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Hot on the tail of Cyber Monday, nonprofits across the region are looking for a hand on Giving Tuesday. The event, a celebration of giving observed the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, typically is a high-profile opportunity for charities and nonprofits to make a case for year-end donations. It takes on special...

A group of state GOP lawmakers contesting the result of the Nov. 3 election is continuing a “forensic investigation,” even as their efforts to bring a resolution seeking to overturn the Pennsylvania election certification failed. The 26 Republican state representatives, including Daryl Metcalfe, Eric Nelson, Eric Davanzo and Cris Dush...

Westmoreland County on Monday certified the remainder of votes from the Nov. 3 election that are not subject to legal challenges. That does not include 344 mail-in ballots that didn’t have a date written on them. Attorney Marco Attisano argued the board of elections should count those undated ballots in...

Heather Manhart is hopeful a parade will bring the Christmas spirit to kids in her Hempfield neighborhood following a year marred by the coronavirus pandemic. “They lost so much this year and (I’m) hoping that this will bring a smile to their face seeing Santa and just the spirit of...

A Unity man remained in jail Monday after state police accused him of being high over the weekend when he nearly hit an ambulance in Derry Township and spit on and kicked two troopers, according to court papers. Marshal Corb Wherry, 24, is charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest, driving...

Greensburg police charged two men with reckless endangerment and other offenses after accusing them of not calling an ambulance after a woman overdosed at a Greensburg home. Nicholas Anthony Iapalucci, 31, of Greensburg, called Christopher Love, 43, of Southwest Greensburg, and requested opioid overdose antidote naloxone for his unconscious girlfriend...

Starting Tuesday, all public business at the Westmoreland County Clerk of Courts office will be conducted by appointment only. Clerk of Courts Bryan Kline made the change Monday because some staffers have tested positive for the coronavirus, while others are quarantining as they await test results. “My staff operations are...

Grant applications are open for Westmoreland County’s fire departments that have experienced negative financial impacts from the coronavirus pandemic. A nonprofit department can receive up to $25,000 each for either expenses related to the pandemic or revenue lost under guidelines released Monday. Commissioner Sean Kertes said there are 118 fire...

A Greensburg man pleaded guilty Monday to setting his house on fire. Jeremiah N. Morgan, 41, was sentenced to spend up to two years, less a day, in the Westmoreland County Prison followed by five years of probation. Morgan said he pleaded guilty to “get into treatment and get my...

Officials with the Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 302 new covid-19 cases over the past two days in Westmoreland County on Monday. There were 173 new cases Sunday and 129 on Monday. Among the new cases, 152 were confirmed through 385 new PCR tests from Sunday’s batch, while 96 were...

Greensburg will celebrate its 51st annual Luminary Night beginning at 5 p.m. Dec. 3. About 400 luminaries will light the way for visitors along Main, Otterman and West Second streets and Pennsylvania Avenue, and a Christmas tree will illuminate the South Pennsylvania Avenue Parklet. The Downtown Greensburg Project, which organizes...

The latest surge of covid-19 cases has prompted a 500% increase in hospitalizations when compared to the spring stage of the pandemic, officials from the region’s health care systems said Sunday. While some hospitals are close to running out of intensive care beds, officials at Allegheny Health Network and UPMC...

Allegheny Township resident Jessica Pulice and her daughters want to attend church in person, but they want to do it safely. That’s what Pulice said Sunday as she walked into Mass at Mount St. Peter Parish in New Kensington. “People are practicing social distancing (at Mount St. Peter). They are...

For John Mizikar, seeing the shuttered Ramada by Wyndham Greensburg Hotel and Conference Center in Hempfield go is like losing a good friend. Mizikar, 58, of Mt. Pleasant Township spent a large chunk of his life at the 42-year-old hotel, working his way through the ranks and paving his way...

One year after the homicide of North Huntingdon chiropractor David S. Bailey, investigators have not made an arrest, despite a billboard alert near the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s Irwin interchange and acquaintances offering a reward for information leading to a conviction. Bailey, 54, was found dead inside his Parkway Drive office on...

Pennsylvania’s move to start firearms deer-hunting season on Saturday, two days earlier than the traditional Monday after Thanksgiving, turned out pretty good for one hunter along Laurel Summit east of Ligonier. But many of his fellow hunters panned the state Game Commission’s early start for the second year. Josh Vitalie...

A Uniontown man was killed early Saturday morning on Route 51 near Smock Road when the all-terrain vehicle he was driving the wrong way collided head-on with a car, state police in Belle Vernon said. The victim, Jeremiah Pletcher, 22, was driving the ATV southbound in the northbound lanes of...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Saturday reported a record 284 new cases of the coronavirus in Westmoreland County. It is the fifth-straight day the county reported more than 200 cases. Five additional deaths were reported, increasing the death toll to 192. Of the new covid-19 cases, 254 are confirmed...

A staff member at Greater Latrobe Senior High has died of complications of covid-19, according to the school district. Superintendent Georgia Teppert stated in an email sent to district faculty and staff on Thanksgiving Day that district officials learned Terri Sherwin, a senior high secretary, died Wednesday evening from covid-19...

Westmoreland County remained in the “substantial” level of covid-19 transmission this week, as it has been for more than a month. As health officials expressed concern about the transmission risk related to Thanksgiving holiday travel and gatherings, Westmoreland ended the most recent seven-day period with a case level of 321.2...

The potential for 110 vacant acres in Hempfield and Unity is big given its proximity to the newly-opened Live! Casino Pittsburgh inside Westmoreland Mall, according to Jason Rigone, director of the Westmoreland County Industrial Development Corp. “We’re excited for that region of the county,” he said. The Westmoreland County commissioners...

More technological upgrades are coming to Westmoreland County’s courtrooms with the help of federal funding. The county’s 16 district court buildings will be better connected to the courthouse, and courtrooms in Greensburg will have improved wireless infrastructure under two projects totaling about $353,000. Both were approved by commissioners this week....

A 2021 wall calendar with current and past photos of Irwin is being sold by an Irwin business group. “The initial response has been great,” said Michael Pochan, a member of the nonprofit Irwin Business & Professional Association, which is selling the 11-by-17-inch calendar for $15. The calender will be...