1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (565+ words) Sharpsburg resident Jon Jaso called his job as an Alle'gheny County emergency dispatcher rewarding but laden with emotional baggage. "Listening to tragedies every day doesn't get any easier," said Jaso, who started in 1990 at Mc Candless municipal dispatch before operations…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (567+ words) Ross Township resident Joseph "Sonny" Hanlon received the 2025 Animal Friends Lifetime Achievement Award earlier this year for his years of service to animals and veterans alike. The Animal Friends Lifetime Achievement Award honors an individual who has served Animal Friends…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (585+ words) Greg Tersine, a Pittsburgh paramedic and crew chief diver, wasn't assigned to patrol the city's waterways on Jan. 29. But when first responders received a call that a car had careened off the Parkway East and landed in the icy Monongahela…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (881+ words) Sometimes, it's just not your time. Such was the case for Dennis "Denny" Soroka on Sept. 20. The 80-year-old from Lower Burrell is alive through a miracle of happenstance: He suffered cardiac arrest at just the right place and time, in…...