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A Penn Hills council meeting originally scheduled for June 15 has been canceled. Mayor Pauline Calabrese said canceling meetings during the summer months is common, when agendas are light and there are no ordinances up for a vote. “There’s just not a lot of issues and items,” she said. “And...

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission warned motorists to be prepared for delays at the Allegheny Tunnel in Somerset County beginning Monday through June 25 so turnpike crews can do annual maintenance work. Starting at 8 a.m. Monday for several hours each day through Thursday and again on June 11 and 16,...

A Greensburg man will serve up to three years in prison for assaulting three guards and threatening another at the Westmoreland County Prison in 2018. Esteban Sosa, 38, pleaded guilty Thursday to three counts each of aggravated assault and simple assault as well as one charge of making terroristic threats...

Angelo’s Cucina & Catering gave away 125 free spaghetti dinners Thursday afternoon to locals in Jeannette and Grapeville. Donations from Candy’s Corner Deli in Jeannette; Ken and Jeneen Tomajko, co-owners of Tomajko Arborist Services; and Grapeville resident Dave Durzyk made the event possible. Debbie DiTommaso-Huey, owner of the restaurant at...

Westmoreland County now is officially designated a “High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” by the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy. The label makes the county eligible for increased federal funding, sharing of intelligence, analytical support and enhanced training opportunities. Westmoreland joins Allegheny, Beaver and Washington counties in the...

A West Deer man suffered minor injuries Thursday when his car crashed into a Glassmere Fuel Service truck in Fawn, police Chief Tim Mayberry said. Mayberry said the crash happened around 12:15 p.m. in the area of 1220 Millerstown Road. Video from the truck helped police determine what happened, but...

A lineup of outdoor events is planned in June at Freedom Farms in Butler County’s Middlesex Township, including goat yoga this Saturday and a barbecue dinner with beer on Sunday. With Butler County going to the green phase of Gov. Tom Wolf’s reopening plan on Friday, Freedom Farms had events...

Pennsylvanians can now get their teeth cleaned again. The Pennsylvania Department of Health has released an update to its dental health care guidance as part of the state’s phased covid-19 reopening plan. This new guidance allows dentists to provide routine care such as cleanings. “We can go back to business...

A rally is planned Saturday in Jeannette in response to the death of George Floyd while in Minnesota police custody. Participants of BLM, Standing in Solidarity Rally will meet at 2 p.m. in a parking lot on Magee Avenue, according to organizer Ron Dinsmore. “We feel bad what happened to...

Students in the Shady Side Academy Senior School Service Learning Club designed and sold T-shirts with SSA’s distance learning motto, “Together Apart,” on them as a covid-19 fundraiser. The initial proceeds totaled nearly $1,700 and went to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. The club sold 170 shirts and money...

A man from Pittsburgh’s Sheraden neighborhood was sentenced Thursday to 10 to 20 years in prison for a 2018 East Hills shooting that left a Virginia man dead. Leonard Bernard Hilton, 26, also was ordered to serve 10 years of probation following his release. Allegheny County Judge David Cashman agreed...

Covid-19 is declining in both virulence and infection levels among patients at the state’s largest health care system, UPMC officials said Thursday. Dr. Donald Yealy, who heads emergency medicine at the system that has hospitals across the state, said both the ratio of patients testing positive for the virus and...

Despite counties in Southwestern Pennsylvania moving to the green phase of reopening Friday, racing at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver again is on hold as the track announced Friday’s Fab4 Revved Up with Marburger night of racing and Tuesday’s School Bus/Kid’s Bike/Enduro events have been called off. Lernerville made the announcement...

Two new covid-19 cases and no additional deaths were reported Thursday in Westmoreland County. The countywide case total is now 455 with 38 deaths, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. County Coroner Kenneth Bacha reported 32 coronavirus deaths, less than the state’s number, but Bacha’s office has not updated...

Crawford Pool in Glenshaw will open at 11 a.m. June 13, according to a post on Shaler Township’s website. Just last month, Shaler commissioners decided to refund residents who had purchased season passes because they didn’t know when the area would go green. At that time, the commissioners said that...

Quaker Valley will hold a virtual graduation ceremony at 7 p.m. today, Thursday. It will be available for viewing on the district’s YouTube channel. Seniors were encouraged to wear graduation caps and gowns. The names of every senior will be announced and Superintendent Dr. Tammy Andreyko will pronounce them graduates....

As Allegheny County prepares to enter the least restrictive phase of Gov. Tom Wolf’s reopening plan, county health department officials reported 13 additional covid-19 cases and 13 new deaths Thursday. The county enters the green phase of the state’s reopening plan Friday. That leaves the total number of deaths countywide...

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto during a call for police reform Thursday morning said there are indications that police commanders did not give the go-ahead for using tear gas to disperse protesters during a Monday night protest in East Liberty. The hourslong march for racial justice began to break up around...

Plant sale The Ingomar Garden Club will hold its annual fundraiser plant sale 10 a.m.-2 p.m. June 13 at the corner of Route 19 and Ingomar Road in front of Bruster’s Real Ice Cream in McCandless. A wide variety of perennials from members’ gardens, as well as garden-related crafts and...

The Sylvan Park swimming pool in Harrison will open Saturday, said Patrick Bundy, president of the pool’s board of directors. That’s almost two weeks later than the pool normally would have opened. “I’m ready for a little bit of normalcy, especially for the kids,” Bundy said. “I think they need...

Robert Morris University is scrambling to make up for an estimated $10 million loss from the covid-19 shutdown. Officials at the private university in Moon said they have furloughed staff, including unnamed coaches and members of the athletic department, reduced the budget by $3 million and frozen wages that are...

The Westmoreland Historical Society is reopening its education center Friday, with new health safeguards in place. Guided tours are set to resume Saturday at the society-operated Historic Hanna’s Town site — a re-creation of the county’s first seat of government and court proceedings, dating from 1773. The popular antiques and...