http://www.post-gazette.com/neighborhoods/ Neighborhood news from the City, East, West, North, South, West, Washington, Westmoreland; My Homewood Journal en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Wed, 8 Sep 2010 06:09:21 -0400 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085878-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The Mars Area school board is considering hiring a construction manager to shepherd its latest building project. Wed, 8 Sep 2010 05:56:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085879-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The Hampton school board said Tuesday night it may need to hire several teachers and paraprofessionals because of an unexpected influx of students. Wed, 8 Sep 2010 05:46:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085836-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml State police have arrested a Mercer County man in the shooting of a 24-year-old man, critically wounding him, after an argument Tuesday morning. Wed, 8 Sep 2010 05:23:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085738-28.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Faced with foreclosure, the loss of its franchise affiliation and a river of red ink, the owner of the former Hilton Pittsburgh took defensive action Tuesday, filing for protection in U.S. bankruptcy court. Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085753-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml By Paula Reed Ward The trial for two men accused of killing a 12-year-old North Side girl has been moved to November so that one of the defendants can receive a mental health evaluation at Torrance State Hospital. Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085754-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Handguns, notepads and BlackBerrys? The tools used by Pittsburgh police officers have changed a little in the past decade. Today, in the front seat of each patrol car is a sturdy, wireless laptop that generates maps, streams information from 911 calls and, with the swipe of an officer's "Smart Card," provides access to criminal databases. Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085760-54.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The Association of Pittsburgh Priests is sponsoring a series of lectures starting today in McCandless. Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085761-298.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The Pittsburgh school board spends a lot of time discussing topics, but precious little making any significant policy decisions, according to a board watch report card released Tuesday by the advocacy group, A+ Schools. Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085762-298.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Linda Lane, deputy superintendent of Pittsburgh Public Schools, has turned down the opportunity to head the Iowa Department of Education. Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085763-57.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The trial of the woman accused of killing an FBI special agent almost two years ago has been continued until March. Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10251/1085764-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Pittsburgh's No. 2 most wanted graffiti artist was sentenced to one to three years in prison on Tuesday after causing tens of thousands of dollars in damage. Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10250/1085706-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A 17-year-old boy who said he was high on drugs tumbled over a cliff in an O'Hara park this afternoon and suffered a head injury, a county dispatch supervisor said. Tue, 7 Sep 2010 18:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10250/1085558-455.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml When it was first proposed more than 130 years ago, Labor Day was envisioned as a day to celebrate "the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations." Tue, 7 Sep 2010 13:36:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10250/1085623-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A man from Beaver was killed Sunday when he was dragged underneath a tractor. Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:52:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10250/1085567-55.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml For 7-year-old Merlin, a golden retriever from Upper St. Clair, the only thing he wanted to do was to be in the water and chase the ball. Tue, 7 Sep 2010 00:12:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10250/1085560-454.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Scores of politicians mixed with tens of thousands of union partisans Monday in the Labor Day rite that marks the unofficial kickoff of the fall political season. Tue, 7 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10250/1085563-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Cheryl Dorsey was midway through her studies at Harvard Medical School when she realized she wanted to be more than a pediatrician. She wanted to do something transformative, she said -- something that could have a dramatic impact on some of the inequities inherent in American public health care. Tue, 7 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10250/1085564-56.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Hank Commodore knows children who no longer sleep on the floor. He has fostered some himself. Others have beds because he donated beds to their families. Tue, 7 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10250/1085566-54.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml GROVE CITY, Pa. -- Firefighters were battling one of the biggest blazes ever in Grove City when Will Knecht arrived in time to see his family-owned, 87-year-old business crumbling and tumbling to the ground. Tue, 7 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10250/1085568-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will play host to its principal guest conductor for three more years. Symphony officials will announce today that American maestro Leonard Slatkin, 66, has extended his contract with the orchestra through the 2013-14 season. Tue, 7 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10249/1085394-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Bill Mazeroski called it a "perfect day." But if perfection generally is represented by a 10 on the numerical scale, this one was all about No. 9, the digit he wore and the digit the Pirates retired long ago. "I'm overwhelmed," he said following the ceremonies and festivities surrounding the dedication of his statue outside PNC Park on Sunday. Mon, 6 Sep 2010 00:18:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10249/1085388-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The fire trucks and alarm bells may be long gone, but city officials believe Engine House No. 16 still has a dynamic role to play in the East End. Officials said they'd like to sell the building and have posted guidelines for would-be purchasers. The request for proposals is on www.buyintheburgh.com, a year-old database of properties for sale by the city and Urban Redevelopment Authority. Mon, 6 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10249/1085389-455.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Construction of a retaining wall at Twin Lakes Park, improvements at a football field in Mount Pleasant and regular grass cutting outside the Westmoreland County Prison all have been carried out by nonviolent offenders from the jail. Use of inmate labor has benefited Westmoreland County residents and the prisoners themselves for many years, Warden John Walton said. Mon, 6 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10249/1085396-54.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml No one was injured in a fire Sunday morning at an auto service shop in Harmar. Mon, 6 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10249/1085397-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Police are investigating a stabbing that occurred early Sunday in Brookline. Mon, 6 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10249/1085398-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A man survived after leaping from a bridge in Oakland Saturday night and tumbling into some trees and bushes below, a Pittsburgh dispatch supervisor said. Mon, 6 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10249/1085399-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The Planning Commission has set standards for keeping chickens in the city. Mon, 6 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10249/1085400-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml No one was hurt and no significant damage occurred in a minor fire that was sparked at 2:25 a.m. Sunday in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette pressroom. Mon, 6 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10249/1085401-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Sojourner House MOMS will dedicate a new play space in a public ceremony at its East Liberty home at 4 p.m. Thursday. Mon, 6 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10248/1085472-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Fire crews responded to a fire at the Richard S. Caliguiri Senior High Rise in Allentown tonight, according to a city 911 dispatcher. Sun, 5 Sep 2010 22:48:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10248/1085402-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Allegheny County's flu shot clinic on Forbes Avenue in Oakland is scheduled to open Oct. 18. Sun, 5 Sep 2010 22:34:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10248/1085357-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml No one was injured in a fire this morning at an auto service in Harmar. Sun, 5 Sep 2010 11:50:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10248/1085273-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The Allegheny County medical examiner's office is awaiting toxicology and histology testing before releasing autopsy results on the body of a 72-year-old man who was found dead in a hot tub at a Strip District club. Sun, 5 Sep 2010 08:51:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10248/1085355-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Police are investigating a stabbing that occurred early today in Brookline. Sun, 5 Sep 2010 07:57:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10248/1085354-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A chain-reaction collision involving a limousine left two people with minor injuries this morning. Sun, 5 Sep 2010 07:53:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10248/1085353-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml No one was hurt and no significant damage occurred in a minor fire that was sparked at 2:25 a.m. today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette pressroom. Sun, 5 Sep 2010 07:45:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10248/1084879-55.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Greene Disposal LLC, a new firm with several governmental ties, now serves as a middleman between gas drillers and municipal authorities, paying sanitation facilities to take tainted water and getting payment from drilling firms, while never actually touching the stuff. Sun, 5 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10248/1085197-56.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Daniel Harr described his son, Christopher, as a boy who loved fishing and video games, and played drums in his school band in the Ligonier Valley School District. Sun, 5 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10248/1085263-56.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A Berks County serviceman killed in action during a rescue in the Vietnam war is being awarded the Medal of Honor. Sun, 5 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10248/1085271-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A man survived after leaping from a bridge in Oakland Saturday night and tumbling into some trees and bushes below, a Pittsburgh dispatch supervisor said. Sun, 5 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10248/1085272-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Pittsburgh's Labor Day parade will begin at 10 a.m. Monday at Centre Avenue and Crawford Street, Uptown, near the Consol Energy Center and Civic Arena. Sun, 5 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10248/1085274-54.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A Reserve man was killed early Saturday when his motorcycle crashed in Ross. Sun, 5 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10248/1085275-54.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A salvage yard in West Deer caught fire Saturday afternoon and burned for more than two hours before firefighters were able to extinguish it, a county dispatch supervisor said. Sun, 5 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10248/1085276-56.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Allegheny County homicide detectives are investigating an afternoon shootout Friday at the busy Edgewood Towne Center. Sun, 5 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10248/1085277-455.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A Fayette County man was arrested early Saturday in North Union after state police said he led them on a wild chase, plowed his car into a Uniontown police car and then fought with officers. Sun, 5 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400