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Hempfield Area suspends pay-to-play fees for 2nd year
For the second consecutive year, Hempfield Area School Board members voted to suspend pay-to-play fees for athletes and band members because of the covid-19 pandemic. During Monday’s meeting, board members unanimously voted to suspend the fees for the upcoming school year, which cost $100 per participant for the first sport...
Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh to require masks in school
Masks will be required for the start of the school year at all schools within the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh. The mask mandate applies to all students, faculty and staff, regardless of vaccination status — unless a medical or developmental condition prevents an individual from wearing a mask, the diocese...
Masks optional at Norwin; mask/maskless classes may be created in elementary grades
Norwin students will have the option of wearing masks in class under a health and safety plan that was the focus of an hour-long debate this week over whether the district should require students to wear masks. The near-unanimous approval of the state-required health and safety plan by the school...
Greater Latrobe School District, former wrestling coaches sued in federal court over hazing allegations
A student and his parents sued the Greater Latrobe School District, two former wrestling coaches and two students, alleging that the boy was assaulted during practice. It is, at least, the second lawsuit filed stemming from allegations of hazing by members of the wrestling team that came to light in...
After fire in her cell, police add arson charges to Greensburg DUI suspect
A Greensburg woman charged with DUI early Tuesday now is charged with arson and risking a catastrophe after city police allege she set fire to toilet paper in a cell block. Elisha M. Darnell, 42, was ordered held in the county jail on $10,000 bond following her arraignment on charges...
Pine-Richland requiring masks for all staff, students to start school year
Citing Allegheny County’s rapid rise in rate of covid-19 transmissions and the need for students to get back to full in-person learning, the Pine-Richland school board on Monday voted to require all staff and students to wear masks while indoors when classes begin on Aug. 31. The board voted 7-2...
Hempfield Area to complete air quality, asbestos tests at district buildings
Hempfield Area School Board members are moving forward with an indoor air quality survey in the district’s nine buildings. During Monday’s school board meeting, members agreed to hire Dauphin County-based Skelly and Loy, Inc. to complete the survey at a cost of $9,475. School board member Sonya Brajdic was absent...
AHN covid vaccine clinic canceled in New Kensington
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Tribune-Review learned around noon Wednesday that this scheduled covid vaccine clinic has been canceled. No reason for the cancellation was immediately available. It was not immediately known if the clinic would be rescheduled. Original report follows: Allegheny Health Network will hold a covid vaccination clinic in New...
Riverview football coach Trevor George wins 6 months of ‘Clean Eatz’
Riverview football coach Trevor George is stocking his fridge with healthy food — for free — just in time for the fall season. George, of Oakmont, won six months of meal plans from a new Blawnox café called Clean Eatz, a national chain that offers health-conscious meals that include wraps,...
Former Pirates pitcher Felipe Vazquez sentenced to up to 4 years in prison for sex assaultVideo
Former Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Felipe Vazquez was sentenced Tuesday to serve up to four years in prison for the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl. Vazquez, 30, was convicted in May by a Westmoreland County jury of 15 offenses in connection with a sexual relationship he had with a Scottdale...
Greensburg’s singing florist Gary Pratt wins music industry award
Sometimes it takes a while to become an overnight success. Sounds like the opening line of a great country song — or the story behind one. Country singer/songwriter Gary Pratt of South Greensburg has been in the music business for decades, but, recently, he’s been gaining recognition far beyond Western...
Harrison police charge woman with driving drunk, nearly hitting 2 while fleeing
Harrison police charged a 19-year-old woman with driving drunk, speeding through neighborhood streets and nearly hitting two people playing basketball in an alley Monday evening. Township police charged Nakeela T. Johnson, of Harrison, with a felony count of fleeing or eluding police, two misdemeanor counts of recklessly endangering another person,...
Boil advisory in effect for parts of Fox Chapel area
A boil water advisory is in effect for some residents in the Fox Chapel area. Officials at the Fox Chapel Authority confirmed the alert but the manager was not immediately available for details. The Authority, based in RIDC Park in O’Hara, serves about 5,500 customers in a 15-square-mile area. Residents...
Trib honored with national Edward R. Murrow Award for journalism excellence
Trib Total Media has received one of the most prestigious honors in the news business — a national Edward R. Murrow Award — for a project chronicling a reporter’s heartwarming journey while quarantined with her 93-year-old mother in a local nursing home in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic....
District court: DUI, traffic violations handled by Monroeville District Judge Jeffrey Herbst on Aug. 9, 2021
Monroeville District Judge Jeffrey L. Herbst handled these cases Aug. 9. Defendants will have court dates set in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. Charges were filed by Monroeville police. Held for court • Terron Weatherspoon, 23, of Penn Hills on charges of fleeing or attempting to elude officer,...
District court: Drug, DUI charges among those handled in Judge DeLuca’s Penn Hills court Aug. 2 and Aug. 9, 2021
Penn Hills District Judge Anthony L. DeLuca handled the following cases recently. Defendants will have court dates set in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court. Charges were filed by Penn Hills police. Held for court • Hunter Eshenbaugh, 22, of Penn Hills on charges of recklessly endangering another person, possession of...
4 Gilpin workers test positive for covid, 1 hospitalized
Workers for an entire department in Gilpin have tested positive for covid-19. Supervisor Charlie Stull confirmed Tuesday that four full-time employees — an administrative employee and all three workers in the public works department — have tested positive. That represents nearly half of the township’s full-time workers. Gilpin, a township...
Former Westmoreland man accused of taking $24K for Derry Township home remodel he didn’t finish
A former Westmoreland County man was arrested Monday on charges of taking $24,000 from a Derry Township couple and failing to remodel their home, leaving it exposed to the elements for months, according to court papers. Roy E. Povlik, 39, of Follansbee, W.Va., is charged with receiving an advance payment...
Opening act: 2 decades ago ‘NSync was 1st headliner at Heinz Field
Bill Viola Jr. knows exactly where he was the night of Aug. 18, 2001. “I was at Heinz Field for the ’NSync concert,” said Viola of North Huntingdon, who attended with wife Jenn and some friends. “That was the place to be. Everyone wanted to be at that concert.” It...
Community day planned for South Pennsylvania Avenue parklet in GreensburgVideo
Following a cleanup day that took place in June, a Greensburg-based development group is hosting a community day this weekend at the parklet on South Pennsylvania Avenue. Scheduled from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, the event hosted by City Cribs will feature food from McFeeley’s Ice Cream Truck, Baldy’s...
Route 22 in Murrysville reopens after 2-vehicle crash
A section of Route 22 westbound reopened Tuesday morning after a two-vehicle crash, according to Murrysville police. Traffic was diverted onto Old William Penn Highway in the area of Cline Hollow Road after the collision between a tractor-trailer and passenger vehicle, according to police and a Westmoreland 911 dispatcher. The...
Police say man found shot to death in Marshall-Shadeland
A Pittsburgh man was found shot to death Tuesday morning in the Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, according to authorities. Police responded to a ShotSpotter alert just after 5 a.m. near a home in the 1300 block of Malden Street. Cara Cruz, public safety spokeswoman, said units located evidence that a...
Greensburg outreach event brings community agencies together
An outreach event Friday will bring dozens of resource agencies around Westmoreland County and the region — along with free coronavirus vaccines — together in one spot. The Community Agencies Resource Exchange event in Greensburg will host more than 60 organizations that provide services to families and people in need....
The Stroller, Aug. 17, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your club meetings, community events and fundraisers for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Sports Hall of Fame to open new gallery in Tarentum The Alle-Kiski Valley Sports Hall of Fame will have a grand...
4 people arrested for drugs, guns at Pittsburgh hotel
Six guns, 12 bricks of heroin and $900 were recovered by Pittsburgh police during a raid on Friday at the Double Tree Hotel at Bigelow Square. Just after 1 a.m., officers executed a search warrant at a room on the 10th floor of the Downtown hotel after “an ongoing investigation...
