http://www.post-gazette.com/neighborhoods/ Neighborhood news from the City, East, West, North, South, West, Washington, Westmoreland; My Homewood Journal en-us Copyright 2012, post-gazette.com. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 07:09:53 -0500 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/12039/1208709-28.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml After successfully converting a vacant three-story building on Forbes Avenue into apartments and a restaurant, Mike Clements is back for an encore. The developer is seeking to transform an old cigar wrapping facility at 604 Liberty Ave., Downtown, into a two- or three-bedroom townhouse with a street level cafe or bistro. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208725-57.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The Air Force could have to cross a congressional hurdle if it wants to close the 911th Airlift Wing near Pittsburgh International Airport. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208726-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Police on Tuesday were investigating the robbery of a pizza delivery driver on the North Side, the third of its kind in recent days. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208729-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A judge will decide today whether an Upper St. Clair man accused of homicide by vehicle in the deaths of three people two years ago on the Parkway West is guilty or not. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208730-54.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The man accused of raping two women in Ross and another in Hopewell was indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge that he illegally possessed body armor, the U.S. attorney's office said Tuesday. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208731-54.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A woman who flipped her car with her infant son riding in the back seat was charged with three counts of driving under the influence after toxicology tests showed she had alcohol and drugs in her system, according to police. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208732-54.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The suspect in a Butler County bank robbery was in prison Tuesday after officers from multiple agencies tracked his getaway car. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208760-53-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml After about a decade of purchasing asphalt from a vendor, the Pittsburgh public works department wants to make its own asphalt again with the hope of saving money and adding muscle to the city's street-paving program. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208761-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml City council gave final approval Tuesday to a package of assistance that will be available to Pittsburgh homeowners 65 and older and to other city homeowners whose 2011 assessments totaled $150,000 or less. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208762-56-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml It appears there is still hope that a K-8 school will exist in Duquesne next year despite announcements by state Education Department officials that the district's school would dissolve after the 2011-12 school year. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208764-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Pittsburgh police continued to search for the driver of a stolen SUV that crashed into PNC's Firstside Center on First Avenue Tuesday afternoon, drawing a bomb squad and hordes of curious onlookers to the edge of Downtown. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208765-54-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Allegheny County is hoping to complete a slow-moving bridge project on Thompson Run Road in Ross by the end of April. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208598-454-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml In Waynesburg, a coal and college town that was home base for state Rep. Bill DeWeese, many people say they'd vote for him again despite his conviction on corruption charges. "Yes, I would vote for him again," said Bill Whitlatch, a construction company owner from nearby Rogersville. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 22:22:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208711-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The man accused of raping two women in Ross and another in Hopewell was indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge that he illegally possessed body armor, the U.S. attorney's office said today. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 20:40:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208672-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Downtown streets have opened and traffic is flowing smoothly after a man crashed a stolen SUV into PNC's Firstside Center on First Avenue this afternoon, drawing a bomb squad and a crowd of curious onlookers. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 20:30:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208685-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A Bridgewater councilman's habit of stopping by the borough building to drink water from a Styrofoam cup helped lead to his arrest last month in the 1979 homicide of a Monaca woman. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 18:23:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208670-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A woman who flipped her car with her infant son riding in the back seat was charged with three counts driving under the influence after toxicology tests showed she had alcohol and drugs in her system. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 15:12:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208671-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A man was injured this afternoon after a metal grate fell on him at a dealer that sells heavy farm equipment, a Fayette County dispatch supervisor said. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 15:04:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208597-454-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml HARRISBURG -- A Dauphin County jury on Monday found longtime Democratic state representative and House Speaker Bill DeWeese guilty of all but one of six felony corruption charges resulting from a state legislative probe into the misuse of public resources. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:44:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208567-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The driver of an SUV that struck a city sanitation worker Monday in East Liberty told police she did not see the man because she was temporarily blinded by sun glare in her eyes. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:10:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208669-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Police are investigating the robbery of a pizza delivery driver on the North Side, the third of its kind in recent days. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:04:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208621-53-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml With the demolition of the Civic Arena in full swing, the city is preparing to give its consent to bring down part of another landmark building -- the Strip District's historic produce terminal. Urban Redevelopment Authority board members are expected to vote Thursday on a memorandum of understanding that clears the way for the Buncher Co. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:42:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208616-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Even as a new court order Monday directed the Allegheny County sheriff to remove all Occupy Pittsburgh protesters from BNY Mellon Green, several of the campers delivered a vociferous but ambiguous message: We're not going away. While some explicitly said they would stay in the face of forcible removal, others said the movement would continue outside the encampment. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:17:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208658-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml About 15 tents and at least one Occupy Pittsburgh protester remained in Mellon Green this morning despite a court order that authorized the county sheriff to remove campers and protesters to enforce a judge's ruling. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 10:26:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208657-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Three people were hospitalized for smoke inhalation after a mattress caught fire at a Mt. Lebanon apartment complex early today. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 09:49:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208651-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Allegheny County fire marshals will spend part of today attempting to figure out what started the fire that destroyed the popular North Versailles restaurant, the Winchester Room. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 08:37:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208602-53-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml "Putting the GO back in Gospel" says a sign on the front of the Christian Fellowship Baptist Church on the North Side. But it was nearly the church itself that had to go. On Monday, a sheriff's sale was postponed until March 5 for the century-old stone church at 2453 Perrysville Ave. after an Oklahoma mortgage company agreed to work out payments by its pastor, the Rev. Algie Robinson Jr. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 08:36:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208603-298-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A Pittsburgh philanthropist has bestowed her alma mater, Carlow University, with the largest gift it has ever received: $5 million to establish a new student center. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 08:17:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208655-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Bobbie Cegelski, the gifted services coordinator for the Montour School District, was chosen Monday night to fill a vacant seat on the Robinson board of commissioners. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 07:48:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208559-294-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml One morning last fall, I signed onto my computer at work and began the process of getting rid of one after another worthless email -- delete, delete, delete, delete ... David Aschkenas. I gasped. A respite from delete. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 05:55:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208656-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml More than 100 concerned residents from Bridgeville and Upper St. Clair packed a meeting of the Upper St. Clair commissioners to voice their opposition to a new residential housing development that they say will exacerbate an already dangerous traffic situation. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 05:44:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208654-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The Seneca Valley School District is considering changing its grading scale. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 05:31:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208653-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Denise Balason was selected last night to fill a vacant seat on the Hampton school board. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 05:25:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208652-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The North Hills school board Monday night unanimously rejected the application of Provident Charter School to locate within the district. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 05:17:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208525-28.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Sarris Candies' landmark retail candy store in Canonsburg will remain closed for about a month after last week's fire, but candy orders and deliveries to outside sellers continue uninterrupted. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:09:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208564-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Allegheny County is closing its private garage behind the old morgue on Fourth Avenue, Downtown, beginning Wednesday until further notice because of structural problems. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208565-56.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A convicted sex offender from Wilkinsburg has been arrested on charges that he indecently assaulted a 10-year-old boy following a Christmas Eve party in White Oak. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208566-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Pittsburgh police have charged a Brighton Heights man, who is currently in a Minnesota jail on unrelated charges, with the 2010 shooting death of a man inside Shamrock Bar on the North Side. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208596-54.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml McKnight Road northbound will be down to one lane at times from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday through Saturday at the bridge over Babcock Boulevard in Ross as crews install railing. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208606-55.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Trial began Monday for an Upper St. Clair man charged with homicide by vehicle in the deaths of three people in a crash nearly two years ago on the Parkway West. Ryan Safka, 20, also is charged with three counts each of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of David Rizzo Jr., 20, Tara Schulz, 18, and Derek Phillips, 20, all of Upper St. Clair. They were all backseat passengers in Mr. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208545-298.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Downtown-based Education Management Corp. has argued in court filings that a 2011 policy change by the Department of Education proves that EDMC didn't previously break rules for compensating college recruiters. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 22:14:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208522-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A convicted sex offender from Wilkinsburg has been arrested on charges that he indecently assaulted a 10-year-old boy following a Christmas Eve party in White Oak. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 19:33:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208501-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Dormont Council President Bill McCartney confirmed today that borough manager Gino Rizza and solicitor Deron Gabriel have resigned. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 18:05:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208498-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The driver of an SUV that struck a city sanitation worker this morning in East Liberty told police she didn't see the man due to sun glare in her eyes. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208497-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Pittsburgh police are warning food delivery drivers to use caution and be alert after two drivers were robbed at gunpoint in as many days on the North Side. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:30:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208499-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Fire crews are on the scene of a North Versailles restaurant fire this afternoon that has been burning for over an hour. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 14:38:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208407-53-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Margie Walls can't live a day without a "Jamie moment," when the sight of a woman's brown hair or a whiff of Tiffany perfume will flood her mind with memories of her daughter. But with memories come unending questions. "I mostly think about how she died and did she suffer?" Ms. Walls said, gazing at her daughter's grave. "Was she afraid? She probably was. ... I can feel her fear." Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:54:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208411-454-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml In early 2010, in an effort to ease the burden of the state's prison system, Gov. Ed Rendell announced that Pennsylvania would contract with Michigan and Virginia to move 2,000 low-risk inmates to facilities in those states. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:23:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208421-53-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml After 31 years of providing day care for elderly people as an alternative to a nursing home, Vintage Senior Services in East Liberty is phasing out that service through June. It will continue to operate as a senior center. The cost of adult day care has outpaced the flat funding levels of recent years, executive director Ann Truxell said. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:22:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208430-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml By court order, Occupy Pittsburgh must get off BNY Mellon Green by today, but while many of the tents were removed Sunday, it was not clear whether all of the protesters would be gone. Matt Wheeler, for one, said Sunday he was not taking down his tent. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 06:43:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208427-53-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Calvary Episcopal Church in Shadyside is being considered for the National Register of Historic Places. The board of the state historic preservation office will consider on Tuesday whether to recommend the late Gothic Revival-style cathedral built in 1907 for the register. Its recommendation then would be considered by the National Park Service, which oversees the register. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208429-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The city of Pittsburgh will collect a new tax for the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh beginning this year, but how much the latter has to pay for that service is a matter of discussion. City and library officials will meet today to iron out cost-sharing and other logistical details for collecting the library tax that voters approved in a November referendum. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208434-53-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml BLUFF: The Duquesne University Christian-Muslim Dialogue Committee will host a symposium, "Building Interreligious Relationships," from 4 to 6:30 p.m. in the Africa Room on the third floor of the Duquesne Union. The symposium will focus on women and minorities in interreligious dialogue. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208445-114-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Last year, Donate Life America, the nonprofit that advocates for people to donate their organs, reached an important, 5-year-old goal. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208372-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml It took a high-speed chase, a pursuit on foot, and a scuffle, but two McKees Rocks police officers on routine patrol spotted a car jacking in progress and arrested a suspect. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 14:24:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208370-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Firefighters battled a blaze in Bridgeville this morning that destroyed an apartment building and spread to a neighboring structure. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 08:11:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208369-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Two Beaver County residents were hurt Saturday in a car crash blamed on speed. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 07:37:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208325-55.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Attorneys representing a man who was sentenced to death more than two decades ago in the murder of a waitress in Fayette County are trying to stop prosecutors from retrying the defendant. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208327-58.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml An official says a fire early Friday morning at the Sarris Candies factory in Canonsburg destroyed nearly 20,000 pounds of chocolate. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1207983-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The image of the first day of school at the new Pittsburgh Westinghouse 6-12 in Homewood still sticks in one teacher's mind. "I think the first day in August was so beautiful. They came in their uniforms. You could see the expectations that things were going to be different. We're really going to focus on our learning," she said. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208061-53-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml For about two hours a day, twice a day, five days a week, Cathy Gamble is the queen -- in neon green -- of 44th and Butler streets. The longtime crossing guard greets pedestrians by name and blows kisses from her stark white gloves to the drivers who stop in her wake at this bustling intersection, where she estimates she crosses 300 schoolchildren and countless more adults each day. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208271-59.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml It took eight years, but the people of the New Kensington area finally got a chance to welcome home the 307th Military Police Company on Saturday. The Army Reserve company, based in New Kensington, deployed to Iraq for a year in 2003 and 2004. But its soldiers came back in staggered groups then, and the town could never pull together a time for one large ceremony. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208323-455.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Bishop David A. Zubik will celebrate a memorial Mass for the late Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua at St. Paul Cathedral on Feb. 19. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12036/1208324-56.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A Cambria County man driving on the wrong side of the road was killed early Saturday morning in a head-on collision, according to state police. Sun, 5 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500