Новости за 29.03.2018

Administrators at Pressley Ridge say a new, state-of-the-art school building for its deaf and autistic students will be something “amazing.”

PAJU, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in at a border village on April 27, the South announced Thursday, for a rare summit that could prove significant in global efforts to resolve the decades-long standoff over the North’s nuclear program.

RICHFIELD, Ohio—With heavy earth-movers, hardhats, and American flags as backdrops, President Donald Trump Thursday urged Congress to enact what he bills as the biggest investment in the nation's roads, bridges, and pipelines that the nation has seen in half a century.

Roughly 50 million caregivers in the United States provide unpaid assistance every day to children and adults who have special needs.

A motion filed Monday before a state board seeking to halt a union vote by some 3,800 graduate assistants at Penn State University has been rejected, meaning next month’s election will occur as planned, its organizers say.

MOSCOW — Russia announced the expulsion of more than 150 diplomats, including 60 Americans, on Thursday and said it was closing a U.S. consulate in retaliation for the wave of Western expulsions of Russian diplomats over the poisoning of an ex-spy and his daughter in Britain, a tit-for-tat response that intensified the Kremlin’s rupture with the United States and Europe.

McKeesport Area School District is taking steps to ensure student safety by implementing more security measures in all district buildings.

Thirty-seven physicians from St. Clair Hospital and the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center in Upper St. Clair had their beards shaved as part of a fundraiser during National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.

Caitlin Ewing is the new principal of North Allegheny Intermediate High School.

Peters council will vote on the master site plan for Rolling Hills Park next month.

Peters council will vote on the master site plan for Rolling Hills Park next month.

The state attorney general’s office has closed its investigation into a North Huntingdon commissioner’s use of township asphalt millings to pave his son’s driveway. The decision followed a state Ethics Commission ruling earlier this month that Commissioner David Herold did not violate the state ethics act in doing so.

For the second time this year, United Airlines is beefing up its service to San Francisco from Pittsburgh International Airport.

The city is about to secure its most efficient, dedicated and hungry crew of landscapers — a herd of 10 goats and a miniature donkey — for the long haul

Navy Commander Jason Deichler had a little taste of home when the Scott commissioners honored him with a proclamation Tuesday night.

Pittsburgh has twice as many job openings in robotics firms than the rest of the U.S., per capita.

A Westmoreland County funeral director is seeking the public's help in paying for the legal defense being mounted by the embattled county sheriff.

Pittsburgh runners have another race to train for this fall. Only this one will require an entire team to get to the finish.

NEWARK, N.J. — Mike Sullivan has said, since the trade deadline, that he likes his team’s depth at the center position.

To handle rising enrollment in the northern portion of North Allegheny School District, Franklin Elementary School will be expanded and portable classrooms will be used at Bradford Woods Elementary.

Emergency crews around Allegheny County scrambled Feb. 15 as a heavy rainstorm soaked the area, causing power outages, flooding and landslides.

Dwight Allen admitted Thursday that he caused a disturbance on a Delta flight by tussling with an attendant and trying to storm the cockpit, but he said he did it because he didn't have his psychiatric medication and he felt provoked.

The Easter Bunny has nothing on the artisans at the Pittsburgh Glass Center, where students  learned to make colorful glass eggs to celebrate the upcoming holiday.

India’s JSW Steel Limited says it will pay up to $80.9 million to acquire a Mingo Junction, Ohio, mill formerly operated by Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel.