Category Archives: Local News

Four Hempfield fire departments are taking steps to dissolve their charters and move towards township management. The Trib reports that the Carbon and Hempfield #2 fire companies announced their inten...

A judge has dismissed a case of fraud against a Leechburg Contractor saying the prosecution had insufficient evidence. The Trib reports that 42-year-old Dawayne Redmond was accused of bilking customer...

The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency is revealing the cause of the statewide 9-1-1 outage earlier this month. PEMA says the 9-1-1 system went down on July 11th due to a defect in an operating ...

Officials say mine subsidence is to blame for a sinkhole in Monessen that has prompted a local emergency disaster declaration. WTAE-TV reports that the sinkhole developed on State Road between the int...

The Pittsburgh Steelers are reporting to Saint Vincent College in Latrobe today as this summer's training camp gets underway. Their first open practice will be happening tomorrow afternoon. Fans can a...

A Belle Vernon man was ordered to serve two and a half years in federal prison for failing to pay employment taxes for illegal aliens. The Trib reports 28-year-old Andy Ha ran Prosperity Services, Inc...

The man who robbed a Unity Township pizza shop was sentenced yesterday in Westmoreland County Court. The Trib reports that 25-year-old Austin Lewis pleaded guilty in April to two counts of robbery and...

The family of a South Greensburg man hit by a snowplow in January has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Westmoreland Landscapes LLC the company contracted to clear the parking lot where the crash...

State officials say mosquitoes carrying West Nile Virus are spreading across Pennsylvania. The Department of Environmental Protection says the virus has been detected in more than half of the counties...

Plans are in place to move the entire Pennsylvania Turnpike over to open road tolling. Planners for the route say the full system will be set up by January of 2027. This means that overhead scanners w...