It took eight years, but the people of the New Kensington area finally got a chance to welcome home the 307th Military Police Company on Saturday. The Army Reserve company, based in New Kensington, deployed to Iraq for a year in 2003 and 2004. But its soldiers came back in staggered groups then, and the town could never pull together a time for one large ceremony. (02/05/2012)

The passing of 69 years has faded most of his memories. But when asked what he remembers of that night, Feb. 3, 1943, aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Comanche in the icy water of the North Atlantic, Thomas A. Vitale has the answer ready. (02/04/2012)

They've been mistaken for everything from forest fires to gas well explosions -- even alien space craft. But fear not, those "giant flames in the sky" as some call them, are all a part of the Marcellus Shale gas well boom here in southwestern Pennsylvania. (02/02/2012)

After talking about it for more than a decade, state legislators have given Gov. Tom Corbett a bill that boosts bingo and other small-games-of-chance jackpots -- and potentially boosts the fundraising abilities of veterans groups, fire companies, church organizations and social clubs across the state. (02/02/2012)

Looking for a good place to locate a small, startup technology company in Westmoreland County? Or perhaps you've worked as a pastry chef for several years but now want to open a bakery and you need a site with lots of foot traffic. (02/02/2012)