Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago - even when they don't want to know their birth parents.

Holding a picture of her son, Ryan, Rose Jelinek hugs a student at Class Academy, an alternative school in Baden.

A new charter school proposed in the Ambridge Area School District could lease land from the Sisters of St.

Eighteen-year-old Leo Sicard was told to expect pretty much anything when he joined the Navy in 1943 at the height of World War II.

Populist leaders around Latin America are increasingly making legal and political moves to silence their media critics, the president of the Inter American Press Association said Friday.

Crews rescued a tree logger Wednesday evening when a tree gave way, pinning him to the ground.

A man suspected of robbing a bank in Beaver County and his alleged accomplice were arrested a short time after Thursday's holdup because of information provided by an alert bystander.

Three potential Illiana Expressway corridors have been identified in a recently completed feasibility study of the proposed project.

"? Profiles of Older Workers Mildred Heath, 101, Overton, Neb. She works half-days at the Beacon-Observer , a local newspaper that her family owned until June.

GUESTS: Laurie Goodstein, New York Times religion correspondent Kenneth Briggs, author of Double Crossed Sister Mary Pellegrino, congregational moderator of the Sisters of St.

Once or twice a month, members of the Fly Pittsburgh Kite Club gather where no one has to grow up.

A federal grand jury indicted a resident of Baden, Pa., on charges relating to child pornography.

Share + Jul 2, 2009 8:56 pm US/Eastern BADEN 1 of 1 Investigators seized cash, about six pounds of marijuana, a digital scale and computer discs containing images of Alberts and Reeher cultivating and preparing pot for sale.

Sentencing is scheduled Aug. 7 for a man convicted of involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment and drunken driving for the death of his friend who was killed when a pickup was struck by a train in Beaver County.

A Beaver County man accused of trying to beat a train to a Monaca railroad crossing has been found guilty of vehicular homicide for the crash that killed his passenger.