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Rockwood woman ejected, killed in Somerset crash
A Rockwood woman died of blunt force trauma after being thrown from a pickup truck Monday evening in Somerset County, state police said. Authorities on Tuesday didn’t release the name of the 32-year-old victim, who was pronounced dead at the scene in Northampton Township. According to police, the crash occurred...
Police in Penn Hills detain man in connection with East Hills shooting
Police have detained a man in Penn Hills in connection with the shooting of a man in Pittsburgh’s East Hills neighborhood Wednesday afternoon. Shortly after 4 p.m., police responded to a report of a shooting in a residential area on Wilner Drive north of Robinson Boulevard, Department of Public Safety...
Greater Latrobe superintendent to retire in JulyVideo
Judith Swigart, after seeing Greater Latrobe School District through its first new school construction project in more than four decades, is preparing to retire as the district superintendent this summer. The school board Tuesday accepted Swigart’s resignation, for retirement, effective July 31. Swigart, 61, of Unity, said it’s time for...
An old, vacant gas station in Oakmont may become a borough parking lot
The Oakmont Community Foundation wants to turn an old, vacant gas station into a parking lot. The foundation is a nonprofit formed by the Oakmont Chamber of Commerce. Chamber member Dan Monaco, owner of Hoffstot’s Cafe Monaco and Chelsea Grille, presented the project to borough officials at a recent council...
Frazer woman confronted with inconsistencies during second day of murder trial
A Frazer woman accused of the 2017 homicide of her husband was confronted Tuesday by angry words from Allegheny County detectives. The accusations and terse words were on a videotape shown on the second day of Teresa Drum’s trial on charges of murdering her husband. Prosecutors said the tapes show...
Pittsburgh man pleads guilty to buying thousands of Xanax pills via ‘Darknet’
A Pittsburgh man admitted to buying more than 10,000 doses of Xanax on the so-called “dark web” and plotting to sell the drug to addicts for a $10,000 profit, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. James Robert Czachowski, 22, faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and a fine up...
Day 1 of Rosfeld trial concludes with testimony from witnesses to Rose shooting
It was Michael Rosfeld’s tone that caught Lashaun Livingston’s attention. She said it was difficult to hear what then-Officer Rosfeld said to the driver and two passengers of the 2014 gold Chevy Cruise he’d stopped on East Pittsburgh’s Grandview Avenue, but the tone rang through. It was harsh and angry,...
New turn restrictions in effect near Riverview High School, Oakmont Bakery
Oakmont police and Riverview School District officials said new turning restrictions along Hulton Road by the high school are making a positive impact on traffic. “It’s been much better,” police Chief Michael Ford said Tuesday. “The school is happy with all enforcement efforts.” Westbound motorists on Hulton Road who are...
Former JPMorgan Chase Bank analyst guilty of stealing account holders’ personal info
An Ohio woman, a former analyst for JPMorgan Chase Bank, pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally accessing account holders’ personal information. Sarah Wiley, 35, of Columbus plead guilty to conspiracy and aggravated identity theft charges before U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer, federal authorities announced Tuesday. She was an...
Pittsburgh man sentenced for heroin, fentanyl sales
A Pittsburgh man was sentenced to one year and three months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl last year. U.S. District Judge Cathy Bissoon imposed the sentence against Daroy Murphy, 27, and ordered him to serve six years of probation following his prison sentence, federal authorities...
Maryland man admits to stealing lawn tractors, UTVs from Western Pa. dealerships
A Maryland man admitted to stealing riding lawn mowers and utility terrain vehicles from dealerships in Western Pennsylvania, then returning to his home state to sell them, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Harvey Leemore, 53, pleaded guilty to plotting with others to raid the dealers and transport the stolen vehicles across...
North Huntingdon doctor charged in connection with overdose deaths will be evaluated
A North Huntingdon family doctor charged with over-prescribing drugs to two patients who died from overdoses in 2016 may not be competent to stand trial, his lawyer said in court documents filed Tuesday. Dr. Michel Toret, 72, of Jeannette is awaiting trial on two charges of drug delivery resulting in...
Route 28 lane restrictions in O’Hara, Sharpsburg, Aspinwall begin Wednesday
A single-lane restriction will happen on southbound Route 28 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays in O’Hara, Sharpsburg and Aspinwall beginning Wednesday and continuing through Friday, March 29. Crews are conducting geotechnical drilling operations for the future Highland Park Interchange project. The lane restriction will take place between the...
Residents of Vandergrift high-rise report ‘sewage-cicles,’ other plumbing problems
Residents of McMurtry Towers in Vandergrift sent a petition to the Westmoreland County Housing Authority demanding that it do a better job of cleaning up a sewage-line break last month that reportedly formed “sewage-cicles” on the building’s front porch. The sewage break in a second-floor apartment Feb. 8 caused raw...
Attorney seeks more time to file amended appeal for Loyalhanna man convicted in 2009 shooting deaths
The lawyer for a Loyalhanna man on death row for killing his mother, sister and aunt a decade ago wants more time to file an amended appeal. Defense attorney Brian Aston said he needs two months to contact and interview witnesses as well as review more than 20,000 pages of...
Allegheny Angler in Tarentum to offer discounts, food at grand reopening
In the run-up to the opening of trout season next month, Allegheny Angler in Tarentum will hold its grand reopening Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The longtime bait-and-tackle shop at 200 Ross St., rallied back after a fire closed it for more than four months. Although the business...
Judge orders Winghart’s out of Westmoreland Mall for failing to pay back rent
Winghart’s Burger Beer & Whiskey Bar must “immediately vacate” its space behind Westmoreland Mall in Hempfield because it owes the mall about $91,150 in rent and costs dating back two years, a Westmoreland County judge ruled. Judge Chris Scherer last week granted mall owner CBL/Westmoreland L.P. the right to take...
Memorial event for Christchurch victims planned in Pittsburgh
A free community event to remember victims of the Christchurch attack in New Zealand will take place Sunday at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum in Oakland. The event is organized by local Muslim leaders in partnership with the Muslim Student Association at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie...
Construction of Odin View Apartments in Hempfield expected to begin this spring
Westmoreland County Housing Authority officials have the additional $1 million needed to build a low-income senior citizen housing complex in Hempfield. Construction of the proposed Odin View Apartments is expected to begin this spring now that the last portion of funding needed for the $13.1 million project has been secured....
Deer Lakes School Board meeting postponed
The Deer Lakes School Board meeting scheduled for Tuesday night has been postponed. The meeting will now be held 7 p.m. March 26 in the high school library, 163 East Union Road in West Deer....
Plum man charged with raping child, 11
A Plum man has been charged with raping an 11-year-old girl. Isaac P. Parker, 27, is accused of first raping the girl in 2016 and continuing to do so five times that year, according a criminal complaint filed against him in January. Plum police were first contacted by a friend...
Westmoreland commemorates Arthur St. Clair’s 282nd birthdayVideo
Some Founding Fathers get no respect, but for Arthur St. Clair, that’s changing. Last year marked the 200th anniversary of his death, and Tuesday, members of the Westmoreland Historical Society gathered to commemorate his 282nd birthday (March 23). The St. Clair admirers formed a semi-circle around the ornate tombstone where...
Mt. Washington Carnegie Library branch scheduled for renovations, expansion
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh branch in Mt. Washington will have a two-story rear addition, elevator and new teen event room under renovation plans headed for the Pittsburgh Zoning Board of Adjustment on Thursday. Library spokeswoman Suzanne Thinnes said the landmark building along Grandview Avenue dates to 1900 and was...
Penn Hills mayor silences resident during public meetingVideo
The Penn Hills mayor refused to allow a resident to read from a prepared statement during a council meeting March 18. Sara Snatchko, 41, attempted to read a one-page statement related to allegations put forth in a grand jury report about solicitor Craig Alexander of Bruce E. Dice & Associates,...
Carnegie Science Center makerspace named BNY Mellon Fab Lab
Students from Pittsburgh Schiller STEAM Magnet School joined officials from Carnegie Science Center and BNY Mellon on Monday to announce the naming of the BNY Mellon Fab Lab and BNY Mellon Mobile Fab Lab at the Science Center. Sixth-grade students from Schiller learned to create their own 3D dinosaurs using...
