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A popular event that raises money for Leechburg’s firefighters won’t be held this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, but a Virginia man whose dad was a longtime member of the department is working to offset the loss. The Leechburg Volunteer Fire Company’s annual carnival was set to take place...

A man was shot Sunday afternoon in Brookline, according to Pittsburgh police. The shooting was reported just before 12:15 p.m. on the 900 block of Norwich Avenue. When police arrived, they found a man suffering from gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital in stable condition, police said....

Westmoreland County on Sunday reported an increase in positive covid-19 cases, but continued to report no new deaths. State officials said 440 people have tested positive for the virus as of Sunday, an increase of three from the 437 reported on Saturday. More than 8,200 people have tested negative. Neither...

Pennsylvania on Sunday reported 28 more covid-19 deaths and 730 additional cases, bringing the state’s total number of cases to 67,713, according to state health officials. A total of 5,124 people have died from the virus. Those deaths have been reported in 54 of the state’s 67 counties. Positive cases...

Schools, governing bodies and other organizations using teleconferencing software to hold online meetings during the coronavirus pandemic are facing a new form of cyber attack known as “Zoom-bombing.” Leechburg Area School Board became the latest victim Wednesday night when someone participating in the board’s virtual meeting via the online platform...

The Leechburg Area School Board ended its Wednesday meeting early after someone attending online aired a pornographic image. The school board was winding down its work session and was set to begin its regular meeting, when the pornographic image first appeared. “Oh dear, we just got ‘Zoom-bombed,’ I apologize,” Board...

Westmoreland County on Wednesday continued to report no new deaths from the coronavirus, but it did see an increase in positive covid-19 cases. State officials said 432 people had tested positive for the virus as of Wednesday, up one from the 431 reported Tuesday. Neither the state nor the county...

Allegheny County on Tuesday reported one new covid-19 death and 17 new cases. The latest figures bring the total number of deaths to 144 and total cases to 1,658. The total cases include 1,569 confirmed cases and 89 probable cases. Total hospitalizations rose by 10 since Monday, from 294 to...

Leechburg Area School Board approved a $15.3 million preliminary budget for next fiscal year that would increase property taxes by 6.7% for West Leechburg residents, even though the proposed spending plan is $80,000 smaller than this year. The school district is made up of students from Armstrong County’s Leechburg and...

Leechburg Area School District is giving its high school seniors the movie-star treatment this year. The coronavirus pandemic shut down Pennsylvania’s public schools in March, forcing districts to offer education online and abandon traditional graduation plans. Leechburg Area will honor its 73 graduates at Riverside Drive-In in Parks, which has...

Political parties’ efforts to get people signed up to vote in the June 2 primary have been hampered by coronavirus-related restrictions. Still, both major parties saw slight registration gains in Allegheny County compared to pre-primary numbers in the last presidential election year, and GOP registrations in Westmoreland County are up...

Lower Burrell officials on Monday plan to send a letter to Gov. Tom Wolf asking him to reopen businesses that have been shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic. The letter, signed by Mayor John Andrejcik and council members Joe Grillo, Rosina Albanese, Rob Hamilton and Chris Fabry, said the...

More than 5,400 Carnegie Mellon University graduates received words of encouragement and kudos from notable alumni during an online degree conferral program Sunday. Among them was actor Ted Danson, an alum of the CMU School of Drama. “I’m sorry that we’re not all together in one spot. That would have...

Westmoreland County on Sunday continued to report no new deaths from the coronavirus, but did see an increase in positive covid-19 cases. State officials said 427 people have tested positive for the virus as of Sunday, an increase of four from Saturday. Neither the coroner nor state officials reported any...

Pennsylvania on Sunday reported 15 more covid-19 deaths and 623 additional cases, bringing the state’s total number of cases to 62,234, state officials said. A total of 4,418 people have died from the virus, which has been reported in all of the state’s 67 counties. More than 270,600 people have...

Charity Stivason has to wonder if her late husband pulled some strings. The 48-year-old from Leechburg recently won $1 million off a $20 scratch-off lottery ticket she got at a local grocery store. “I still can’t feel like it’s real,” Stivason told the Tribune-Review. “I’ve always thought, ‘Do these even...

A convicted felon who authorities say has an obsession with Nazis and mass shootings has pleaded guilty to having guns when he wasn’t allowed to, federal officials said. Dennis Alan Riggs, 51, of Pittsburgh’s Troy Hill neighborhood, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of firearms and ammunition by a...

The Pittsburgh Mills mall in Frazer is losing one of its anchors. Cinemark on Monday confirmed that its theater at the mall is closing. “It will be a huge loss,” township Supervisor Lori Ziencik said. “We’re disappointed.” Cinemark spokeswoman Caitlin Piper said the theater is “permanently closing as it is...

Debris from a building being torn down at the former Pittsburgh Glass Works plant in East Deer caught fire over the weekend, a fire chief said. The fire wasn’t caused by an underground coal refuse fire that has been burning at the former plant site for several years, according to...

A Beaver County nursing home where at least 61 people have died from covid-19 is getting help from the Pennsylvania National Guard to respond to the outbreak, officials said. “Throughout this unprecedented crisis, we have called on the state to provide us with the critical resources we needed to combat...

Westmoreland County reported two additional cases of covid-19 on Sunday, bringing the total number of people to test positive for the virus to 417, according to Pennsylvania health officials. No new deaths from the virus were reported. Westmoreland County is one of the counties that will shift to the yellow...

Pennsylvania health officials reported 19 more covid-19 deaths Sunday, and 1,295 additional positive cases, bringing the statewide death total to 3,707 and positive case total to 56,611. People in all 67 counties have tested positive for the virus. More than 227,700 people have tested negative. Starting Friday, two dozen northern...

The Leechburg Area School Board has awarded a contract to add artificial turf to Leechburg’s Veterans Memorial Stadium. The district will pay South Carolina-based Sprinturf roughly $1 million to install the turf and add a track one-eighth of a mile long. Business Manager Brad Walker said the district obtained a...

The East Deer Commissioners are postponing their May meeting. Originally scheduled for for May 14, it will now be held at 7:30 p.m. May 20. “At this point we need to cancel that meeting, and we are rescheduling right now for May 20,” the township said in an e-mailed statement....

Mother’s Day visits amid coronavirus restrictions at nursing and personal care homes will be possible at the Jewish Association on Aging facilities in Pittsburgh. There’s no hugging, though. The in-person Mother’s Day visits at Charles Morris Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Weinberg Terrace and Weinberg Village will be held through plexiglass...