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4 North Huntingdon police officers sworn in
Four new North Huntingdon police officers were sworn into duty this week by a Westmoreland County judge. Judge Meagan Bilik-DeFazio swore in Todd Cappetta, Shane Rebel, John Popovich and Jacob O’Brian-Rice as the police department’s new officers on Wednesday at the township commissioners meeting. The officers were hired in June...
K-9s, helicopter to be featured at Latrobe Police National Night Out
The Latrobe Police Department will present a free evening of family fun, demonstrations and information during a National Night Out event Aug. 6 at Latrobe’s Memorial Stadium. Those attending the Night Out, which will be held from 5:30 to 8 p.m., will have an opportunity to speak with drug and...
Springdale Township officials satisfied with fledgling police merger
Like their neighbors in Cheswick, Springdale Township officials are happy with the early weeks of the merger of their police departments. On July 1, Cheswick and Springdale Township consolidated police services into the Allegheny Valley Regional Police Department. A steering committee made up of representatives from both municipalities manages the...
Pittsburgh Police: Sheraden woman assaulted by pair who tried to steal her dog
A Sheraden woman was assaulted Friday afternoon by people who came to her door and attempted to steal her dog, initial reports indicate. Pittsburgh Police arrested two suspects involved in the incident, Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz said. A third adult accompanying the accused pair was not charged. The woman...
Norwin library to have Buc Night at PNC Park
The Norwin Public Library is taking reservations until July 29 for Library Night at PNC Park, when the Pittsburgh Pirates play the Miami Marlins at 7:05 p.m. Sept. 4. Tickets are $23, which includes a free $5 concession voucher. For those who want to ride the bus to the game,...
Greater Latrobe School District finds next superintendent within its ranks: Georgia Teppert
Greater Latrobe School Board found the district’s new superintendent close to home, promoting Assistant Superintendent Georgia Teppert on Friday to take on the top administrative post beginning Aug. 1. Teppert has filled several administrative roles since joining the district 20 years ago as assistant senior high principal. “I’ve had the...
Haymaker Hammerheads claim 3rd straight Monroeville Invitational title
The Monroeville Invitational swim meet has been a summer tradition for five decades, and the competition and fellowship continued July 13 at Garden City pool. More than 300 swimmers ages 5 to 18 from the five Monroeville club teams — Bel-Aire, Garden City, Gateway Heights, Haymaker and Park — took...
Lifeguard rescues man from bottom of Highland Park pool
A lifeguard pulled a man in his 60s from the bottom of the Highland Park swimming pool Friday afternoon, police said. The man, whose name was not released, was in critical condition Friday night at UPMC Presbyterian hospital in the city’s Oakland neighborhood, Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz...
Vanessa German, Joe Negri, Roger Humphries to receive Governor’s Awards
Prolific Pittsburgh visual and performance artist Vanessa German has been named the 2019 Governor’s Awards for the Arts, Artist of the Year. German is founder of Love Front Porch and the ARThouse, community arts initiatives for the children of Homewood. German’s visual art work is in private and public collections...
Alle-Kiski Valley businesses ready for onslaught of folks trying to beat the heat
Stanford Home Center in Allegheny Township ran out of air conditioners early Friday, but only momentarily, as other stores stocked up on water and beverages and braced for the rush as residents cope with uncharacteristic searing temperatures. “We’ve been selling air conditioners like crazy,” said Stewart Claypool, one of the...
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...
