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A Bridgeville woman is facing charges after she was accused of taking money from a fund supporting a middle school choral group. Valerie Kubiak, 42, has been charged with theft by unlawful taking, access device fraud, receiving stolen property and misapplication of trusted property after she was accused of stealing $18,000 from the bank account of the Chartiers Valley Choral Parents Association. Kubiak was the association’s treasurer and, according to Allegheny County Police, she spent the money on vacations, restaurants, sports gambling and at nail salons. Detectives from Allegheny County Police were called to assist in an investigation about the missing funds in February. Kubiak ...
Gas masks littered on a floor. Forests overgrowing empty villages. An abandoned hospital operating room. Those are some of the photographs that Brook Ward, president of UPMC Washington and Greene hospitals and a photographer, captured on a 2018 trip to Chernobyl, the site of the world's ...
A former resident of Bentleyville and Scenery Hill will assume the role of Florida Bar president next year. Paige Greenlee graduated salutatorian from Bentworth High School in 1992. She obtained her law degree from Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., in 2000. Greenlee founded her Tampa, Fla., ...
The NFL could not have scripted a better amateur draft in Pittsburgh. During a record-breaking, three-day event, the “local boy does good story" unfolded as Eli Heidenreich of Mt. Lebanon was selected by his hometown Steelers in the seventh and final round. Wiping away tears, he walked ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sidney Crosby and Kris Letang each scored goals and the three-time Stanley Cup champion teammates are headed back to Pittsburgh after they helped the Penguins avoid a first-round series sweep with a 4-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers in Game 4 on Saturday night. Game 5 ...
PITTSBURGH — Jermod McCoy's lengthy wait to hear his name called at the NFL draft came to a quick end on Saturday. The fact that the call came at all for Eli Heidenreich — and from the Pittsburgh native's hometown Steelers no less — gave what can sometimes be a ho-hum final day of the ...
Periodically, a news story comes across my iPad that I just can’t stop thinking about. This story started like this: “On February 21 police officers were dispatched to a bar.” That opening line drew me in almost as fast as “A Florida man ..." “The caller was the bartender,” and ...
Homes are often characterized as sanctuaries for their residents. Though such characterizations often are made in reference to humans and their domiciles, homes also should be safe spaces for pets. Pet owners go to great lengths to ensure their pets are healthy and happy, and that typically ...