Author Archives: Cindy Perino

April is donate life awareness month. More than 100,000 people are on the waiting list for a donor. Organ donation is the topic on this week's Westmoreland Community Connections. Join host Jennifer Mi...

Scottdale contractor Jason Pirl was sentenced Thursday to serve an additional five to 10 years in prison for bilking 16 Westmoreland County homeowners from 2017 to 2022. Prosecutors said 43 year old P...

There has been an outcry for affordable housing for middle class workers in Westmoreland County, Brian Lawrence, executive director of the Westmoreland County Redevelopment and Land Bank, said It is a...

A Latrobe man is accused by city police of threatening seven students who were waiting for a school bus outside his apartment earlier this month. The Trib reports that 51 year old Stanley Brosnick was...

About half a million people have now been dropped from the state's Medicaid rolls. State officials say the change has come about because so many people lost eligibility after their COVID coverage expi...

The state House has passed legislation that offers tax breaks to redevelop so-called zombie malls. The legislation would allow local governments to exempt malls for ten years from any property-tax inc...

President Joe Biden visited Pittsburgh yesterday with a promise for local steelworkers. In remarks delivered at the United Steelworkers headquarters downtown, the president said that U.S. Steel has be...

County agencies that are seeing an uptick in wound injuries due to the effects of xylazine abuse could see some kits come their way to help them combat those wounds. The Trib reports that non-profit g...

The Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County has awarded the contract to install over 7000 feet of sewer lines to extend service near Baltzer Meyer Road and Fort Allen Elementary in Hempfield. The T...

A Greensburg man was killed in a crash in Washington Township on Wednesday. The Trib reports that the crash happened on Greensburg Road also known as Route 366. 37-year-old Andrew Malarkey was driving...