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The Valley News Dispatch is compiling a list of autumn events and Halloween parades, parties and trick-or-treat nights. Send an email to cpinto-smith@triblive.com. Leechburg Area Food Bank seeks volunteers Leechburg Area Food Bank is looking for volunteers to pack and carry food to cars on the monthly distribution day. A...

Volunteers are needed more than ever while area organizations cope with the challenges of the covid-19 pandemic. The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania has responded by organizing its first Week of Caring, running through Oct. 10. More than 700 volunteers have signed up to participate in 75 in-person and virtual...

An Indiana County man faces felony charges after police say he struck another man in the head with a beer bottle during a brawl at a North Apollo bar. Police charged Ian Russell Lamison, 42, of Indiana, with two felony counts of aggravated assault and additional offenses in connection with...

Aaron Waters said he will never forgive the man who shot and killed his 16-year-old daughter nearly four years ago in Arnold. “That person stole my joy, he stole my sunny days. I don’t see forgiveness in me at all. Acceptance, I have to,” Waters said Thursday during a hearing...

A New Kensington woman is appealing her conviction on charges she helped her cousin avoid capture after the 2017 killing of a police officer. In court documents filed this week, the lawyer for Lisa Harrington contends jurors should not have been allowed to watch video that depicted the Nov. 17,...

Erik Williams was expected to be among the first five tenants to move into New Kensington’s new, $18.2 million Pioneer Apartments on Thursday afternoon. “I just want to get in my apartment, period. It’s time for a change,” said Williams, who has lived at the nearby Arnold Towers for the...

A Harrison man is accused of inviting another person to join him in sexually assaulting a young boy. Police said they arrested Brandon Jones, 27, on Wednesday. A criminal complaint filed against Jones said a witness in the case reported receiving text messages from Jones in which he described sexual...

Freeport Area School District on Thursday confirmed that a high school football coach tested positive for covid-19. The school will not be closed because of the case, but Freeport officials said Friday’s football game against Valley has been canceled and the district was considering shutting down football activities for two...

A state trooper was hurt in a pursuit that police said started Monday after a Michigan man drove away from a traffic stop in Armstrong County. State police said it took troopers two tries to bring a car driven by Clark Kendrick Proctor Jr., 23, of West Bloomfield, Mich., to...

The Valley News Dispatch is compiling a list of autumn events and Halloween parades, parties and trick-or-treat nights. Send an email to cpinto-smith@triblive.com. Children’s program offered at Outdoor Discovery Center The Outdoor Discovery Center at Crooked Creek will sponsor a free program for early elementary school children, “What Is Nature?”...

Plum School District’s Pivik Elementary students will be learning remotely for at least two weeks after a staffer tested positive for covid-19. District officials sent a letter to families Wednesday informing them of the discovery and subsequent changes. The letter from Pivik Principal Kristen Gestrich states the staffer was in...

After more than 34 years in business, the Sheetz in East Deer will permanently close at 10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1. The gas station and convenience store is located at 899 Freeport Road in the township’s Creighton neighborhood. Sheetz announced the closure on Wednesday. Spokesman Nick Ruffner said the company...

A Leechburg church has some financial breathing room thanks to money it received as a result of the covid-19 pandemic, both from the federal government and members of the congregation. “Not only have we been able to meet our responsibilities this autumn, but for the first time in a while,...

Dan Pschirer believes it doesn’t take much effort to be kind. So when he recently saw a state trooper behind him at a Wendy’s drive-thru, he knew what he had to do. “Whenever we got up to the window I said to the lady working, ‘I’d like to pay for...

Highlands School District has confirmed another covid-19 case at its schools. In response to an inquiry from the Tribune-Review on Wednesday morning, Superintendent Monique Mawhinney said there is a positive case at Highlands High School. Mawhinney did not say if the person testing positive was a student or staff member....

The Valley News Dispatch is compiling a list of autumn events and Halloween parades, parties and trick-or-treat nights. Send an email to cpinto-smith@triblive.com. Free workshop series about healthy streams, ponds offered A free online workshop series, “Riparian Landowner Workshops,” for those who own property near a creek, pond or river...

South Buffalo Township is holding a series of public sessions to develop a budget for 2021. These sessions will be held on Oct. 5, Oct. 12, Oct. 26, Nov. 2, and Nov. 9 at 6 p.m. at the township building at 384 Iron Bridge Road. These meetings will discuss the...

The Valley News Dispatch is compiling a list of autumn events and Halloween parades, parties and trick-or-treat nights. Send an email to cpinto-smith@triblive.com. Food distribution for veterans planned in Lower Burrell The Westmoreland County Food Bank will host Militaryshare, a free food distribution for households who have at least one...

A South Buffalo man who has volunteered as a firefighter in Allegheny Township is accused of intentionally starting seven brush fires from mid-April through last week. Allegheny Township police filed seven felony counts of arson and other charges against Anthony Hazlett, 30, in connection with the fires. The charges were...

A tractor trailer knocked down two telephone poles in Harmar Monday night. Allegheny County dispatchers said no injuries were reported in connection with the crash shortly after 9 p.m. along the 1100 block of Freeport Road. The road remains closed and the crash is under investigation. County officials alerted people...

Allegheny Township police charged a Kiski Township man with assaulting a woman while she held a child and was pregnant. Nathaniel Dean Beer, 22, of Kiski Township is charged with aggravated assault, strangulation and endangering the welfare of children, which included the victim’s child and an her unborn child. He...

New Kensington-Arnold School District will continue with five-day-a-week, face-to-face instruction, Acting Superintendent Jon Banko said Monday. There was a possibility the district would change to a hybrid schedule beginning Oct. 5 if too many students now learning from home full-time chose to return to schools beginning on that date. This...

Allegheny Valley School District’s involvement with an initiative aimed at connecting underserved students to the internet is bringing it national attention. The ABC-TV morning show “Good Morning America” sent a crew to record interviews in Springdale and Cheswick on Monday, including a stop at Springdale Free Public Library to highlight...

West Deer children will be allowed to trick-or-treat in the township this Halloween despite federal health officials recommending that the tradition should be avoided this year because of the covid-19 pandemic. Trick-or-treating will be take place in West Deer from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 31. Residents who want trick-or-treaters...