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Dino’s Sports Lounge is closing its Greensburg location, according to a post on social media Sunday. The restaurant has been open on Towne Square Drive for 15 years. The post indicated the reason for the closure was out of the control of restaurant ownership. Management refused to comment to the...

Here are a few morning news items from across the region for Monday, June 30: Man in critical condition after East Hills shooting A man was shot late Sunday in Pittsburgh’s East Hills neighborhood and taken to a hospital in critical condition by Pittsburgh EMS, according to Pittsburgh police. Officers...

Dawn Hritz wasn’t even supposed to be driving on Route 30 at 5:30 p.m. Thursday. But she was. A forgotten karate uniform for her son and earlier-than-expected ride home turned into a lifesaving feat for the Hempfield woman who joined forces with Sophia Sikora and Kayla Borland, EMTs with Mutual...

Three emaciated puppies are getting small amounts of water and food every few hours after they were found Thursday in a box along the Five Star Trail in Greensburg. A person walking on the trail near Lynch Field found them and Ninth Life Rescue Center took the animals in after...

A state bill that would repeal Pennsylvania’s ban on Sunday hunting is headed to the House for a vote after the Senate passed it Thursday. Allegheny County Sportsmen’s League President Klint Macro said members of the group have been in favor of opening up hunting on Sundays for decades. He...

A Greensburg man’s sentence was modified Thursday to 20 months of probation in connection with a 2023 hit-and-run that left a woman seriously hurt. Christopher M. Degnan, 46, was ordered to spend 90 days on house arrest with electronic monitoring. He was arrested months after police said he hit a...

Motorized vehicles and paved roads didn’t exist when Historic Hanna’s Town was settled in 1773. Fast forward 252 years and the modern transportation environment is juxtaposed against the centuries-old historic site that was Westmoreland County’s first government seat. The contrast is causing problems for thousands of visitors who must cross...

Jeannette City School District property owners will pay about 1.1% more in taxes for the 2025-26 school year. In a 5-3 vote Tuesday, the school board approved raising property taxes by 1 mill. The new tax rate will be 90 mills. The 1-mill increase will cost the average property owner...

A Greensburg man was arrested Monday after running from a two-vehicle crash on South Main Street that left another driver seriously injured, according to city police. Officers said Collin M. Hays, 34, appeared to be intoxicated when he was apprehended. Police were called to the crash at the GetGo entrance...

Hempfield supervisors on Monday created a new position in the public works department aimed at maintaining the township’s fleet and tracking maintenance on vehicles. The board hired current public works employee Jonathan Shrum as operations manager. He will be paid an annual salary of $65,000 in the new role. “I...

A vacant building along Route 30 in Hempfield is going to be torn down after township supervisors on Monday approved plans to build an automatic car wash there. The building across Route 30 from Greengate Centre once held law offices. It will be replaced by Clean Express Auto Wash. The...

The Jeannette Initiative is looking for residents and businesses that want to have a hand in improving the city as they prepare to seek a Main Street Matters designation through the state. Program manager Kristie Linden is leading the charge in a new role she hopes will spark a transformation....

State police arrested a Bell Township man who they said called two police stations about two dozen times in a four-hour period on Friday claiming he was having an emergency, according to court papers. The phone calls from Damon Allan Deemer, 59, reportedly were laced with profanities and threats toward...

Neill Andritz keeps a close eye on water levels and speeds on the Kiski River to see if it’s safe for his business, The River’s Edge Canoe & Kayak, to rent equipment to customers. So far this year the river, which separates Westmoreland and Armstrong counties, has been too high,...

Hempfield supervisors this week gave the OK for the manager and solicitor to seek out a one-year extension to a contract with County Hauling for garbage collection. The extension seemed to be the best route after surveying prices in a number of municipalities around the region, said manager Aaron Siko....

A committee of Jeannette City School District administrators and teachers will consider revisions to a proposed policy that would require mandatory classroom storage of cellphones and related devices. The first proposed policy received a 4-2 vote from school directors Monday, but needed five votes to pass. Two members of the...

A proposed 1-mill property tax increase failed to get enough affirmative votes Monday, so Jeannette City School District directors will meet again next week to get the 2025-26 budget approved before the June 30 deadline. The tax hike got a 4-3 vote, but, to pass, a measure must get at...

While zipping past a new Hempfield complex that’s forming along Route 30, it’s hard to tell how much progress has been made. But on the ground at the burgeoning municipal site between the Mt. Pleasant Road and Cedar Street exits, west of Westmoreland Mall, a park is starting to take...

The Canada goose hesitated for about a minute when the door to its kennel opened. Outside lay its home, Twin Lakes Park, and, feet away, the family it hadn’t seen in almost a month. Once the goose stepped out of the kennel Monday, it walked straight to the rest of...

Jeannette is planning to reduce the size of its recreation board from seven to five members after difficulties in getting volunteers to join. “We’re having a problem with the rec board getting seven members,” said Councilman Chad Krawtz, who is on the board. “Right now, we’re down to five and...

A Braddock woman pleaded guilty this week to a reduced charge in connection with a shooting on Route 30 in Unity. Markale D. Younger, 28, was sentenced to two years on probation after pleading guilty to reckless endangerment, according to a court order. Charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault and...

The organizers of Saturday’s No Kings political demonstration have high expectations that people will turn out for the Greensburg event. “I’m hoping for more than a thousand,” said Abby Graham-Pardus of Murrysville, chairperson of WTF Can I Do Westmoreland. The group is planning the event at the Westmoreland County Courthouse...

Defense attorneys are seeking copies of more than 1,400 documents from the FBI in an appeal for a man on death row for killing New Kensington police Officer Brian Shaw. A response to a public records request filed by attorneys representing Rahmael Holt, 37, of Harrison indicated it would take...

Two Westmoreland County women lost a combined $5,000 after falling for a federal jury duty scam, according to the Westmoreland County District Attorney’s Office. Both situations were reported to authorities this week. In the first case, a woman told North Huntingdon police on Tuesday that she received a text message...