A Westmoreland County judge has dismissed charges of resisting arrest a Jeannette man who claimed he was the victim of excessive force by police during the investigation into the death of an e-Bike rider. The Trib reports the charges against James Grady II were dropped as Judge Tim Krieger said Grady was improperly de...

State police in Indiana County are investigating an officer-involved shooting in Indiana Borough. Indiana Borough Police say that they were sent to the 100 Block of North Cherry Avenue for a domestic call. The incident resulted in an officer injured and the officer-involved shooting. State police were asked to take o...

A man recently convicted in the killing of a Westmoreland County grandmother is appealing his conviction. In December of 2023, 71-year-old Alice Robson was found shot to death inside a crawlspace underneath the porch of her St. Clair Township home. Robson's daughter -- Melissa Fox-Beacom -- and Matthew Bates were fou...

Westmoreland County is getting ready for what looks to be a week-long heatwave that will come to Western PA this week. The Trib reports that temperatures are expected to be their hottest tomorrow through Friday with temperatures in the mid to upper 90s and heat indices going above 100 on a few days. This will affect ...

Two Connellsville men died in a crash on the PA Turnpike near Hempfield early Saturday morning. The Trib reports that Westmoreland County Coroner John Ackerman said in his report that Hunter Fronius was driving an SUV when it went off the shoulder on I-76 and collided with a bridge abutment, causing the vehicle to rol...

Police in Indiana Borough name a second suspect in a shooting in March during IUPatty's weekend. Chief Justin Schawl said that they are looking for 20-year-old Phillipe Brown of Pittsburgh, who reportedly traded gunfire with 22-year-old Tymere Johnson of Clairton the night of March 21st. Johnson was picked up shortly...

The Fridays on Fifth event series is continuing in New Kensington today. It is planned downtown from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. Businesses will be open for visitors and there will be music and food trucks. Guests are advised to bring their own chairs. Fridays on Fifth will continue monthly through October this year.

A West Leechburg man is facing felony charges related to child pornography after a search engine company filed a report with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The Trib reports that the Bing Images made the report that lead police to 76-year-old Thomas Batista, claiming he uploaded the same image ...

Westmoreland County Sheriff James Albert has announced he has withdrawn from an agreement with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials. In his statement, Albert said that the reason was based solely on the fact that the Sheriff's office did not own, operate, or manage the county prison. Albert stated that his ...

Organizers have rescheduled the Greensburg Night Market last night after it was cancelled due to the bad storms that rolled through. The Trib reports about 170 vendors along with food trucks and musicians take over a part of South Pennsylvania Avenue once a month for the night market, but last night's events were canc...

A Rostraver man was arrested yesterday on rape charges. The Trib reports that 22-year-old Jared Braun is accused of raping a girl at a party on June 2nd. The victim told police that day that he was wearing a holster containing a gun and the presence of the gun made her fearful of how he would react if she tried to st...

Operators of the Pennsylvania Turnpike are expecting big travel numbers for America's 250th anniversary. The Turnpike Commission estimates over six-and-a-half-million travelers will use the route between today and Sunday, July 5th. Peak travel is expected tomorrow with around 720-thousand drivers as compared to about 5...

Short-term rental platform AirBNB is using artificial intelligence to help put a stop to Fourth of July parties. Company officials say bookings that are made for the holiday weekend are being analyzed to check for risk factors such as the length of the stay and the distance of the rental from the user's address. If the...

Pennsylvania is being ranked as one of the best states to take a summer road trip in. WalletHub used metrics such as fun, scenery, and affordability to determine which states are the best for summer road trips. Pennsylvania took 12th place, scoring its best marks in the category of activities. The top spot went to M...

Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick has announced President Trump will be attending the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle on July 15th. McCormick said leaders from "defense, technology, finance, and government" are expected to attend the event. The president...

Hempfield officials are getting ready to make improvements to Founders Park. The Trib reports that the township is planning to spend $75,000 to add fencing, signs and other amenities like benches and trash cans. The money will come from the capital reserve account.

The Derry Area School Board will meet tonight to vote on forming an ad hoc committee to study the future of Caldwell Memorial Library. The Trib reports the committee stems from a vote on June 4th to table a vote that would have closed the library, which serves as the community's only public library. The potential clo...

A plan to install electric vehicle charging stations in Westmoreland County parks appears to be dead. No progress was ever made on a contract signed with a Rostraver startup in 2022 and now it seems the company is out of business. Commissioners agreed to have Kilocharge LLC install the chargers at four parks in the c...

Wednesday night, the Greensburg-Salem School board approved the 2026-27 budget which contains a 1.9% property tax increase. The Trib reports the budget tops out at $54.76 million. The district's property tax rate is now 96.55 mills. For a home assessed at the district's median value of $17,200, the 1.83-mill tax hike...

A Westmoreland County Judge halted the plea hearing of a man charged with attempted murder. The Trib reports that 48-year-old Kort Eckman was expected to plead guilty to charges connected with allegations that he stabbed his mother as she lay in bed, but Judge Christopher Feliciani ordered a third mental health evalua...

A child is hospitalized after nearly drowning at a Mack Park pool in Indiana County. Leaders with the YMCA of Indiana County say a lifeguard pulled the child out of the water around 1 p.m. yesterday. The lifeguard also performed life-saving measures until paramedics arrived, with the victim ultimately flown to UPMC C...

Americans are expected to spend big this Fourth of July. The National Retail Federation predicts that nine-point-four-billion-dollars will be spent on just food alone for Fourth of July cookouts. That averages more than 94-dollars per-person in food items. The NRF says about 44-percent of Americans will also spend m...

Hempfield Township Supervisors are getting ready to auction off over 200 items from a property the municipality owns that's being cleared for a new fire station. The Trib reports that the online auction will feature items under B&D Nusery and Greenhouse, including greenhouse frames, planting tables, traffic cones,...

A Penn Township woman will serve up to four years in prison for assaulting multiple police officers in two separate cases. The Trib reports that 43-year-old Darla Jean Ressler pleaded guilty in four cases including allegations of access device fraud and institutional vandalism, as well as two cases in which police sai...

State police are looking to identify a person who vandalized the entrance to Palmer Place in Unity Township. The Trib reports that someone came to the entrance in broad daylight and sprayed a glue-like silicone substance on a control panel. The situation was discovered June 12th when a resident was unable to open the...

A former bank manager at the First Commonwealth Bank in Derry Borough is accused of stealing over $30,000 from six deceased customers' accounts. The Trib reports that 43-year-old Jeri Mains reportedly made the illegal withdrawals between April 1st and May 26th with the thefts being captured on video surveillance and d...

Gas prices are dropping across Pennsylvania this week. That's according to Triple A, which says the current average cost per-gallon is at $4.09 in the state. That's a more than ten-cent drop compared to last week's prices. Nationally, the average cost per-gallon is at $3.92. Westmoreland County's average this morni...

A Latrobe man was ordered to serve at least four months in jail for sexually assaulting a teenager in a wooded area of a public park nearly four years ago. The Trib reports that 23-year-old Malachai Boone pleaded guilty in March to lesser charges. According to court records, Boone's accuser told police she first made...

A West Newton man who used Snapchat to trade intimate images was ordered to serve four years in federal prison. The Trib reports that 30-year-old Michael Yackovich pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy to commit online wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. He reportedly hacked into several Snapchat accounts and a...

Hempfield Township supervisors are looking to redirect nearly $925,000 in state grant funding for traffic improvements after acknowledging a proposed Menards development is no longer moving forward under its original plan. The Trib reports the store's 2020 site plan expired at the end of 2025, despite continued discuss...

State police are saying a landlord-tenant dispute led to a fatal shooting on Saturday in Mt. Pleasant Township. The Trib reports that 45-year-old Joshua Lowry was given until July 5th to move out of a home on Low Street after being behind on the rent for a year. Police do not believe the shooting of his uncle Bruce K...

The Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County is finalizing plans to purchase the West Newton sewage treatment plant. The authority is buying the plant for one-point-two-million dollars and is also taking on over one-and-a-half-million dollars in debt associated with the facility. The monthly sewage rate of 50 dollars...

Police in Allegheny Township claim a drunk woman threatened people with a knife, spat on an officer and slapped an eight-year-old child in the face. The Trib reports that 22-year-old Heavenly Price was screaming at a crowd of people at a playground at the rear of the Sandalwood Apartments last Tuesday. Police tried t...

Officials in North Huntingdon Township are looking to conduct a feasibility study on a new trail. Local commissioners approved plans to request proposals from consultants for the project last week. The idea for the Trolley Line Trail is that it run along the former West Penn Railways trolley route between downtown Ir...

Police in North Huntingdon arrested two people in connection with a drug bust last week. The Trib reports that 66-year-old Russell Heyz of North Huntingdon and 31-year-old Devin Holt of Wilkinsburg were arrested after the bust went down on Wednesday at a home owned by Heyz in North Huntingdon after a controlled drug b...

A man has filed a lawsuit in Westmoreland County Court concerning an assault outside of a bar in Parks Township in April. The Trib reports that Hector Saballos, Jr. said in the 11-count lawsuit that owners and staff at Niki's Quick Six were negligent in serving alcohol to 36-year-old David Dunminre of Vandegrift, who ...

A Mount Pleasant man is facing charges of criminal homicide in connection with a death on Saturday in Mt. Pleasant Township. The Trib reports that 45-year-old Joshua Aaron Lowry is now being held in Westmoreland County Jail without bail in connection with an incident just before noon at a home on Low Street in the tow...

Pennsylvania is being ranked in the bottom half of states in terms of safety for members of the LGBTQ community. That's according to the 2026 LGBTQ State Safety Report Cards released by the website SafeHome.org. Each state was given a ranking based off factors such as legislation which helps or hurts the LGBTQ commun...

County officials are working to draw in new residents with the launch of the "You Belong In Westmoreland" campaign. County leaders are partnering with the Go Laurel Highlands organization in the effort to boost Westmoreland's workforce. The campaign includes promotional videos and other materials highlighti...

A woman whose disappearance caused a delay in the trial tied to a New Kensington murder is now in custody at the Westmoreland County Prison. Authorities say 55-year-old Amelia Lewis was found at a home in Tarentum on Tuesday. Officials issued a material witness warrant for Lewis because they believe she will share te...

E-bikes and Electric Scooters have been banned from the municipal park in Penn Township. The Trib reports that the vote was unanimous at yesterday's meeting to not allow the vehicles. The move was prompted by increasing residents complaints regarding e-bike and e-scooter use, according to township secretary and manag...

Penn Borough Commissioners have rejected a plan to merge with neighboring Penn Township. The Trib reports that the vote was 3-1 against merging with the township at a borough meeting this week, and also voted to end ongoing discussions. Under the proposal, the borough would have been absorbed by the 30-square-mile to...

Police are looking for a man who reportedly kicked a Monessen police officer and fled the scene. WTAE-TV reports that Joshua Ross was a passenger in a vehicle pulled over near a home known for drug activity on Tuesday. The unnamed driver gave consent for police to search the vehicle, and when police went to search Ro...

The Westmoreland Housing Authority is set to build a new senior apartment property in Rostraver Township. Work on Willowbrook Commons is expected to get underway next month. The 50-unit building is going on a six-acre parcel adjacent to Willowbrook Plaza along Route 51. The build is projected to cost 16-million dollars...

A bicycle rider is injured after being struck by a vehicle in Lower Burrell yesterday. Emergency responders were called to the intersection of Leechburg Road and Reed Street around 2 p.m. on reports of the wreck. A medical helicopter was initially called, but was then cancelled and the victim was taken to an area hospi...

A newly released report claims nearly four in ten Pennsylvanians do not have enough money to afford their basic needs. The latest ALICE report from United Way and United for ALICE finds that 39-percent of state residents fall at or below ALICE thresholds, meaning they struggle to afford basic needs and often must make...

The East Vandergrift Ethnic Day Festival is planned for this weekend. It is happening Saturday from noon to 11 p.m. along McKinley Avenue in the borough. There will be live music, food, children's games, various vendors, and more. A fireworks show is also planned for 10 p.m.

The Murrysville Police Department is starting a bike patrol along the Westmoreland Heritage Trail after a woman reported a sexual assault in the area this month. The department was already looking into adding bicycle officers, but the attack prompted officials to move ahead with the plans sooner. State grant funding ...

The Burrell School Board will vote next week on the district's budget next week. The Trib reports that the budget will include a 3.5% property tax increase, taking the tax rate to 126.3 mills. The proposed budget tops out at $38.4 million. In its final draft budget, the district saved on personnel costs by eliminati...

Summer food programs in the area are expecting an increase in use this year. The Trib reports that demand is expected to be higher as inflation nears 4% and in-store food prices remain high. The programs, which provide free meals to school-aged children through summer months, are seen as a critical resource, especial...