Megan Tomasic stories, Page 48

Pittsburgh Bureau of Police SWAT officers were called to Northview Heights on Thursday night after a carjacking suspect allegedly ran into a house where a woman and children were staying. Officers responded to the 300 block of Mt. Pleasant Road around 8:15 p.m. for reports of the incident. On scene,...

Two more Pennsylvania counties will reopen late next week, according to a post by Sen. Camera Bartolotta, R-Washington, on her personal Facebook page. According to Bartolotta, Greene and Washington counties will move from the red into the yellow phase next Friday as per Gov. Tom Wolf’s three-phased plan for reopening...

A Hempfield fire station might be forced to pay debt on one of its vehicles if it doesn’t agree to follow a plan laid out by township supervisors at the start of the year. Members of the High Park Volunteer Fire Department are asking the township to pay nearly $62,000...

Hempfield students are now able to graduate with more than a high school diploma. A new collaboration between the school and Westmoreland County Community College allows students to obtain an Associates of Arts degree from the college’s School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Public Services while still attending high school....

Almost 130 Hempfield middle school students were honored virtually this week after an annual Academic Breakfast was canceled because of the coronavirus. Each year, students from Harrold, Wendover and West Hempfield middle schools who finish in the top 10% of their classes attend the breakfast where they are awarded for...

The last thing Lori Hughes expected to receive in the mail was a $1,200 stimulus check made out to her mother, Sharyn Davis, who died last July. The 54-year-old Smithton resident is now left deciding the best course of action for sending the money back to the federal government after...

Baking is helping people pass the time under stay-at-home orders, gauging from aisles normally filled with flour, sugar and brownie mixes at several local grocery stores. Cake mixes, chocolate chips and other staples were hard to come by at Target and Giant Eagle in North Huntingdon this week. Stocks of...

Students struggling to make ends meet after colleges and universities shuttered earlier this spring could soon see extra cash in their bank accounts. Schools across the country are receiving millions of dollars for eligible students as part of the CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) Act. It provides students...

Port Authority officials announced that a 13th employee has tested positive for covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. All but two of the confirmed cases have come out of the bus service’s West Mifflin maintenance garage, officials said. Nine of the cases at the garage involved a maintenance...

Greg Cammerata, a Hempfield restaurant owner, is hopeful a new survey rolled out by the U.S. Census Bureau will bring additional aid to small businesses amid the coronavirus pandemic. “We’re not a corporate place,” said Cammerata, who owns IronRock Tap House. “We’re local people that did this restaurant. We don’t...

Hempfield residents will not be penalized this year for property taxes paid after August. Township supervisors voted unanimously Monday to pass a measure that waives the fee and extends the discount period by four months. Now, property owners will have until Aug. 31 to pay a discounted rate, and Sept....

In an effort to aid fire and EMS companies in financial need during the coronavirus pandemic, state Rep. Pam Snyder, D-Carmichaels, proposed a bill that would provide crisis grants to eligible companies. House Bill 2413 would establish a one-time program to provide grants to first responders in need. To qualify,...

As seniors grapple with the idea of missing out on graduation and other end-of-the-year events as the coronavirus spreads across Western Pennsylvania, a group of Mt. Pleasant Area students decided there was one event they weren’t willing to miss — prom. In the days following an announcement that the school’s...

Hempfield Area students will have to wait almost two more months to receive their diplomas after school officials pushed graduation to July amid the coronavirus pandemic. Graduation is rescheduled for July 18 rather than the original May 29 date, according to a letter from the district. July 19 will act...

Gov. Tom Wolf is calling on medical professionals to report race and ethnicity data of those who test positive for covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. About 69% of race data is unreported, Wolf said during a press conference Monday afternoon, “and there is little data when it...

Employees at two other Giant Eagle stores have tested positive for the coronavirus, officials announced Friday. The company said on its website that it got confirmation Wednesday of a case at its Kennedy Township store, 1800 McKees Rocks Road. The last day the person was in the store was Sunday....

Part of Woodruff Street in Mt. Washington is closed because of a downed tree. According to Tribune-Review news partner WPXI-TV, the road is closed between Merrimac Street and Route 51. Further information was not immediately available....

Part of Woodruff Street in Mt. Washington is closed due to a downed tree. According to Tribune-Review new partners WPXI-TV, the road is closed between Merrimac Street and Route 51. Further information was not immediately available....

One person is in critical condition after a shooting Thursday in Pittsburgh’s South Side Slopes, police said. Officers responded to a Shotspotter alert on the 1900 block of St. Paul Street around 10:30 p.m. Upon arrival, they found a man with multiple gunshot wounds, a police spokesman said. No other...

Almost 2,000 meals have been served to students in the Hempfield Area School District over the past month since schools shuttered in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Just a week after Gov. Tom Wolf ordered schools to temporarily close to help curb the spread of the coronavirus that causes covid-19,...

State police are asking for help in identifying a suspect they say took more than $8,000 worth of items from Tractor Supply in East Huntingdon early Tuesday morning. According to a police report, someone cut a chain to enter a fenced lot of the Crossroads Plaza store, taking a Cub...

One person was transported to the hospital after a fire early Wednesday morning, according to an Allegheny 911 dispatcher. Crews responded to 721 Lorenz Ave. in Pittsburgh’s Elliott neighborhood shortly after 3:50 a.m. Tribune-Review news partner WPXI reported there was damage to an awning above the front porch and broken...