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A Greensburg woman has returned home after being missing for nearly two days, according to Police Chief Charles Irvin. Lisa Slavnik, 48, returned home Tuesday night. Irvin said she appeared to be safe. Police would not release any other details. No one answered the door at Slavnik’s house Wednesday morning....

Penn State New Kensington fit the bill for 19-year-old Angelina Da Vila. “Originally, I wanted to go to Penn State,” she said. “I wanted to be in the city, but not go to such a big school. I still wanted that small-school atmosphere, and New Kensington sounded like one of...

Michelle Liprando of Harrison City watched as her daughter, Sienna, spun around and around and around on a motorcycle merry-go-round at Mammoth Park in Mt. Pleasant Township Sunday. It became a familiar sight — the young girl went on the C&L Shows’ ride quite often during Westmoreland County’s annual Mammoth...

Church News • Newlonsburg Presbyterian Church, 4600 Old William Penn Highway, Murrysville, will host a community Pentecost picnic June 8 at the church. A worship service will be at 10 a.m. and the picnic will be afterward. There will be a bounce house, activities for all ages, an obstacle course and...

There will be a number of road closures, detours and street restrictions in the heart of Ligonier this week to allow for filming of the movie, “Hershey.” Here are the areas that will be affected. Municipal Lot A, at Church Street and Route 711, will be closed for parking from...

Delayed construction is beginning at the intersection of Route 286 and Saltsburg Road in Murrysville, near the Plum border, according to Plum officials. Canonsburg-based Olympus Energy paid for temporary traffic improvements last year as part of its Hermes fracking well pad project, built nearby on the Murrysville-Plum border off Logan’s...

Josiah Inghram joined the 130th Pennsylvania Regiment in the fall of 1862, at the age of 17. He trained in Harrisburg under Col. Henry Zinn and was quickly ordered to Antietam, where his regiment saw its first combat during the Civil War. More than 160 years later, his great-great-grandson Jay...

Glenn Smeltzer stood with pride in Westmoreland County Courthouse Square on Saturday as he and his son watched a ceremony a century in the making. County officials and member of the Greensburg-based Sons of Veterans of Civil War Capt. George A. Cribbs Camp No. 276 celebrated the 100th anniversary of...

Judge Timothy Krieger rejected a Hostetter man’s plea for a house arrest sentence Friday, instead handing him a jail term for incidents in 2020 involving two teenage girls. “I appreciate that,” Krieger said to Glenn D. Jones Jr., 26, who told the judge he previously did well on house arrest...

A Greensburg man was sentenced Friday to 12 to 24 years in a state prison for the sexual assault of a 3-year-old boy. James A. Swanson, 48, was ordered to spend three years on probation after the prison term is over. He was convicted in March of rape and involuntary...

As Cortez McClendon was getting food out of a refrigerator, he felt the gunshots. He was hit with bullets five times, three of which remain lodged in his body, before falling to the floor of the Jeannette home on June 9, 2023. McClendon testified Friday that he remembered seeing Briana...

A hearing for prosecutors to lay out some of their evidence is being scheduled in the case against a North Huntingdon man accused of driving 90 mph last year before colliding with another vehicle, seriously injuring its driver. Assistant District Attorney Anthony Iannamorelli said Friday he expects testimony to take...

A federal judge dismissed a Norwin School Board director’s lawsuit against the former superintendent and the district. U.S. Judge Scott Hardy in Pittsburgh ruled that Alex Detschelt failed to state a claim for which the court can grant relief. Detschelt, of North Huntingdon, filed the lawsuit after he was censured...

Kids and adults attending Mister Rogers Family Days will have the chance to “toon” in to the artistry of Oakmont cartoonist Joe Wos at this year’s edition of the Latrobe festival. Known for his short-format “Cartoon Academy” TV series of drawing demonstrations produced at Pittsburgh PBS affiliate WQED, Wos will...

Demolition work at the former Fort Pitt Brewery site in West Jeannette is expected to wrap up in the next few months as officials prepare for an environmental assessment later this year. The decrepit buildings are gone, but remaining work includes cleaning up and spreading dirt, said Brian Lawrence, director...

Hempfield Supervisor Jay Anderson is pushing for a public works fleet maintenance plan to be established as the board approved spending an unexpected $174,000 to buy a new day cab tractor. The vehicle is used to haul a trailer and heavy public works equipment such as a paver or excavator....

Licensed practical nurse Carol Marol has been working at Westmoreland Manor for about 28 years, and laments that the quality of care at the nursing home is not as good as it used to be because of decreased staffing. “When we are short-staffed, and when workers are not paid competitive...

North Huntingdon has cited the owner of the camper that has been parked at the site of the former Rivertowne Pub & Grille along Route 30 for the past several months. Michael Manan was cited by code enforcement this week for illegally parking a camper on the property, leaving vehicles...

A Murrysville attorney who ran unsuccessfully for district judge in 2023 was charged Thursday with stealing about $312,000 from an elderly client. An arrest warrant was issued for Robert C. Klingensmith, 61, on three counts of theft and a single count of financial exploitation of an older adult. He did...

Delayed construction work at the intersection of Route 286 and Saltsburg Road in Murrysville, near the Plum border, began Thursday, Plum officials said. Canonsburg-based Olympus Energy funded temporary traffic improvements last year as part of its Hermes fracking well pad project, built nearby on the Murrysville-Plum border off Logan’s Ferry...

Now that we’re reached the unofficial start of summer, it’s time to get together, get out and get moving. Here are some things to do this weekend: ‘Wicked’ sing-a-long Did you see “Wicked” in the theater and get tons of dirty looks when you tried to sing along? Never fear!...

A woman was critically hurt in a three-vehicle crash Thursday morning on Route 30 in Unity. She and another motorist were taken by ambulance to AHN Forbes Hospital in Monroeville following the crash near the Theatre Street intersection, according to Mutual Aid Ambulance Service spokesman Shawn Penzera. In a news...

Monroeville police are looking for a Derry woman who skipped court hearings after a 2023 drug arrest. Leann M. Wechtenhiser was taken into custody after a November 2023 crash near the U-Haul store on Route 22 in Monroeville. Police responded to a call for a rear-end crash, and discovered that...

Traffic will be reduced to one lane overnight along a portion of Route 130 in Penn Township starting June 8 while Peoples Natural Gas works to replace aging pipelines. The project is part of the gas company’s decades-long plan to replace 3,000 miles of pipelines to make their system more...