Category Archives: Local News

More than half-a-million dollars in tourism grants are going to businesses and destinations in Westmoreland County. Money generated by the five-percent hotel tax in the county is distributed to compan...

Lt. Governor Austin Davis paid a visit to Adagio Health in Hempfield to raise awareness of the upcoming deadline for making changes or purchasing new health insurance coverage through Pennie, the stat...

A Derry Township man who pleaded guilty in September to child pornography possession avoided time in jail. The Trib reports that 33-year-old Charles Kirkland was ordered yesterday to serve up to 14 ye...

A Greensburg man was ordered to serve time in jail after he pleaded guilty to charges that he sexually assaulted two young girls two decades earlier. The Trib reports that 66-year-old Morton Thompson,...

The woman who fell through a sinkhole in Unity Township died due to head and torso injuries suffered in the fall. The Trib reports that Pollard was looking for her cat behind Monday's Union Restaurant...

Authorities have identified a man who died Monday night in a multi-vehicle crash in New Kensington. Two vehicles collided near Memorial Park leaving 69-year-old Richard Kern dead. There has been no re...

Initial filings for unemployment are rising across Pennsylvania. That's according to the U.S. Department of Labor, which says that for the work ending November 30th, more than 15-thousand Pennsylvania...

The restaurant on the property where a woman fell through a sinkhole and died will reopen tomorrow. Monday's Union Restaurant has been closed since first responders began their search for Elizabeth Po...

A Plum Borough man is facing accusations that he tried to blow up his own home. According to investigators, Neil Yetsko recently caused a gas leak inside his Kathy Lynn Drive home, lit two candles and...

The family of Elizabeth Pollard is sharing their appreciation for first responders after the woman's body was found in an abandoned mine this past Friday. Loved ones of the 64-year-old grandmother say...