Quincey Reese stories, Page 9

Hempfield Area High School is reevaluating how to use its library space, district officials said. The high school’s librarian submitted a letter of resignation a few weeks ago, working her last shift Friday. But the district is holding off on hiring a new full-time employee for the position. With sights...

The Hempfield and Greensburg volunteer fire departments will display fire apparatus, talk to area residents about fire safety and recruit new members next week at the 28th annual Fire Prevention Night. The nearly 30-year tradition, held outside of the Westmoreland Mall in Hempfield, is meant to inform the community about...

Mad Science Spooktacular The Penn-Trafford Area Recreation Commission will host a Mad Science Spooktacular program from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4. The event, open to children ages 5 to 12, will apply science to a Halloween-themed story about Count Eggbert — a vampire who struggles to fit into his...

SWAT units arrested a man in Pittsburgh’s Allegheny Center neighborhood Tuesday afternoon following a hostage incident involving the man’s children, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety. Pittsburgh police were dispatched to the 200 block of East Ohio Street around 3:20 p.m. for a domestic call inside the Allegheny Commons apartment complex,...

A Vandergrift woman who had been missing since Saturday was found safe, according to Vandergrift police. Victoria “Tori” Tamuschy, 36, was found in Tarentum. She had been reported missing by family members after last being seen on security camera video footage around 5 p.m. Saturday. She was last seen in...

Passersby Sunday morning would have no idea the Cunningham family farm in South Huntingdon swelled to crowds of 18,000 people to see country music artist Luke Bryan the night before. Luke Bryan’s annual Farm Tour turned the once quiet 90-acre farm into a sea of RVs, school buses, cornhole boards...

The Ianni’s Pizzeria location in Delmont suffered extensive damage in a fire early Sunday morning. Crews from Delmont, White Valley, Murrysville, Slickville, Claridge and Forbes volunteer fire departments were dispatched to the restaurant shortly before 4 a.m., according to a Westmoreland County 911 dispatcher. The fire departments worked to put...

One man was arrested following a shooting in Pitcairn that struck two vehicles Saturday afternoon, Allegheny County police said. Police were dispatched to the 100 block of Brinton Avenue for reports of two groups shooting at each other just before 2:50 p.m. No injuries were reported. Police found a stolen...

Thousands of vehicles carrying cowboy boot-clad country music fans descended upon a normally quiet family farm in South Huntingdon on Saturday afternoon. The 90-acre Cunningham family farm, tucked into a maze of rural roads not far from Interstate 70, welcomed country music star Luke Bryan’s annual Farm Tour. Hayrides, tractors,...

After purchasing six weapons detectors for its schools in advance of the academic year, the Hempfield Area School District will double up on its security measures. The district purchased six OpenGate weapons detectors for more than $111,000 in July. The devices — two parallel poles that create a gate for...

Two New Jersey residents are accused of cashing bogus checks worth more than $10,000 made out to a cyber school that falsely stated they were sent on behalf of the Greensburg Salem School District, according to court documents. Bryce C. Sanders, 24, of Franklinville and Alyssa Wright, 27, of Cape...

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette refused to bargain in good faith with the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh and unilaterally changed workers’ employment conditions, the National Labor Relations Board said in a decision announced Friday. A petition for an injunction was filed in August to force the Post-Gazette to take back workers who...

A Jeannette youth football coach was suspended Friday afternoon after the local league ruled out allegations of the team’s players being called racial slurs by some opposing players from Penn-Trafford during a game Sunday. The Big East Youth Football League issued a statement to parents Friday, detailing the results of...

Two North Huntingdon athletes ranked internationally at the Junior World Kickboxing Championship in Budapest, Hungary, recently. Xander Eddy, 15, and Gabby Viola, 14, are the first athletes in the state to receive medals at the tournament, according to Bill Viola Jr. — coach and Gabby Viola’s father. “To have two...

Greensburg City Council last week approved a blueprint to help the city improve infrastructure and safety for walking and cycling. The city’s Active Transportation Plan, drafted by Gibson-Thomas Engineering, is supported by a $20,000 WalkWorks grant Greensburg received from the state Department of Health at the end of last year....

Bocce will be added to Greensburg Salem High School’s winter sports lineup this year. The school board voted unanimously this week to start a bocce team pairing students who have intellectual disabilities with ones who don’t. The team is part of the Special Olympics’ 13-year-old Unified Champion Schools program, which...

Lilian Turpen doesn’t feel like she is part of a historic moment. But, as Turpen walked the 350-acre grounds of Kiski School in Saltsburg this month, she became one of the first girls to enroll as a student in the private boarding school’s 136-year history. Turpen, 14, of Clarksburg is...

A Pittsburgh man was arrested Wednesday and charged with multiple felony counts of aggravated assault a day after his 4-month-old child was hospitalized in grave condition, according to court papers. Seth F. Williams, 28, of Pittsburgh’s Bloomfield neighborhood, was arrested Wednesday and charged with five felony counts of aggravated assault...

An 18-year-old man died after his car collided with a box truck in North Versailles early Wednesday evening, according to Allegheny County Police. Emergency officials were dispatched to the intersection of Lincoln Highway and Isaac Street just after 5:30 p.m. for a two-vehicle collision, police said. According to county detectives,...

Owners of a Murrysville vape shop whom authorities said were selling illegal substances out of the business will have criminal charges proceed in Westmoreland County court, a district judge found Tuesday. Jeffrey R. Higgins, 41, of Murrysville and Eric J. Parco, 46, of Plum — owners of PA Vapor &...

Good kids can sometimes make stupid choices. That’s what Laurie Moorhead tells the families she meets while giving drug prevention presentations in schools across Westmoreland County. Moorhead has spent a decade working for Saint Vincent Prevention Projects. Since 1978, the organization — affiliated with Saint Vincent College in Unity —...

When backpack-clad students returned to Allegheny Valley School District classrooms, many had cellphones in hand. That did not last for long. The district that once allowed teachers to determine how to handle cellphones in class cracked down at a board meeting earlier this month, requiring students to put their devices...

History buffs and dog walkers can return to the 213-acre grounds of Bushy Run Battlefield for the first time in more than two months this weekend. The state historical site closed after a tornado whipped through Penn Township on June 26, uprooting trees and downing power lines. The resulting damage...

If Harry Miller has learned anything from more than 40 years selling antiques, it’s that people will collect anything. “There’s probably somebody that collects ping pong balls in different sizes and colors and whatnot,” said Miller, 62, of Pulaski. Owner of Catman Collectibles, Miller joined more than 50 other vendors...

One man was killed and two others were injured in a shooting in Clairton early Sunday morning, according to Allegheny County police. Officers from local and county police departments found a group of people fighting in the road upon arrival at the 400 block of State Street just before 4...