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A woman was hospitalized after being struck by a vehicle Monday night in Pittsburgh’s Brookline neighborhood. Allegheny County dispatch said the incident occurred around 8:25 p.m. along the 2000 block of West Liberty Avenue. Pittsburgh Public Safety spokesman Chris Togneri said the victim, a 20-year-old woman, was found by city...

Plum School District recently was recognized as a Champion District by an international technology company based in the nation’s capital. “This honor is provided by EVERFI, a digital education organization focused on helping educators address the most challenging issues affecting society, including financial literacy, social-emotional learning, health and wellness, inclusion,...

Quaker Valley Rotary Club will offer a drive-up candy giveaway at the Sewickley borough building this Halloween in lieu of its traditional parade. For more than 20 years, little monsters and ghouls have marched down Sewickley streets in late October, but the coronavirus pandemic changed all that for the borough...

The Allegheny County Health Department is investigating a case of active tuberculosis in a student at Brentwood High School, department spokesman Aaron Aupperlee reported Monday. “The student has attended school remotely from the beginning of the current school year, is receiving medication to treat the illness, and is expected to...

Faced with more coronavirus cases at school and in the community, Norwin School District officials said Monday the middle school will close for at least two days this week and the full reopening of its schools will be postponed from Nov. 4 until at least Nov. 18. Two positive cases...

West Deer residents and businesses will now have to pay $100 each time their alarms accidentally go off three or more times per year. Supervisors at their October meeting approved updating the township’s existing false alarm ordinance to help out West Deer’s police and volunteer fire companies, who have been...

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) says it is looking for more than the usual number of people to fill seasonal jobs at its stores during the holiday season. “This year because of covid-19 and the added sanitation requirement, and just the extra work that’s involved, we want to make...

Indiana Borough police announced Monday that three of four suspects in the fatal shooting of a Pittsburgh man are in custody. Police say Jayden Wright, 20, was found shot in a parking lot on Oakland Avenue in Indiana about 4 a.m. Oct. 17. He died at Indiana Regional Medical Center....

The Hempfield Area School District reported several new coronavirus cases Monday. One teacher each at Harrold Middle, Hempfield Area High and Maxwell Elementary schools, along with a student at West Hempfield Elementary and three teachers with Hempfield Area Cyber Academy, reported positive tests over the weekend and on Monday, said...

Security agents at Pittsburgh International Airport caught a man with a gun in his carry-on bag Monday, authorities said, marking the 19th firearm caught so far this year. Transportation Security Administration screeners spotted the 9mm handgun shortly before 1:30 p.m., according to Allegheny County Police. Authorities said the 52-year-old man...

Residents of Squaw Run Road and Squaw Run Road East in Fox Chapel will get a final chance to provide input on their road names — and whether the word Squaw is removed — during a private meeting Nov. 9. Council will host a closed meeting with residents to hear...

Ford Motor Company is donating more than $200,000 in face masks to the city of Pittsburgh. The masks, more than 490,000 of them, will be distributed after city council votes to accept them Tuesday. They will be added to the city Department of Public Safety’s stock and will be distributed...

The coronavirus pandemic and the new world of social distancing it created haven’t frozen out drive-in customers seeking ice cream treats at the Dairy Queen in Unity. Unlike many other eating establishments that focused on dine-in service, “we were fortunate to be able to run our business,” said owner Dean...

The crystal blue water is the backdrop for fish, turtles, a stingray and corals found living deep under the sea. The four panels of the 9 feet by 14 feet mural outside of encompasses 100 photos that took four months to shoot. Diver and photographer Cynthia Liefeld of Sewickley captured...

A Tarentum man was arrested Saturday after police said he shouted obscenities at a wedding party as he drove past them and then got out of his vehicle and went after them. Borough police charged Brian S. Henning Jr., 32, with resisting arrest, driving under the influence, disorderly conduct and...

A unit at the Westmoreland County Prison that has been under quarantine since multiple inmates and staff members in early October tested positive for the coronavirus could reopen this week, according to jail officials. “We’re awaiting results of tests taken Friday, and we fully expect that unit to reopen this...

A staffer at Leechburg Middle/Senior High School has tested positive for coronavirus, according to Superintendent Tiffany Nix. The district notified families of the positive case in a letter dated Thursday. The letter did not identify the infected individual. Nix said the district has followed recommendations by the state’s health and...

A federal judge on Friday ruled against an Oil City man who claims that Giant Eagle’s covid-19 mask policy violates his rights. Josiah Kostek, 36, was seeking a preliminary injunction to stop the grocery chain’s mask policy. He contended the policy — requiring all customers to wear either a face...

There were 125 new cases of covid-19 in Westmoreland County over the past two days, according to a report Monday from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Health officials said another three people have died of the coronavirus — two reported Sunday, one on Monday. It’s the 12th consecutive day that...

When Washington Township Police Chief Scott Slagle went on the hunt for a 30-ton log splitter that had been reported stolen, he was surprised to find it this month sitting in the driveway of a Spring Hill Road home. Now, investigators are trying to figure out the origin of dozens...