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Allegheny County officials are pledging to improve security with its real estate website after a Penn Hills family said a man sharing the same name was able to change the owner's address. Real estate records show Sylvester Ward bought his house on Vantine Street in 2008. Another man, also named Sylvester Ward, in North Carolina was able to change the owner's address on the property through the county's real estate office. That change allowed the house to be listed for sale on Zillow and other real estate websites, even though the Ward family wasn't interested in selling. "Everything you have...

When Bill Fralic was an eighth-grader in the Penn Hills school district, he worked at a local golf course over the summer. It was there that he first met Pitt coach Jackie Sherrill. “What college do you play for?” Sherrill asked the 6-foot-3, 235-pound Fralic. Fralic told him he was going into the ninth grade. Needless to say, Sherrill had his No. 1 recruiting target for the recruiting class of 1981, and he would not be disappointed as he followed Fralic throughout his storied scholastic career. Fralic, who went on to become an All-American lineman at Pitt and an All-Pro...

PITTSBURGH — A 25-year-old Penn Hills man was arrested Wednesday morning after authorities said he damaged several Zone 5 police cruisers parked at the station. Police told Channel 11’s Jodine Costanzo that Anton Orlichenko was at the station Wednesday complaining about President Obama, but eventually left. Officers told Costanzo that they heard banging noises outside about 10:30 a.m. When they went outside to investigate, they noticed Orlichenko vandalizing at least three cop cars with a metal C-clamp. --snip-- Orlichenko is charged with criminal mischief and assault, and because a complaint against the president was made, the FBI and Secret Service...