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Highlands Middle School students will be working out in an updated fitness room thanks to a grant from the Highmark Foundation. The district is expected to receive $7,300 to help replace outdated equipment and modernize the facilities. “We encounter many challenges daily while conducting our PE and Lifetime Wellness classes...

A 21-year-old Derry Township man awaiting trial on more than 100 offenses including 30 charges of rape will be prosecuted as an adult, a judge ruled. Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court Judge Christopher Feliciani rejected a defense request to transfer the case, filed last year against Tyler Alan Eisworth, to...

A lawsuit alleging libel and slander was filed Tuesday by a Monessen councilman against the city’s former mayor. Councilman Anthony Orzechowski claims published comments and statements by Mayor Matt Shorraw in the months leading up to last year’s election and continuing into 2022 were intentionally false and erroneously suggested criminal...

Markers, scissors, cutting boards and desks line what was once an empty corner in Penn Area Library. Adorned with a decal reading “STEM,” the corner is home to the library’s newest addition — a makerspace created by a Penn-Trafford High School student. Natalie Goldsworthy of Harrison City is a rising...

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Yough School District will have a new superintendent with a familiar face — the former middle school principal. Mt. Pleasant Area School District Assistant Superintendent Anthony DeMaro was hired by the Yough School Board last week as the district’s next superintendent under terms of a five-year contract. DeMaro, who will...

Michelle Cook hasn’t even been playing club ball hockey for two years, so the prospect of traveling to the Czech Republic for an international competition this fall is still a little surreal. “I’m so excited and I can’t wait to go,” said Cook, 38, of Pittsburgh’s Highland Park neighborhood. Cook...

Willie enjoys spending his days relaxing on the golf course and eating apples. If Willie were human, these activities wouldn’t seem too out of the ordinary. Willie isn’t human, though. He is a runaway pig. The 120-pound swine has been on the lam in the Alverton and Mt. Pleasant areas...

Westmoreland County residents can help support aid efforts in the Ukraine by having a beer or two Thursday at Yellow Bridge Brewing in Delmont. The Notre Dame Club of Greensburg/Uniontown will host a “Paint the Yellow Bridge Blue & Gold” fundraiser from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the brewery, 2266 Route 66...

A new mural in downtown Latrobe puts key players in the city’s history side by side. Unveiled Tuesday morning, the artwork is featured on the back of the city’s new welcome sign located where Main and Depot streets diverge from Lloyd Avenue. Important historical figures are displayed in chronological order...

Westmoreland County commissioners may have taken a pass at providing security for former President Donald Trump, but they decided to help beef up patrols for the Pittsburgh Steelers. County park police will be on hand at the team’s summer training camp, which began Tuesday at Saint Vincent College in Unity....

The players who arrived at Pittsburgh Steelers training camp Tuesday came in style with giant SUVs and sporty matte-black Porsche coupes. For fans who arrive Wednesday, it will be the first chance to check out training camp at Saint Vincent College since 2019, the last year before the team moved...

After her arrest last week on theft charges, an Armstrong County woman claimed she had no idea where to find the German shepherd she was pet sitting and accused of stealing from a Trafford woman. “In her words, ‘I don’t (expletive) know,’ ” Trafford police Officer Stephen Zubach testified Tuesday...

In an appeal filed this week, the lawyer for a Greensburg man ordered to serve what is likely to amount to a life prison term for the rape of a 5-year-old child claims the sentence is too long. Charles Jason Hunter was sentenced to serve 84 to 168 years in...

Steven M. Cope Jr. told a Westmoreland County judge this week that all he wanted was a chance to be a constructive member of society. The judge ruled that will have wait for at least 22½ years. Cope, 26, of Unity was sentenced to serve up to 45 years in...

Hempfield officials want $3 million in state funding to develop municipally-owned properties, including Hempfield Park. Township supervisors this week authorized manager Jason Winters to apply for a $3 million grant through the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program. The township heard from T.J. Black, president of the Hempfield Area Soccer Club, that...

Playing at various festivals over the years, musician Derek Woods of Hempfield had a vision for creating one of his own. “I always wanted to start a festival that had a semi-circus theme to it,” said the front man for the Derek Woods Band. The dream became a reality when...

Saint Vincent College is taking steps to make its small business services more visible and accessible in downtown Latrobe. This August, the college plans to open a community center at 911 Ligonier St. The center will house the college’s Small Business Development Center and SCORE Westmoreland. “In this day and...

Daisy Mae is a cow for all seasons. Surrounded by patriotic red, white and blue ornamentation, in August she will be clothed in a new back-to-school outfit. For two decades, this fashion animal has been turning heads among motorists who pass her Greensburg home at the intersection of Hawksworth Drive...

Children in grades K-4 will have the opportunity to embrace their musical sides this summer. From Aug. 8-12, the Latrobe Art Center will host “Lead with Music,” a WQED-designed program dedicated to teaching children about music. Michael Tusay, executive director of the center, said children will learn about musical styles,...

Sections of a parking garage on Greensburg’s North Maple Avenue have been closed until the city can repair damage to a concrete ceiling. City public works director Tom Bell said he was notified last week that fragments of concrete fell from the ceiling of the garage’s lower level at the...

A Jeannette police officer was hurt during a tense situation Sunday in which a man pulled out a loaded gun as authorities were investigating a domestic incident, according to court papers. City police were called to a South Fourth Street apartment around 3:30 p.m. to resolve a living situation between...

A Hempfield man grabbed at a state trooper’s Taser and tried reaching for a knife after police were called to a domestic situation Saturday at his home, according to court papers. Anthony T. Aliberti, 51, was being held at the Westmoreland County Prison on charges of aggravated assault, disarming a...

A Greensburg man was jailed Saturday after city police said he provided a stamp bag of what he believed was heroin to his nephew, who was visiting from Ohio and had never tried the drug, according to court papers. Police said the stamp bag contained fentanyl, a deadly opioid that...

On an artist’s palette, black and gold don’t make green. But during the Pittsburgh Steelers training camp near Latrobe, they do make green — and a lot of it. Area businesses are anticipating an economic boost in the coming weeks as the Steelers return to Saint Vincent College in Unity...