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. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:09:25 -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/12044/1209930-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml An overnight fire destroyed the ski lodge at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:16:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12044/1209941-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Harry Davis & Company announced plans today to auction off the assets of Maglev Inc., a McKeesport-based high-speed rail developer that filed for bankruptcy in July. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:56:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12044/1209935-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml All lanes of the Parkway West outbound have reopened after a multi-vehicle crash involving a tractor-trailer was cleared in Carnegie, state Department of Transportation spokesman Jim Struzzi said. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:07:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12044/1209932-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Thiel College announced it will use the $25 million bequest from the late businessman William S. Dietrich II to fund an honors program named for his parents, who graduated from the school in the 1930s. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:24:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12044/1209872-505.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Declining commercial assessments and the lack of a county-wide reassessment this year are two major contributors to a $3.5 million Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:16:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12044/1209895-53-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml For the Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition, 2011 was a thrilling year. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:10:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12044/1209896-503-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is investigating whether specific Marcellus Shale drilling and compressor station Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:47:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12044/1209869-53-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A Knoxville man left to watch over his girlfriend's 11-year-old son while she was at work beat the boy to death over a span of nine hours on Saturday, according to Pittsburgh police. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:50:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12043/1209807-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A mine worker was injured in an accident at a Consol Energy site in Washington County Saturday. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:19:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12043/1209699-455.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml In Carrick, the reassessment elicits shrugs. In South Side, squeals. In Bloomfield, head scratching. The effects of the first-in-a-decade Allegheny County reassessment, now spreading into the suburbs, emerge in the data and reactions from city wards. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:11:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12043/1209803-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A 29-year-old man faces homicide charges today in the beating death an 11-year-old boy at the child's home along Knox Avenue. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:37:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12043/1209802-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Several Westmoreland County fire companies worked late into the frigid night Saturday, battling a blaze that heavily damaged an Arona building that once had housed a church congregation. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:44:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12043/1209696-55.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A meeting last week in the Duquesne City School District to talk about education options turned into a contentious session that Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12043/1209697-57.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml In between two pristinely kept homes in Ingram, Stanley Biolowas Jr. lived in a decaying two-story house filled with trash. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12043/1209714-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A 14-year-old girl who had been missing for nearly a year from a youth center was arrested in a prostitution sting at an Oakland hotel Friday. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12043/1209750-56.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Allegheny County homicide detectives are investigating the fatal shooting of two men whose bodies were found in car parked on a Wilkinsburg street early Saturday. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12043/1209752-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The victim of an apparent drug deal gone bad Friday afternoon in Brighton Heights has been identified. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12042/1209673-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Allegheny County homicide detectives are investigating the fatal shooting of two men whose bodies were found in car parked on a Wilkinsburg street early today. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:43:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12042/1209669-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A 14-year-old girl who had been missing for nearly a year from a youth center was arrested in a prostitution sting by Pittsburgh vice squad detectives at an Oakland hotel that also resulted in the apprehension of a 22-year-old woman and a 36-year-old man. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:03:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12042/1209672-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The victim of an apparent drug deal gone bad Firday afternoon in Brighton Heights has been identified as Sean Blackwell, 35, of Manchester. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:24:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12042/1209580-54-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml First, prosecutors say, William Ainsworth lured the young girls by portraying himself on Facebook as a rebellious 15-year-old runaway surfer. The persona of the young man, "Bill Cano," complimented the girls he met online, telling them how pretty they were, how wonderful they made him feel, how much he wanted them. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:15:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12042/1209677-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A Beaver County woman is dead following an early morning fire in Lawrence County. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:22:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12042/1209551-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A 35-year-old man died Friday night after he was shot in the chest and the side during what police suspect was a drug deal gone bad. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:32:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12042/1209519-28.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Part of the old Greater Pittsburgh International Airport terminal in Moon will be reborn as an office building and aircraft hangars. Allegheny County Airport Authority board members accepted a $750,000 loan from the Commonwealth Financing Authority at their meeting Friday to advance the project. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12042/1209527-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Nearly 1,000 students, grades 4-12, strutted their stuff at the Pittsburgh Public Theater's this week in the preliminaries of the 18th annual Shakespeare Monologue and Scene Contest. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12042/1209548-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A man who told Pittsburgh police homicide detectives he killed his roommate faces trial on a charge of homicide. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12042/1209570-54-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The woman said she pleaded with the masked man as he held a gun to her body, told her to strip and forced her to lie on her bed. She said she thought of the two teenagers downstairs in her care, whom he had threatened to kill if she raised her voice, she testified at a preliminary hearing for Arthur Henderson. "And I'm like, 'Why are you doing this to me? Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12042/1209572-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Rather than hire a new executive director now, the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority board has decided to bring in a management firm to oversee daily operations for as long as 18 months. The board voted Friday to invite firms to compete for the work. Councilman Patrick Dowd, a board member, said the request for proposals should be completed by the end of the month. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12042/1209623-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A black former state halfway house monitor who was fired for sleeping on the job won a $250,000 verdict Friday following a four-day civil trial at which he argued that he was terminated unfairly, while a white co-worker's snoozing was tolerated. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12042/1209624-298-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml In the world of teen dating, where text messages and Facebook and Twitter have intensified the eternal difficulties of young romance, parents and teachers and even teenagers themselves can easily miss the warning signs of love gone dangerously wrong, experts say. The girl who wants to know where her boyfriend is at all hours of the day. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12042/1209626-55.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The 14-year-old brother of a teenager who was shot dead in the Duquesne apartment where his family had lived for only one month told a judge Friday that he watched his older brother die in his mother's arms. The boy testified that when gunmen began firing into the apartment, in the Hilltop Parkview Manor complex on Duquesne Place Drive, he ran to his sister's back bedroom to hide. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12042/1209628-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A state prison inmate has filed a civil lawsuit against suspended corrections officer Harry F. Nicoletti and others alleging physical and sexual abuse and indifference by higher-ups. The prisoner is not named in the federal lawsuit, which accuses Mr. Nicoletti of offering him a choice of sexual acts, but does not detail the assault that it alleges followed. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209411-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The man who was shot twice in Brighton Heights this evening has died. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:03:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209545-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A 53-year-old wanted man was in the Allegheny County Jail Friday on a theft charge after police said he stole a pocket calendar from a Downtown store and gave officers a false name. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:43:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209377-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A district judge held Arthur Henderson for trial this afternoon on multiple charges after prosecutors said he raped and robbed three women at gunpoint after breaking into their homes last month. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:58:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209374-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A Butler County man was arrested Thursday and charged by the state Attorney General's office of running an elaborate Facebook scheme to solicit young girls to provide nude photographs of themselves and engage in sexual encounters. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:41:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209372-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A jury today ordered the state to pay $250,000 plus back pay to a black former halfway house monitor who was fired for falling asleep on the job while his white colleague was not disciplined for the same thing. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:06:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209296-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Scientists by nature are prone to thinking big, imagining the secrets waiting to be unlocked with the right mix of talent and money. So one can imagine the scale of thinking that has occurred since the Richard King Mellon Foundation notified the Center for Energy within the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering that it had been chosen to receive a $22 million grant. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:04:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209358-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A man who police say was one of three gunmen who fired shots into a Duquesne apartment last month faces trial on charges that he killed a 16-year-old boy and wounded two of his relatives. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:37:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209357-298.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Officials of the West Mifflin Area School District are predicting significant cuts for the 2012-2013 school year. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:49:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209356-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A state prison inmate filed a civil lawsuit late Thursday against suspended corrections officer Harry F. Nicoletti and others alleging physical and sexual abuse and indifference by higher-ups. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:22:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209354-100.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A Johnstown man was in a Maryland jail Thursday on charges that he illegally gave his girlfriend a dose of methadone, causing her to die in an Indiana County hospital hours before she was set to be released, according to authorities. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:42:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209288-57-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml WASHINGTON -- There were a lot of questions but few answers Thursday during a meeting of the Pennsylvania congressional delegation and three Air Force generals who want to close the 911th Airlift Wing near Pittsburgh International Airport. Lawmakers, who said the meeting was cordial, left it frustrated by the lack of information about the decision to close the base in Moon. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:25:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209292-53-0.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml As it became clear that members of Occupy Pittsburgh were not long for their encampment at Downtown's Mellon Green, Allegheny County Sheriff William Mullen started planning for the worst. He called police departments, watched videos and studied news reports from other cities where such evictions erupted in violence. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:45:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209319-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The Allegheny County district attorney's office decided this week to withdraw the charges filed against a man who was arrested in connection with a North Side shooting that put a Hill District man in critical condition this fall. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:13:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209321-57.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A man was killed early Thursday when his SUV crashed into a boom truck on the McKees Rocks Bridge, shutting it down for about three hours. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:11:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209320-55.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Allegheny County homicide detectives are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in the woods behind a West Mifflin apartment building by officers who were searching for a missing man. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:10:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209318-56.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A North Side man charged with sexually assaulting a teenager was in the Allegheny County Jail Thursday after deputies spotted him in a Braddock home hours after he ditched his trial. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:09:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209317-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Allegheny County sheriff's deputies arrested a man wanted in connection with an Ohio shooting after they found him hiding under clothing in a Hill District home Thursday morning. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:08:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209316-54.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A Butler County man being sought by police shot and killed himself in his car after being cornered by troopers Thursday morning. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:07:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209315-59.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Tax preparer Larry E. Snow pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of a 40-count indictment that accused him of claiming fictitious deductions on his clients' returns. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:06:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209313-55.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A central figure in a Mon Valley-focused cocaine ring was sentenced Thursday to 21 years and 10 months in prison. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:04:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209314-54.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A Bridgeville man who led police on a 16-mile chase was sentenced Thursday to 30 to 60 months in prison. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:02:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209231-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A developer won clearance Thursday to demolish part of the Strip District's historic produce terminal as part of a broader redevelopment that proponents saw as visionary and one opponent described as "an Olive Garden." Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209295-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Describing the drilling process as environmentally sound, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Thursday championed natural gas production in a city that banned the practice more than a year ago. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209297-55.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Tracy and John "Jack" Pavlick pleaded guilty Thursday to involuntary manslaughter, homicide by vehicle and two counts of driving under the influence. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209310-56.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml A suspended Braddock police officer awaiting trial on burglary and bribery charges was arraigned Wednesday in another string of crimes in which police said he pressed a prostitute into a sham prostitution sting and stole a shotgun from evidence, among other things. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209311-53.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml The Pittsburgh pension fund ended the fourth quarter with a value of about $565.2 million, up about $16.6 million from the third quarter. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12041/1209312-55.stm?cmpid=neighborhoods.xml Allegheny County sheriff's deputies on Wednesday arrested a man wanted in connection with a shooting at a Sweet 16 birthday party that left one teen dead and seven others wounded in Duquesne. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500