Jacob Tierney stories, Page 40

When Mary Mizikar was young, she watched her mother care for her ailing grandmother. The experience inspired Mizikar to spend her life looking after others. Eventually it would be her turn to care for her mother, as well as her husband and a friend with diabetes. “She was absolutely saintly,”...

Shaler Township police will patrol Shaler Area High School Friday in response to an unspecified threat discovered by district officials, according to Tribune-Review news partner WPXI. The district told families about the threat Thursday evening, calling it an “unsubstantiated rumor.” Other than the extra police, the high school will operate...

Officials at Seven Springs Mountain Resort released details this morning of a snowboarding run on Dec. 27 that led to a Crescent Township man’s death. Matthew Camacho-Cook, 35, died Thursday after suffering a head injury while snowboarding with his family at the Laurel Mountain getaway. Alex Moser, director of marketing...

First-responders battled a house fire in Monessen on Thursday night. The fully involved fire on the corner of Graham Avenue and Dunlap Street was reported shortly before 10:20 p.m. No injuries were reported. Emergency radio broadcasts said the burning one-story brick building was apparently vacant. The Monessen Volunteer Fire Department...

The Pennsylvania Superior Court has upheld an earlier ruling that doctors who treated a mentally ill man who shot five people in Pittsburgh in 2012 can’t be held responsible for the shooting. On March 8, 2012, John Shick, 30, went on a shooting spree at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic...

Police in Jeannette and surrounding communities are looking for a vehicle that was involved in a hit-and-run Thursday evening. Westmoreland County 911 said nobody was hurt in the crash on the 500 block of Harrison Avenue in Jeannette. A female driver in her 20s fled from the scene after two...

Seven Springs and Hidden Valley ski resorts had their best December in years, thanks to an early cold snap that let them crank up the snow making machines. “We got a really strong start. We were really aggressive with snow making, starting Nov. 15,” said Alex Moser, director of marketing...