State lawmakers and business leaders joined representatives of the Bridge Educational Foundation at Assumption School in Bellevue Tuesday to announce the availability of $67,500 in scholarships to private school students in Allegheny County.

Funds were donated by CSX Transportation, AmeriChoice/Unison Health Plans and RBC Capital Markets, which participate the Pennsylvania Educational Improvement Act Tax Credit Program.

Ohio Township Police are investigating the theft of a purse at Christ Church at Grove Farm in Ohio Township. The theft was reported May 6.

A resident of Brighton Road in Ben Avon reported May 6 that a vehicle window had been broken.

Gregory Riggs, 45, of Emsworth, was charged with harassment following a domestic incident at his residence on May 6.

Paul Tamosauskas, 55, of Ben Avon, was charged with driving under the influence following a traffic accident on Ohio River Boulevard in Emsworth on May 10.

Bellevue Council may choose not to make any changes to its transient vendor ordinance, which means vendors at some events could be paying a fee this year.

Some vendors objected to paying a $50 fee to sell items at Bellevue events, but tax-paying business owners also objected to the vendors getting a "free ride."

Council member David Gillingham Jr. said at the council work session on Tuesday that he had researched what other municipalities charge transient vendors. The fees elsewhere are much higher than Bellevue's $50 per event charge, he said.

Avalon Police Officer Tom Kokoski has been hired as the borough's new police chief.

A search for a replacement for current Chief Robert Howie -- who will retire later this month after a dozen years in the position -- took months and involved a great deal of debate and conversation, according to council safety committee chairman Patrick Narcisi.

"It was a very difficult decision," Narcisi said at a special council meeting held Tuesday to hire a new chief.

The Avonworth School Board is expected to vote Monday on whether to eliminate wrestling from the district’s cooperative sports agreement with Northgate, as recommended by the Avonworth board’s athletic committee.

The committee has proposed eliminating not only wrestling, but the ninth grade boys’ basketball program as well.

Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) agents were called to Ohio Township Wednesday afternoon when police discovered what appeared to be a hand grenade in the console of a car stopped in connection with a possible attempted burglary in Franklin Park.

Bellevue Council has ratified a decision to sell two old police cars after it was determined that no one had obtained council approval before the sales were advertised.

Safety committee chairman David Gillingham Jr. argued that the sales had been approved by the safety committee.

"The committee doesn't have the authority to sell borough property," said council member Linda Woshner at the April 27 council meeting.

Bellevue Council's finance committee is expected to hire an interim director of administrative services (DAS) in the near future, having received permission to do so from all of council at the regular meeting Tuesday.

The borough has been without a manager since Connie Flasher's resignation in March. Officials have explored several interim options, including hiring graduate students, retired municipal managers or a private company, or possibly a combination of those options.

Bellevue Council will hold a special meeting this Saturday to decide how the borough will pay for a pool management company hired last month.

After committing to paying Swim America $85,000 to hire lifeguards and manage the operation of the Memorial Park swimming pool this summer, officials discovered that the money was not budgeted, and that they had been directed to a budget line item that reflected pool revenue rather than one authorizing the expenditure. That revenue goes into the borough's general fund and is spent throughout the budget.

An Irwin Avenue woman was rushed to the hospital last Friday morning after being stabbed by an ex-boyfriend who had broken into her apartment building.

According to Bellevue Police Chief Matt Sentner, John Mossette, 50, of Lamount Street, North Side, was waiting in the first floor hallway when the woman left her apartment shortly before 9 a.m. on April 23. He was armed with a large kitchen knife and stabbed her in the back, possibly puncturing one of her lungs, Sentner said. She was able to get outside, where someone was waiting for her, and police were called.

Several people were taken into custody at the Avalon Motel on outstanding arrest warrants.

Two people wanted for questioning by Stowe Township were located there on April 15. Amanda Smith and Corey Thompson of Ellsworth, PA were arrested and turned over to Stowe. Police say several syringes and empty bags believed to have contained heroin were in the room.

A white male with a large knife robbed the Sunoco station on Ohio River Boulevard in bellevue on April 23. Police were called at 12:23 a.m.

Police say that the residents of a South Euclid Avenue home were sleeping when the residence was burglarized at 2:12 a.m. on April 12.

Later that day, a burglary was reported at a Forest Avenue apartment.

Police also investigated a burglary of another Forest Avenue home on April 8.

A vehicle was reported stolen from South Fremont Avenue on April 12, and another was reported broken into on Crawford Avenue.