Andreas, PA Reverse Mortgage in Pennsylvania

Sometimes the shy kids who like computers and know how to crack good jokes are the ones who become heroes.

It's no secret many people around here are having a tough time making ends meet these days.

Faced with the exorbitant cost of building a sewage treatment plant and the infrastructure to connect to its far-flung areas, geographically large West Penn Township may instead build on-lot community systems ...

"It was despicable what those punks did"

The South Park Boxing Club got knocked down with the heaviest of blows, but resiliently gathered itself, got to one knee, took a deep breath and then rose to both feet. via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Andreas Fire Company, two of its officers and its relief association will get $150,000 to settle a federal lawsuit they filed against West Penn Township in a dispute over accounting, funding and the company's ... via The Morning Call

A 22-year-old woman was arrested Tuesday on charges she stole another woman's debit card and swiped it to buy a 30-cent pack of gum. via Express-Times

"Elli Armbrust and her son, Andreas, spoke England-accented English. We corresponded for several years before I met them and more Armbrust cousins in an area north of Hamburg in 1994"

Sandy Brummund, of Omaha, started doing research on her family in 1983. Soon, she had added dozens of names to her Christmas card list. via WGAL-TV Lancaster

"Ich winsche dir un deinie Hausfraa. Sohnie un Techder, Gnecht un Mechder. Un alle die in diesem haus, ein Glickseeliches Neies Yaahr"

Reading Eagle: Richard J. Patrick Peter V. Fritsch, left, plays dulcimer during the "Nei Yaahr Winsching" ceremony with Luke Hertzog on guitar and Mike Hertzog on banjo in St. via Reading Eagle/Reading Times

"Only with this Chinese production we are a truly global company"

In a cavernous white building filled with huge bubbling vats, clattering conveyor belts and the luscious aroma of melted chocolate, a Swiss tradition is being transplanted, cocoa butter block by cocoa butter ... via York Dispatch

An adult male has been arrested in connection with yesterday's murder of a man in Southwest Philadelphia. via The Philadelphia Inquirer

Although wine enthusiasts around the world are focused on celebrating Beaujolais Nouveau 2007 Thursday, Lehigh Valley Wine Trail fans will have something more to celebrate this Saturday and Sunday.

It's Nouveau Weekend at the trail's nine wineries -- and also when wine lovers will get their first tastes of what could be the Valley's best ever vintage.

Those first sips of the first wines made from 2007 grapes are like ''a movie trailer. They're a preview or snapshot of what's to come,'' says Sarah Troxell of Galen Glen Winery, Andreas. Read more