Category Archives: Local News

Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley is looking for volunteers. They need people to help them as they look after homeless pets at the shelter in New Kensington. Opportunities range from dog and cat c...

Some area attorneys are planning to participate in a free legal clinic for parents and families in Westmoreland County. The event will focus on child custody and legal issues related to school and edu...

A woman who has reportedly worked in a number of Western Pennsylvania health care facilities as a nurse in recent years is facing allegations. Shannon Womack was pulled over for a traffic stop in Wash...

A Westmoreland County couple convicted of assaulting a teenage boy to the point of permanent disfigurement is learning their fate. State police went to the Derry Township home of Charles and Jamie Har...

A North Huntingdon girl drowned in a kayak accident in Presque Isle Bay Friday night. The Trib reports that the Erie County Coroner identified the victim as 17-year-old Madison Gallagher. Gallagher wa...

A Jeanette man charged with a fatal shooting outside the city's high school football stadium is looking to withdraw his guilty plea. The Trib reports that 46-year-old Greg Harper told a county judge y...

No injuries were reported in a multi-vehicle crash in Derry Township this morning. The crash was reported at 7:12 AM at the intersection of Route 981 and Lee-Valley Road. Three vehicles were involved....

Pennsylvania is sending reinforcements to crews battling wildfires in the Western U.S. Wildland firefighters with the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources are being deployed to Colorado, w...

The family of an Avonmore man who died from injuries in a truck crash last Thursday thanked those who tried to save him. The Trib reports that 71-year-old Carl Noonan died Friday afternoon at UPMC Mer...

A tip from a messaging application led state police to charging an Irwin man with child pornography possession. The Trib reports that 34-year-old Joshua Ward now faces 10 counts of dissemination of ch...