State police locate missing Hempfield man
State police safely located a Hempfield man missing from his home since Wednesday night.
Police from Troop A in Greensburg were joined by the Westmoreland County Rough Terrain Fire & Rescue team, Hempfield firefighters and Murrysville Medic One personnel on Thursday morning, as a state police helicopter made several passes overhead looking for Dannie Ray Churning, 49, of Hempfield.
Churning reportedly left his home on Fry Hollow Road between 8 and 9 p.m. on Wednesday evening on his yellow dirt bike.
Patrick Varine is a TribLive reporter covering Delmont, Export and Murrysville. He is a Western Pennsylvania native and joined the Trib in 2010 after working as a reporter and editor with the former Dover Post Co. in Delaware. He can be reached at pvarine@triblive.com.
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