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Run/walk to set stage for Latrobe Fourth festivities
Preliminary activities for the annual Latrobe Fourth of July Celebration will head into the home stretch Friday, with the event’s 5-mile run and 2-mile walk. Beginning and ending at Latrobe’s Memorial Stadium, the event is set for 7 p.m., rain or shine, with registration starting at 5 p.m. along Irving...
Route 30 reopens in Unity Township after crash Wednesday evening
Both lanes of Route 30 eastbound at St. Vincent Drive were shut down Wednesday shortly before 5:30 p.m. after a motorcycle and car collided, a Westmoreland County 911 dispatcher confirmed. According to the dispatcher, the driver was ejected from the motorcycle. Marguerite Fire Chief Scot Graham said one person was...
Westmoreland GOP commissioner candidates to keep separate campaigns
The two Republican candidates for Westmoreland County commissioner have not agreed to unify their campaigns but will maintain a dialogue as they take on incumbent Democrats Gina Cerilli and Ted Kopas this fall. Republicans Sean Kertes and Doug Chew met for two hours Tuesday night with county GOP officials. They...
Copper stolen from Saint Vincent construction site
State police in Greensburg seek information about the theft of copper pipe and fittings from a construction site on the Saint Vincent College campus. Police said between June 19 and 20 one or more people accessed a storage container belonging to Ligonier-based John Hall Inc., taking several hundred feet of...
Prosecutors: Charges should stand in alleged attack over Steelers game volume
Westmoreland County prosecutors said that criminal charges should stand against a Youngwood woman because she actively assisted her daughter in a brutal multi-day attack against her elderly grandmother as they fought over the volume of a Steelers’ broadcast. In court documents filed Wednesday, Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Dupilka argued that...
Cops: Man threatened girlfriend with loaded gun for grabbing TV remote
An East Huntingdon man became so angry at his live-in girlfriend for grabbing the television remote earlier this month he threatened her with a loaded handgun and then cut off his electronic home monitoring device before fleeing to Fayette County, according to state police. Samuel A. Clark, 34, formerly of...
Police: 5 shots fired in residential area of Fairfield, suspect arrested
A Fairfield Township man was jailed Wednesday on $500,000 bail after state police said he directed a passenger in his car to fire five shots out of the window Tuesday. Darion Andrew Martin, 21, is charged with firearms violations, simple assault, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct. Troopers were called to...
Youngwood Park & Pool summer concert series returnsVideo
The Youngwood Park & Pool’s “moonlight swims” and summer concert series, “Battle of the Bands,” kicks off Wednesday night with a concert by the Loose Change Band. Gates open at 7 p.m. The schedule for the rest of the summer will be: • July 3: Caught on Sight • July...
Fullwoods leaving Greensburg Salvation Army for Pittsburgh corps
For Majs. Earnest and Vanessa Fullwood, there’s more than one way to preach the gospel. Inviting people to Sunday services at the Greensburg Salvation Army is one. Feeding them on Monday is another. “A lot of people do not identify us with being a church. … That’s our primary job...
Missing teen girl from West Newton safe, found with man in New Jersey
A teenage girl from West Newton reported missing Tuesday was found in New Jersey on Wednesday in the company of a 23-year-old man. Donna Long, 16, wasn’t harmed and was in the custody of police in Middlesex County, N.J., Wednesday afternoon, according to Officer Michael Stefko of the West Newton...
River search for missing West Newton teen called off after no results
A search of the Youghiogheny River near West Newton was called off late Tuesday night after crews did not find a teen who ran away from her home in the borough that afternoon. Firefighters from West Newton and Collinsburg deployed boats to the river after dogs from the Greensburg bloodhound...
Giant Eagle proposes expanded Unity GetGo with beer sales, car wash
Giant Eagle wants to sell beer and wine as well as add a drive-through car wash as part of an expanded GetGo convenience store proposed in Unity. Supervisors likely will vote on a conditional-use zoning approval at their July 18 meeting, township solicitor Gary Falatovich said. Giant Eagle made the...
Westmoreland judge defends ruling overturning rape conviction
A Westmoreland County judge Tuesday defended his decision to give a new trial to a Unity man accused of repeatedly raping a teen-aged girl for three years. Common Pleas Court Judge Tim Krieger issued a three-page opinion in which he said evidence presented against Bruce Palmer, 34, during trial last...
Leechburg man pleads guilty to forcing boy to watch sex act
A Leechburg man pleaded guilty Tuesday to one felony offense for forcing a teen-aged boy to watch him and an adult woman have sex two years ago. Mark Leone, 50, formerly of Allegheny Township, was sentenced by Westmoreland County Common Pleas Judge Meagan Bilik-DeFazio to serve up to 23 months...
North Huntingdon woman sues Wendel-Herminie club over charity motorcycle wreck
A North Huntingdon woman who was injured when she was thrown from the back of a motorcycle last summer during a charity event contends a local social club that sponsored the benefit ride was at fault. According to a two-count lawsuit filed in Westmoreland County, Kelly Franz said members of...
Greensburg Salem pays $140K to ex-high school principal who claimed he was ‘blackballed’
Greensburg Salem School District will pay a $140,000 settlement to an ex-administrator who claimed he was discriminated against because of his involvement in an earlier staffing controversy. Former high school Associate Principal Joey L. Maluchnik sued the district in May 2017, claiming district officials blackballed him by refusing to promote...
Report: Westmoreland County one of the ‘transitional’ counties in Appalachia
A new federal government report places Westmoreland County among the 217 economically “transitional” counties in Appalachia, based on levels of unemployment, per capita income and poverty. The Appalachian Regional Commission report, titled “County Economic Status Designations for Fiscal Year 2020,” ranks all 420 counties in Appalachia using national census, labor...
Coyotes the subject of Pa. Game Commission presentation in Murrysville
Interest in the local coyote population has continued to rise in recent years as trail cameras have captured photos of the elusive canines prowling around the region at night. Coyotes have been spotted in Murrysville, Penn Hills, Tarentum, New Kensington, Connellsville and Mt. Lebanon in the past few years. But...
Driver accused of fleeing Route 30 crash near Westmoreland Mall
Area firefighters and state police Monday searched a neighborhood along the border of Hempfield and Unity to find a man who fled the scene of a wreck on Route 30, state police said. David L. Jellison, 27, of Hostetter, was arraigned on multiple criminal charges Tuesday in connection with the...
Jeannette man arrested on arson charge in connection with April fire
Jeannette police Tuesday arrested a city man they charged last month with arson and related counts in connection with an April 2 fire. Jason Anthony John, 40, was being held in the Westmoreland County Prison on $250,000 bail. Authorities accuse John of setting an abandoned North Third Street home on...
New charge filed against Hempfield man accused of threatening church, pastor
A Hempfield man accused of leaving threatening messages for the pastor of a Penn Township church was arrested Tuesday on a charge of flight to avoid apprehension. Mark Eugene Ray, 59, was found hiding in an East Pittsburgh home June 3, 10 days after he allegedly fled from police trying...
Richard King Mellon, R.K. Mellon Family foundations tap heir as new leader
Richard A. Mellon, a grandson of Richard King Mellon, has been named to lead the foundations that bear his grandfather’s name. He was unanimously appointed as chairman and CEO by the boards of both the Richard King Mellon Foundation and the R.K. Mellon Family Foundation, marking the beginning of the...
Grand opening for Murrysville park, splash pad set for this weekendVideo
A grand opening for the new “destination playground” and splash pad at Murrysville Community Park will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday. The park includes nontraditional features like a small-scale zip line and has features that will appeal to younger and older children alike. Also, we don’t want to ruin...
Charges withdrawn in Murrysville hit-and-run tied to lottery scam
Charges were withdrawn Tuesday against a Jamaican national from Maryland accused by police of hitting a Murrysville man with his vehicle while trying to collect $100,000 in an alleged lottery scam. Prosecutors said they dropped two counts against Clint OBrian Robinson, 47, because of an ongoing investigation by the state...
Officials OK deal with Cincinnati-based developer for Hempfield industrial park
County officials this week approved the potential sale of 13 acres at the Westmoreland Technology Park II in Hempfield to a Cincinnati-based commercial real estate development and design firm. Acting as the Westmoreland County Industrial Development Corp., county commissioners signed off on the deal to option the property to AI....
