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Backpacks, metal, weapons detectors discussed at Hempfield security committee meeting
Hempfield Area School District’s new security committee met for the first time this week and mulled ways the district can improve safety. It was formed in response to recent security incidents at Hempfield and is made up of administrators, school board members Mike Alfery, Scott Learn, Diane Ciabattoni and Jeanne...
Pa. Supreme Court hears arguments in zoning dispute over proposed UPMC hospital in Jefferson Hills
The question before Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court on Tuesday wasn’t whether UPMC should be allowed to build a hospital in Jefferson Hills. The Pittsburgh-based health care giant proposing the controversial project told the court it isn’t anywhere near that discussion yet. Instead, the only question now — five years into the...
Baltimore priest now at Saint Vincent Archabbey after being dismissed over 2018 sexual harassment settlement
BALTIMORE — A Benedictine monk is now at Saint Vincent Archabbey in Unity after being suspended from ministry by the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore when church leaders there learned of a payment he made to settle sexual harassment allegations. The Rev. Paschal Morlino was dismissed from his position last week...
Police: Mt. Pleasant man dies of injuries after being thrown from vehicle
State police released the identity of a man who died of injuries following an Oct. 8 crash on State Street in Mt. Pleasant Township. Police said Gregory P. Petro, 59, of Mt. Pleasant was driving south on State Street near Wimbledon Drive shortly after 11:30 a.m. when his car struck...
Daily Roundup: Person injured in 2-vehicle crash on Route 30 in Unity
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Tuesday, Oct. 17: 2-vehicle crash on Route 30 in Unity One man was flown by a medical helicopter to a Pittsburgh hospital early Tuesday morning when his sport utility vehicle collided with a coal-laden tri-axle dump truck along Route...
‘Someone’s going to get seriously hurt’: Fox Chapel residents concerned about speeding
Fox Chapel resident Byron Falchetti wants motorists to slow down when driving in the borough. “It’s getting worse,” Falchetti told borough officials Monday. “Someone’s going to get seriously hurt and there’s going to be liability issues. I don’t think it’s right. “I have never seen a car pulled over for...
The Stroller, Oct. 17, 2023: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
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Train hits parked car in Derry
A Norfolk Southern Corp. railroad train hit a vehicle parked along the tracks in Derry Borough early Tuesday morning, a Westmoreland County Public Safety supervisor said. No injuries were reported in the incident, which occurred at about 12:20 a.m. along West First Avenue, the supervisor said. The slow-moving train caused...
Members of Tarentum, Brackenridge churches deliver ‘seeds of friendship’ on mission trip to Ghana
Members of two local churches are on a mission nearly 5,400 miles across the globe to deliver “seeds of friendship” in the form of eyeglasses, jump ropes and produce. A group of eight congregants from Abundant Joy Fellowship in Tarentum and Generations House of Worship in Brackenridge recently traveled to...
Inquest set in police-involved fatal shooting in Washington County chase
Washington County Coroner S. Timothy Warco has scheduled an Oct. 24 inquest as he investigates the death of a Coraopolis man shot by police following an April 2 chase. The chase ended in the death of Eduardo L. Hoover, Jr., 38, in the 1000 block of Jefferson Avenue in the...
Greensburg meat cleaver attack victim to remain jailed following claims of alleged payoff plot
A Mexican immigrant who Westmoreland County prosecutors say was the victim of a meat cleaver attack was ordered to remain jailed as a material witness after authorities said they have evidence he was offered $20,000 to withhold his testimony and flee the area. Jamie Hernandez Ruiz, 19, has been in...
Demolition company president, contractor testify in Springdale injunction case
A prepared implosion of the boiler house at the former Cheswick Generating Station in Springdale is the safest way to take down the structure, the president of Controlled Demolition Inc. testified Monday. Mark Loizeaux, president of CDI, testified before Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge John T. McVay Jr. as part...
Man committed suicide with gun he sneaked into VA hospital in O’Hara, officials say
A Jefferson Hills man sneaked a gun last week into a Pittsburgh-area Veterans Affairs hospital and used the weapon to kill himself, county officials have confirmed. VA officials said they are investigating the incident but declined further comment. First responders found William G. Grant, 73, unresponsive around 3 p.m. Oct....
Bankrupt Jeannette EMS to reveal financial details
Bankrupt Jeannette EMS Inc., which abruptly closed operations July 3, will not have any money to pay its unsecured creditors after it pays administrative expenses related to its bankruptcy, according to a court filing. Jeannette EMS will have until Wednesday to file a detailed list of its assets and creditors,...
Blackthorne Investors files appeal against township’s vote on construction of new clubhouse
Blackthorne Investors is appealing a vote by Penn Township to deny construction of a new clubhouse in the Blackthorne Estates golf course community. The commissioners voted 4-1 on Aug. 16 against construction of a new facility, citing the possibility of increased traffic in a residential area near the proposed site....
Judges appoint Matthew Thomas to Norwin school board
Westmoreland County judges selected a former Cambria County school principal to serve a six-week stint as a member of the Norwin School Board. Matthew Thomas, 49, of North Huntingdon was named Monday as the replacement for school board member Joanna Jordan, who died in August. The deeply divided school board...
CMU police officer accused of switching price tags to steal from Walmart in Frazer
A Carnegie Mellon University police officer whose photograph once welcomed visitors to the department’s website has been accused by Frazer police of switching tags to lower the price of merchandise she bought at the Walmart store in the Pittsburgh Mills complex. Ashley Dawn Polka, 31, of the 100 block of...
Pittsburgh International Airport’s $1.5B terminal project makes big strides
Pittsburgh International Airport’s new landside terminal is taking shape. Allegheny Airport Authority CEO Christina Cassotis said all of the steel for the terminal project has been erected. The $1.57 billion project includes construction of an 811,000-square-foot terminal, a 5,000-space parking garage and a connector bridge to link the new landside...
Ellis School names Tambi Tyler as next leader, 1st Black woman to hold role
The Ellis School, an independent, all-girls school in Pittsburgh’s East End, will soon be helmed by a new leader. The school’s board of trustees last week named Tambi Tyler, a former English teacher in Iowa whose career trek included school administrator roles in Georgia and Colorado, as its 16th head...
Pittsburgh police commander faces wiretapping allegations
Allegheny County Police confirmed Monday they have launched a criminal investigation into wiretapping allegations against a Pittsburgh police zone commander who temporarily has been removed from his post. Pittsburgh police have placed Zone 2 Cmdr. Matthew Lackner on paid administrative leave “pending the completion of an internal investigation,” police spokeswoman...
Affordable housing projects in Allegheny County to receive $24M in state grants
More than a dozen affordable housing projects in Allegheny County are set to receive more than $24 million from the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency. The agency last week announced a total of $98 million in grants that will assist 66 housing projects across Pennsylvania. The Housing Options Grant Program was...
North Huntingdon officials pick Bevan as commissioner
North Huntingdon officials opted for a familiar person to fill a vacancy representing the township’s Sixth Ward on the board of commissioners. The commissioners selected Fran Bevan, a one-term commissioner, to serve the remainder of Lindsay Wengrzyn’s term, which expires in January 2026. Wengrzyn resigned Sept. 30 because she moved...
Murrysville traffic stop turns up felony charges for Maryland man
A Maryland man wanted on weapons charges in Florida is in prison awaiting an extradition hearing after a local traffic stop. Murrysville police pulled over a tractor-trailer Oct. 9 after officers watched the driver make a U-turn on Tarr Hollow Road, driving into a residential yard and creating large ruts....
Woman heads to trial on charges she abandoned dog at Pittsburgh airport
An Armstrong County woman has been ordered to stand trial on charges that she abandoned her dog at Pittsburgh International Airport this summer. Allison Lyn Gaiser, 44, of East Franklin waived her preliminary hearing Monday morning in front of District Judge Leonard J. Hromyak, court records show. Gaiser, who is...
Lower Burrell supermarket sells jackpot-winning Cash 5 lottery ticket
Friday the 13th was a lucky day for a lottery player at Lower Burrell’s Community Supermarket. A jackpot-winning Cash 5 with Quick Cash ticket sold there for Friday’s drawing matched all five balls drawn — 19, 23, 30, 31, 41 — to win about $404,000, less withholding, the Pennsylvania Lottery...
