Category Archives: Local News

The search continues for a Unity Township woman who may have fallen into a sinkhole while looking for a cat on Monday evening. Emergency responders began searching for 64-year-old Elizabeth Pollard ea...

State police said a missing woman in Westmoreland County may have fallen into a 30-foot sinkhole. Police were searching Tuesday morning in the area of Marguerite Road in Unity Township. Police said Po...

More than a thousand vehicle crashes were reported in Pennsylvania during the Thanksgiving travel period. State Police say a total of 1,075 wrecks were investigated from Wednesday to Sunday, an increa...

Nonprofits in Western Pennsylvania and across the globe are looking for support today, on Giving Tuesday. The occasion happens on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving each year, following Black Friday...

Business leaders in Westmoreland County are looking into adding a new convention center. Yesterday, the county's Chamber of Commerce announced plans to invest 25-thousand dollars into a feasibility st...

Fire crews were called out last night to a structure fire at a home in South Huntingdon Township. WTAE-TV reports that the fire was called in just before 9:00 PM in the 500 block of Smithton Pike. No ...

Delmont will officially lower the speed limit of Athena Drive from 35 miles an hour to 25. The Trib reports that many citizens in the borough complained of speeding along a stretch of Athena from Free...

A Boilivar man pleaded guilty to charges of arson and insurance fraud. The Trib reports that 60-year-old Jerry Allen Boring will serve one-to-two years in prison and an additional year of parole for s...

An Ohio man was paroled yesterday after he pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor charges related to the stalking of a singer at her Murrysville home. The Trib reports that 44-year-old Anthony Carpenter ...

A person is hospitalized after a tractor-trailer struck a maintenance vehicle in Westmoreland County. The incident happened early Monday along I-70 in Rostraver, when a tractor-trailer struck the main...