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Westmoreland Cleanways and Recycling is teaming with the Westmoreland Conservation District’s West Nile virus program to offer a discount on tire recycling. The program is meant to help clear away scrap tires before they collect water and become a potential warm-weather breeding ground for mosquitoes that can transmit the virus....

A Greensburg attorney who admitted in 2019 to stealing nearly $50,000 from a fraternal organization has been disbarred by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The state’s highest court this week issued a two-sentence order barring Donald Blake Moreman, 60, who lives in Bullskin, Fayette County, from practicing law in the state....

A couple who owns a McKees Rocks contracting company was arrested on Friday with rioting in the U.S. Capitol in January — including kicking a door and stealing protective masks from a police bag. Debra Maimone, 27, and Philip Vogel II, 33, who operate Vera General Contracting and Cleaning Services,...

Two more Pittsburgh-based universities — Carlow and Point Park — plan to return to full in-person operations this fall. Friday’s announcements, the most recent in a series at local universities, came as the U.S. Department of Education announced an expanded list of areas new federal stimulus money can underwrite. Those...

Two Southwest Greensburg residents escaped injury early Friday after a smoke detector alerted them to a fire in a bedroom and they fled their house, according to firefighters. Multiple area departments responded to the fire on the 400 block of Oakland Avenue at 3:35 a.m., according to Southwest Greensburg fire...

A new business setting up shop in a space between Aldi and the movie theater in the Penn Hills Shopping Center had a setback Friday morning when the building’s roof caught fire. Penn Hills Fire Marshal Chuck Miller said he suspects an electric sign belonging to Joy Joy Beauty and...

Mike Heinl repeatedly asked his wife not to go to Washington, D.C., in early January, according to his boss. The Shaler police detective — who is attached to the FBI Pittsburgh Violent Crimes Task Force — didn’t condone Jennifer Marie Heinl’s participation in the events at the Capitol, Shaler police...

The Sewickley Parking Authority will suspend parking fees in the borough for upcoming holiday weekends. The board unanimously passed the offering of free parking Memorial Day weekend. The suspension will be in effect from 1 p.m. May 28 through May 31, with regular parking fees resuming Tuesday. The board also...

When siblings Richard and Elizabeth Warburton attended their aunt’s funeral in 2015, they had an idea to write a book chronicling their beloved relative’s life as the UK’s first female ambassador. Six years and 288 pages later, “Women of the Foreign Office” published by England’s History Press on March 1...

Pittsburgh police are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing senior citizen. According to police, Maxine Gillis, 79, suffers from dementia. She was dropped off at a family member’s home by taxi around 1 a.m. Friday but did not show up in the 2100 block of Park Hill...

A Fawn supervisor seeking reelection should be removed from the Democratic primary ballot in May because he does not live in the township, an objection to his nominating petition claims. The objection filed by resident Tracy Volk, a registered Democrat, claims Supervisor David A. Norris, 79, has lived in DeLand,...

It’s been nearly a year since a tornado tore through New Kensington, and Kim Louis is still finding bits of roofing insulation stuck in weeds when she goes out for walks. “It’s just gross,” she said. So when Louis, director of Sonward Youth Programs, saw a Girl Scout troop looking...

PennDOT announced traffic stoppages on Route 28 in O’Hara scheduled for Sunday, weather permitting. Drivers on Route 28 can expect stoppages of 15 minutes or less in both directions between 6 a.m. and 11 a.m. between the Route 910 off-ramp in Harmar and the Gamma Drive (RIDC Park) on-ramp. Crews...

A 20-year-old man who sparked an Amber Alert for a 1-year-old girl Thursday twice pointed a gun at the girl’s mother and threatened to kill the woman before taking their child, according to state police. The girl, taken from her mother’s East Pittsburgh home, was recovered safely by a SWAT...

Traffic will be restricted on the Tarentum Bridge next week, PennDOT announced. The right lane carrying westbound traffic from the bridge to Freeport Road on the northern end of the span over East 4th Avenue in Tarentum will be closed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. One...

Publicize your non-profit’s meetings, events and fundraisers in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Lane to be restricted on Tarentum Bridge beginning Monday As part of a bridge rehabilitation project, PennDOT will close the right lane on the...

An online petition to rename a state highway after the late state Rep. Mike Reese has rocketed towards it goal of 2,500 signatures in short order. Mt. Pleasant resident Nick Molitor created the petition on Change.org, where more than 2,200 people have already shown their support. He never met Reese,...

Local religious leaders remembered the victims of the covid-19 pandemic with a virtual memorial service one year after the first coronavirus-related death in Pennsylvania. The Tree of Life congregation on Thursday evening hosted the online event, which they called “Covid-19 One Year Later: A Service of Remembrance, Healing and Renewal.”...

Asian community leaders in Western Pennsylvania are reeling with emotion and striving to quell fears days after a gunman stormed three Asian-run spas in the Atlanta area, killing eight people. “We’re anxious, we’re heartbroken, we’re raging,” said Marian Lien, president of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Organization for Chinese Americans....

A Harrison man who already was a registered sex offender has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for child porn possession. U.S. District Judge Marilyn J. Hornan imposed the sentence Thursday against Jack Ulrich Jr. Ulrich, 43, had pleaded guilty last June to one count of possession of...

A 1-year-old girl abducted Thursday afternoon in East Pittsburgh was recovered safely by a SWAT team hours later, according to police. State police announced they had found Diore Thomas after an Amber Alert was issued for her Thursday afternoon. Diore was last at 12:30 p.m. in East Pittsburgh. Police had...

Washington Township is getting another Dollar General discount store. Construction is nearing completion at Hancock Avenue and Route 66. In an email, Dollar General spokeswoman Angela Petkovic said the store is tentatively scheduled to open within the next two weeks but didn’t provide a date. Supervisor Rich Gardner said exterior...

Free trees will be available to Tarentum residents at a distribution in April. Borough residents can begin signing up at 10 a.m. Monday for the trees offered by Tree Pittsburgh and the borough’s recreation board. Advance registration is required. The trees are scheduled to be distributed between 10 a.m. and...

Two roads in Aspinwall near the Highland Park Bridge will be reduced to single-lane alternating traffic starting Monday and continuing most weekdays through late August. The effected roads are: • Delafield Avenue, between Fourth Street and Rutledge Drive; • Lexington Avenue, between Fourth Street and Virginia Avenue Extension. Construction is...