Brian C. Rittmeyer stories, Page 103

A one-day festival featuring art, music and food is growing into a three-day affair for its second go ’round. The first Arts, Beats and Treats was held on one day last year at AK Valley Park, the former Alcoa research center on Freeport Road in New Kensington. This year, the...

Inspections will restrict traffic on the Hulton and Tarentum bridges next week, PennDOT announced Friday. There will be lane restrictions in each direction on the Hulton Bridge over the Allegheny River between Freeport Road in Harmar and Second Street in Oakmont between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday and Tuesday....

Round Hill Spray Park is reopening on Friday after having been closed for a week, the Allegheny County parks and health departments announced. The Elizabeth Township spray park had been closed since Aug. 2 because bacteria levels in the water exceeded Health Department regulations. The system was drained of water,...

Harrison’s Recreation Board is already looking ahead to the holidays and seeking residents interested in helping put together the township’s annual Christmas festival and other community events. The seven-member board isn’t looking for new, formal board members, just those able to lend a hand, Commissioner Chuck Dizard said. In addition...

Miss the Log Jammer? Think taking it down was the worst thing Kennywood could have ever done — before the Potato Patch cheese and ketchup controversies this year? The West Mifflin amusement park has given one of its old Log Jammer vehicles to “Give Kids the World,” a nonprofit that...

Blackburn’s Physician’s Pharmacy plans to tear down a building it recently bought on East Fourth Avenue in Tarentum and use the lot for employee parking. The Tarentum-based company is working on getting the required permits from Allegheny County and bids from contractors to take down the building at 326 E....

The Fourth of July wasn’t that long ago, but organizers of New Kensington’s fireworks display already are thinking about next year. And they’re worried. Proceeds from a basket raffle during a block party preceding this year’s display were supposed to help pay for next year’s fireworks. Rain on July 6...

Asbestos could reduce the number of dilapidated buildings that Tarentum will be able to tear down this year. The borough expects to receive the results of asbestos testing on 28 properties this week, code enforcement officer Anthony Bruni said. The borough paid Corwin Inspections $11,175 to do the testing. That...

New Kensington Council on Monday approved the transfer of a liquor license for a Sheetz in the city despite the objections of several residents, including one armed with a petition. A remodeling of the convenience store and gas station on Freeport Street will include an addition with seating for 30...

Tarentum police are warning borough businesses about a man allegedly passing fake money. On its Facebook page, the department says it is asking for help identifying the man, who they allege is passing counterfeit $100 bills in the Tarentum area. He was described only as a black male. No other...

Average gas prices in the Pittsburgh region dropped 1.5 cents per gallon in the past week to $2.94 on Monday, according to the price-tracking website GasBuddy.com. That’s 1.4 cents per gallon lower than a month ago, and 19.8 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average is...

An 18-year-old man was in critical condition after being shot several times in Braddock early Friday morning, according to Allegheny County police. Police and paramedics went to the 200 block of 4th Street at 1:10 a.m. for a report of a man who had been shot. The man had been...

State police are looking for a missing 83-year-old woman in Greene County. According to state police, Haddie B. Baysinger was last seen around 2 p.m. Thursday driving a Gator side-by-side utility vehicle through fields and woods. The vehicle was recovered but Baysinger had not been located as of Friday morning....

A woman who had been stabbed flagged down passing Pittsburgh police officers early Friday morning. The incident happened just before 2:45 a.m. at Lincoln and Lemington avenues. The woman had a stab wound to a hand, police said. Police said the woman was alert and conscious, but was uncooperative with...

A Harrison business park development is getting $1 million in state grant funding. The money for the Harrison Point business park is coming from the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program. In Harrison, the grant money will be used for site preparation work, including stormwater mitigation, utility installation and roadwork. The proposed...

A driver fled after hitting a man on Fort Duquesne Boulevard early Friday, according to Pittsburgh police. The incident at the Seventh Street intersection was reported to 911 just before 4:30 a.m. First responders found the man lying in a crosswalk on Fort Duquesne Boulevard. He had severe head injuries...

An 80-year-old man died in a house fire in Greene County Thursday, according to the Greene County Coroner’s office. The man’s name has not been released, pending notification of family. He was found in his Morgan Township home after a fire, the coroner said. No other information was released....

Pittsburgh police have issued an arrest warrant for a Rankin man in connection with a burglary and sexual assault in Oakland on July 5. Deputies with the Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office took Robert Mitchell, 30, into custody last month on unrelated charges. The victim told police that a man she...

A former New Kensington woman in a wheelchair was killed early Thursday when she was struck by a pickup as she crossed Route 28/66 near Kittanning, according to Armstrong County Coroner Brian Myers. Sylvia Jean Denslow, 53, left the Bench Racers convenience store in Rayburn with her boyfriend just before...

A Clairton man has died and another man was injured as a result of a shooting outside a Clairton bar early Thursday. Clairton police and paramedics went to the 400 block of St. Clair Avenue around 12:45 a.m. for a report of a 24-year-old man who had been shot in...

Pittsburgh police responded to two separate shootings late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. Officers responded just before midnight to reports of a shooting on Idlewild Street at Collier Street in Homewood. There, they found a man who had been shot in the leg. Then, just before 2 a.m., officers...

Work to clean and paint the outside of a Harrison water tower for the first time since it was put up 16 years ago is underway. Crews with Southern Corrosion, based in North Carolina, on Wednesday were pressure washing the 200,000-gallon, steel pedesphere located along Harrison Avenue and across from...