Allegheny County 911 operators credited with saving 2 drivers from fiery crash
Multiple Allegheny County 911 dispatchers who had just ended their shifts were credited with saving two drivers from a fiery crash on eastbound Interstate 376 in Robinson early Saturday. The crash on the inbound highway, between the Summit Park Drive bridge and the interchange for Routes 22/30 and 60, Exit...
Apartment fire displaces 21 in Pittsburgh’s Banksville neighborhood
Nearly two dozen people are out of their homes after a fire Saturday morning in Pittsburgh’s Banksville neighborhood, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety. Firefighters responded around 10:50 a.m. to the fire in the 400 block of Mapleview Drive. The fire, believed to have started in an apartment bedroom, produced heavy...
Fort Ligonier Days parade: ‘Family tradition’ for generations
Ligonier native Debbie Castellan was watching the Fort Ligonier Days parade Saturday with her daughter, granddaughter and great-grandson, while reminiscing what the parade was like growing up in the 1950s and 1960s. “It was, like, 15 minutes long. We’d walk down the street and come back home,” said Castellan, a...
Potato slingshot adds new fun for kids, adults at Leechburg’s Fall Festival
A homemade slingshot and 200 pounds of potatoes made for a good time for young and old alike at Leechburg’s Fall Festival on Saturday. “Amazing. Loved it,” said Gretchen Bailey, of Parks Township, after she fired some spuds into the Kiski River. “I never launched potatoes into a river.” This...
Hunter dies after fall from tree stand in Washington Township
A hunter died after falling from a tree stand Friday in Washington Township, authorities said. Kent David Horrell, 64, died early Friday afternoon, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said Saturday. Horrell was a resident of Washington Township. He died at AHN Forbes Hospital in Monroeville, according to his obituary...
New airport terminal ‘built by Pittsburghers, for Pittsburghers’Video
The Pittsburgh region has a new front door. A ceremony to unveil the new terminal at Pittsburgh International Airport was held Saturday. Local, state and federal officials joined airport leadership to the celebrate the $1.7 billion modernization project at the facility in Findlay. “The building design was always aspirational,” said...
Pittsburgh officer hit by vehicle during police pursuit involving stolen car, 4 suspects in custody
A Pittsburgh police officer suffered head injuries Saturday after being hit by a car that had been reported stolen, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety. According to police, reports of the stolen vehicle were received around 10 a.m. A license plate reader detected it entering the department’s Zone 1, which covers...
Man killed in crash on Darlington Road, Ligonier Township
A man was killed in a Saturday morning crash on Darlington Road in Ligonier Township. Westmoreland County Coroner Tim Carson identified the man as Mark Maley, 65. The crash was reported around 11 a.m., a Westmoreland County Public Safety supervisor said. According to Darlington fire Chief Kurt Rose, Maley was...
Bridge preservation, inspection to trigger traffic restrictions on Routes 30, 136 in Westmoreland
Eastbound motorists on Route 30 in Hempfield will be subject to a nightly single-lane restriction beginning Monday, Oct. 13 as a PennDOT contractor works on the Route 130 bridge over the highway. The traffic restriction will be in place from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. between the eastbound exit ramp...
Woman arrested after Pittsburgh carjacking, police chase and crash into a Downtown hotel
A woman who allegedly carjacked a vehicle in Pittsburgh’s North Side was arrested Friday after fleeing from Pittsburgh police in the stolen vehicle, traveling across the Allegheny River and hitting the exterior of the Omni William Penn Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, police said. The incident began when police received a...
Haunted Guyasuta kicks off Halloween season with thrills and chills
The wooded grounds of Camp Guyasuta in O’Hara will be the setting for hair-raising Halloween frights. Zombies, ghosts and goblins will fill the 175-acre campus for the 16th annual Haunted Guyasuta celebration, with family-friendly fun followed by spine-chilling scares later in the night. “Every year we look forward to sharing...
The Stroller, Oct. 11, 2025: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Follow the Stroller on X at @VNDStroller. Donations being accepted for...
Police say Unity man arrested after incident at personal care home
A Unity man was arrested this week after state police said he broke into a personal care home, threatened a worker and demanded she perform a sex act, according to court papers. The worker told police she heard footsteps around 2 a.m. Sept. 25 inside Kelly’s II Personal Care Home...
Fugitive taken into custody in Penn Hills as part of FBI drug trafficking investigation Thursday
FBI agents took a fugitive into custody as they were executing a search warrant at a Penn Hills home Thursday. Sean Daniels was the target of an investigation into drug trafficking in Allegheny County, according to federal court documents. Investigators executed the search warrant at about 12:45 p.m. at a...
Burrell holds successful Pink Out game to raise money, awareness to battle breast cancer
The Burrell School District community held a special event Friday that went well beyond playing a football game. The district called for a Pink Out game, in which fans were encouraged to wear pink in support of the Change for Cancer campaign. The campaign raises money for research and awareness...
Favorite foods, hunt for gifts, history on display draw crowds to Fort Ligonier Days
There’s too much going on during Fort Ligonier Days for the Kuhns family of Derry Township to take it all in during one visit. Ian and Amber Kuhns and Ian’s mother, Stacey Kuhns of Greensburg, focused on browsing among the 200 vendors to purchase gifts and sample food Friday, the...
Washington County man found not guilty in baby’s death
A Washington County man who was facing a potential death sentence if convicted of killing his infant son was instead, on Thursday, found not guilty. Joshua George, 35, left the courthouse a free man after the jury deliberated for less than 90 minutes. The verdict, some say, bolsters the claims...
Giant Eagle wades into pharmacy benefit management, promising transparency
As Giant Eagle expands its pharmacy business by absorbing customers from the failed Rite-Aid chain, it quietly has been making a bigger push into a more obscure sector of the industry: pharmacy benefit management. After dabbling for at least a decade in pharmacy benefit management, serving as the go-between among...
Feds say UPMC subpoena is part of broad probe into gender-affirming care for minors
Subpoenas for records of minors seeking gender-affirming care at hospitals across the country, including UPMC, are part of a nationwide investigation into off-label drug use and fraudulent billing, the federal government revealed last week in a court filing. Filed in response to a motion to quash a subpoena at UPMC...
Fort Ligonier Days festival provides economic boost for the town and beyond
Fort Ligonier Days is one of the most successful annual festivals in Westmoreland County. It’s also a powerful economic engine. “The foot traffic into our store is tenfold, maybe even more,” said Jan Mikan, owner of The Cat’s Meow gift boutique and Hidden Valley Antiques on Ligonier’s West Main Street....
NFL Draft branding unveiled in Pittsburgh
Framed by the city’s skyline Friday afternoon, the 2026 Draft Local Organizing Committee revealed the official branding and visual identity for the NFL Draft in Pittsburgh. The branding’s color palette — a brick red, navy blue, gold, sky blue, teal, bright pink and yellow — is drawn from a mural...
Greensburg Salem hires energy savings company to draft middle, high school improvement plans
As Greensburg Salem prepares to make its final debt service payment in January, the district is working with an energy savings company to create long-term improvement plans for its middle and high school buildings. The school board voted unanimously to hire TEN, The Efficiency Network, to complete conceptual design plans...
Community Supermarket begins final sale as closing looms in Harrison
Friday marked the beginning of the end for Harrison’s sole independent grocer. Shoppers meandered their way through a picked over Community Supermarket as its final sale began — 25% off all items — ahead of the store’s closure later this month. Many of the store’s perishable items, such as meat,...
Jeannette extends tax break program for commercial properties
A five-year extension on a tax break program for commercial properties in Jeannette has been approved by city council. Now, Jeannette City school directors and the Westmoreland County commissioners have to follow suit for the Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance, or LERTA, program to continue. It was established in Jeannette...
ICE protest arrests spark 1st Amendment lawsuits against Ambridge police
Two people arrested by Ambridge police for protesting during an immigration raid over the summer are suing the Beaver County borough and its officers in federal court. Two separate complaints alleging malicious prosecution and violations of First Amendment rights were filed in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh on Wednesday by...
