Category Archives: Local News

State House Democrats are continuing to try to pass a medical debt relief program. Lawmakers held a news conference Tuesday, saying the program should be passed during the second part of the legislati...

Congresswoman Summer Lee this week has canceled an appearance that she was scheduled to make at an upcoming event hosted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The Democratic lawmaker was to de...

The DoubleTree hotel next to the Monroeville Convention Center is shutting down today. Employees who spoke with WPXI-TV say they received notices just this week that the operation was permanently clos...

A man from West Mifflin is in custody after selling $520 worth of heroin and fentanyl to an undercover officer and confidential informant in North Huntingdon. The Trib reports that local police, the c...

A man who fled from state police earlier this month that prompted a lockdown of Seton Hill was arrested last week at a junkyard at the border of Hempfield and Greensburg. The Trib reports that 31-year...

The Westmoreland County's District Attorney has seated the county's first grand jury in over three decades to hear evidence in unsolved homicides. The Trib reports that the grand jury is intended to b...

The family of a Hempfield man who was killed by a drug overdose objected to a plea deal for the person involved in the victim's death. The Trib reports that 58-year-old Jeffrey Carlson of Glassport in...

Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium President Dr. Jeremy Goodman says none of the recent deaths of a number of animals in the zoo's care have been due to human error. In the last seven months, the zoo has rep...

A federal grand jury has indicted two men in connection with the theft of two dozen firearms from a New Kensington business. Investigators say that, on January 22nd, Michael Guin drove a truck through...

Local officials in Murrysville are giving the go-ahead for some temporary fracking pipe systems. Council members approved agreements allowing the Olympus company to put in gas and water lines last wee...