Paul Peirce stories, Page 56
One person reported injured in Murrysville accident, dispatchers say
One person was reported injured Monday in a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Vincent Hall Road and William Penn Highway in Murrysville, according to Westmoreland County dispatchers. The accident occurred at 4:13 p.m., dispatchers said. The injured person had to be extricated from a vehicle that overturned following the...
Sheridan Terrace Elementary students sent to Norwin High School due to sewage problem
Students at Norwin’s Sheridan Terrace Elementary School in North Huntingdon will be back in their own school Tuesday after being bused to the high school Monday morning because of a sewage problem on the first day of school. Superintendent Jeff Taylor told the Norwin School Board Monday evening that a...
4 accused in Crabtree baseball bat assault held without bond
A district judge denied bond Monday for four people accused in a baseball-bat beating that severely injured a Crabtree man outside his home late Sunday. Sarah A. Miller, 31, and Matthew J. White, 20, both of Greensburg, and Devon M. Allen, 25, and Treavair A. Green, 18, of Pittsburgh, are...
Greensburg police arrest suspect in alleged 2016 rape of juvenile
Greensburg police on Monday arrested a 32-year-old Duquesne man accused of raping an underage girl in 2016. David A. Baker is charged with rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault, sexual abuse of children, corruption of minors, aggravated assault and other offenses before District Judge Chris Flanigan. Baker formally lived...
Pa. Turnpike to close this weekend between New Stanton, Breezewood
A bridge removal project in Somerset will close an 86-mile stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in both directions for seven hours late tonight through Sunday morning between the New Stanton and Breezewood exits. The turnpike commission said that section will be closed starting at 11 p.m. tonight until about 6...
Metal fabrication, welding specialist from Laughlintown turns to blacksmithing as a careerVideo
William “Will” Kalkbrenner, 31, cracked up when asked if he foresaw a career in blacksmithing and making culinary knives 17 years ago as a freshman metal fabrication and welding student at Central Westmoreland Career and Technology Center. “No. Never once even thought about it,” he said. But for more than...
AG: Florida business owner arrested for operating 6 massage parlors in Western Pa.
A Pensacola, Fla., man is facing federal charges of operating a human trafficking ring under the guise of massage parlors in Pennsylvania, Florida and Virginia, including six in Western Pennsylvania. David C. Williams, 41, of Pensacola was arrested and charged with using interstate facilities for purposes of racketeering, conspiracy to...
Cops: East Huntingdon man had 7 bricks of heroin stuffed in pants pocket
A telephone complaint to North Huntingdon Police about a man “acting strange” inside the bathroom of a Sheetz store Thursday resulted in the arrest of a man who, police say, had seven bricks of heroin in his pocket. Dirk M. Mayernick, 44, of Huntingdon Village in East Huntingdon was arrested...
Pa. Turnpike to close this weekend between New Stanton, Breezewood
A bridge removal project in Somerset will close an 86-mile stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in both directions for seven hours late Saturday through Sunday morning between the New Stanton and Breezewood exits, according to the turnpike commission. The section of turnpike will be closed starting at 11 p.m. Saturday...
Unity man charged with selling heroin that killed woman in 2017
A Unity man was arrested Thursday by state police on charges of selling the fatal dose of heroin that killed a 24-year-old woman in 2017. David L. Jellison, 27, of the village of Hostetter was arraigned before District Judge Michael Mahady on charges of drug delivery resulting in death, manufacturing,...
$3 million scratch-off marks 3rd big Westmoreland winner in a week
For the third time in a week, a Pennsylvania Lottery player in Westmoreland County struck it big — like $3 million big. The lottery announced Thursday that Colonial Manor Sunoco at 12970 Route 30 in Irwin sold a grand prize-winning $3,000,000 Diamond Dazzler scratch-off ticket this week. An employee at...
Cops: A week after burglary, Scottdale Dollar General gets robbed
A week after being hit by a burglar, police said a robber held up the Dollar General store in Scottdale on Tuesday and fled with an undetermined amount of cash. The robbery occurred at the downtown store at 412 Pittsburgh St. about 9:30 pm., store manager Mark Pine said. He...
Cops: Penn Township woman disrupted porch party with ethnic intimidation
A Penn Township couple alleges that a neighbor disrupted a weekend porch party by hitting their backyard fence with an aluminum baseball bat as she yelled threatening racial epithets toward the gathering, township police said. Beth D. Knapp, 50, of Nancy Drive, was charged with ethnic intimidation, criminal mischief and...
Court upholds New Kensington woman’s prison sentence for aiding accused cop killer
A state appellate court upheld the prison sentence for a New Kensington woman who helped a man accused of fatally shooting city police Officer Brian Shaw in 2017. Lakita Caine, 41, pleaded guilty in May 2018 to hindering the apprehension of Rahmael Sol Holt, who is accused of shooting and...
Police: Hempfield man assaulted 2 state troopers, threatened 10-year-old boy
A 42-year-old Hempfield man was ordered held in the Westmoreland County Prison on $40,000 bail Tuesday after allegedly assaulting two state troopers who were called to his home to quell a reported domestic disturbance. State police charged Timothy M. Nelson with two counts each of aggravated assault, endangering the welfare...
Greensburg police track down three women charged in fatal heroin overdose
Greensburg police Monday afternoon announced they were looking for three women charged with supplying a fatal dose of heroin that killed a city woman May 16. By evening, all three had been arrested — including one more than 600 miles away. Police allege Janae M. Brown, 41, of Scottdale; Britnee...
Cops: Derry Township man drove 110 mph past state police patrol car
A Derry Township man was clocked driving more than 100 mph after passing a state trooper in a marked patrol car early Sunday along rural Route 217, according to police. Mark J. Wherry, 58, was arrested a short time later at his home along Tannery Hollow Road, where troopers tracked...
Steelers WR coach Darryl Drake’s autopsy shows ‘nothing suspicious’
The Westmoreland County Coroner’s office is awaiting the result of toxicology tests to formally rule on the cause of death of Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver coach Darryl Drake who was found Sunday in his dormitory room at Saint Vincent College, Coroner Ken Bacha said Monday. Bacha said an autopsy on...
Unity gym regular accused of stealing car, purse after workout
Frequent gym-goer Britnee M. Silvis walked into the Planet Fitness in Unity on July 8, moments after workout regular Ryan Crawford had parked a red 2014 Mazda 6 outside, according to state police. When Silvis left the gym a short time later at 7:06 p.m., the 31-year-old woman, who walks...
Controller accused in $191K embezzlement scheme from Murrysville firm
A federal grand jury this week indicted the former controller of a Murrysville packaging company, accusing her of embezzling $191,000 over five years. Victoria Mazur, 51, of Plum, is accused of embezzling the money from Gateway Packaging Corp. between December 2012 and December 2017, U.S. Attorney Scott Brady said. According...
Controller accused in $191K embezzlement scheme from Murrysville firm
A federal grand jury this week indicted the former controller of a Murrysville packaging company, accusing her of embezzling $191,000 over five years. Victoria Mazur, 51, of Plum, is accused of embezzling the money from Gateway Packaging Corp. between December 2012 and December 2017, U.S. Attorney Scott Brady said. According...
Police: Man threatened to set his Salem Township hotel room on fire
A Maryland man was in the Westmoreland County Prison on $100,000 bond Friday, accused of assaulting two state troopers who tried to subdue him as he threatened to set fire to his hotel room. Mikel A. Lawhorn, 62, was arraigned on aggravated assault, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, criminal mischief and...
Cops: North Huntingdon man broke into pizza shop hours after release on earlier burglary
Just hours after being released on unsecured bond Monday for allegedly breaking into a North Huntingdon auto parts store, township police say the same 40-year-old man broke into a local pizza shop and stole $180. Stephen M. Wray of North Huntingdon appeared for the second time this week before District...
2 women rescued from car flipped over hillside near Keystone State Park
Firefighters on Thursday rescued two women headed to Keystone State Park in Derry Township after their car flipped over a guide rail and teetered on a steep hillside. Neither of the young women were believed to have been seriously injured after the 9:21 a.m. accident on Keystone Park Road, but...
Cops: Monessen man tried to hide crack cocaine, M-80 ‘in his buttocks’
A Monessen man pulled over Tuesday near Smithton over equipment violations apparently tried to hide crack cocaine and a powerful firecracker from two state troopers approaching his car, according to court documents. James Anthony Hayes’ plan didn’t work. A small baggie with the suspected drugs and an M-80 were discovered...
