Jacob Tierney stories, Page 39

State police arrested a man who allegedly barricaded himself in a camper with a semi automatic pistol for more than two hours Sunday afternoon. Timothy B. Minerd, 47, of Mt. Pleasant shot at the ground in front of troopers before retreating into the camper, according to a police report. The...

State police busted a suspected meth lab in Ernest, Indiana County on Friday. Investigators suspected that a home on Main Street was being used to make methamphetamine. They went to the house around 5:30 p.m. Friday and got permission to search, finding “several items that were found to be consistent...

Snowpocalypse it wasn’t. Local meteorologists tracking last week’s ever-shifting forecasts knew the weekend’s weather would be tricky to predict, and in the end the weekend’s snowfall totals were far smaller than expected — about 2 inches in most of the region. That’s not to say there’s no weather-related dangers, said...

An Indiana County woman died of heart failure while driving, sending her car crashing into a utility pole Wednesday, according to state police. The unidentified 83-year-old woman was driving west on State Route 286 East when she lost control. Her car traveled about 550 feet before going off the road...

A complex, noisy network of blades and belts turned logs into dowels before a crowd of excited onlookers Saturday. “I feel like Willy Wonka in the chocolate factory,” sawmill manager Patrick Cannin said as he showed off stacks of thousands of dowels piled high behind him. They will be used...

Plow crews are at the ready, milk and bread have been purchased in mass quantities, and now the region is waiting to see what the expected winter storm will bring. Pittsburgh and much of Westmoreland County are expected to receive 1 to 3 inches of snow, while northern counties such...

A massive American flag that was hidden away for decades in a Greensburg fire station has found a new home with the Westmoreland County Historical Society. The history of the flag has been lost to time. All anyone knows about it are the stories passed down by firefighters who have...

People who depend on food stamps to feed their families face uncertainty as the federal government’s partial shutdown drags on. About 1.8 million Pennsylvanians on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program, commonly known as food stamps, received their February benefits on Friday — about two weeks ahead of schedule — because...

In a ritual that marks the beginning of budget season, the Greensburg Salem School Board voted unanimously Wednesday to keep any tax increase for 2019 to the limit set by the state. This limit, established by the state’s Act 1 Index, prevents the board from raising taxes more than 2.72...

State police have charged a Mt. Pleasant man with selling a fatal blend of heroin and fentanyl. Ricky Fosbrink, 34, allegedly sold the drugs that killed Christopher Phillip Biller, 35, on Jan. 22, 2017. Biller was found dead in a friend’s apartment, according to court papers. Investigators found a syringe...

The outbound Liberty Tunnel reopened Friday morning, about an hour after a 4-car crash caused it to close, according to Allegheny County 911. The crash happened at 7:42 a.m. and the tunnel was reopened by 8:40 a.m. Two people were taken by ambulance from the scene, according to 911. Jacob...

Pittsburgh police are investigating after a man was found shot dead in an SUV in the city’s Hazelwood neighborhood. Josiah Battle-Davis, 26, of Pittsburgh, was found dead on the 200 block of Glenwood Avenue just after midnight Friday, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office. Tribune-Review news partner WPXI...

Instead of recovering around two pounds of marijuana he left behind in an Uber, an Allegheny County man found himself under arrest in North Huntingdon when an undercover state trooper posed as the driver of the ride-sharing service. State police on Wednesday arrested Malik Rasaan Mollett, 21, of Wilkinsburg, after...

As state and local officials toured Hempfield Area High School on Thursday, they saw students working with high-tech manufacturing machinery and discussing detailed business plans they’d designed and enacted themselves. State Labor and Industry Secretary W. Gerard Oleksiak said he was impressed, and that he hopes a $126,050 grant to...

One man taken to the hospital in critical condition after a shooting in Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood, according to the city department of public safety. Pittsburgh police are investigating the shooting at an apartment building on Carrington Street, which happened around 3:20 a.m. The unidentified man was shot several times....

State police have charged five people with kidnapping and torturing a pregnant woman in Lawrence County in an attempt to find missing money. The captors allegedly duct taped the victim’s legs together, gagged her with duct tape, injured her toe with a clamp, hit her feet with a hammer and...

A seven-car crash on southbound Route 28 slowed the commute Wednesday morning. The crash happened around 7:20 a.m. near the Highland Park Bridge and was cleared by 8:40 a.m., according to state police in Kittanning. Traffic backed up to RIDC Park. By 8:30 a.m., traffic cameras showed the crash had...

A motorist Wednesday fled after crashing into a pole on Universal Road in Penn Hills, according to the Penn Hills Volunteer Fire Department. Universal Road was closed between Stotler Road and Joslyn Drive and wasn’t expected to reopen until noon Wednesday, according to the fire department. The car hit the...

A fundraiser for the family of two children who died Tuesday in a house fire in South Union surpassed its $35,000 goal in less than 24 hours. The GoFundMe page set up by Shienna Ross of Uniontown continues to raise money in memory of siblings RyLeigh Paige Weasenforth, 7, and...

A brother and sister were killed early Tuesday in a house fire in South Union Township, Fayette County, according to Coroner Phillip Reilly. His office identified the children as RyLeigh Weasenforth, 7, and Gunner Weasenforth, 5. They were pronounced dead at the house on South Mt. Vernon Avenue at 7:48...

A woman and child were injured in a crash on Ardmore Boulevard in East Pittsburgh on Monday night, Tribune-Review news partner WPXI reported. The woman’s car was pulled over on the side of the road. She was standing outside the car around 7 p.m. and had been trying to fill...

Police are looking for whoever smashed in the front window of a motorcycle shop and made off with several dirt bikes, Tribune-Review news partner WPXI reported. The burglar or burglars broke into All-Pro Motorsports on University Boulevard in Moon Township around 1 a.m. Tuesday and got away with four dirt...

Traffic backups remain during the morning commute on Route 28 southbound after a three-car accident on Monday. An Allegheny County 911 dispatcher said the crash, which happened near the Fox Chapel exit, was cleared by around 9 a.m. and no one was injured. Traffic cameras showed traffic was still backed...

A man was in critical condition Monday morning after being shot in Downtown Pittsburgh, according to the city public safety department. The man was shot along Liberty Avenue near Smithfield Street around 2 a.m. as he walked from one bar to another, police said. He was taken to a hospital...

Two dogs died and one firefighter was taken to the hospital after a house fire in Wilkins Township early Monday morning, Tribune-Review news partner WPXI reported. Nobody was home at the house on Ridgecrest Drive when it ignited overnight. Firefighters were called shortly before 12:30 a.m. and extinguished the blaze...