Tia Wright, a sixth-grader at Pleasant Hills Middle School, and an unidentified friend were riding in a pick-up truck driven by her father, Karl Wright, when they collided with a sport utility vehicle driven by a 17-year-old male.  read more »

The Baldwin-Whitehall grading committee recommended several changes to the school board, but it wants to keep the grading scale the same.  read more »

John Wilkinson, assistant superintendent of elementary and secondary education, said the district shifted from a 10 percent grading scale to the current grading scale in 1986 to align with surrounding districts.  read more »

Allegheny County has seen an outbreak of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, in the last year. But the infection has been around for years, said Dr. Jeffrey Burket and Bev Flannery, who treat MRSA at Jefferson Regional Medical Center.  read more »

Council unanimously approved a pay raise of around $21,000 for the chief, unbeknownst to him, after the agenda meeting's executive session.  read more »

What made this trunk's contents valuable to her were the almost 70 letters addressed to her great grandmother from complete strangers that revealed the existence of some Americans dedicated to documenting the safety of POWs during the war.  read more »

It's been almost one year exactly since Democrat Beth Hafer began looking into running for the 18th Congressional District seat.  read more »

Once again, the biggest race in the region promises to be the one between Jason Altmire (D-PA) and Melissa Hart in the 4th Congressional District.  read more »

Brien Wall says there aren't enough members of U.S. Congress who know what it takes to raise a family and make ends meet on a middle class budget.  read more »