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Keep pets cool during heat wave, vet says
With the heat index expected to top 100 degrees Saturday, keeping the family’s four-legged companion cool is as important as keep the two-legged humans from boiling in the summer sun. “You don’t ever want to get them overheated. The only way dogs have to remove heat is by panting,” said...
White Oak wants sewage backup problems addressed
White Oak officials said Friday the borough’s residents have had enough with the torrential rains that has repeatedly resulted in basements flooded with sewage. “What’s happening is pitiful,” Councilman Steven Pholar told members of the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County at the start of the agency’s July meeting of its...
Emergency repairs planned to protect drinking water for Monroeville, Plum residents
Emergency repairs are expected to begin Monday to anchor a major transmission line that supplies drinking water to Monroeville and Plum. Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County officials said last week’s heavy rains caused a landslide in an area on a hillside near the county line in Murrysville that exposed a...
Unity garage construction gears up as township revises work flow
Unity Township is moving forward with a new game plan for construction of its public works garage while officials await a revised timeline for completion of the delayed project. Work on the building, which will replace one destroyed in a 2017 arson, came to a halt when 42 wooden roof...
Pittsburgh’s East Ohio Street has bright future, businesses and officials sayVideo
A four-block business district along Pittsburgh’s East Ohio Street is slowly inching away from its reputation as a habitat for panhandlers, drug abusers and prostitutes. Cory Hughes sees opportunity everywhere he looks. Hughes and partner Alex Feltovich are in the process of opening a wood-fired grill and restaurant. They expect...
Police: Armstrong County man seeking drugs killed in Arnold robberyVideo
A Braddock man is accused of killing an Armstrong County man seeking drugs in a deadly robbery in Arnold, according to court paperwork unsealed Friday. Allen Duwayne Herring, 32, faces charges of homicide, robbery, conspiracy and illegal gun possession in connection with the June 28 slaying of Gregory Ray Wynkoop,...
Police find 10-year-old girl reported missing in McKeesport
A 10-year-old girl who went missing in McKeesport on Thursday night has been found unharmed, officials said. The “child has been located and is safe! Thanks to everyone that assisted,” McKeesport police wrote in a Facebook post shortly before 6 p.m. Friday. Officers from McKeesport requested help from other law...
Charges dropped in case alleging New Brighton girl’s forced birth control
Charges have been dropped against a woman accused of forcing her friend’s 12-year-old daughter to get a birth control implant without the mother’s permission. Online court documents show two felony counts of endangering the welfare of children and a misdemeanor charge of recklessly endangering another person were withdrawn Friday against...
Man wanted in Pennsylvania drug case arrested in Connecticut
VERNON, Conn. — Police in Vernon say they’ve arrested a man wanted in Pennsylvania for allegedly distributing drugs that led to the death of a child last year. Vernon Police and the East Central Narcotics Task Force arrested Thomas Keogh, of Vernon, Friday and charged him as a fugitive from...
Blairsville karate instructor welcomes martial arts master from Japan
Tetsuhiro Hokama, known to his students as “Hokama Sensei,” using the Japanese honorific for “teacher,” has taught old-style Okinawan karate in his home country of Japan as well as Europe, Africa and South America. Last week, Hokama Sensei was in Blairsville, Indiana County, supervising trainees at Matt Kohler’s Torii Dojo...
Community donates almost 2,000 bottles of water to Greensburg Volunteer Fire Department
When the Greensburg Volunteer Fire Department asked for water, it found the community’s generosity was overflowing. Last month, the department posted on Facebook that it needed bottled water to help keep firefighters hydrated when responding to calls on hot summer days. Since then, the department has received more than 80...
Harrison City man pleads guilty to ‘logic bombing’ Siemens softwareVideo
A Harrison City man pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District court to sabotaging Siemens’ computers in a bid to drum up extra contracting work. David Tinley, 62, pleaded to one count before District Judge Peter J. Phipps. Tinley, a contract employee for Siemens’ Monroeville location, was charged with intentionally inserting...
Penn Township residents renew pleas for flood relief
Last week’s torrential rain brought a deluge of requests for flood relief from Penn Township residents. More than a dozen spoke at a standing-room-only meeting of township commissioners Wednesday. “Short of building an ark, I’ve got nothing left,” said Melissa Renwick, who lives on Bushy Run Road. Renwick said she’s...
Funeral set for slain Pittsburgh officer Calvin Hall
The funeral for slain Pittsburgh police Officer Calvin Hall is scheduled for Tuesday at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall in Oakland. Hall, 36, was shot several times while he was off-duty and visiting friends in Homewood early Sunday, police said. He died shortly after noon Wednesday at UPMC Presbyterian. An...
Butterfly programs will flutter in late JulyVideo
Two separate butterfly-related events will happen in the Murrysville area later this month. The first is a July 27 presentation on butterflies and host plants, by Marcy Cunkelman. It will be at 10 a.m. in the wetlands pavilion at Murrysville Community Park, 4056 Weistertown Road in Murrysville. Cunkelman will show...
Lawsuit: Sheetz charged sales tax for bottled water
A Natrona Heights woman is accusing Sheetz of enriching itself by improperly charging a sales tax on bottled water. Jennifer Montgomery filed a class-action complaint against Sheetz in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court, alleging she was illegally charged a sales tax on nonflavored mineral water that she bought from two...
Westmoreland bands to jam for childhood cancer foundation
Ed Kelso believes in serendipity. It took a lot of happy coincidences for a dozen local rock bands — including Kelso’s Highway Louie — to come together with a new original album just as the staff at Applebee’s in North Huntingdon was looking for a project for its annual fundraiser...
Murrysville church preps for volunteers to sew Christmas stockings for troops
In 2018, Penn Hills nonprofit Military Connections stuffed and shipped about 11,000 Christmas stockings filled with snacks and supplies to troops stationed across the globe. Roughly 5,000 of them came from a group of volunteers who create the stockings all year long, then come together for a full day of...
Westmoreland commissioners set 2nd public hearing on plan to reduce flooding
Westmoreland County Commissioners will hold a second public hearing Monday ahead of an expected vote on an updated plan designed to reduce flooding. Officials are seeking comments about the new Integrated Water Resources Plan compiled by the Westmoreland County Conservation District and county planners. The public hearing will begin at...
Authorities to discuss whether charges will be filed in toddlers’ drowning deaths, funds being raised
A Uniontown police investigator plans to meet with the Fayette County District Attorney next week to review the results of his investigation to determine whether any charges will be filed in connection with the death of two young boys who drowned in their family’s swimming pool this week. Lt. Thomas...
Latrobe authority proceeds with sewage rate hikes
Latrobe Municipal Authority sewer customers will see an increase in their bills this fall as the authority moves forward with planned rate revisions that were put on hold by a legal dispute with the Unity Township Municipal Authority. According to information posted on the authority website, the billing changes include...
Unity supervisors propose upgrade, wider access at Charter Oak playground
Kids in Unity could gain another place to have summertime fun if the township receives a state grant to update a deteriorating playground in the Charter Oak housing plan. Unity supervisors this week agreed to cooperate with the Charter Oak Civic Association to apply for the project grant and to...
Riverview alum interning for Connect Wolf
A Riverview High School graduate is participating in a Point Park University internship that has him working with a team on a tech start-up “connection company” founded by a professor there. Joshua Jackson, 22, of Springdale joins three other Point Park students as an electrical engineering intern for Connect Wolf,...
Unity board OKs GetGo relocation, to consider new Sheetz
Giant Eagle’s plan to relocate and expand its Unity GetGo store moved a step forward this week. Township supervisors declared the convenience store and gas station an approved conditional use at the new site at Route 30 and Giffin Drive. At a 4 p.m. hearing Tuesday , the supervisors will...
Businesses, residents brace for weekend heat wave
A heat wave that could bring dangerous temperatures and a heat index exceeding 100 degrees has area residents and stores stocking up on fans and air conditioners, and is keeping HVAC companies on their toes. “It’s a nonstop kind of thing right at this moment,” said Chuck Cianciotti, owner of...
