A Washington County man was sentenced Friday in federal court in Pittsburgh to 15 years in jail and five years of supervised release for unlawfully possessing a firearm. Mark Bradford Yarbrough Sr.,...

City and state police said traffic is flowing normally through Pittsburgh with minimal exception this morning. The 10th Street Bypass was closed to traffic due to water encroaching from the...

One of the tickets sold in New Jersey for the Powerball game Saturday night matched all six numbers drawn, which were 6, 16, 20, 31 and 36. The Powerball was 8, and the Power Play was 5.The player...

The Ohio River will crest at 23 feet this morning, about five feet lower than had been feared, according to a hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh. Bill Drzal said he expects...

A fire marshal has been sent to investigate a blaze that started in a tractor-trailer then spread to a house on Neville Island. An emergency dispatch supervisor said the fire started at 4:32 a.m....

WASHINGTON — The looming vote for final passage of the historic health-care bill is the stiffest challenge House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn has faced in his three-plus years as the lawmaker...

West Virginia's Da'Sean Butler (1) shoots over Georgetown's Julian Vaughn (22) during the second half of the NCAA Big East Championship college basketball game on Saturday, March 13, 2010 in New...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Utility crews pushed through fallen trees and windblown debris to reach downed power lines Sunday, working to restore electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes and...

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia police officer was injured trying to stop the driver of a sport utility vehicle belonging to a suburban man found dead in his living...

presented a map to guide new development in what is expected to be a decades-long process of bringing the city back to an Allegheny riverfront long barricaded by industrial use. On Thursday, the...

Allen & O'Hara Development Co. LLC has been selected to design two residence halls, which will have a total of 640 beds at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania. Allen & O’Hara is...

Ronald Croushore, CEO of Ross Township-based Prudential Preferred Realty, says he expects the spring real estate surge is “going to be really...

-- As the city and surrounding areas prepare for possible flooding caused by melting snow and heavy rain, PETA is offering important advice for ensuring the safety of animal companions should...

An infant and two adults were hurt in a three-vehicle crash this morning in Point Breeze. An emergency dispatch supervisor said the accident happened at 1:13 a.m. today at the corner of Penn Avenue...

Roving police patrols throughout the city of Pittsburgh following the St. Patrick's Day parade yielded eight arrests for drunken driving. The statistic is for the hours between 6 p.m. Saturday and 4...

Two people were critically injured during a police chase that began in the city and ended in Penn Hills. An Allegheny County emergency dispatch supervisor confirmed that the chase began at about...

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This article has been read 90 times. McMURRAY - Pennsylvania American Water said Friday that it is spending $2 million to install new water lines and fire hydrants in its McMurray District to...

On her first vacation in 10 years, a severely injured Pennsylvania State Police trooper found herself being detained in Mexico by authorities investigating a fatal crash.For 13 hours, Jean Altomari...

At least it wasn’t snow.While Delaware County may be emerging from a record-setting winter, massive amounts of precipitation continued to fall on the region Saturday.A complex weather system...

rquinn@delcotimes.com Jean Altomari was seated in the back of the yellow Jeep.It had been a good day — until the two female passengers on either side of her decided not to wear their...

kcarey@delcotimes.com CHESTER — Carol Fireng stepped off the yellow school bus carrying 72 students at William Penn Park Thursday, excited to showcase the place where William Penn first...

Heron's Nest Phil Heron uses this site to turn back the curtain a bit on the great mystery involved in creating a newspaper and his other general thoughts on life and the...

arose@delcotimes.com White House staff might have broken a federal law if it asked U.S. Rep. Joseph Sestak, D-7, of Edgmont, to bow out of his Senate primary race, according to U.S. Rep. Darrell...

newsroom@delcotimes.com CHESTER — The search is on for a new superintendent to lead Chester Upland School District next year.The district has just a few months before Superintendent Gregory...

MIDDLETOWN — As a service to residents, the township will collect bagged leaves and yard waste throughout the week of March 22, provided people register for the special curbside pickup by...

By LESLIE KROWCHENKOTimes Correspondent CONCORD — The township is proposing new fields just in time for the 2011 season.The supervisors reviewed drawings for the creation of athletic fields...

CHESTER — The city of Chester has prepared a five-year plan for making use of millions of dollars of federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grants, which will be presented to the public...

Schedules will change Monday for a number of SEPTA Suburban Transit Victory District routes.SEPTA will begin the next phase of the Media/Sharon Hill Line Reconstruction Project in Delaware County....

One Jackpot WinnerORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — One of the tickets sold in New Jersey for the Powerball game Saturday night matched all six numbers drawn, which were:6-16-20-31-36Powerball: 8(six,...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia police officer was injured trying to stop the driver of a sport utility vehicle belonging to a suburban man found dead in his living room.Upper Merion...

By MARC LEVY,Associated Press Writer HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Some day it might be remembered as the Tea Party primary.The newly forming activist groups that identify heartily with calls for...

bhundt@observer-reporter.com Any plans to gather animals two by two were set aside Saturday as a rainstorm dumped much less precipitation on the region than anticipated and swept away concerns about...

lmetz@observer-reporter.com They just don't make them like David Funka anymore. Funka, of Washington, has retired from the city's zoning hearing board after more than four decades of...

The Obama administration on Saturday called for a broad overhaul of President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind law, proposing to reshape divisive provisions that encouraged instructors to teach...

bhundt@observer-reporter.com An East Washington man described by a federal court judge as "an armed career criminal" has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after being convicted on a firearms...

The drama of the Red Sox's 3-2 win over the Pirates on Saturday peaked during the final play of the game, a whirlwind of alert defense that left many observers wondering whether the contest had ended...

Brett Satterfield, right, Web master of Rollier's Hardware's online site, sits with his brother, Derek, in a former conference room that has been turned into a packing center at the store in Mt....

Mount Pleasant residents Dencil Backus, JoAnne Wagner and Bill Forrest stand near two "condensate" tanks, which are part of a compressor station complex in the village of Hickory, in Mount Pleasant,...

Western Pennsylvanians watched warily on Saturday night as rivers filled or spilled over their banks in some communities, but emergency workers expressed relief as updated forecasts called for...

Pittsburgh police arrested six St. Patrick's Day revelers as of Saturday evening, spokeswoman Diane Richard reported. Three people arrested at Station Square were charged with aggravated assault,...

A four-alarm fire that apparently started during plumbing work on a bathroom heavily damaged a Beltzhoover house Saturday morning. The fire, which broke out around 10 a.m., occurred in the 800 block...

Authorities in Beaver County have ruled the shooting deaths of an elderly couple a murder-suicide. Police said a nurse found the bodies of Harold and Eileen Carl, both 82, in their Center home on...

CHICAGO -- Mike Dixon doesn't like the 500 percent increase in parking rates that's hit his neighborhood since the city leased on-street parking rights to a private consortium for 75 years. He...

Bruce Graham, the hard-driving Chicago architect of the Willis Tower, once the world's tallest building, and the John Hancock Center, the X-braced giant that became the Second City's Eiffel Tower,...

The Obama administration on Saturday called for a broad overhaul of the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind law, proposing to eliminate divisive provisions, including those that have...

Henri Salmide, a former German naval officer who defied orders to blow up the French port of Bordeaux in 1944, died Feb. 23. He was 90 and lived in Bordeaux. His wife, Henriette, confirmed the...

HARRISBURG -- State officials wanted to start work months ago on the first of three new prisons to ease crowding in the corrections system, a problem that has forced 2,000 inmates to be shipped out...