Western PA Local News category, Page 1056
Westmoreland commissioners return to county’s roots at Hanna’s Town
Westmoreland commissioners returned the county’s roots on Thursday. Historic Hanna’s Town, the site of the county’s original courthouse at its founding in 1773, served as host to the commissioners’ public meeting where they commemorated the county’s 250th birthday. “I thought it was a great idea to do this out here....
Westmoreland park police hired to work at Steelers training camp
Westmoreland County Park Police again will help with security at Pittsburgh Steelers training camp this summer at Saint Vincent College near Latrobe. Commissioners on Thursday approved a new deal for park police officers to patrol the three-week event, set to begin July 27, mirroring the pact approved last year. The...
Pittsburgh Regional Transit riders involved in November crash sue driver who struck bus
Two Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus riders involved in a head-on crash in November sued the driver who hit them Thursday in the Court of Common Pleas. Victoria Coleman, of the Hill District, and John Peters, who listed his home address as the H. John Heinz III Department of Veterans Affairs...
Penn-Trafford district budget includes no tax increase
The proposed Penn-Trafford School District budget for the 2023-24 academic year includes no tax increase, but dips in to the fund balance to pay a $700,000 shortfall. Taxes in the Allegheny County portion of the district will actually decrease, according to district officials. The budget, tentatively adopted in May, will...
Wilkinsburg man gets 17½ to 40 years for 2022 killing in Homewood
A Wilkinsburg man was sentenced Thursday to 17½ to 40 years in prison for killing a man in Homewood last year. Khatrell Haynes-Morgan, 20, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and aggravated assault in March after reaching a plea deal with the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office, court records show. As...
Student news from the Fox Chapel area
Fox Chapel Area High School junior Alexandra Sroufe and sophomore Avanti Muvvala received 2022-2023 National Community Service Awards from the United Nations Association of the USA and InnerView Technologies. The awards recognize student commitment and community service impact in support of the UN global goals. Alexandra and Avanti also received...
1 injured in McKees Rocks shooting
One person was taken to a hospital after a shooting Thursday afternoon in McKees Rocks. The shooting happened around 1:45 p.m. in the 100 block of Bell Avenue, according to Allegheny County Police. Police said first responders found an adult with wounds to a hand and foot. The victim was...
Export officials look toward summer paving, construction projects
Export officials will use part of their allocation of federal pandemic funding to upgrade the borough’s winter salt storage. “We’ve been talking about doing it for years,” said solicitor Wes Long. The borough has just under $45,000 in American Rescue Plan funding, the first half of a proposed two-part federal...
Arnold police officer cleared of final charge related to allegation of unlawfully killing deer
An Arnold police officer has been cleared of all charges related to an allegation that he unlawfully killed an antlered deer. Brackenridge District Judge Carolyn S. Bengel dismissed the third and final charge against Jacob A. Pollick, 30, of Murrysville after a hearing Wednesday, according to court records. The Pennsylvania...
Arnold man accused of threatening to cut man’s head off with hedge clippers, wielding pistol
Arnold police accused a man of threatening to cut another man’s head off with hedge clippers before pulling a gun on him and his daughter after they had asked him to stop taking video of them with a cellphone. Vincent G. Mazziotti, 30, of the 1800 block of Freeport Road...
State Rep. Mandy Steele seeks answers to lingering questions from implosion of smokestacks in Springdale
The fallout from the former Cheswick Generating Station’s smokestack implosion last week has caught the attention of at least one state lawmaker. In a statement issued Tuesday, state Rep. Mandy Steele, D-Fox Chapel, acknowledged the two Springdale smokestacks — about 750 and 550 feet tall — fell June 2 where...
North Hills Community Outreach returns to Blawnox for food giveaway
North Hills Community Outreach brings its free food distribution program back to Blawnox from 2-3 p.m. June 16 outside the borough building. Volunteers haul about 600 pounds of food to give away to people regardless of income or residency. They set up shop for about an hour at three different...
Murrysville area: Garden club scholarships, ninja workshop, local live music and more
Email news briefs and event listings to pvarine@triblive.com. Garden club award scholarships The Murrysville Garden Club awarded its 2023 scholarships at its monthly meeting on May 25. The Hummingbird Award went to Sydney Jackson, a Franklin Regional graduating senior. Jackson was a counselor at Rock Bridge last summer, and she...
Republican Joe Rockey picks up key labor endorsements in Allegheny County executive race
The Republican candidate for Allegheny County executive picked up a rare, but not unprecedented, endorsement from a large labor union on Thursday. The Pennsylvania District Council of the Laborers International Union of North America endorsed Republican Joe Rockey, a retired chief risk officer at PNC. He is facing state Rep....
2 men convicted in Downtown Pittsburgh killing of 18-month-old
De’Avry Thomas was a happy toddler. “He never really cried,” said Khalil G. Darden, Jr., 22, of Pittsburgh, the boy’s godfather. “He always wanted to have fun. He was always smiling.” De’Avry just 18 months old, was killed in a drive-by shooting Downtown over Memorial Day Weekend in 2022. On...
Norwin area: Bands set for downtown Irwin, Norwin Class of 1961 to gather
Bands, singers to perform in Irwin Several bands and singers will perform free concerts in different locations in downtown Irwin on June 15. The Music in the Streets performances will begin at 5:30 p.m. with Band Anna at the Fifth Street parking lot and Lois Scott singing at The Lamp...
Export will expand park programs this summer
Export will expand staff this year at its summer playground program, and the borough’s local business association will trial an outdoor film series there. Councilwoman Melanie Litz secured council’s approval to add a fourth staff member to the daily group supervising children at the annual program, which operates Mondays, Wednesdays...
Murrysville council sets public hearing date for injection well ordinance
Murrysville council will hold a public hearing in July to take community input on its proposed injection well ordinance. Injection wells accept the wastewater, brine and byproducts of unconventional drilling operations, releasing the fluid into porous underground rock formations. In much the same way as the fracking ordinance Murrysville put...
Acoustics in the Park comes to Hartwood Acres
For the Hartwood Acres concert in Allegheny County’s new Acoustics in the Park series, the featured musician is a singer who grew up nearby. Aspinwall native Katie Simone will perform at 7 p.m. June 21 in Hartwood’s Sculpture Garden, accompanied by guitarist Mark Lucas. “This gig for the county at...
Proposal would provide bike-share memberships to all Pittsburgh city employees
City of Pittsburgh employees could receive annual bike-share memberships under a proposal before City Council. Councilman Bobby Wilson, D-North Side, introduced legislation this week to enter into an agreement with bike-share provider POGOH to provide all of the city’s thousands of employees with memberships that would include unlimited 30-minute rides....
5 things to do in Westmoreland County this weekend: June 9-11
Rockin’ the park Elton Rohn has a repeat engagement at 7 p.m. Friday at the SummerSounds concert series in downtown Greensburg’s St. Clair Park. The Elton John tribute act drew the largest crowd of the 2022 SummerSounds season. Hailing from Canada, the group delivers the look, feel and sound of...
Larry Scirotto sworn in as Pittsburgh’s police chief
Larry Scirotto on Wednesday was formally sworn in as Pittsburgh’s 55th police chief. Scirotto has been serving as acting chief since Mayor Ed Gainey nominated him for the position last month. City Council unanimously confirmed his appointment weeks after he was nominated. A Pittsburgh native, Scirotto, 49, retired from the...
Wildlife officers free deer of plastic feeder stuck around neck in O’Hara
A whitetail deer, seen for weeks by Fox Chapel area residents sporting a large, white, plastic feeder around its neck, was freed Thursday morning, thanks to the persistent efforts of Pennsylvania Game Commission officials. Commission officials spotted the deer early Thursday in the Orchard Hill/Driftwood area of O’Hara and were...
Speakers provide Riverview grads with encouragement
When he graduated from Riverview High School in 2007, Jack Craig knew exactly what he wanted for a career. Exactly one semester into college, he decided that his lifelong goal of being a zookeeper wasn’t for him. Actually, a clue in that regard may have come earlier. “My Riverview claim...
Murrysville staple Dick’s Diner under new ownership
Vasil Oblockovich’s work day starts about 3 a.m., when he turns on the lights in the kitchen at Dick’s Diner and starts a full day of pastry baking. Oblockovich is part of a new team at the longtime Murrysville restaurant, which opened in 1946 and marked its 75th anniversary in...
