Category Archives: Local News

Westmoreland County prosecutors are trying to prove that a New Kensington man with robbing and killing an Arnold man in a vacant parking lot over four years ago. The Trib reports that opening statemen...

The Norwin school board on Monday approved the 2024-25 school year budget, and it includes a tax increase. The Trib reports that the board voted 5-4 to approve the budget. Taxes will increase by 6.8%,...

A South Greensburg man is facing charges of shooting at a person while hunting and illegally having a hunting license. The Trib reports that 32-year-old Cody Ostrosky is charged with the incident that...

The victim in the 2022 stabbing in front of the former Rialto in Greensburg took the stand in the trial of the man who allegedly stabbed him. The Trib reports that during the second day of the trial o...

State lawmakers are considering some options for what to do with a roughly 800-million-dollar budget surplus. Officials are going over the commonwealth's spending plan ahead of the June 30th budget de...

Jeannette Fire Chief Bill Frye says he is one of the two full-time firefighters his department has at the moment. There is another full-time first responder who has been off work since March after bei...

A former Arnold police officer pleaded guilty on Monday to filing false charges after staging what he called a hit-and-run crash of his city-issued SUV. The Trib reports that 33-year-old Matthew Sarve...

Four former Jeannette EMS vehicles were sold yesterday as part of a liquidation sale. The Trib reports that the sale was approved by a federal judge who is overseeing the Jeannette EMS Bankruptcy case...

Charges have been held against a Southwest Greensburg man in relation to the death last year of his 8-month-old son. Defendant Jason Ludwig, facing charges including concealing the death of a child an...

A Unity man was sentenced to up to 16 years in prison for his part in a drug overdose that resulted in the death of a Latrobe woman in 2019. The Trib reports that 46-year-old Chad Ghrist entered guilt...