allegheny river news
Your Search Returned 194 tagged news reports
Woman dies in vehicle crash
East Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility
Sarah Temmel, 32, of Pittsburgh, was driving when her car crashed at East Ohio Street and Heinz Street at 12:38 a.m., the Allegheny County medical examiner's office said. She was taken to Allegheny General Hospital, where she later died.
Tags:
Pollution persists in Allegheny River in W. Pa.
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility
High levels of an ultra-salty compound that could be linked to oil and gas drilling persist in the Allegheny River's Pittsburgh-area watershed, while the levels declined in the nearby Monongahela River, recent research shows. Officials at public
Tags:
Rare mussels released to live long, procreate in Big Darby
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility
Ohio State University and Metro Parks employees waded into Big Darby Creek yesterday morning to give about 1,500 endangered mussels a new home. Workers reached into large buckets filled with the rare mussels and dropped them, one at a time, into a
Tags:
PennDOT contractor blasts part of North Side's 31st Street Bridge
East Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility
The blast occurred almost precisely at the scheduled hour of 10 a.m. with traffic halted on Route 28 and a 1,000-foot perimeter cleared around the blast site...A small crowd gathered on the pedestrian bridge on Washington's Landing cheered the demise
Tags:
Clarion County man charged in father's death
East Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility
Presbyterian, where he was admitted two days earlier after he was assaulted by his son. The Allegheny County medical examiner's office said Mr. Shimmons died of blunt force trauma to the head due to an assault. James Michael Shimmons, 54, also of
Tags:
Post-Gazette sues to take photos, video in polling places on election day
East Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility
Frank, said that in 2008, the newspaper sued in Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas and won the right to photograph in polling places. This year, in light of the implementation for the first time of voter identification laws, the newspaper asked
Tags:
Warren woman found dead along Allegheny River in Pleasant Township
East Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility
Police said a passing driver discovered the body of Sally Ann Engstrom, 36, of Warren, near the east bank of the river just south of Route 6 around 2:15 p.m. State police, the Glade Volunteer Fire Department, and Coroner Jerry Borden responded to the
Tags:
A dive he couldn't forget
Charlotte :: NC :: USA | 1 year ago
Credibility
In pitch blackness 90 feet deep in the Allegheny Reservoir, Jeff Eshbaugh couldn't see...He wasn't going to save the two young men at the bottom, but he was determined to bring them up, to their father waiting above...And then he realized that
Tags:
Gateway Clipper Fleet getting into shipshape
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 1 year ago
Credibility
This year, as she floated in her spot on the Monongahela River, she got a makeover. The river was calm on an April morning as men armed with paintbrushes covered the white exterior of the 47-year-old riverboat with a deep blue shade of paint and
Tags:
County apparently settles death lawsuit with family
Springdale :: AR :: USA | 1 year ago
Credibility
The parents of Jason Kindler sued in 2009 following his 2008 suicide in the Allegheny County Jail, and trial was set to start Monday...Mitchell closed the case, noting that a settlement conference was held. Attorneys for Mr. Kindler, the county, and
Tags:
