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Westmoreland water rescue teams helped with search for boy recovered from the Ohio River
Westmoreland County water rescue teams from North Huntingdon, Murrysville and New Alexandria-Bradenville-Lloydsville helped in the multi-state effort Tuesday to search for a young boy who went missing Sunday while swimming in the Ohio River about 30 miles south of Wheeling, W.Va. The search ended early Wednesday morning when rescuers recovered...
Seven Springs Mountain Resort hopes to hire 1,000 for upcoming ski season
Seven Springs Mountain Resort’s goal of hiring 1,000 employees for the upcoming ski season at its three resorts in Western Pennsylvania will kick off this week with its “Walk-In Wednesday” event. The resort, headquartered at Seven Springs in Champion, Somerset County, is seeking seasonal, part-time and full-time help for Seven...
Dick’s Sporting Goods opens new store to promote, protect outdoors
Dick’s Sporting Goods will officially open its first Public Lands store in Cranberry Township on Sept. 24. According to Dick’s, Public Lands, “will focus on helping more people get outside to explore and protect America’s public lands.” “Did you know that nearly one-third of America is public land? We’re launching...
Students, parents protest state school mask mandateVideo
Students at several area school districts walked out of classes Tuesday in protest of the state’s mask mandate. In the Derry Area School District, students reported for school, then left the high school, carrying signs voicing their displeasure at being forced to wear masks. Police and school officials moved the...
Blairsville man killed in motorcycle crash
A Blairsville man was killed Monday in a motorcycle crash in Indiana County. Mark A. Sprague, 39, was pronounced dead at the scene on Tunnelton Road in Conemaugh Township, east of Saltsburg, according to county Coroner Jerry Overman. Investigators said Sprague was driving a Harley-Davidson motorcycle at 6 p.m. when...
A call to arms: 9/11 served as a call to military service for many Western Pennsylvania residents
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Stepping up: 9/11 served as a call to military service for many Western Pennsylvania residentsVideo
When terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, shockwaves rippled through the nation and changed the course of history. For those who watched the World Trade Center towers fall 20 years ago and took it as a call to serve in the armed forces, it changed the course...
New Castle doctor gets 1 year of home detention for dealing fentanyl out of clinics in Western Pa., Ohio
A Lawrence County doctor has been sentenced to a year of home detention and an additional year of probation for illegally prescribing and doling out fentanyl and other opioid painkillers while practicing at clinics in Western Pennsylvania and Ohio, federal prosecutors said. Dr. Thomas A. Ranieri, 68, took a plea...
FirstEnergy locks online accounts, requires new passwords after hack attempt
West Penn Power parent FirstEnergy locked all of its customers online accounts Friday after a large scale attempt to break into them, a spokeswoman for the electric utility said Sunday. There was no evidence that any information was accessed, altered or taken from customer accounts, which number in the millions,...
Western Pa. business owners lament: Where have all the workers gone?Video
Rod Darby has a great location for The Trailside Pub & Restaurant, overlooking the Youghiogheny River in West Newton. Diners can sit on the deck watching hikers, bikers and runners travel the Great Allegheny Passage, the popular trail connecting Pittsburgh with Washington, D.C. Attracting customers to his business has not...
9/11: As the decades pass, the act of remembering evolves
SHANKSVILLE — Across the vast field where the plane fell out of the sky so many years ago, all is quiet. The hills around Shanksville seem to swallow sound. The plateau that Americans by the millions ascend to visit the Flight 93 National Memorial, to think of those who died...
Hallowed Ground: Families of those on Flight 93, the Shanksville community and others forged resolve to see national memorial come to life
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‘Where the plane went down’: Shanksville remains small, quiet, but forever connected to 9/11
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‘Where the plane went down’: Shanksville remains small, quiet, but forever connected to 9/11 and United Flight 93Video
When someone from Shanksville travels and is asked where they’re from, the question typically gets answered with a generality: “Pittsburgh” — even if they hail from about 80 miles east, in Somerset County. If pressed, they get more specific. Shanksville. Where is that? “Where the plane went down,” said Robin...
‘Hallowed ground’: Families of those on United jetliner, Shanksville community and others forged resolve to see Flight 93 National Memorial come to lifeVideo
Fate threw them together. Two decades later, the unlikely coalition of Flight 93 family members, residents of Somerset County and the National Park Service that worked for years to preserve the story of what happened aboard that United Airlines jetliner will meet this week at the Flight 93 National Memorial,...
The muddier the better: Runners and the adventurous slog up and down Seven Springs mountain just for funVideo
Miranda Veliky was caked in mud Saturday morning, and she didn’t care a bit. Veliky, 23, of New Stanton was one of about 1,000 athletes who jumped, swam, climbed and toppled through mud and water and along the wooded trails that traversed up, over and down the Laurel Mountains during...
Unity woman employs pageant title, awareness group to help fellow concussion sufferers
When vision care assistant Jayden Moffa helps patients at Willowbrook Eye Care Associates, she can empathize with them from personal experience. Vision therapy helped the Unity resident overcome two concussions she suffered beginning in 2014, while she was a student at Greater Latrobe Senior High. As she worked through the...
Interstate 70 crash victim identified
A Butler man died after he lost control of his vehicle and struck a guiderail along Interstate 70 Friday. The crash occurred shortly before 1 p.m. in the eastbound lanes near the Jefferson Avenue exit (mile marker 15) in Washington, Pa. The Washington County Coroner’s Office said Kenneth Sentgeorge, 51,...
State troopers in Indiana ask for help locating man charged in drug death
State police in Indiana are asking the public’s help locating a 33-year-old man charged with supplying a fatal dose of drugs that killed an area resident in White Township in 2019. Troopers obtained an arrest warrant Wednesday for Andrew K. Rankin, 33, of Ernest who is wanted for drug delivery...
‘Think safety and come prepared’: Officials urging caution on waterways
As boaters and rafters gear up for a three-day weekend that some consider the unofficial end of summer, officials are urging caution for possible dangerous conditions on the region’s waterways. The conditions were created when remnants of Hurricane Ida pounded Western Pennsylvania this week, bringing several inches of rain and...
Pa. Board of Game Commissioners meeting in Westmoreland County next week
The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners is coming to Westmoreland County next week. The agency announced the board will meet Sept. 10 and 11 at the agency’s Southwest Region Office off Route 711 in Fairfield Township. The meeting on Friday, Sept. 10 begins at 2 p.m. The purpose of this...
Washington County woman gets prison for keeping disabled sister locked in cage
A Washington County woman pleaded guilty Thursday to keeping her developmentally disabled sister in a cage, according to the state Attorney General’s Office. She will spend just under two years in prison. Leona Biser, 53, pleaded guilty to abuse of a care-dependent person and neglect of a care-dependent person. The...
‘United 93’ re-release will benefit Friends of Flight 93 National Memorial
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, AMC Theatres and Universal Pictures will re-release “United 93,” the story of passengers who prevented a third terrorist attack and forced the hijacked plane down in a field near Shanksville. Directed by...
Ex-Fayette law clerk accused by U.S. Attorney of improperly representing Capitol riot defendants
The acting U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., complained to a federal judge this week that a lawyer representing 17 defendants in Capitol riot cases improperly used a Fayette County man “who is not a licensed attorney” to represent his clients during court appearances. Defense attorney John Pierce of Los Angeles...
5 things to know before traveling this Labor Day weekend
A three-day holiday weekend might entice some people to get in one more road trip before summer comes to an end. Officials are urging travelers to exercise caution as they travel this Labor Day. “As Labor Day weekend is a popular time for travel and celebrating, PennDOT is urging drivers...
