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A dump truck loaded with gravel collided with a car along Route 119 in East Huntingdon on Thursday afternoon, overturning and spilling the contents on the highway. That resulted in the closing of the northbound lanes for more than an hour. The collision occurred around 2 p.m., just north of...
Large flames could be seen at Maund Industries in California Borough early Friday morning.
A Uniontown City Council member is accused of collecting more than $6,700 in public assistance benefits despite his ineligibility.
A woman is accused of stealing from a client she was working for in Westmoreland County. The Westmoreland County District Attorney's Office said Thursday that Alia Durant, 37, of Tarentum, was renovating the floors at a house in Allegheny Township. Police say she was able to gain access to her client's banking information at this time.
A gravel truck and van crashed in Westmoreland County on Thursday.
The suspect in an armed robbery that happened at a vape shop in Westmoreland County has been identified.
A crash on I-79 left at least two people injured on Thursday.
The Brownsville Area School District sent a message to parents alerting them that a student had been in possession of a knife on campus.
Southwestern PA mother seeks missing Dr. Seuss "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" graduation book for her son, lost in mail with teachers' messages.
A black-and-white dress 16-year-old Lottie Jo Gunn was wearing the day she was stabbed to death in 1985 has been preserved for years in evidence. The dress became a key piece of the unsolved homicide case when it was assigned in 2010 to now-retired Westmoreland County Detective Will Brown. He got a search warrant for a sample of DNA from James Kruczek, now 61, of West Mifflin, who an acquaintance reported had admitted to the crime years earlier.
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission announced yesterday that the Canonsburg Lake Access in Peters Township, Washington County, will close temporarily from Nov. 16 through Nov. 27.
Emergency crews responded to a house fire Thursday in Westmoreland County.
A criminal complaint describes allegations of severe neglect involving a 35-year-old autistic man at his mother’s home in Pitcairn. Police say they found him naked and in poor health inside a closet; officers also reported 18 dogs and floors covered with feces and urine. Bonnie Schutzer was charged with...
A West Mifflin woman who had two warrants out for her arrest has been charged after unexpectedly giving birth in her bathroom.
Former McKeesport police Officer Chuck Thomas took the witness stand Thursday, describing the moments he was shot and the realization that his fellow officer, Sean Sluganski, had been killed.
Former McKeesport police Lt. Robert Eastman doesn’t remember who fired first. What he does remember about his exchange of gunfire with the man accused of killing McKeesport police Officer Sean Sluganski just two minutes earlier is that as Johnathan Morris pointed a 9 mm Taurus handgun at him, he knew he had to stop the threat.
William Spencer, the 57-year-old former director of the Washington/Greene Youth Football League, was sentenced to 10 years’ probation in Washington County court after admitting he siphoned more than $230,000 from the organization over five years. A judge ordered him to repay the money, with the first six months of his probation to be served under house arrest.
Police are warning of slippery conditions on a local roadway.
Westmoreland County Commissioner Ted Kopas seems to be the spokesperson for the commissioners, and often directs the word “mismanagement” at the county sheriff’s office. He should look in the mirror. The commissioners claim the county is in a financial crisis and there is a need to eliminate...
Pitcairn caregiver Bonnie Sue Schutzer charged with abuse, neglect, endangerment after man found in extreme poor health and deplorable conditions.
