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The Latrobe Art Center’s Spring 2023 Plein Air painting contest is in full swing. On Wednesday, artists began painting and drawing at scenic locations throughout the community. Their completed works are to be dropped off between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday at Latrobe Art Center, 819 Ligonier St. Each...

The surviving family members of a Butler County woman who died while incarcerated in 2019 in the Westmoreland County Prison claims staff at the lockup failed to prevent her from overdosing while she was in their custody. According to an amended complaint filed this month in U.S. District Court in...

A reward is being offered for information after a cat was found Wednesday with severe burns in the Ruffs Dale area, according to the Westmoreland County District Attorney’s Office. The feline is being cared for by Frankie’s Friends Cat Rescue in New Ken­sington. Humane officers are offering a reward, though...

After failing to reach a new lease agreement, Mutual Aid EMS is moving out of the Latrobe municipal building to two existing stations a few miles away at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Unity and a second site in Derry Township. According to city manager Terry Carcella, the nonprofit ambulance...

Final recital The Friday Evening Music Club of the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra will present its season-finale recital at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Campana Chapel at the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg, 150 Finoli Drive, Hempfield. The program will include Roger Cazden on flute with Josie Merlino on piano playing works by...

Dick Groat long has been considered one of Western Pennsylvania’s greatest sports figures. Which sport depended on the generation, as the Swissvale native was a two-sport star at Duke, one of only 13 people to play in both the NBA and MLB and later spent four decades calling college basketball...

Angela Long hopes to become a teacher one day, perhaps at her alma mater. The 18-year-old senior at Hempfield Area High School plans to study early childhood education at the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg. She’ll do so without tuition debt. Long was one of two Westmoreland County high school students awarded...

A few new doors and some paint might not seem like much, but it’s been a huge comfort for Michelle Trenk to know her Jeannette home is now free of lead-based paint. Her family isn’t exposed to the toxic metal any longer, thanks to Westmoreland County’s new grant-­funded lead removal...

Joe Scarlett was — in his words — sitting “fat, dumb and happy” watching television in 1988 when a friend called and asked him if he still had his clarinet. “I hadn’t seen it since 1964,” said Scarlett, 76, of Monroeville. “Then I remembered I’d lent it to a friend.”...

Parents in Hempfield Area School District remain divided over whether books that some deem objectionable should be taught in the classroom or available in the library. The school board this week advanced a policy that has been in the works for about a year that could be adopted in June....

Nighttime single-lane restrictions and rolling traffic stoppages are slated to begin Thursday on a section of Route 30 in Hempfield as crews remove concrete and beams for replacement of the bridge that carries eastbound lanes of East Pittsburgh Street over the highway. The restrictions are expected to affect both eastbound...

The diversity of the local arts scene will be displayed during the annual Greensburg ArtsWalk, set for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at various venues throughout the downtown area. “Greensburg is an art city with arts schools and a major museum. ArtsWalk showcases this,” said Pati Beachley, Seton Hill...

Parents of Hempfield Area middle school students will have to wait a little longer to get concrete answers on where their students will attend classes next year, as the school board postponed its vote this week on an updated redistricting plan until May 8. Under the first proposal approved in...

Church News • Jeannette Assembly of God will host its Tabitha’s Closet free clothing event from 5 to 7 p.m. April 28 in the church fellowship hall, 246 Pleasant Valley Road, Jeannette. Details: 724-832-7066. Fundraisers • Lutheran Church of Our Saviour, 1570 Clay Pike, North Huntingdon, will sponsor its annual...

Republican Westmoreland County commissioner candidates John Ventre and Paul Kosko will remain on the GOP primary ballot after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling. As a result, county election officials said more than 22,000 mail-in ballots will be sent to...

Carol Geiger said the fire that swept through her mother’s Jeannette home in 2018 did more than just destroy her family’s memories. “The most important thing you took from me or my family was my mother, the matriarch of our family. She was a single mother of four children. She...

A former head of North Huntingdon’s emergency management operations has been tapped to lead Mutual Aid Ambulance Service Inc., Westmoreland County’s largest ambulance service. Gene Komondor of North Huntingdon, who was the township’s emergency management coordinator from 2007 to October 2020 and had operated an ambulance service, started his new...

After being found not guilty last week of unlawfully killing an antlered deer, charges of tampering with evidence were withdrawn Tuesday against an Arnold police officer because of a lack of evidence. Pennsylvania Game Commission officials said Jacob A. Pollick, 29, of Murrysville killed an antlered whitetail Oct. 11 in...

As the covid-19 pandemic pressed on into 2021, Anna Pinto wasn’t able to attend her high school in Highland Park, and her younger sister, Gia, wasn’t able to attend the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. Both were at their Murrysville residence being home-schooled — and ended up taking the...

In Steven Dietz’s 2004 drama, “Last of the Boys,” the main character is a veteran still haunted 30 years later by his experiences in Vietnam. The play itself has had something of a haunting effect on Sue Kurey of North Versailles, who will direct a Greensburg Civic Theater production as...

A valuable painting has been stolen, and the artist is dead. Who dunnit? Amateur sleuths can trek the streets of Greensburg and solve the crime during Westmoreland Community Action’s second annual “WHO DUNNIT?” event Saturday. The story will unfold beginning at 11 a.m. at the scene of the crime —...

Audiences will get a familiar spin on entertainment when “Wheel of Fortune LIVE!” comes to the Palace Theatre in Greensburg this fall. The popular game show is set to play the venue Nov. 7. Guests will be randomly selected to go onstage and spin a full-sized replica of the show’s...

Supervisors at the Westmoreland County Prison could be required to work longer shifts under a plan adopted Monday by members of the board that oversees the county lockup. Prison board members unanimously recommended extended workdays for five sergeants who oversee the jail’s staff of guards as part of an effort...

A Hempfield man pleaded guilty Monday to charges that he sexually assaulted three teen girls. Joshua Esteban Kunkle, 21, was initially charged 23 criminal offenses, including multiple counts of rape, in connection with accusations from three juveniles that he forced them into sexual activity over a four-year period ending in...

A Derry Township woman is accused of sending threatening messages to a pair of country musicians on Instagram and TikTok, the Westmoreland County District Attorney’s office said. Ashley Rose Felix, 26, is charged with harassment and stalking after, authorities said, she created more than 50 social media accounts to harass...