When Allegheny County Controller Mark Patrick Flaherty issued an audit this week citing a human services contractor for misusing more than $300,000, it continued a trend of providers improperly spending county funds over the past five years.

Eureka Hose Company paramedics transported a New Kensington man to the hospital after he called police shortly after 10 last night to report that he had been shot.

Two days after he expected to be fired by council, Borough Manger Bill Rossey remains on the job.

A man was shot in the buttocks while out running in Tarentum Wednesday night, police reported.

A Latrobe woman was ordered to stand trial Wednesday on charges of being under the influence of heroin last year when she lost control of her car and crashed into a pickup truck in Derry Township, killing her two passengers.

By Brian C. Rittmeyer , VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Last updated: 9:27 am Acts and omissions The six-month probationary notice given to Tarentum manager Bill Rossey listed seven "acts or omissions" that would be grounds for his immediate dismissal.

Rex Rutkoski can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4664. Most people probably don't think of hospitals as voluntary destination stops.

Chuck Biedka can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4711. Paul M. Mikus had earned eight medals for his Army service on Europe's battlefields during World War II, but he never received all of them.

Residents of the Phillip Burtner Apartment complex in the 500 block of Fifth Avenue in Tarentum evacuated their buildings twice last night, but firefighters found no emergency situation.

By Brian C. Rittmeyer , VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Last updated: 8:52 am Attention, Marines! Active or former Marines, Marine reservists, and Navy corpsmen who served with the Marines are eligible to join a local organization geared to their interests.

At age 80 and coming from a family of military veterans, Helen Stevenson worries that the importance of remembering the sacrifice of American soldiers is lost on today's younger generations.

The Cheswick Theatre has been a mainstay in entertaining Alle-Kiski Valley residents through six decades.

Olivia Phillips has been suspicious for years about how the couple who adopted her grandchildren spent the orphans' $1 million trust.

Police in Allegheny County said they've arrested a woman in connection with a Tarentum arson case that sent her, and her two children, to the hospital.

Share + Nov 3, 2009 5:43 pm US/Eastern TARENTUM A woman has been charged after a fire broke out at a home in Tarentum that sent her and two children to the hospital early Monday morning.