Category Archives: Local News

Three people are in Westmoreland County Jail after police in North Huntingdon accused them of breaking into a home and stealing $18,000 of items. The Trib reports that 34-year-old Andrew Bimbo, who ha...

While a lot people are focusing on the hundreds of millions that are up for grabs today and tomorrow, someone in Westmoreland County has won $1.4 million on the Pennsylvania Lottery's Match 6 game. Th...

A South Huntingdon man was arrested on Saturday night after he lead police on a 15-mile chase. The Trib reports that police observed a car driven by 18-year-old Ridge Teeters was going 90 miles an hou...

Neo, a 4-foot pet alligator reported missing since September in Kiski Township, was safely captured by cyclists Friday evening along the Roaring Run Trail. Nathan Lysaght, founder and director of Nate...

The registered nurse who confessed to trying to kill 19 people at several facilities near Pittsburgh -- Heather Pressdee -- says she wants it to be done. Pressdee, from Harrison, was in Butler County ...

Two were injured after a car crashed into a home in Indiana County early Saturday morning. The incident happened around 2:20 in the morning at a home in the 100 block of Philadelphia Street in Indiana...

A boy is in stable condition after he was hit by a vehicle in Arnold on Friday. The Trib reports that the incident happened around 3:00 PM on Friday near the intersection of Freeport Road and Rankin S...

Hempfield School District will test out a new weapons detection system on February 21st at the high school. The Trib reports that the OPENGATE weapons detection system are walk-through weapons detecto...

A tuition increase is being considered at Westmoreland County Community College. The Trib reports that the tuition hike could come in the fall after the county cut $1 million in funding from the colle...

A Unity couple were acquitted of all counts in a retrial on charges connected with the alleged rape of a girl. The Trib reports that both Bruce Palmer and his wife Marie Farabaugh Palmer had been trie...