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Last call for Hempfield’s Midway-St. Clair Social Club
It’s last call for the The Midway-St. Clair Social Club in Hempfield, which has been serving members for about 77 years. The club’s last night of operation is Saturday, said Barry Elder, president of the Midway-St. Clair Volunteer Fire Department. Owned by the department, the shuttering of the club on...
Electronics recycling event coming to Freeport Area Middle School
People can toss their old computers, cellphones and gaming consoles during an e-waste collection at Freeport Area Middle School. The event will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 19. Hosted by Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania (ASWP) and the Pennsylvania Resources Council, the recycling initiative was identified as...
Tarentum Book Club gives archives to Allegheny-Kiski Valley Historical Society’s museum
More than a century’s worth of history has been given to the Allegheny-Kiski Valley Historical Society’s Heritage Museum in Tarentum. The Tarentum Book Club has given four boxes to the museum containing minutes, scrapbooks and programs dating to the club’s founding in 1901. The archives previously had been kept in...
Latrobe Little League gets replacement shed, field upgrade with help from Pittsburgh Pirates, othersVideo
Latrobe Little League players are fully equipped for this season’s games, thanks to some major league help. League officials welcomed representatives of Pirates Charities to Latrobe’s Legion Keener Park ballfield Friday to unveil a new equipment storage building and additional improvements. The work was made possible with the donation of...
Introducing the Deer Lakes High School Class of 2021
Congratulations to the Deer Lakes High School Class of 2021: Haley Lynne Allen, Tori Lynne Allen, Bruce Henry Allman, Wyatt Andrew Arbuthnot, Makaylee Lane Ashbaugh, Matthew Barie, Brooke Elizabeth Barnes, Madison Elizabeth Bauer, Brandon Russell Bedillion, Abigail Elizabeth Boulos, Christopher Joseph Braden, Abigail Rose Breneman, Nathanial Breninghouse, Tara Elizabeth Brick,...
PennDOT: Man killed crossing Parkway West to catch Uber
A 32-year-old Forest County man was killed Friday afternoon when he was hit by a vehicle as he attempted to cross the eastbound lanes of the Parkway West near the Fort Pitt Tunnels, Pennsylvania State Police told Tribune-Review partner WPXI. Joshua A. Knowlton of Clarington, was pronounced dead at the...
Introducing the Riverview High School Class of 2021
Riverview High School had 58 graduates in the Class of 2021. Commencement ceremonies took place Thursday evening on the field at Riverside Park in Oakmont adjacent to the high school. Graduates include: Ryan Aber, William P. Alcorn, Alexis Rae Allis, Dominic A. Armenti, Sofia Evelin Bear, Nicole Briann Bennett, Dominic...
Half-century and counting for Westmoreland County’s longest tenured employeeVideo
Barb Jollie is in a class by herself. Working as a dependency hearing officer for Westmoreland County’s family court division, Jollie has been the one constant in the government over the past half-century. She was honored this week by commissioners for reaching a milestone, 50 years of employment with the...
Troopers charge Allegheny County pair after $1 million cocaine, heroin bust in New Stanton
Something seemed suspicious as a special Pennsylvania State Police drug unit on Thursday watched a woman tuck a red suitcase into the trunk of a waiting white Chevrolet Malibu moments after it arrived outside a New Stanton motel. Troopers had the property under routine surveillance as the car pulled away...
Fan picks up breakfast tab for The Clarks’ Scott Blasey at Eat’n Park
Scott Blasey, lead vocalist for the Pittsburgh-based rock band The Clarks, was having the Breakfast Smile and an orange juice in a booth at the Eat’n Park in Kirwan Heights on Wednesday. “It’s my favorite meal at Eat’n Park,” said Blasey, who lives in Peters. As he finished his meal,...
Fight, gunfire outside Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh sparked by child’s shooting hours earlier
A fight between two sides of a child’s family over her shooting led to another shooting Thursday night in front of UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, according to police. The fight was sparked by a shooting hours earlier in the city’s Homewood section, investigators said. In that incident, a 6-year-old...
Westmoreland jail inmate charged with assaulting guard
A Baltimore man in the Westmoreland County Prison awaiting trial on allegations that he was involved in transporting synthetic marijuana through the county in 2019 is now charged with assaulting a prison guard. Jamal Mohammed Alzanam, 32, is charged by county detectives with aggravated assault on a prison guard and...
Butler Logan Road in Frazer to close for 2 weeks
A nearly one-mile stretch of Butler Logan Road north of the Pittsburgh Mills mall in Frazer will be closed for two weeks, PennDOT announced Friday. The road is scheduled to close at about noon Monday between Clarks Pike and Log Cabin roads, weather permitting. Through traffic will be prohibited around-the-clock...
WAKE distributes donations to Allegheny Valley Association of Churches
Karen Snair carried two vacuum cleaners down a set of steps at the Alle Kiski Strong Chamber in Harrison on Friday. The appliances were among hundreds of items for the Allegheny Valley Association of Churches in Harrison. She and four volunteers made 12 trips to load a Suburban and back...
Piano coming back to Sewickley’s Wolcott Park gazebo
Sewickley officials agreed at the June 8 council meeting to move the piano back to the gazebo at Wolcott Park in the business district. The piano was taken out during the pandemic to discourage people from gathering at the gazebo. It is expected to be back by the end of...
Part of Pitcairn Road, Stroschein Road closing to film Showtime series ‘American Rust’
Part of Pitcairn Road and Stroschein Road will be closed to film the Showtime series “American Rust.” Fidelis Productions, LLC was granted a permit to film on June 18 from 7 p.m. to 4 a.m. John Adkins, location manager for Fidelis Productions, said the show has filmed on the road...
Nearby getaways popular for Pennsylvania travelers this summer
After the pandemic forced many to scrap vacation plans last summer, a gaggle of travelers are gearing up for a getaway. For the first time since the start of the pandemic, 63% of people plan to leave their homes for more than two days to enjoy a summer getaway, according...
Mississippi Jane Doe found in 1991 identified as Mercer County woman
PASCAGOULA, Miss. — A woman whose body was found 30 years ago in Mississippi has finally been identified thanks to DNA and the persistence of cold case investigators. Authorities found the woman’s body on Feb. 1, 1991, in a swampy area of Ward Bayou in Vancleave in Mississippi’s Jackson County....
Bethel Park veteran has sounded taps more than 1,200 timesVideo
The final farewell is about to be sounded. Tom Beaver opens the black case slowly. He slides white gloves on his hands. Then he lifts the silver-plated brass instrument. Taking a few steps, he moves toward the shelter. The sun is shining. Wind is blowing through the nearby trees. Thousands...
Carnegie Science Center to open ‘Our Destiny in Space’ exhibit next year
A new exhibition at the Carnegie Science Center, set to open late next year, will focus on the future of space travel. An outgrowth of the space science activity in the Pittsburgh region, the exhibit has the working title of “Our Destiny in Space.” At an announcement event Wednesday evening,...
Introducing the Burrell High School Class of 2021
Burrell High School held its graduation ceremony on Thursday, June 10. Here is the Burrell High School Class of 2021: Zachary Anthony Adams, Hunter D. Aites, Brendan W. Anderson, Kelsea G. Arabia, Alexander Ray Arledge, Trianna M. Armstrong, Trista Armstrong, Olivia Elizabeth Awes, Jonathan Bain, James Lee Barazanski III, Grace...
Bell Acres borough manager retires after 27 years of service
Retired Bell Acres borough manager Charles Kulbacki described his time as manager as “satisfying.” “Bell Acres is full of nice people, and I was glad to be able to help them,” Kulbacki said. The 71-year-old retired in December after serving as borough manager for 27 years. A lifelong citizen of...
Glenshaw man charged in Jan. 6 Capitol attack
A Shaler Area substitute teacher, who the FBI said tried to organize other rioters, is accused of fighting with Capitol police officers and breaking into the building during the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington, D.C. Robert Morss, who witnesses said previously served in the military and attended Penn State University,...
Winning Treasure Hunt ticket worth $138,357 sold in Delmont
A lucky shopper at a Westmoreland County Walmart is holding a Pennsylvania Lottery ticket worth $138,357, officials announced. The retailer along Hollywood Boulevard in Delmont sold a jackpot-winning Treasure Hunt ticket on Thursday, according to the PA Lottery. The ticket matched all five balls: 1-12-14-26-27. The chances of matching all...
Forest Hills man cycling for MS Society fundraising milestone after serious crash
Bicyclist Larry Sachs knows his strength isn’t in climbing hills. His forte is making up time on the downhill. During a training ride with members of his bicycling group, he began a descent on Greenleaf Street from Mt. Washington to Route 51. His friends warned him to watch his speed....
