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. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:30:29 -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/10075/1043089-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A trio of legal opinions on Monday boosted Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's argument that leasing parking authority garages to a private entity is the best plan for infusing cash into the troubled city pension fund. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043091-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml When Chris Pollock was trapped alone in a farm field two years ago, his hands caught in a grinding, mechanized corn picker, "I asked God three times to let me die." Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043097-54.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A former project manager for UPMC pleaded guilty on Monday to stealing $250,000 over a seven-year period. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043158-114.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Two dozen toga-wearing protesters retold the story of the assassination of Julius Caesar outside UPMC's Downtown headquarters on Monday. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043076-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Get ready for Big Six, big rolls and lots of poker and blackjack. The Rivers Casino is revving up its table games operation. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043098-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A maintenance worker found the body of a Squirrel Hill man, bound and shot, on a hillside behind a North Side recreation center on Monday morning, police said. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043101-57.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Residents at a low-income housing development in Stowe now have free wireless access to websites designed to help them in job-hunting and education efforts. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043155-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Just after daybreak, Lt. John Sharpe lowered the American flags outside Engine Co. 38 to half-staff, but even as night fell he was still struggling with why. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043093-455.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml During a geology field trip in 2004, the professor told his students that a road-cut featuring rock formations near Pittsburgh International Airport was a great place to find plant fossils. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043099-298.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Duquesne University plans to brief the city planning commission today on a proposed change to the school's master plan to allow a residence hall to be built with 12 stories instead of eight. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043100-298.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The University of Pittsburgh trustees' budget committee gave its blessing on Monday to several construction projects, including a $28.2 million upgrade to physics and astronomy department laboratories. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043152-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Concerned citizens attend a public hearing held by city council Monday on the proposed strip club along West Carson Street. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043156-56.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml In his opening statement to jurors last week, William Page's defense attorney told them they should disregard the recorded statement his client made to police in which he admitted to leaving his nearly 2-year-old daughter in sub-freezing temperatures to die. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043090-454.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Sidewalks installed less than two years ago as part of a $7 million renovation of Point State Park are already starting to crumble. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043153-57.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Two Catholic elementary schools in McKees Rocks and Coraopolis are on the endangered list because a private foundation is unable to continue donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to each next school year. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042969-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The body of a Squirrel Hill man was found bound and shot this morning on a hillside in the 100 block of Hazlett Street on the North Side Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:59:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043033-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The Rivers Casino filed a petition today seeking authorization from the state gaming control board to operate 86 table games at the North Shore venue Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:55:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042933-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml City police are investigating the fatal shooting of a retired firefighter Sunday in Marshall-Shadeland. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:46:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042856-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml June 13, 1943. Co-pilot Ralph S. Ziegler's tour of duty with the 95th Bomb Group was about to end. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:16:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043018-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Two dozen toga-wearing protesters retold the story of the assassination of Julius Caesar today, with several of the region's community hospitals given the role of victims Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:05:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042968-147.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The 10th Street Bypass opened in time for the morning rush hour. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:30:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042901-455.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml "Dodged a bullet" was the operative phrase among flood watchers on Sunday, as a predicted deluge produced only isolated puddles of trouble. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:40:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042970-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The University of Pittsburgh trustees' budget committee gave its blessing today to several construction projects, including a $28.2 million upgrade to physics and astronomy department laboratories Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:34:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042868-58.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A Washington County man has been sentenced in federal court in Pittsburgh to 15 years in jail and five years of supervised release for unlawfully possessing a firearm. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042853-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Councilman Bruce Kraus took to the streets of his district with aide Matt Hogue and a list of complaints about abandoned cars. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042852-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Nas has produced No. 1 albums, performed in front of cheering crowds and had a doll made in his likeness in Japan, but he never received his high school diploma. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042746-455.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml When Brett Satterfield started building a website for his family's business, he turned to Google search for help finding how-to sites and instructions. Soon he became so successful that Google turned to him for help. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:47:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042831-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml 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. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:37:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042825-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A fire marshal has been sent to investigate a blaze that started in a tractor-trailer then spread to a house on Neville Island. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:18:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042824-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml An infant and two adults were hurt in a three-vehicle crash this morning in Point Breeze. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:01:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042823-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Roving police patrols throughout the city of Pittsburgh following the St. Patrick's Day parade yielded eight arrests for drunken driving. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:21:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042822-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Two people were critically injured during a police chase that began in the city and ended in Penn Hills. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:10:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042737-113.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Just outside a fence enclosing a field on Debbie Hanes' farm near Hickory in Washington County sits a noisy, smelly, two-story natural gas compressor station, running 24/7 and lit up at night like a minor league baseball park. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:19:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042790-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Pittsburgh police arrested six St. Patrick's Day revelers as of Saturday evening, spokeswoman Diane Richard reported. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:29:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042789-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A four-alarm fire that apparently started during plumbing work on a bathroom heavily damaged a Beltzhoover house Saturday morning. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:27:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042786-57.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Authorities in Beaver County have ruled the shooting deaths of an elderly couple a murder-suicide. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:26:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10073/1042702-147.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml 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. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:08:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042654-455.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Winter's white gave through to St. Patrick's green today as thousands lined the streets of Pittsburgh for the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:14:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042650-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Western Pennsylvanians looked to the skies and their basements amid warnings of potential flooding, but Allegheny County officials this afternoon were heartened by updated river forecasts of less-severe flooding than expected. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:47:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042653-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Firefighters were summoned to a four-alarm house fire in Beltzhoover this morning. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:49:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042504-56.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A North Versailles man on Friday was ordered to trial on charges that he beat to death his infant son last month. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:03:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042567-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The St. Patrick's Day parade will follow a new route this year. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042487-113.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Fifteen tree companies put in the equivalent of $30,000 in volunteer labor Friday at Allegheny Commons Park, removing 15 trees and repairing damage to more than 50 wounded in February's snowstorms. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042537-56.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A Monroeville man was released from jail Thursday after homicide charges against him were withdrawn. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042539-57.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The Imperial Landfill, owned by Allied Waste Systems of Pennsylvania, has been fined $650,000 for persistent and ongoing problems with odors and gases that have inundated a Findlay neighborhood near the landfill. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042543-55.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A business manager for three Western Pennsylvania parishes has been charged with attacking a parish priest. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042505-56.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Two foundation-aided Catholic schools will close and be consolidated with two others in what the Diocese of Pittsburgh says will help keep its educational offerings accessible and affordable despite the city's shrinking population. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042542-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority board Friday created a task force to contend with the agency's leaky system and perhaps reconsider giveaways to several nonprofit institutions. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042550-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Pittsburgh City Councilman Doug Shields and a pair of state lawmakers agreed Friday on the need for tighter regulation of towing companies to make sure they don't overcharge or otherwise exploit motorists. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042538-56.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A New York woman who police said was part of a "large-scale" marijuana drug-trafficking organization was arrested Friday in Plum and charged with possessing 540 pounds of marijuana. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042553-54.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Deep wells are being drilled in the northwestern Pennsylvania town where the modern oil industry was born -- but this time they're after heat. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500