http://www.dailyitem.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:54:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_185225453.html http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_185225453.html Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say a 25-year-old New Jersey man died as he was trying to aid another swimmer in a Pocono Mountain stream. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:44:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_185224606.html http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_185224606.html The week leading up to the Independence Day holiday has been deadly for motorcyclists in central Pennsylvania. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:43:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_185224416.html http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_185224416.html The Coast Guard has suspended the search for an 11-year-old boy missing in the since Friday night along with a 43-year-old man whose body has been recovered. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:42:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_185074357.html http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_185074357.html A police officer in the Pittsburgh suburb of Crafton has turned himself in to face charges in a hit-and-run accident in which a pedestrian was killed. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:41:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_185074157.html http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_185074157.html High-wire walker Nik Wallenda has crossed the Allegheny River on a cable suspended 200 feet in the air. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:39:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_185074048.html http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_185074048.html A girl fell off a boat Friday evening into the Delaware River, prompting two men to jump into the water to rescue her and setting off an intense search, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:38:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_185073900.html http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_185073900.html A suburban Philadelphia supermarket has been evacuated because people inside were overcome by fumes. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:22:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_184132257.html http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_184132257.html MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. — Television pitchman Billy Mays, whose high-energy hawking turned products like OxiClean from infomercial curiosities into mainstream successes, was remembered as a pop culture icon at his funeral Friday near Pittsburgh. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:15:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_184061531.html http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_184061531.html A toddler who was accidentally left in a hot minivan outside his suburban Philadelphia day care center has died of hyperthermia. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:12:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_184061304.html http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_184061304.html Philadelphia police say they've arrested a woman who "played a significant role" in planning a well-orchestrated murder of a woman and her companion in her upscale apartment building. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:10:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_184061136.html http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_184061136.html Two people are dead from a head-on traffic crash in southwestern Pennsylvania. The Westmoreland County coroner's office says an elderly man was declared dead at the scene of Thursday afternoon's crash of a sport utility vehicle and a van on Route 130 in Penn Township. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:23:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_183052717.html http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_183052717.html A Wormleysburg Borough Council member is accused of sexual offenses involving three teen boys. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:19:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_183052241.html http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_183052241.html They'd meet often for breakfast — the judge, the mob boss and the businessman — to socialize and discuss pending cases before the court. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:18:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_183051907.html http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_183051907.html Police have made an arrest in the slaying of a pregnant woman killed in a barrage of bullets in Pittsburgh. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:14:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_183051628.html http://www.dailyitem.com/panews/local_story_183051628.html A 41-year-old man accused of bludgeoning two teenagers to death with a dumbbell in suburban Pittsburgh has been ordered to stand trial.