayor has been given the green light to try and bring back his police force.

Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 13:04. The franchisees building Sonic drive-in restaurants in the Pittsburgh region liked one potential site but there was a drawback.

One of four Pagans charged in a man's death outside a Westmoreland County bar Thursday was fired from his job as a city police officer six years ago, although the termination had nothing to do with the outlaw ...

Police are charging two teenage girls as adults in connection with an armed robbery at a Tarentum convenience store with a semiautomatic handgun.

Two teenage girls are accused of putting a loaded semiautomatic gun to the neck of a Tarentum convenience store clerk during a robbery early Tuesday.

Deb Erdley can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7996. On-again, off-again initiatives to pull the nation's 815,000 physicians into the computer age are on again, and a group of Pittsburgh-area physicians ...

A Hazelwood man is in jail today after he allegedly stole a car, led police on a 25-minute chase and crashed into several cars and a house.