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Hempfield Area Competitive Cheer coach Suzannah Mayer is still processing the teams’ win at the National High School Cheerleading Championship in Orlando, Fla. It was the team’s first championship victory since 2021, said Mayer, who has coached the team since its inception in 2013. “Over the last four years, it...

The first day of trout season has always been a big deal for the Gombosh family. It became more so after 15-year-old Joey Gombosh fell ill and died in 1995 after he returned from a fishing outing at Northmoreland Park. “This keeps his memory alive,” said Bob Gombosh, who along...

Andrew Wilson said he never attends political protests. On Saturday, he and about 600 others gathered in front of the Westmoreland County Courthouse for one of the hundreds of rallies conducted across the country, including a similar event in downtown Pittsburgh, to protest President Donald Trump and his administration’s actions...

A Unity man was rescued from Loyalhanna Creek on Friday afternoon. Unity fire departments as well as the Westmoreland County Swift Water Rescue team were dispatched shortly after 4 p.m. for a man floating in the creek, according to Unity Township Bureau of Fire officials. Rescuers from the Lloydsville Fire...

A Hempfield vending company providing coffee and water was hit this week with a $104,000 lien for failing to pay back sales and use taxes and fees for a 20-month period, according to the state Department of Revenue. Horizon Coffee Service Inc., with its business office off Donohoe Road, did...

Doctors have pitched countless theories to Irwin resident Lauren Karcher regarding the laundry list of health problems she had experienced in the past 15 years. Emergency room doctors suspected she suffered from transient ischemic attacks — also known as mini-strokes — and a rheumatologist told her she was in the...

Reflecting on a decade of providing weekend meals and snacks to families at three Hempfield Area elementary schools, the Rev. John Smaligo could not hide his emotion. What started in February 2015 as an effort to support about 40 Hempfield Area students has more than tripled in size. Eleven Greensburg-Hempfield...

A Westmoreland County judge Friday rejected a plea deal for a North Huntingdon man accused of driving 90 mph in July 2024 before colliding with another vehicle in a crash that seriously injured the other driver. Judge Scott Mears said the plea deal arranged for Nolan P. Mullen, 22, would...

A Washington Township man was sentenced to three to six years in state prison Friday for the death of a fellow township man in a 2023 fatal crash. David Bedick, 23, pleaded guilty Friday to homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence in the death of Alex Orange, 21,...

Two women are accused by police of abusing a 10-year-old child who reported being beaten, denied food and forced to stand in the corner of a room for three days as punishment, according to the Westmoreland County District Attorney’s Office. Mt. Pleasant Borough Police arrested Elma Ritenour, 68, and her...

The Westmoreland Intermediate Unit will host a Tech Trek event for families with students in grades three to eight from 6 to 8 p.m. on May 2. Educational technology company CodeJoy will engage attendees in a live robot television show, where students will learn to write code and control real...

The director of Westmoreland County’s purchasing department who was suspended in February was allowed to resign under a separation agreement approved by the commissioners. The agreement offers no details about why Daniel Ellingsen, who was hired in mid-November, was suspended. He first was placed on paid leave and later the...

The weather may be unpredictable this time of year, but every weekend is a good opportunity to get out into the community, make new friends and have some fun. Volunteer fair Looking for a way to give back this spring? This is a great opportunity for neighbors of all ages...

The business day ended earlier than expected Thursday afternoon when an SUV crashed into the office of Pinnacle Auto Sales in Hempfield. The driver and sole occupant of the SUV was taken by ambulance for treatment at a hospital, firefighters said. There were no other injuries in the crash reported...

Carrie Nelson is proud to help prevent and address abuse, neglect and exploitation of elderly Westmoreland County residents. But when the county Area Agency on Aging lost 75% of its protective services care managers in the summer of 2022, Nelson, as executive director, was put in a difficult position. “We...

A Greensburg man accused of providing his nephew with the fentanyl-laced drug that killed him in October 2021 is scheduled to go on trial in Westmoreland County Court next week. Jury selection before Westmoreland County Judge Michael Stewart is scheduled to begin Monday in the trial of Michael A. Rebosky,...

The news this week that an arrest had been made in her daughter’s 2023 shooting death was a relief for Bruna Vesco Leonard. For nearly two years, she had been waiting, at times with frustration, for some movement in the case. Now, she knows her daughter Brianna Lartz can be...

A Hempfield woman was scammed out of $70,000 after state police said she was led to believe she was under investigation by the Social Security Administration for money laundering and drug sales. “This was part of an elaborate scheme to defraud our elders and is likely not the only case,”...

State police said Thursday the driver of a white Subaru car that hit an 8-year-old boy riding a bicycle in Penn Borough and left the scene contacted them after media coverage of the incident. Trooper Steve Limani identified the driver as David Baker, 48, of Connellsville. No charges have been...

Drivers who frequent Saltsburg Road through Murrysville are likely familiar with the “dead zone,” where their Verizon call is all but guaranteed to drop as they travel between Mamont and Ashbaugh roads. Verizon expects to address that gap in coverage by installing a 125-foot tower at a property on Lasher...

A judge will hear arguments next month in a lawsuit that seeks to invalidate a policy requiring GPS tracking of all Westmoreland County government vehicles. Sheriff James Albert challenged the policy, claiming it violates his right as an independent elected official to manage his office and contends the tracking could...

Norwin is partnering with the Pittsburgh Pirates to sell tickets to the Norwin Knights at PNC Park baseball game on May 4, an activity that also will help while helping to raise funds for the school district’s renovation projects at the Knights Stadium and the high school auditorium. The school...

Motorists on the Interstate 70 corridor in Rostraver can expect to drive on a radically revamped Route 51 interchange by the time the PennDOT construction season comes to an end. To the west on the interstate, a phased four-year reconstruction of the Arnold City interchange, also in Rostraver, is just...

A City of Duquesne police officer is suing Rostraver, its former police chief and a detective, claiming they arrested him without probable cause and cost him a job at the Elizabeth Township Police Department. Michael Kemple filed the complaint Tuesday in federal court alleging civil rights violations, including that the...