Sunday, November 18, 2012
The murder of the 30-year-old secretary from Penn Hills has never been solved.
Long Road in Penn Hills gets a fair amount of morning rush hour traffic—school and Port Authority buses, along with commuters leaving their homes and heading for their jobs in Pittsburgh. Weekday mornings, at the end of Long Road, cars often form a line waiting to make a left hand turn at the Churchill Valley Country Club onto Beulah Road. As they drive up the hill, they pass the Blackridge Civic Association clubhouse and then, at the top of the hill, intersect with the Parkway East or Penn Avenue toward Wilkinsburg. When Barbara Jean Lewis graduated from Penn Hills High School in 1964, she had her eye on a secretarial career. Her dream to enter the business world came true. She was a secretary at the downtown Pittsburgh offices of …
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Clifford Wilson held for trial during Friday's preliminary hearing.
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
A Brookline man will stand trial in the 2010 death of a friend, according to a report by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Clifford Wilson, 22, was held for trial during a preliminary hearing Friday morning, Jan. 27, by District Judge Richard King. Wilson is accused of shooting William Ford of Penn Hills multiple times in a Feb. 13, 2010 incident on Frankstown Road in Penn Hills. Wilson's DNA was collected at the scene. For the full report by the Post-Gazette, click here.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
He has two homes in two states, has claimed residency in both this year—and his newest home in Virginia has a purchase price of $0 listed, opening the door to more questions.
At the Iowa Straw Poll in August, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum handed out samples of what he dubbed “Pennsylvania Presidential Peach Preserves.” According to a story in the Des Moines (IA) Register, he told a crowd at the Perry Public Library that he, his wife Karen and their children had harvested 600 early peaches from their fruit trees back home, peeled them and made them into 40 jars of peach preserves to take with them to the Straw Poll. It’s unlikely the peaches came from the $106,000 Penn Hills, PA, home Santorum still—sometimes—claims as his residence. Other than in the supermarkets of the post-World War II suburb that borders Pittsburgh, the only place to find the product of 600 peaches in Penn Hills might be in…
teresa caprio
10:34 am on Tuesday, January 10, 2012
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