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Penn-Trafford toy drive honors student, aids cancer patients at Children’s HospitalVideo
Like other 5-year-old girls, Lilli Durante loves dresses and dressing up like Disney princesses. What makes her love of pretending to be a Disney princess special is when and where she wears those dresses. The Manor girl plays dress-up when she goes to UPMC Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh for chemotherapy...
North Huntingdon pays developer $145,000 to settle lawsuit
North Huntingdon officials have agreed to pay a township developer $145,000 in an out-of-court settlement of a 2017 lawsuit in which the homebuilder claimed a former planning director discriminated against him, costing his company thousands of dollars. Township commissioners voted 4-2 this week to settle with Robert W. Shuster’s RWS...
Seton Hill dedicates Daniel J. Wukich School of NursingVideo
When the Sisters of Charity founded Seton Hill College in 1918, they placed an emphasis on the sciences being taught to female students. And while the Sisters did have a nursing education program at the former Pittsburgh Hospital, Seton Hill University never offered a formal nursing degree program. That changed...
Boutique and brewery open in downtown GreensburgVideo
Two back-to-back business openings have brought new energy to a block on Greensburg’s South Pennsylvania Avenue. Wight Elephant Boutique held its grand opening Thursday, a major milestone for the developers who have spent more than $1 million renovating the long-vacant building at 136 S. Pennsylvania Ave. “I’m not an emotional...
Westmoreland County will mark ‘Dick Groat Day’
Dick Groat spent 40 years as part of the broadcast team calling University of Pittsburgh men’s basketball games. But the 2018-19 season was his last with good friend and broadcast partner Bill Hillgrove. Though the 88-year-old was disappointed when the university decided to part ways with him, he still loves...
Westmoreland County prothonotary to process passports at health expo
Westmoreland County’s Prothonotary Office will process passports at next week’s Health and Wellness Expo in Hempfield. The event, which will run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 23 at the Ramada by Wyndham Greensburg Hotel and Conference Center, will feature information booths detailing programs and services for seniors, persons...
Dedicated Nursing Associates expansion could include traffic improvements in Murrysville
Murrysville council amended its traffic improvement plan Wednesday to accommodate development along Route 22 that includes an expansion of the Dedicated Nursing Associates business. “Improvements will be necessary to Manor Road and possibly Route 22,” Chief Administrator Jim Morrison told council members. “A right-hand turning lane on Route 22 westbound...
Reward increased for info on fatal shooting of bald eagle in Westmoreland
The organizers of a GoFundMe account created after a bald eagle was found shot in Westmoreland County have increased their reward for information about the shooting to $1,000. The bald eagle died after it was found on the West Penn Trail in Derry Township on Oct. 4. Earlier this week,...
Libyan student defies odds to return to Hempfield host mom, U.S. classrooms
Whether Sanad Saad would spend his senior year at an American high school ultimately came down to a three-hour visit to a courier office in Dunningsville. Sanad’s host mother, Dar Frederickson, 68, of Hempfield, was trying to send important papers to his home country of Libya this summer and was...
Westmoreland County voting machines get one final test before last hurrahVideo
Westmoreland County’s 880 touch-screen voting machines will be junked next month after the votes recorded in the Nov. 5 general election are made official. County elections officials on Thursday ran the final tests on those machines to ensure they are operational one last time. “I can’t say there was anything...
Greensburg Diocese paid $4.35 million in sexual abuse claims
The Greensburg Catholic Diocese paid $4.35 million to settle claims with 57 adults who suffered child sexual abuse at the hands of clergy, church officials announced Thursday. Greensburg was among five Pennsylvania dioceses and one archdiocese that established compensation funds for survivors of clergy child sexual abuse following last year’s...
Spain an adventure for Mt. Pleasant studentsVideo
Try to go to high school in a foreign land, listen to teachers give instructions in their native tongue, assimilate into a different culture and live with a family not your own for 10 months. That was the challenge that two 17-year-old Mt. Pleasant Area girls — Natalie Black and...
Fairview Park kicks off capital campaign, marks 75th anniversary in 2020
In 1945, a group of black church leaders from Allegheny and Westmoreland counties set out to create a place where they could come together and enjoy themselves. With segregation restricting the places African-Americans could go, the Monongahela Valley Sunday School Association created Fairview Park in Salem Township. At one time,...
Cops: Argument over beer in Southwest Greensburg results in stabbing, arrest
A 42-year-old South Huntingdon man is in the Westmoreland County Prison after police say he slashed his younger brother’s leg with a knife during an argument over drinking beer. Francis John Hermanson Jr. is charged by police with aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment and harassment in connection with the...
Start your Thanksgiving off with Greensburg’s annual Turkey Trot
For nearly three decades, determined walkers and runners have laced up their sneakers and headed out on Thanksgiving Day morning to take on the streets of downtown Greensburg, before they take on Thanksgiving dinner. The 28th annual Greensburg 5K Turkey Trot, sponsored by Big Brothers Big Sisters Laurel Region, will...
Lottery jackpot worth $650K sold at Hempfield store
A Pennsylvania Lottery Cash 5 ticket worth $650,000 was sold Wednesday at a Westmoreland County convenience store, according to state lottery officials. The winning ticket matched all five balls drawn, 07-10-12-35-40, to win the jackpot, less withholding. The BP convenience store, Par Mar 66 at 4613 Route 136 in Hempfield,...
Appeals court: Judge should not have barred evidence regarding Hempfield rape allegation
A Pennsylvania appeals court on Wednesday overturned a ruling issued earlier this year that barred key evidence in a pending rape case against a Hempfield man. In January, Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court Judge Tim Krieger ruled prosecutors could use statements the alleged victim gave to Greensburg authorities after she...
Bedbugs found at Penn Middle School in Penn Township
Bedbugs have been found at Penn Middle School in the Penn-Trafford School District. District officials alerted parents Wednesday that a student was found with bedbugs on their body. No additional bugs were found in the student’s belongings. When a professional exterminator and the district’s maintenance director began searching classrooms frequented...
North Huntingdon police bust Penn Hills man on marijuana charges
A Penn Hills man whose vehicle ran out of gas allegedly had 29 marijuana plants stuffed in multiple bags stashed in his car when North Huntingdon police arrested him early Wednesday morning. Lamar D. Kincaid, 55, is accused of having several large garbage bags of marijuana plants about 3 feet...
Ligonier Township man charged with assaulting woman, police
Ligonier Valley police this week responded to a domestic disturbance in Ligonier Township only to find themselves involved in a struggle with the property owner, who they subdued with a Taser. Michael Podboreski II, 62, ordered officers off of his Autumn Leaves Road property, according to court documents. “Get the...
Cops: Motorcyclist who fled police in West Newton also accused of cocaine possession
An Irwin motorcyclist accused of leading police on a high-speed chase for 5 miles Tuesday between West Newton and Rostraver was arrested on multiple criminal and traffic charges, including illegal possession of cocaine and stimulants. Anthony E. Faloona, 29, was arraigned before District Judge Charles Christner on seven counts of...
Laurel Highlands Meadery sweetens production with expansion in South Greensburg
What began as a home hobby about 15 years ago has grown into an expanding business for Matt Falenski, with the recent opening of a second Laurel Highlands Meadery location. Falenski and his wife, Mandy, began manufacturing at their previous homes in Herminie and South Greensburg around 2010, selling their...
Trap shooting team gets go-ahead at Greater LatrobeVideo
Greater Latrobe School Board this week authorized formation of an intramural trap-shooting team. The proposed team, for students interested in shooting at clay targets, eventually could compete with others already established at Norwin and Connellsville, but possibly not in its first year, said Greater Latrobe Athletic Director Mark Mears. “We...
Norwin student-run formal-wear sale continues todayVideo
High school students — and their parents — know how expensive it can be to attend a formal dance. Norwin High School has a way to cut down at least some of the cost, by holding a semiannual formal wear consignment sale. Begun in 2015, the sales are held in...
North Huntingdon wrestling fundraiser to benefit police fraternal organization
Two professional wrestlers pitted against each other during a September matchup now are teaming up during a third wrestling fundraiser that will benefit the North Huntingdon Police Fraternal Relief Association. Scheduled for Saturday at 2 p.m., Rumble on Route 30 will feature Norwin graduate Tyler Harrison, also known as “Jason...
