Valley News Dispatch category, Page 687
Lower Burrell’s Anti-Bullying Awareness Day offers free events, picnic
Lower Burrell is offering free public events and information for Anti-Bullying Awareness Day at City Hall and a picnic at Burrell Lake Park on Saturday. The event will take place from 2 to 6 p.m. Nico Pampena, a third-grader who was bullied, will be Lower Burrell Mayor for the Day....
Report of attempted child luring in Arnold under investigation
New Kensington and Arnold police are investigating a report of a child-luring attempt. Authorities said they are looking for an older, white man with a gray beard and a tan car. He is suspected to have attempted to lure children into his vehicle in Arnold on Wednesday. New Kensington police...
Portion of Coxcomb Hill Road (Route 909) in Plum reopens after wires had fallen
Allegheny County dispatchers said the 100 block of Coxcomb Hill Road in Plum was closed for a time Wednesday night due to a tree that fell and knocked down power lines. The incident took place around 7:50 p.m. Wednesday near Blair Auto Sales. By 9 p.m, an Allegheny County 911...
Dump truck driver hospitalized after crashing into pole in Vandergrift
A dump truck driver was hospitalized after his vehicle struck a pole at Sherman Avenue and Second Street in Vandergrift. The crash happened shortly before 4 p.m. Wednesday. Police said the truck was traveling north on Sherman Avenue when it hit the West Penn Power utility pole near Steeltown Smokehouse....
Not 1 but 2 Harmar eaglets have their day in the sun
With temperatures soaring into the 80s Wednesday, both bald eaglets were active and seen at the Harmar nest above Route 28. Gina Gilmore of Fox Chapel captured the young family in photos posted to Facebook on Wednesday. While only the top of a second eaglet’s head had been spotted in...
Don’t spare the blood: Apollo-Ridge looks to realism for mock DUI crashVideo
A mock car crash that included a drunken driver, a dead passenger and other injured parties was the lesson of the day Wednesday at Apollo-Ridge High School. Although mock accident scenes are nothing new, the high school decided to add flair or, rather, blood and make-up for students to look...
Police: Brackenridge man chased man with baseball bat, mooned him
A Brackenridge man is accused of yelling racial slurs at another man before chasing him with a baseball bat and mooning him. The alleged victim told authorities he was walking past the home of Eric Todd Clark, 47, on April 26 when Clark called him a racial slur, Brackenridge police say....
Solo robber hits Vandergrift Dollar General along Franklin Avenue
Vandergrift police are searching for a man who robbed the Dollar General on Franklin Avenue Tuesday night. A clerk was restocking shelves when a tall man walked in. He held his left hand in the pocket of a hooded sweatshirt he was wearing and “acted like he had a gun,”...
Harrison woman suffers minor injuries in 2-vehicle crash in Harrison
A Harrison woman suffered minor injuries Tuesday when the car she was driving collided with a minivan in the township, according to police Chief Mike Klein. The crash happened at about 8:20 a.m. at Freeport Road and Idaho Avenue, between Key Bank and a car wash. Klein said Joanna Williams...
Kittanning man already on Megan’s Law list facing child rape charges
All charges were held to court in a preliminary hearing for a Kittanning man accused of child rape. Dwayne Edward Hawk, 52, is already named on the Megan’s Law list of people convicted of sex offenses. Hawk, a lifetime reporter, is accused of raping a mentally challenged girl. Police allege...
Valley High School grounds to become a plaza dedicated to district’s veterans
The area in front of Valley High School where the Ten Commandments monument once stood is about to become a plaza dedicated to community veterans. John Tamiggi, executive director of the Allegheny Valley Habitat for Humanity, told the New Kensington-Arnold School Board on Thursday night about plans to use the...
Native plants for hummingbirds, butterflies to go on sale at Beechwood Farms
The Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania will open its Native Plant Nursery at Beechwood Farms in Fox Chapel with sales and special bundles of plants to attract butterflies and hummingbirds from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. The nursery will remain open throughout the planting season. For opening day on...
Long ‘to-do’ list remains for Cheswick, Springdale Township police merger
The Allegheny Valley Regional Police Commission still has a lot of work ahead of it after meeting for the first time Tuesday night. The four-member commission is made up of Cheswick Council members Michael Girardi and Kathy Gillard, Springdale Township Commissioner Shirley Redman and township resident Rick Schwartz. They are...
UPMC to offer free skin cancer screenings at Harmar office
The public will have a chance to receive a free skin cancer screening in May at the UPMC St. Margaret Dermatology office in Harmar. The screenings take less than five minutes and, if anything is detected, patients will be given a further exam by the physician. The event will be...
West Deer drainage work to result in traffic restrictions
Traffic in West Deer should be impacted for about 16 days starting tomorrow while PennDOT works to complete a drainage project along Deer Creek Road. When that work begins, weather permitting, traffic will be restricted to a single alternating lane on Deer Creek between Bakerstown Culmerville and Kyle roads from...
Highlands High School program stresses positive attitude during traffic stopsVideo
So, you’ve been pulled over by police. Want the traffic stop to go as quickly as possible and be on your way? Police offer what they say are the two most important tips: Be polite and listen to the officer’s instructions. The goal is to promote safety for those pulled...
2 bears killed by cars in West Deer, Hampton in as many days
Two young black bears, possibly siblings, were hit by cars over the weekend in West Deer and Hampton. There were no reports of injuries to people in either incident, according to Dan Puhala, a Pennsylvania Game Commission warden who covers northern Allegheny County. The first bear was hit early Saturday...
Highlands fails in argument to keep employee’s name secret
Highlands School District should not have kept secret the name of an employee it suspended in February, the state’s Office of Open Records has ruled. The office issued a final determination Tuesday in response to an appeal filed by the Tribune-Review after Highlands refused to release the employee’s name. The...
Still no deal between New Kensington-Arnold School District, teachers union
Seven hours of negotiations Monday night didn’t produce an agreement between New Kensington-Arnold School District and its teachers union. The district’s 167 teachers have been working without a contract since Aug. 31, 2017. The session Monday was the first since April 11. Phil Cope, a spokesman for the teachers’ union,...
Vandergrift man charged in death of infant son headed to court
A Vandergrift man whose 1-month-old son suffocated and died in September told detectives he shouldn’t have fallen asleep with the infant on his chest, a detective with the Westmoreland County District Attorney’s Office testified Tuesday. “He had agreed with us that he probably shouldn’t have done that,” Detective John Clark...
Voodoo Brewery to open in New KensingtonVideo
New Kensington officials are excited to use a little voodoo brew to help revitalize the city’s downtown corridor. Meadville-based Voodoo Brewery will open a brew pub by fall on Fifth Avenue in the city, according to a joint announcement Tuesday by Mayor Tom Guzzo and one of Voodoo’s owners, Jake...
Highlands solicitor: Public can’t comment at upcoming bus meeting
Following a failed vote to hire a new school bus company, Highlands School Board wants to question the two companies vying for the district’s transportation contract, district Solicitor Ira Weiss said. The board called a rare public committee meeting for next week to pose questions to representatives of W.L. Roenigk,...
Paramedics respond to Harrison car crash
At least one woman appeared to be hurt when a car and a minivan collided in Harrison on Tuesday morning. The crash happened at about 8:20 a.m. at the intersection of Freeport Road and Idaho Avenue, between Key Bank and a car wash. A white Chevy Cavalier had extensive front-end...
Woman ‘searching for ghosts’ struck by car in Armstrong County
A woman was recovering Tuesday from extensive injuries to her neck, head and brain suffered last weekend after she was hit and dragged by a car in Armstrong County, state police said. State police Lt. Eric Simko said the woman, who was not identified, had been outside a car with...
Harrison Earth Day cleanup nets 118 bags of trash, tires, TVs, mattresses
Volunteers filled more than 100 bags with trash in Harrison’s Earth Day cleanup on Saturday. A total of 64 volunteers turned out, including 34 in Natrona Heights and 30 in Natrona, Commissioner Chuck Dizard said. That included people from Fawn and Tarentum. “Amazingly, a few of the nasty areas were...
