Wilkinsburg News

Channel 11's Lori Houy reported that Donal Samuels is facing charges of sexually assaulting his girlfriend's young relative.

The former director of an after-school program at Wilkinsburg Middle School accused of stealing a 3-D printer from the school district has made restitution, but was ordered today to face trial on a theft a charge.

With clients as diverse as Wiz Khalifa and state Democratic leader Jay Costa and with enterprises that have just opened or are still a dream these young women entrepreneurs still have much in common.They all say that Pittsburgh is great place to start up a business, if you remember that life and business are all about relationships.

This week, teachers in the 21st Century Career program for Wilkinsburg Middle School will get training on how to use a 3-D printer the district obtained with federal grant money to help students learn science, technology, engineering and math concepts.

About 50 people fought outside an East Hills apartment complex late Friday, police said, with several people shooting at each other.

John W. Downey, 83, Warren, PA., died Friday morning, March 7, 2014 after an illness of the past year and a half.

However, police say the driver took off and officers noticed the people inside the car throwing items out of the windows.

The Wilkinsburg School District may have run into another roadblock in naming an attendance officer, a position that has been vacant since October 2012.

It's been nearly two years since 20-year-old Sage Capozzi died of an overdose in a Hempfield motel room, but his father never lost hope that the man who sold him the heroin would be prosecuted.

Vincent Holt Jr., 27, was killed in a shooting early Saturday morning at the Rendezvous Phase Three bar on Hamilton Avenue.

Pittsburgh police were looking for a suspect and four security workers at a city bar, who fled the scene after a city man was fatally shot and four other customers wounded.

The attendance officer appointed by the Wilkinsburg school board this week to deal with the high school's 76.2 percent truancy rate has notified the district she is taking a sick leave due to "job-related stress."

To address the truancy rate of more than 75 percent at Wilkinsburg High School and Middle School, the Wilkinsburg school board assigned the duty of attendance officer to a district administrator.

Police are trying to find a man who's responsible for a car theft near a Monroeville shopping area.

Three out of four students at Wilkinsburg High School were habitually absent without an excuse last year, an abysmal statistic trumped only by the district's lack of awareness of how bad the attendance problem had become.

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While police officers' sworn duty is to search out crime and keep the public safe, one Duquesne officer apparently got hold of answers to a test officers need to take to keep their badge and passed them along to his peers.

More than 75 percent of students at Wilkinsburg High School are chronically truant, the highest rate of chronic truancy in Allegheny County by more than 20 percentage points.

Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said today that a recent audit of Steelton-Highspire School District, Dauphin County, shows serious financial distress and continued professional employee certification problems that jeopardize learning.