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3rd cat this summer tests positive for rabies in Westmoreland County
Two more cats in Westmoreland County have tested positive for rabies in separate incidents this month in Irwin and the Mt. Pleasant area, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. The recent confirmations make three cases of rabid cats reported in the county this year. In the Mt. Pleasant area...
Volunteers to revitalize Greensburg neighborhood park
Officials with Central Westmoreland Habitat for Humanity are taking a leap of faith that their partnership with Thrivent Financial’s Building on Faith 2019 initiative will draw 100 or more volunteers this weekend to revitalize a Greensburg neighborhood park. Volunteers will meet at the Coulter Park and Playground on the corner...
Jeannette to increase security measures at football games
Fans attending Jeannette’s home football games at McKee Stadium will be required to enter through the main gate on Park Street to be checked with a metal-detecting device, the school district said Wednesday. Superintendent Matthew Jones announced the heightened security in the wake of the fatal shooting of a Jeannette...
Police find missing Hempfield woman
State police have found a Hempfield woman who was missing overnight. Virginia Lillian Nemec, 84, drove away from her home on Hahntown Wendel Road around 5 p.m. Tuesday and did not return, police said. Nemec has dementia and diabetes. She did not have her medicine when she left home, according...
Food truck festival brings global flavors to Westmoreland County
The third annual Westmoreland County Food Truck Festival should have something for every palate — include some dishes that might be new to Westmoreland County foodies. “I can’t imagine somebody coming out and not finding something they like,” says event organizer Kelly Simon, of Simon Event Management in Greensburg. Along...
With kilts and bagpipes, Ligonier Highland Games returns to Idlewild ParkVideo
The Ligonier Highland Games, a regional celebration of all things Scottish, returns to Idlewild Park and SoakZone with colorful kilts, bleating bagpipes, haggis and more. The 61st annual opportunity to “get your plaid on” will take place Sept. 14 and 15. Last year, the popular event expanded from one day...
World’s largest U.S. flag will come to Derry this weekendVideo
Impulse purchases will many times include little things like snacks, a pack of gum or a random item unexpectedly on sale. But when Unity’s Ted Dorfman makes an impulse buy, he goes big: he bought the world’s largest American flag, a 400-foot-long behemoth that weighs 7 tons and requires its...
Delmont committee mulling options for bringing Heritage Trail spur into borough
After working with Indiana University of Pennsylvania students on possible routes to close a gap in the Westmoreland Heritage Trail between Export and Delmont, members of the Delmont Visionary Committee are turning their focus to a potential trail spur leading into Delmont. “However the trail comes to the borough, it’s...
Umbrella show honors the late Arnold Palmer’s 90th birthdayVideo
On what would have been his 90th birthday, a fitting display of colorful, illuminated umbrellas was put on Tuesday in honor of Latrobe-native and golfing legend Arnold Palmer. The event at UPMC Field at Saint Vincent College in Unity was presented by the famed Pilobolus dance company and the Arnold...
Latrobe revamps fall leaf collection with vacuum
Latrobe residents will have new procedures to follow this autumn for removing fallen leaves from their yards. In past seasons, residents bagged leaves for collection by the city’s contracted waste hauler. This year, city crews will collect the leaves, using Latrobe’s new vacuum equipment, and residents will have options for...
Unity woman’s fraud trial delayed while son, co-defendant remains in federal custody
The criminal fraud trial of an elderly Unity woman will be delayed because her son and co-defendant remains in federal custody on unrelated offenses. Almira Stanko, 83, is awaiting trial in Westmoreland County on three felony counts, including conspiracy and fraud, in connection with allegations she attempted to use her...
Former state prison in Hempfield scheduled for sheriff’s sale
A sprawling former state prison that sits on 96 acres along Route 119 in Hempfield is scheduled to be sold at a Westmoreland County sheriff’s sale in January. Notice of the sale that went out Tuesday cited an action by First Commonwealth Bank of Indiana, Pa., to foreclose against Verdant...
Westmoreland dispatcher’s story figures in new 9/11 book
Today, he’s a supervisor in the Westmoreland County Department of Public Safety’s emergency dispatch center. On Sept. 11, 2001, John Shaw was a young dispatcher in the newly opened 911 center. It was 18 years ago that he took a 78-second call from Edward Felt, a passenger on United Airlines...
Research targeting vision loss topic of Latrobe Lions program
The CEO of the Eye and Ear Foundation of Pittsburgh will visit Latrobe later this month to provide an update on local research that is under way to combat macular degeneration and other conditions that can lead to vision loss. Lawton Snyder, who is originally from Greensburg, will present a...
Cops: NYC man arrested for breaking into Delmont businesses, stealing 2 cars
A New York City man failed in an attempt to convince police he was at Fletcher’s Outdoor Power Equipment Co. in Delmont on Sunday to check on the well being of his father, who he said worked there. Borough police arrested Elquan D. Jones, 26, of Brooklyn, after officers called...
Wider runway at Arnold Palmer airport depends on FAA funding
The Westmoreland County Airport Authority has a contractor in place to widen the runway at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport, but work on the project can’t proceed until federal funding is approved. The authority Tuesday awarded an $11.9 million contract for the widening project to Golden Triangle Construction, contingent on the...
Penn-Trafford to honor military, first responders at football game
Penn-Trafford will recognize active military personnel and veterans, as well as first responders and their families at the high school football game Friday. A light dinner will be served at 6:15 p.m. and a pregame ceremony to honor the guests will begin at 7 p.m. The Penn-Trafford band will play...
Latrobe fire chief eyes parade, race route changes for Fourth of July celebrationVideo
Latrobe’s 4th of July Celebration has a new chairman — with some new ideas for running the 50-year-old festival, one of the largest annual events in the city. John Brasile, Latrobe’s fire chief, confirmed at this week’s council meeting he has agreed to take on oversight of the multiple-day, mid-summer...
10-year-old alerts family to Donegal Township fireVideo
A 10-year-old Donegal Township girl is being credited for saving her family from their burning mobile home Tuesday morning. Stephen Roadman’s 10-year-old daughter, Abbagail, woke him around 7:30 a.m. and they rushed out of the home on Roadman Lane, he said. “Thank God for her,” he said while watching firefighters...
Bushy Run Battlefield hosts whiskey distilling program
Thirty years before farmers and distillers in Western Pennsylvania rebelled against an unpopular federal tax on their cash product — whiskey — British and colonial troops defeated a force of Native Americans at the Battle of Bushy Run in August 1763, in what is now Penn Township. Fast forward some...
Hazmat team called to Donegal for battery acid leak on turnpike
A hazmat team was called to Donegal Township on Tuesday when a truck started leaking battery acid on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, according to Westmoreland County 911. The truck was travelling east on the turnpike, carrying pallets of batteries, according to 911. The driver noticed acid leaking from the truck around...
Hempfield set to host 1st classic car cruise
Hempfield Township officials are hosting their first classic car cruise this weekend as part of their final summer concert at Hempfield Park. The event will kick off Saturday at 5 p.m., and performers will include Aubrey Burchell, who competed on American Idol last year, and Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers,...
Jeannette to hire private firm to bolster football game securityVideo
The Jeannette School District intends to hire a private security company that will station four guards at McKee Stadium for Friday’s football game, complementing a contingent of officers from the Jeannette Police Department and state police. The school board Monday voted to hire Tactical Enforcement Agents, a Pittsburgh area security...
Charges dismissed against former Jeannette man accused of interfering with firefighters
Westmoreland County prosecutors Monday dismissed criminal charges against a former Jeannette man accused of interfering with firefighters as they attempted to extinguish a blaze at his home last year. Keith Cerqueira, 59, now of Trafford, pleaded no contest to a lesser charge, a summary count of disorderly conduct, and was...
Judge declines to toss fatal drug delivery case against Derry Twp. man
Drug delivery resulting in death charges will stand against a Derry Township man accused of selling the lethal dose of fentanyl-laced heroin that killed a Greensburg man in 2017. In a ruling issued Monday, Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court Judge Christopher Feliciani said there has been no violation of the...
