Logan Hullinger

School can sometimes be a drag, but an educational show featuring an NFL football player and a professional DJ made for a fun afternoon for Acmetonia Primary School students. Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Levi Wallace was welcomed with raucous cheers and applause Friday when he visited the Allegheny Valley district school

A man from West Deer’s Russellton neighborhood was arrested last week for allegedly stealing a car and attempting to take a gun that was inside it. Harmar police arrested Brad Stanek, 39, after being tipped off by a local business owner Jan. 4 that his girlfriend’s car was stolen. The

Fiona Lilly isn’t your average Girl Scout or Boy Scout: She’s both, and she has received the highest honors each organization offers. Lilly, an 18-year-old West Deer resident and student at Chatham University, earned the coveted Gold Award for her work in October on a mural for Girl Scout Troop

The West Deer Senior Citizens Center has reopened at a temporary location after a burst water pipe shuttered its operations last month. The center, which offers low-cost meals and other services to senior citizens, will continue its work indefinitely out of Our Lady of the Lakes Parish’s St. Victor Church

A road in Frazer has been deemed too dangerous for a school bus to drive on, yet the Deer Lakes School District considers it safe enough for an 8-year-old girl to walk nearly a mile to the bus stop along the same street. Dana Russell of Frazer said her 8-year-old

The installation of new fire hydrants in West Deer continues to be delayed, but township officials insist the holdup is not because of inaction on their part. Township Manager Daniel Mator said the township has budgeted $140,000 this year for 10 hydrants in the area as fire officials express concerns

Springdale is a food desert no longer. At least that’s the goal for Jamar Sheffey, owner of Tastefully Blessed Kitchen & Smokehouse. With Springdale residents typically being left with nothing but chain restaurants, Sheffey expanded his catering company and opened a brick-and-mortar location in late November to combat the issue.

This story was originally published by Mobtown Mag. Victims of the overdose crisis deserve to be honored — and so do those in the arduous process of addiction recovery. That was the message at Baltimore’s Eager Park on Thursday, where Mobilize Recovery, a Las Vegas-based nonprofit, visited the epicenter of the nation’s overdose crisis as part […]

This story was originally published in Mobtown Mag. In what appears to be just an average building in Charles Village, the upstairs walls of 116 E. 25th St. are lined with a seemingly endless supply of naloxone, wound care supplies, syringes and stems. On the first floor, meanwhile, members of the Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition […]

A Baltimore judge will soon decide the fate of a landmark opioid lawsuit. The beleaguered city hopes to obtain billions ...