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Crews working on roads in Mt. Pleasant Township
In the meantime, crews have been out working on blacktopping roads affected by the sewer lines installed in the Norvelt, Calumet and Hecla areas of the township over the past two ...
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Area vice squad on alert
According to the affidavit of probable cause, members of the vice squad placed an advertisement on a social media site advertising sex in exchange for ...
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Dunbar library wants children to ‘dig’ reading for summer fun June to August
Benjamin Polyblank, 4, of Connellsville, reads a book in the new Children's Area at the Dunbar Community Free Public Library in Dunbar Borough. Polyblank's mother, Emma, has signed him and his 2-year-old sister Elizabeth up for the library's summer reading program, "Dig Into ...
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Connellsville up for fix-up money
Michael Edwards, executive director of the Connellsville Redevelopment Authority, said Connellsville was one of five communities recently selected as finalists for the program. A total of 20 cities applied for the ...
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Small communication firms target system
"They (Federal Communications Commission) completely ignored all of the small company concerns," said James Kail, president and CEO of Laurel Highlands Total Communications, which provides telecommunications services for rural ...
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Former president of Derry Area Football Boosters Club charged with stealing $27000 from group
The former president of the Derry Area Football Boosters Club was arraigned this week on charges of stealing $27,711 from the organization over three ...
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Morsy scorned for appointment of ‘terrorist’
CAIRO -- The appointment of a state governor with links to Egypt's worst terrorist attack has provoked outrage in the city where that attack ...
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Pittsburgh Trib athletes of the week Beaver’s Nick Hineman Canon-McMillan’s Alayna Astuto
Claim to fame: Hineman went 2 for 4 with a game-tying, two-out single in the top of seventh in an eventual 5-4 loss to Loyalsock in the PIAA Class AA title game June 14. He went 2 for 3 with two RBI and two runs in Beaver's 10-0 first-round win in the PIAA playoffs over Karns City and went 1 for 1 with two RBI in a 7-1 win over Quaker Valley in the WPIAL Finals. This season, Hineman batted ...
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Burrell board approves tax increase
The budget represents an increase of about 4 percent over the 2012-13 budget, which Callahan had attributed primarily to rising retirement costs plus contractual employee ...
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Quick-hitting storm dumps rain on Valley
John Darnley, a meteorologist from the National Weather Service Pittsburgh offices in Moon, said a cold front passing through Western Pennsylvania sparked the storms. Although there was a possibility for hail and lightning, Darnley said rain was the star of the show for the A-K ...
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Franklin Regional ends decade of tax increases
The $49.5 million budget, the first in a decade without a tax increase, was approved 8-to-1 during the public meeting. Dennis Pavlik cast the lone dissenting ...
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Find ways to keep from losing your guns
What conclusion can be drawn from that statistic? Probably that the people charged with responsibly distributing guns across the state are an unusually absentminded bunch that probably is prone to forgetting important family ...
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Plan for loft apartments receives approval
"The market for new apartments with a modern dcor located near the shops and nightlife of downtown Greensburg is strong," Gifford said later in an e-mail. "We have been following this trend and are ready to capitalize on it. The decision of Seton Hill to place a second academic building within the city's cultural district was the last piece of our ...
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Personable secretary earned Magee volunteer award
Lucille Santella worked 40 years as a legal secretary before retiring. But she never stopped working, volunteering three days a week in a hospital and senior center into her ...
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Commissioners OK using county funds to start work for new jail
Fayette County's board of commissioners on Tuesday adopted a resolution to spend county money to perform preliminary work for the possible construction of a new county ...
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Franklin Regional board to weigh reporters’ objections to meeting
Franklin Regional school board will look into objections that its directors met privately regarding the appointment of a director to fill a vacancy, its president said on ...
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Vandergrift man’s insufficient-evidence argument rejected in death of infant
A Westmoreland County judge on Tuesday rejected arguments from a Vandergrift man who said there was insufficient evidence linking him to fatal injuries inflicted against his 2-month-old daughter last ...
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Latrobe officials OK $60K project aimed at allowing creek to flow freely
The Latrobe Municipal Authority board approved a national nonprofit organization to move forward with design plans for the possible removal of the Kingston Dam on the border of Derry and Unity ...
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Library aide quits in wake of charges
Elizabeth Kindelberger, who faces theft charges stemming from her time as president of Heritage Elementary School's parent-teacher organization, has resigned as a library aide with the ...
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Greater Latrobe board to consider tax hike
The Greater Latrobe School Board will consider a tax increase at next week's regular meeting after a discussion at Tuesday night's agenda ...
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Charleroi Regional cop may be put back
A part-time Charleroi Regional police officer removed from the shift schedule last month after his girlfriend was caught allegedly using drugs in his personal vehicle could be reinstated during Wednesday's police board meeting, according to the board ...
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Pittsburgh police civilian employees to work convention
At least five on-duty Pittsburgh police officers and two civilian employees have been assigned to help out during the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives' 37th convention in the David L. Lawrence Convention ...
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Fayette County man dies in 4-vehicle crash
A Fayette County man was killed Tuesday afternoon and two others were injured in a four-vehicle accident on Route 119 at the Moyer Road intersection in Bullskin, state police at Uniontown ...
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Sewickley church can repurpose ‘pink house’ to fellowship center
After more than a year of debate, Presbyterian church leaders in Sewickley can move forward with plans to repurpose a so-called "pink house" in the borough from a private residence to a fellowship ...
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Chester in mourning after 11-year-old struck killed
cscharr@delcotimes.com @cindyscharr CHESTER - A large stuffed bear, balloons and flowers mark the site where young Rastafari Covert was struck and killed while walking home Monday afternoon.The 11-year-old city youth died after being struck by a vehicle involved in a crash at Ninth Street and Highland Avenue at 3:48 p.m.His 10-year-old friend Tyvaun Fryson suffered a leg fracture and is ...
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Pittsburgh's East Liberty may emulate Market Square
East Liberty in Pittsburgh is to undergo another construction project aimed at revamping the neighborhood and enhancing its potential as a market center, possibly using the recently completed redevelopment of Market Square in downtown Pittsburgh as a model.
East Liberty is a 254 acre neighborhood in Pittsburgh and one of the city’s more overlooked areas with crime rates that are higher than the rest of the city and a general lack of robust economic activity, which has led to some degree of social decay. Read more
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