Beaver Falls News

After calling two dozen witnesses over three days, the defense in the corruption trial of former State Rep.

You just never know. For the first 13:30 of her performance, Sonja was killing it.

The Census Bureau is recruiting door-to-door surveyors in Greensburg, Pittsburgh and Beaver Falls.

Thanks to the magic of e-mail and the reliability of the U.S. Postal Service, journeys down Memory Lane remain rather smooth.

Campaign contributions to former House Democratic Whip Mike Veon were logged into a state computer system, and campaign brochures were prepared in Room 626 of the Capitol where Veon's staff toiled on wide-ranging re-election activity at state expense, a witness said today.

Connecting with God as "father" is difficult when your earthly father sexually abused you.

At the start of the month, we were only aware of one Pittsburgh-area barista who was planning to compete in this year's Mid-Atlantic Barista Competition , which is being held next weekend at The Meadowlands in Hackensack, NJ.

It would be "nuts" to think ex-House Democratic Whip Mike Veon didn't know his state-paid staff actively participated in political campaigning, a former Veon aide told a jury Monday.

The mother of the 7-year-old girl says a bus driver should have known better than to intentionally leave a child alone at the wrong stop.

Defense attorneys on Friday portrayed a key prosecution witness in the Bonusgate case as a forgerer and a liar.

An Allegheny County judge sentenced a Glen Hazel man Thursday to two consecutive life-in-prison terms after a jury convicted him of killing two people.

A former House Democratic staffer who maintained a ranking system of aides who worked on legislative campaigns so they could get state-paid bonuses testified today that he destroyed evidence as news about the bonuses began to emerge in January 2007.

House Democratic staffers did so much campaign work on state time that it's hard to quantify, former aide Michael Manzo testified today in his second day on the witness stand in the government corruption trial known as Bonusgate.

An attorney for a former top aide of ex-Rep. Mike Veon today admitted that campaign activity occurred in Veon's Beaver Falls office but said the aide, Annamarie Peretta-Rosepink, had no authority to approve bonuses that are central to the criminal case against her.

Two women and a man face felony charges in connection with more than $10,000 in vandalism damage caused by pellets from an air rifle in December in several Ohio River Valley communities.

A string of e-mails presented Wednesday to a Dauphin County jury show the House Democratic Caucus under ex-Whip Mike Veon served as a "full-time campaign operation," a prosecutor said.

Despite losing his re-election bid in November 2006, former House Democratic Whip Mike Veon continued to approve staff bonuses for campaign work before leaving office, the former top House Democratic staffer testified today.

The Atlantic Philanthropies is giving Global Links a $250,000 grant to provide relief in Haiti.

A Beaver Falls man played the same Powerball numbers at the same neighborhood store twice a week for years.

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