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Crews responded to working fire in Hempfield Friday night
Firefighters responded to a house fire in Hempfield Friday night, according to a Westmoreland 911 dispatcher. Crews responded to 141 Brush Creek Road at about 9:50 p.m. for a roof fire. The fire was out before 10:20 p.m. However, further details were not immediately available....
Multi-vehicle crash in Forest Hills restricts traffic on Ardmore Boulevard
Forest Hills police are investigating a multi-vehicle crash at the intersection of Bevington Road and Ardmore Boulevard. Allegheny County dispatchers said a call for the crash came in around 8:10 p.m. Friday. Traffic was reduced to one lane as a result of the incident and remained so an hour later....
Officials will review Ligonier Beach renovation costs, solicit public input
The public will have an opportunity to weigh in on plans for reviving the shuttered Ligonier Beach entertainment site during two planned meetings, including one this week. The sessions are set for Wednesday and March 25, each beginning at 7 p.m., in the Fort Ligonier history education center at 200...
'Maker & Muse,' showing art jewelry in all its splendor, to open at The Frick Pittsburgh 
This art sparkles and shines. “Maker & Muse: Women and Early Twentieth Century Art Jewelry” opens Saturday at the Frick Pittsburgh in Point Breeze. The exhibit runs through May 10. Organized by the Richard H. Driehaus Museum in Chicago, “Maker & Muse” encompasses more than 200 examples of art jewelry...
Route 28 South minor crashes snarl traffic near Millvale, O'Hara; no one injured
Two minor crashes on Route 28 snarled traffic during Friday’s afternoon rush-hour commute. Emergency dispatchers received a report of the first crash at about 5:30 p.m. in the southbound lanes at the 40th Street Bridge near Millvale, an Allegheny County 911 shift commander said. The scene was cleared in less...
Central Catholic, Pittsburgh Diocese announce random drug testing
Central Catholic High School and the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh on Friday announced a wellness initiative that will include periodic random drug testing of students. The initiative will begin at Central Catholic at the start of next school year with other diocesan high schools likely following suit. Each school has...
Ligonier-area workshop will address farmland preservation
Protecting farmers and farmland will be the focus of a Feb. 25 workshop at the Loyalhanna Watershed Association’s Nimick Family Education Center, along Old Lincoln Highway just west of Ligonier. Scheduled for 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., the workshop is being organized by the watershed group with the Westmoreland County...
Portion of Centre Avenue in Shadyside closed through Monday
Pittsburgh will close one lane of Centre Avenue between Morewood Avenue and Cypress near UPMC’s Shadyside Hospital starting on Friday and continuing through Monday evening, according to the city’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure. The closure is needed to put up a tower crane for a development project. Port Authority...
Car-lovers can get up close to high-end rides at the Pittsburgh International Auto Show 
They call them the exotics. They cost $300,000 and higher. They are loaded in horsepower. High-end vehicles are on display at the Pittsburgh International Auto Show, which runs through Monday at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh. In an area called Galleria Exotica, there are three Ferraris, a...
Officials planning $7.4 million renovation of historic Pittsburgh YMCA building 
Pittsburgh’s Centre Avenue YMCA served as the center of the city’s African-American community when black people were barred from establishments open exclusively to whites. Baseball players like Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige roomed there. World Champion Boxer Joe Louis trained in its gym. Singers including Ella Fitzgerald and Lena Horne...
West Deer police officer sues utility after witnessing electrocution
A West Deer police officer who witnessed a man being electrocuted by a live wire is suing West Penn Power and Asplundh Tree Experts LLC, contending their negligence left him traumatized. Edward Newman, a K-9 officer and volunteer with the West Deer Fire Department, watched as Terry Colton was electrocuted...
Unity couple sues to block Greater Latrobe reassessment policy
A Greater Latrobe Area School District policy that seeks reassessments of some newly purchased properties is the target of a lawsuit filed in Westmoreland County. Unity residents Randolph and Vaune Gounder contend the school district improperly challenged the tax value of a home they bought in July for $585,000 as...
Police: $3,300 in heroin, more than $7,000 in cash found inside Hazelwood house
Allegheny County narcotics detectives arrested a Hazelwood man early Friday morning after finding heroin, a stolen gun and pot when they executed a search warrant at his home. Detectives from the Allegheny County Police Narcotics Unit searched a home in the 4700 block of Monongahela Street after obtaining the warrant...
Kindergartner caught with gun at Pittsburgh Allegheny school
A kindergarten student brought a gun to Pittsburgh Allegheny K-5 School on Friday, Pittsburgh Public Schools officials said. The gun was discovered when a staff member searched a student’s backpack at the North Side school after the student went through the school’s metal detector. Police were notified, and the incident...
Construction delays push opening of Allusion Brewing in Vandergrift to spring
Cold weather and a lack of electricity and heat delayed construction of the Allusion Brewing Co. in Vandergrift by several weeks. But work is back on track, and the owners plan to open the microbrewery and tap room in the spring. Co-owners Robert Buchanan and John Bieranoski, both Western Pennsylvania...
YWCA Westmoreland to teach business skills to 'makers'
YWCA Westmoreland County is calling knitters, potters, blacksmiths, jewelry makers and other artisans who want some help making a living with their work. The new YWCAmakers program will help “makers” of all kinds learn business skills and sell their creations, said program specialist Alexis Hough. “There’s a lot going on...
Greensburg looking for 'hometown heroes' to feature on banners
Greensburg is looking for some hometown heroes to feature on banners adorning the city’s lamp posts. The Greensburg Community Development Corporation organized the design and hanging of banners in the city and the borough of Southwest Greensburg for more than a decade, but this year it’s trying something new, said...
Derry Area elementary gets 2nd annual nod for top student achievement, growth
Derry Area School District’s Grandview Elementary School, for the second year in a row, scored top points with the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s Division of Federal Programs. Officials recently named Grandview among 94 Distinguished Title I schools in Pennsylvania for 2019, an honor the school also received in 2018. According...
Last call for candidates for open seat on Cheswick Council
No one has applied for the open board position on Cheswick Council after almost a month. A former councilman who chose not to seek reelection is willing to fill in if council doesn’t have an interested candidate by 5 p.m. Monday. The two-year seat opened up last month when incumbent...
Murrysville police seek information on criminal mischief at Bear Hollow Park 
Murrysville police are seeking the public’s help in identifying the vandals responsible for property damage at the municipality’s Bear Hollow Park. Vandals “have been breaking picnic tables by flipping them over and also throwing them into the creek,” police officials wrote in a Feb. 14 post to their Facebook page....
Cops: Arrested for stealing truck, Greensburg man swiped inmate's phone at police station
Police said a Greensburg man they arrested on charges of stealing a pickup truck at a Sheetz convenience store didn’t wait long before allegedly committing another theft. As Adam E. Lilliock, 39, was being processed at the police station for the truck incident on Feb. 9, Greensburg police said he...
Experts wonder if proposed scholarship requirements are realistic for recent grads
Gov. Tom Wolf has said his proposed Nellie Bly Scholarship could rescue schools in the State System and build the state’s workforce, but some experts doubt it is realistic — or even fair to students. For students to be eligible for a slice of the proposed $204 million scholarship fund...
Pennsylvania to repair 'hazardous' dams on 10 lakes across state
Three dams in Southwestern Pennsylvania are on a list of “hazardous” dams that qualify for special funds from the state. Gov. Tom Wolf announced Friday the release of $23.8 million in funding for a multi-year, $43.5 million plan to repair 10 hazardous dams managed by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat...
Jury acquits accused gunman nearly 4 years after Wilkinsburg backyard massacre 
As a man wept to his attorneys that he’d get to see his kids again, a woman left the Allegheny County Courthouse believing the person who killed hers was walking free. A jury on Friday acquitted Cheron Shelton of the 2016 mass shooting in Wilkinsburg that killed five adults and...
Tom Wolf's scholarship proposal targets low- and middle-income students at Pa. state schools
It’s a far cry from “free college for all” — or even “tuition-free public college” — but Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposed Nellie Bly Scholarship echoes facets of those proposals. The idea for the new scholarship is included in Wolf’s state budget proposal. He said it would help low- and middle-income...


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