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Three years after it resumed operation of the last vestige of the old National Tube Works, U.S. Steel is pulling the plug on pipemaking in McKeesport. McKeesport Mayor Michael Cherepko said he is “extremely disappointed” with U.S. Steel Corp.'s announcement on Monday that it will idle indefinitely its McKeesport Tubular Operations effective in early August. “I think it is devastating for the entire Mon Valley region,” the mayor said shortly after receiving word about the shutdown of plants in McKeesport and Bellville, Texas, two of 10 plants in the Pittsburgh-based steelmaker's Tubular Products division. The announcement came 60 days before...

The surviving members of this family -- Lueana Coward and her three daughters -- now live with grief that's difficult to fathom. Lueana... was pregnant at 13 and had a second child three years later. She moved out on her own at 16... Introduced to cocaine in the late 1970s, she continued to use the following decade. So in 1992, shortly after the birth of her youngest son, Don, she began using crack cocaine. Lueana's habit grew to $300 a day. She sold her nicest clothes -- dresses of leather and suede -- and jewelry. She sold her blinds and...

McKeesport man hopes to build a Hollywood on the Mon Thursday, May 10, 2007 By Margaret Smykla Even with a cigar clenched in his teeth and lots of padded girth, no one would confuse McKeesport's John Yost with film mogul Louis B. Mayer. Then again, no one would confuse Glassport with Hollywood. But a Tinseltown on the Mon could be on its way if Mr. Yost can work out a deal for property in Glassport on which he wants to expand his fledgling film studio. < -- snip -- > Sandy Urbanski, former president of the Glassport Development Corp., is...

Woman Guilty After Microwaving Fake Penis At Store Fake Penis Holds Urine For Drug Test POSTED: 8:45 am EDT September 15, 2006 MCKEESPORT, Pa. -- The case of the fake male organ is now closed. A man and woman who asked a Pennsylvania convenience store clerk to microwave a fake penis have settled disorderly conduct charges A woman named Leslye Creighton, 41, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct charges in connection with the incident last February at a convenience store near Pittsburgh. The incident began when Creighton's friend, Vincent Bostic, 31, filled a fake penis with his urine, which Creighton planned...

WESTWOOD ONE LAUNCHES THE MONICA CROWLEY SHOW --New Program to Air Saturdays, Noon - 3 p.m. ET-- Beginning Saturday, April 1, 2006 New York, NY Monday, Mar 20, 2006 - Westwood One (NYSE: WON) is proud to announce the national launch of The Monica Crowley Show, the three-hour talk program hosted by author and news personality Monica Crowley. The show begins Saturday, April 1, 2006, and will air from noon to 3 p.m. ET. The Monica Crowley Show will debut on major market stations across the country including: WABC-AM New York, WTKK-FM Boston and WTNT-AM Washington DC. The show will...

A woman who disappeared from McKeesport a decade ago when she was 14 has been found living with a school security guard, police said today. Tanya Kach, now 24, disappeared Feb. 10, 1996. Joe Sparico, owner of J.J.'s Deli Mart, said the woman he's known for the past six months as Nikki Evans broke down in tears Tuesday and told him she is the missing Tanya Kach, and that a school security guard had kept her locked in a bedroom of his Soles Street house that he shares with his elderly parents.

Rutherford Institute Attorneys Win Civil Rights Victory for Pennsylvania Pro-Life Activist William Depner PITTSBURGH—Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute won a civil rights victory for pro-life activist William S. Depner, a resident of McKeesport, Penn. After Institute attorneys filed an appeal on Depner’s behalf, a Court of Common Pleas judge acquitted Depner of harassment charges for photographing girls who appeared to be underage as they entered a local Planned Parenthood facility. Depner claims he was concerned that girls under the age of 18 were being treated by Planned Parenthood without parental consent and believed photographs were the best way to prove...