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Greensburg police ask for help identifying burglary suspect
Greensburg police are asking the public’s help identifying a suspect in a burglary Saturday in the city’s Northmont area. An unknown suspect reportedly burglarized a residence during the morning hours and fled in a Subaru SUV. Police described the burglar as a white male about 5 feet 5 inches tall...
Franklin Regional students will perform ‘Joseph’ selections at Symphony East
Students in the Franklin Regional spring production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” will perform selections from the show during the Symphony East program. It will be at 10:30 a.m., Feb. 13 at the Westmoreland Country Club, 7100 Mellon Road in Penn Township. The event will begin with a...
Dollar General considers new store in Unity
A new Dollar General store could be coming to Route 30 in Unity. Next week, the township zoning hearing board is scheduled to hear from developers of the store proposed along the eastbound lanes of the highway at Smith’s Hill Road, just east of Beatty Crossroads. At 6 p.m. Jan....
Storm to bring 1 to 5 inches of snow, dangerous travel conditions to Western Pa.
A storm set to strike early Saturday is expected to slather Western Pennsylvania’s roads with a mix of ice and rain and dump 1 to 5 inches of snow, prompting officials to warn of potentially dangerous travel conditions. A winter weather advisory is in effect for much of the region...
Burrell superintendent concerned about police coverage in schools
Burrell School District Superintendent Shannon Wagner said she has grown concerned about the quality of police coverage in the district since School Resource Officer John Marhefka was appointed Lower Burrell’s acting police chief earlier this month. The city’s department has been filling in for Marhefka in the school district with...
Pittsburgh man sentenced to nearly 5 years in federal prison on cocaine charges
A Pittsburgh man convicted of cocaine possession was sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison. Brian Horvath, 48, was ordered to spend 57 months in jail followed by three years’ supervised release by U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab, authorities announced Thursday. Horvath was one of several people indicted...
Police chief: Arnold, New Kensington homicides not connected
Two killings within about 24 hours of each other in New Kensington and neighboring Arnold do not appear to be connected, according to Arnold police Chief Eric Doutt. New Kensington police are searching for who shot and killed Anthone Williams, 31, of Arnold early Wednesday evening in a vacant part...
Jury selection in Wilkinsburg mass slaying case suffers another setbackVideo
Another juror selected to hear the 2016 Wilkinsburg mass shooting case was excused Friday, the second to be let go before jury selection has even ended. The man chosen Wednesday as juror No. 10 was excused by Judge Edward J. Borkowski. The man, an architect, was excused because of “work...
2 people injured in Lower Burrell crash
One person was flown and another taken by ambulance to local hospitals after being injured in a crash in Lower Burrell. Westmoreland County dispatchers said a car and a motorcycle collided along the 2700 block of Leechburg Road shortly before 5 p.m. Friday. No other injuries were reported, and the...
Voters could have chance to put term limits on county council members
Allegheny County Council will consider an ordinance that would allow voters to place term limits on members of the legislative body. At present, council members are elected for four-year terms but without term limits. Councilman Nick Futules, D-Oakmont, plans to introduce the ordinance at council’s Tuesday meeting. If passed by...
Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana program faces persistent pot shortages
Pennsylvania doesn’t have enough marijuana to go around. Product shortages have plagued medical marijuana dispensaries across the state for months. Dry leaf marijuana has been especially hard to come by. “It’s so sad: I’ll put out two strains in the morning and by 12 o’clock or 1 p.m., they’re gone,”...
New leadership at Peoples Gas vows company will remain unchanged
Peoples Gas will essentially remain unchanged under the new ownership of an eastern Pennsylvania water and sewer company, the head of water company said Friday. The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission on Thursday approved the sale of Peoples to Bryn Mawr-based Aqua America Inc. for $4.3 billion. Christopher Franklin, Aqua’s chairman...
3 injured in tanker truck explosion inside garage near New Stanton
Three people were reportedly burned Friday in a tanker truck explosion inside an East Huntingdon garage, Westmoreland County 911 said. The explosion occurred about 4:25 p.m. at 1528 New Stanton-Ruffsdale Road near New Stanton. Evening commuters headed south on Interstate 70 around 5 p.m. could see the smoke plume from...
Man impersonated Allegheny County police officer in scam, authorities say
Allegheny County police are warning people of a scam that involved a person who impersonated a police officer to extort money from a resident. Police said the victim was using Hily, a dating app, and met someone he believed to be a girl between the age of 16 and 18....
Police seize 13,000 packets of heroin in Troy Hill house drug bust
Police arrested a North Side man after seizing more than 13,000 small packets of heroin, ecstasy pills and a large amount of cash from a house in Pittsburgh’s Troy Hill neighborhood, officials said Friday. Detectives from the bureau’s drug trafficking squad served a search warrant at about 11 a.m. Thursday...
Trials postponed for teens accused of damaging West Deer parks
Summary trials for three 19-year-olds accused of damaging several West Deer sports fields by doing donuts on them in a pickup in November have been postponed until March. Township police charged Ethan Adamiak, Devin Andrew Colucci and Dalton James Shoop with criminal mischief in December, about a month after the...
Route 51 in Moon reopened after landslide repairs
Repair work on Route 51 in Moon has been completed, two weeks after a landslide closed the road to traffic, PennDOT announced Friday. The slide occurred Jan. 2, dumping tons of debris onto the busy road and knocking down utility lines. More than 770 Duquesne Light customers were without power...
Michael Lamb scores endorsement of Philadelphia mayor for state auditor general race
Pittsburgh Controller Michael Lamb, a Democratic candidate this year for Pennsylvania auditor general, scored a major pledge of support this week with an endorsement from Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney. Lamb, 57, of Mt. Washington, who has been campaigning across Pennsylvania since announcing his candidacy late last year, said gaining the...
Artist unveils new Mac Miller mural on Pittsburgh’s North SideVideo
The peeling russet paint in the neck tattoo of the late rapper Mac Miller is the perfect piece of reality in a new mural honoring him at the intersection of James and East Ohio streets on Pittsburgh’s North Side. A flurry of events around the recent release of Miller’s posthumous...
Westmoreland tourism grants top $300KVideo
From an indoor ax throwing business to art museums, and everything in between, Westmoreland County tourist destinations were seeing dollar signs on Friday. Festival organizers, hotels, parks and theaters all benefited from the latest round of tourism grants announced by the Westmoreland County commissioners and the Laurel Highlands Visitors Bureau....
State police seek missing Ruffsdale girl
State police are seeking a 13-year-girl who has been missing since 9 p.m. Thursday. Lainey Ucman was last known to be in the area of Story Frye Road off Route 981 in South Huntingdon, police said. She may be driving a white hatchback-style 2017 Ford Focus. The car has a...
Youngwood tattoo artist arrested after sheriff’s deputies find suspected LSD in shop
When Westmoreland County sheriff’s deputies went looking last month for the subject of an arrest warrant, they found suspected LSD instead at a Youngwood tattoo parlor, according to court papers. Deputies on Friday arrested the tattoo artist Ulises F. Osorio, 30, of Hempfield, on drug and related offenses. Investigators said...
Curb ramps to be installed in Marshall
Curb ramps in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act will be installed on Perry Highway and Freeport Road in Marshall, PennDOT announced Friday. Construction will begin Monday and continue through Feb. 7. Crews from the A. Folino Construction Company will install sidewalks and ADA curb ramps on weekdays from...
Dora the Explorer from Nick Jr. Live! visits Brightside Academy in PittsburghVideo
Dora the Explorer’s latest adventure took her to Brightside Academy in Downtown Pittsburgh on Friday. The beloved Nickelodeon character is in town for Nick Jr. Live! this weekend at the Benedum Center, Downtown. She will be joining characters from PAW Patrol and Bubble Guppies for the show. The national touring...
Tree of Life congregation warns of scam email
Tree of Life–Or L’Simcha leaders are warning of a scam email that seems to play on the continued wish to help the congregation scarred by violence. The congregation posted to its Facebook and Twitter pages that a phishing email appearing to come from “Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey Myers” has been circulating....
