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Visitors to Friday’s annual Steelers Fest in Latrobe will have the opportunity for close encounters with members of past Super Bowl teams and with a few members of some exotic species. A new feature at the free event, set for 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Legion Keener Park, will...

NEW YORK — A long-rumored and “unapologetic” memoir by Sen. John Fetterman will be released this fall, his publisher said. Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House, announced Wednesday that “Unfettered” is scheduled for Nov. 11. The book’s price is listed at $32. In the memoir, the Democrat will open...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’ll impose a 25% tariff on goods from India, plus an additional import tax because of India’s purchasing of Russian oil. Trump said on his Truth Social platform that India “is our friend” but its “Tariffs are far too high” on U.S....

HONOLULU — Fears of a devastating tsunami faded Wednesday for the U.S. and Japan after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off a sparsely populated Russian peninsula, but new alerts along South America’s Pacific coast forced evacuations and closed beaches. Warnings in the first hours after the 8.8...

An effort to slash red tape for street vendors throughout Pittsburgh got the green light Tuesday from the city’s Planning Commission. City Council will make a final decision on the measure — which would expand where vendors can operate and eliminate a cumbersome site-by-site evaluation requirement in most places —...

The Pittsburgh Planning Commission on Tuesday approved plans for a new community field in the Hazelwood Green development. The field, spearheaded by the Pittsburgh Steelers, will sit along Hazelwood Avenue near the entrance to the sprawling Hazelwood Green development. “The field is designed as a multipurpose, multisport regional asset, one...

Humans can be trained to identify the eggs of the invasive spotted lanternfly. But it’s not easy. The mottled gray color of the egg masses often matches the areas where they’re laid, or they’re located high in a tree or some other hidden location. Suffice it to say, no human...

Here are some of the latest news items happening this morning, Wednesday, July 30: Police accuse man of reckless driving in Mt. Washington Pittsburgh police said they arrested a man for reckless driving Tuesday evening in the city’s Mt. Washington neighborhood. Officers were on a neighborhood patrol in Mt. Washington...

The Hempfield supervisors have approved the $277,000 purchase of a prefabricated building that will be installed at Hempfield Park. The building will house bathrooms and a concession stand, said Marissa Haynes, director of parks and recreation. The supervisors on Monday approved buying the building from CXT in a 4-1 vote...

Westmoreland Conservation District is urging residents to take precautions against tick and mosquito bites as samples of the pests collected in the county have tested positive for Lyme disease, West Nile virus and a less familiar new threat: Jamestown Canyon virus. Chrissy Edwards-McCune, West Nile virus coordinator for the conservation...

Donald Trump campaigned, in part, on the promise to bring down grocery prices, but seven months into his second term, the result is a mixed bag. Coffee and beef prices are up. Baby formula, eggs and Cheerios are down. Toilet paper and diapers have held steady. “The obvious one is...

Two Philadelphia men arrested for possession of an estimated $140,000 in fentanyl-laced heroin during a 2023 traffic stop along the Pennsylvania Turnpike were sentenced Tuesday to serve lengthy prison terms. Mario Antonio Caba, 39, and Elvis Luis Holguin Ventura, 29, were convicted of one felony and misdemeanor drug counts following...

A Greensburg teen has been ordered to serve up to 40 months in prison for his role in an armed robbery last year in Hempfield. Cayden Essway, 17, was prosecuted as an adult and pleaded guilty in May to one felony count of robbery and a misdemeanor weapons offense. Essway’s...

A 20-year-old woman has been identified by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office as the victim of a fatal accident last Friday, July 25 along Route 51 in Jefferson Hills. Kayleigh Brosius of Elizabeth Township was killed in the multi-vehicle accident in the 1400 block of Route 51 around 6:20...

Crews suddenly blocked traffic Tuesday morning onto a wooden bridge that carries Clinton Road over railroad tracks in South Buffalo. The 114-year-old structure, which provides one of the two ways in and out of the township’s Clinton neighborhood, is now barred by large concrete barriers on each side. The subject...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Jeffrey Epstein “stole” young women who worked for the spa at Mar-a-Lago, the latest evolution in his description of how their highly scrutinized relationship ended years ago. One of the women, he acknowledged, was Virginia Giuffre, who was among Epstein’s most well-known...

WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed former Trump lawyer Emil Bove 50-49 for a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals court judge Tuesday as Republicans dismissed whistleblower complaints about his conduct at the Justice Department. A former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, Bove was on Trump’s legal...

The Westmoreland County commissioners on Tuesday confirmed that they are firing the director of the county’s tax office after just one year on the job. According to payroll records released by the county controller’s office, Sarah Minnick, who had served as director of the office that processes property tax payments...

Home improvement store chain Menards has been put on notice — the site plan for a new store Hempfield supervisors approved almost five years ago is nearing its expiration date. Township officials this month sent a letter to the company’s properties division warning the plan will expire if construction doesn’t...

Pittsburgh will again find itself in the AI economy spotlight in September when it hosts the two-day AI Horizons summit in the East End’s Bakery Square. The summit, in its second year, will focus this year on physical AI — in which artificial intelligence is integrated into physical systems like...

There is a hole in Lee McIntire’s heart that doesn’t heal. It’s been more than two years since his son, Justin, began his 2 to 10 p.m. shift as Brackenridge police chief, as he had done so many times before. Shortly after leaving home, he responded to a call to...

A Ligonier Township man died by suicide Saturday during a traffic stop, according to the Westmoreland County coroner. Jeffrey J. Sierocky, 52, had a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to information released Tuesday, three days after the incident along Route 30 near Baywood Road in Ligonier Township. Ligonier Valley Police initiated...

Spotted lanternflies, targeted by stomping feet wherever they’re found, have a new enemy: Congress. U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Butler, and three of his colleagues have introduced legislation that would authorize the nation’s agriculture chief to make grants available for lanternfly research aimed at stopping the spread of the invasive insect....

Ten lifeguards were watching the wave pool at Hersheypark when a 9-year-old girl drowned, officials said. A spokesperson for the theme park confirmed the incident occurred at the wave pool within the Boardwalk at Hersheypark, on Thursday, as reported by NBC10 Philadelphia. At the time of Sophia Subedi’s death, the...