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Latrobe’s public works crew plans to install signs to guide large trucks properly through key downtown intersections to help protect from damage to traffic signals and curbs that soon will be upgraded there. Public works Director Scott Wajdic told city council this week that PennDOT has approved signs that will...

Delmont Borough has its spring cleaning all planned out. The weekend of April 25-26 will see the annual borough-wide cleanup take place, with Dumpsters on hand for residents to make drop-offs, but the Delmont Visionary Committee also will patrol borough streets with volunteers picking up trash. “We’ve got trash bags...

Greater Latrobe School District expects to slash $30,000 from its annual electric bill if it locks in a price now for 2021-22. The school board, at its Feb. 18 meeting, will consider a one year electricity procurement agreement with Direct Energy, setting a rate of slightly more than 3.7 cents...

The success of Latrobe Police Department’s inaugural meet-and-greet session in early February prompted two follow-up community outreach dates in the weeks ahead. On Feb. 28, children attending Latrobe Elementary School will have the opportunity to “Lunch with a Cop,” when city officers will share a meal with the school’s 680-some...

A former Mt. Pleasant woman pleaded guilty in two separate fraud indictments, according to U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady. Jennifer L. Clark, also known as Jennifer Gill, 42, is a former Mt. Pleasant resident now living in Pinellas Park, Fla. Clark pleaded guilty to four counts in connection with two...

The district judge’s office in Mt. Pleasant Township will be shuttered next month as part of plan to redistrict Westmoreland County’s remaining 16 local courts. The move comes on the heels of last week’s resignation of Senior District Judge Roger Eckels, who for three decades presided over the court, hearing...

Penn Township Police say the man they chased along Route 130 early Tuesday was holding more than 120 stamp bags of heroin and told officers he won $1,254 cash “playing Russian roulette.” Police didn’t buy the story and charged with Larry T. Richardson, 24, of Pittsburgh, with manufacturing, delivery and...

For the second consecutive year, Norwin’s Sheridan Terrace Elementary School is a Title I Distinguished School. Sheridan Terrace won the designation for the 2018-19 and the 2019-20 school years, according to the state Department of Education’s federal programs division. It was one of 94 schools to receive the award for...

Greensburg police are looking for a former Latrobe man after they said he exposed himself over the weekend to workers at a city restaurant. Eric Trice, 43, is accused of showing his genitals to waitresses and a female patron at Dino’s Sports Lounge, according to court papers. He was charged...

Three Fort Allen Elementary School teachers had the chance to kiss Chuck Norris — the goat. Students and teachers on Jan. 31 raised more than $900 for Relay for Life of Greensburg through their Kiss a Goat for a Cause fundraiser paired with the annual pie-a-teacher in the face event,...

Norwin plans to launch a program next school year to give iPads to students, starting in fifth grade and continuing over four years, so that all students from fifth through 12th grades will study on computer tablets that eventually will replace textbooks. The multi-year One to World program giving Apple...

The tenure of the mayor’s cousin serving as Latrobe city manager didn’t last beyond the honeymoon. City council this week officially accepted the resignation of John Antinori, who served less than three months after the board unanimously hired him in November. On Monday, council again voted unanimously — this time...

Beer and wine could be coming soon to the Sheetz on Harvey Avenue in Greensburg. City council Monday unanimously approved a liquor license transfer from Hempfield, completing the first step in the process. Sheetz now has to seek approval from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, which usually takes several months,...

Irwin Borough hired a part-time code enforcement officer. Joseph Volpe of Penn Hills was hired by borough council last week to work 20 hours a week, at a rate of $15 an hour, said council President Rick Burdelski. Volpe will be responsible for enforcing the borough’s Quality of Life ordinance...

Lawyers in a class action suit trying to force the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh to open its clergy abuse archives expanded their campaign to include the Greensburg, Harrisburg and Altoona-Johnstown dioceses as well as the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The move comes one month after Allegheny County Common Pleas Court Judge...

A new special response team made up of officers from several police departments in the Alle-Kiski Valley is up and running and has been deployed twice this year. The team’s first dispatch was a high-risk search warrant in New Kensington in early January, said Thomas Seefeld, chief of the Murrysville...

A Youngwood man will await trial in jail on a charge he provided a fatal dose of fentanyl-laced heroin used by a woman whose body was found in a Greensburg apartment last summer. In court Monday, Westmoreland County prosecutors said that, while on bail and house arrest in January, Matthew...

The county spent nearly $24,000 to combat Legionella bacteria since late January, after it was discovered in the water system of Westmoreland Manor. Officials said Monday a private company was hired to flush the water systems at the county-owned nursing home in Hempfield with chlorine, while additional expenses included the...

Five inmates at the Westmoreland County Prison are facing assault and conspiracy charges in connection with a December fight in which a sixth inmate was injured, according to court papers. The suspects are accused playing various roles in attacking a 21-year-old man in a cell, county detectives said. Charged are:...

A Hempfield man is accused by state police of punching another motorist after his Taco Bell order fell to the floor when he had to stop suddenly outside the restaurant, according to court papers. Michael A. Matrone, 62, was charged Monday with strangulation, simple assault and harassment. Troopers were called...