Category Archives: Local News

Westmoreland Community Connections will have a Halloween Special as our host Jennifer Miele will talk with Penn Township Manager Mary Perez and Recreation Director Mike Tassone about some of the celeb...

State officials have fanned out to appearances across Pennsylvania to promote COVID-19 vaccinations ahead of the winter season. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Debra Bogen took her CO...

Authorities in Westmoreland County say three suspects are now in custody following a gas station robbery. In August of 2024, the Sunoco on Eastgate Avenue in Monessen was robbed by two armed men who w...

DNA evidence has lead to charges being filed in a shooting at a home in Rostraver Township in 2022. KDKA-TV reports that Tre Goins now faces charges of aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and po...

Hempfield Township officials say over $180,000 in proceeds from an online auction of surplus equipment. The Trib reports over 66,000 people took a look at the online auction that Hempfield supervisors...

Jeannette officials are looking at ways to entice people to join the police force. The Trib reports that they have two openings on the force, but as of Tuesday, no one has applied for them. The applic...

An appeal has been denied for a Monessen man who's spent the last 50 years in prison for a brutal 1973 crime. Attorneys for 69-year-old John Veltre Jr. argued that Westmoreland County Judge Michael St...

A bill that would repeal Pennsylvania's participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative passed the state senate yesterday. Senate Bill 1068 passed by a 33-17 vote with five Democrats joining a...

More than two months after a deadly explosion at US Steel's plant in Clairton, the company is moving forward. Two people were killed and ten others were injured after an August blast that US Steel say...

A shooting investigation is underway at an apartment complex in Monroeville. WTAE-TV reports that the shooting happened just before 11 PM on Tuesday at the Deauville Apartments on Deauville Drive. Aut...