Dillon Carr stories, Page 30

Penn Hills School District administration said it has embraced a new state system aimed at providing schools with a 24-hour anonymous tip line to report something suspicious online or offer support to those who pose threats to themselves. Since its launch in January, the state Attorney General Office’s Safe2Say Something...

A Swissvale man was sentenced to 80 to 160 months in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to two separate cases in which he attacked an Allegheny County Jail guard and sent threatening letters to a judge, officials said. Nathan Hoye, 26, was serving a 16- to 32-month sentence at the...

Old Leechburg Road in Plum will close Monday and Tuesday for repair work, PennDOT said Monday. The road will close from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day between Sardis Road and Route 366 due to slide repair work. Traffic will be detoured to Sardis, Renton, Drennan roads and Route...

Rabies vaccine baits will be dropped from helicopters for the first time in Allegheny County, the county’s health department said. The baits will be dropped by hand in most parts of the county, but officials will use helicopters to make drops in remote areas. The baits are part of an...

A construction project in Monroeville that has been in the works for years recently got a $1 million boost from state grant funding. Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc. (BPMI) was included in the latest round of grant awards from the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program of the state’s Office of the Budget....

Allegheny Health Network has launched a podcast aimed at sharing stories from area cancer survivors. The weekly podcast “I Had Cancer” is a partnership between AHN and iHeart Radio that “aims to engage, educate and inspire cancer patients and survivors and their loved ones by telling the stories of some...

Going strong for more than 15 years, the Monroeville Jazz Festival returns this month with four jazz acts, food trucks, craft beer and wine at the Tall Trees Amphitheater for the 17th annual gig. The free festival, sponsored by the Monroeville Foundation, kicks off at 2:30 p.m. Aug. 17 at...

One of Monroeville’s oldest structures has a new roof. The McCully Log House roof hadn’t been replaced for about 20 years, said Louis Chandler, a historian with the Monroeville Historical Society. Bruce Walker, the historical society’s president, said the new roof cost $3,700 and the work was done by local...

The East Suburban Artists League will present its 40th Annual Members Show at CCAC’s Boyce Campus in Monroeville starting Aug. 12. The show will run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday, Aug. 12 through Sept. 6, at the college’s main entrance. There will be a free, public...

A bridge in Oakmont will be restricted to one lane for 19 days for emergency cleaning operations, PennDOT said Wednesday. Crews from Michael Facchiano will clean under the Plum Street bridge over Plum Creek in Oakmont. The road will be restricted to a single lane weekdays from 7 a.m. to...

Officials still don’t know what caused the fire that destroyed a shopping plaza along one of Penn Hills’ busiest roads earlier this week. “We haven’t developed any new details,” said Chuck Miller, Penn Hills Fire Marshal, who is leading the investigation into the fire. He did say, however, he does...

A Pittsburgh woman previously dubbed the “Monroeville Madam” faces another prostitution charge. Amy Schifano, 43, agreed to perform a sex act on a Pittsburgh detective for $200 on July 29, according to a criminal complaint filed against her Tuesday. Schifano gained notoriety in 2008 when she pleaded guilty to charges...

Recent actions taken by the Gateway School Board could lead to potential liability under the Sunshine Act, according to an expert in media law. During a special meeting July 23, school Director Jesse Kalkstein resigned and the school board appointed his replacement without placing the actions on a public agenda,...

Penn Hills Parks and Recreation is gearing up for its fifth-annual Summerfest coming Aug. 3. “It’s a positive event for our community,” said John Scaglione, assistant superintendent of the municipality’s public works and parks and recreation departments. “We’d like to bring some good news to Penn Hills. This is a...

Travelers who drive on Nadine Road in Penn Hills will need to take a different route indefinitely, PennDOT said July 24. A section of the road between Allegheny River Boulevard and Lincoln Road has been closed since July 12 after a landslide overturned a retaining wall, causing a portion of...

Logans Ferry Road in Plum will have three traffic stops lasting up to 15 minutes each through the night Thursday. The stops will occur from 7 p.m. Thursday to 5 a.m. Friday between Route 366 and Columbia Road, according to PennDOT. The work is part of a $1.09 million project...

The Gateway School Board condemned a board member’s actions through two resolutions approved during a special meeting last week. One resolution condemned board member Valerie Warning’s “interference and intermeddling with the day-to-day operations” of the school district. The other condemned Warning for “disseminating and divulging executive session materials and subject...

The Gateway School Board accepted the resignation of a member then appointed a person to fill the vacancy during a special meeting held Tuesday. Jesse Kalkstein, 32, said in a letter he would resign, effective immediately, “to be able to spend more time with my family and focus on my...

Forbes Hospital in Monroeville completed work on a $17 million addition that expands its surgical, gastrointestinal and cardiac services. The 55,000-square-foot Perioperative Center doubles the hospital’s post-acute care unit and includes an electrophysiology lab and a gastrointestinal suite, according to a news release. Forbes’ newest addition joins the construction of...

Monroeville officials worked to clear several flooded roads in the aftermath of torrential rainfall Sunday night and early Monday. Nearly three inches of rain fell in several areas in the Pittsburgh region. Water rose quickly, submerging vehicles and leaving roads inaccessible. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning...

Several streets and businesses in Penn Hills and Plum were affected by flooding after rain pounded the area Sunday and early Monday morning. “We were hit unusually hard last night,” said Penn Hills EMS Supervisor Diane Fitzhenry. Nearly three inches of rain fell in many areas in the Pittsburgh region....

A Riverview High School graduate is participating in a Point Park University internship that has him working with a team on a tech start-up “connection company” founded by a professor there. Joshua Jackson, 22, of Springdale joins three other Point Park students as an electrical engineering intern for Connect Wolf,...

A Pitcairn native is scheduled to read from and discuss a book she wrote to memorialize her father, who survived being a prisoner of war during World War II. Peggy Fisher, 70, now living in Grove City, still gets emotional talking about what her father – and countless other soldiers...

The kind, hardworking approach of a Harrison man will live on through his children and family. Richard “Dick” Calligan, a pharmacist, owned and operated Calligan Pharmacy on Corbet Street in Tarentum until 2007, when it was sold to Blackburn’s Physician Pharmacy. He died Wednesday. He was 88. “What I learned...