Haley Daugherty stories, Page 24

A Carrick man has been charged with criminal homicide in connection with a fatal shooting in Swissvale early Friday morning, the Allegheny County Police said. Bryan Perkins-Jiles, 36, was charged by Allegheny County Police with criminal homicide, criminal attempted homicide, two counts of aggravated assault, one count of person not...

Property owners in the Greater Latrobe School District might pay more real estate taxes, unless additional funding is obtained through the state budget. The school board adopted a proposed 2023-24 budget of about $64.6 million, which includes a 3-mill property tax increase. The increase would help close a $1.1 million...

When Diane Babbin sent her mother, Laura LeBlanc, to the Shop ’n Save in Latrobe last week, she was expecting to receive a thermometer, not a million dollars. “We still haven’t bought the thermometer,” Babbin joked Wednesday. The 38-year-old Latrobe woman said her son, Boston Soluri, had stayed home sick...

Latrobe’s council chambers were filled with people this week as they watched a familiar face become the city’s police chief. Richard Bosco will be returning to the department and will replace John Sleasman, who retired last year. “It’s great to be home,” Bosco said Monday as he took the oath...

Latrobe Art Center is asking Westmoreland residents to spread kindness with specially designed “You’ve Been Fred Roger-ed” note cards. The center is celebrating the third annual Week of Kindness through May 27. During the week, participating individuals and organizations are instructed to use the “You’ve Been Fred Roger-ed” cards while...

One of Josh Pluck’s earliest childhood memories is with a model airplane. He watched as his father pumped 192 pounds of air into an Air Hogs Sky Shark. The pressurized plane was a free flyer that required the user to throw it into the sky to launch it. “Well the...

Car parts, clothing, guns, a pearl handled machete. They’re among the items discarded as trash that Unity native Mark Nobile, 66, has discovered while cleaning up litter around the area. Nobile, a self-proclaimed workout fanatic, began picking up trash during his runs. Years ago, he realized how much garbage was...

The City of Jeannette Fire Department will host a free pet health clinic on Sunday. Starting at 11 a.m., dogs and cats can be treated by Dr. Megan Alley of Donaldson Animal Hospital and have their nails clipped by workers from TJ’s Rescue Hideaway. The fire department is accepting donations...

Alexis Kost, a third grader from Metzgar Elementary School, revealed a hidden talent to her family when she conquered a written spelling test and a classroom spelling competition to earn an invitation to the Rotary Spelling Bee. The competition was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Greensburg for the 15th...

Members of the Latrobe Area Historical Society have announced the return of weekend movie screenings. The programs will be monthly, taking place on Friday and Saturday mornings through the summer. The first showing, a program titled “Homefront: Latrobe in World War II,” will premiere on Friday at 9:30 a.m. at...

Eighteen-year-old Rachel Pasko has been surrounded by politics her entire life. As her family and friends spoke with conviction about administrations and foreign policy over the years, the Hempfield Area School District senior watched tensions rise and fall, and decided that she wasn’t interested in jumping into the conversation. Then...

Westmoreland students didn’t need to go to Hawaii to enjoy a luau Friday morning. Staff at Mt. Pleasant Area Junior High School hosted a luau-themed party for life skills students from high schools throughout the county. “I think that being around kids just like them makes them feel comfortable,” said...

Authorities say a Pittsburgh man, facing charges in Allegheny County, was arrested while attempting to flee the country Wednesday night. 30-year-old Emeka Ukaegbu is facing charges of burglary, theft and criminal mischief after allegedly breaking into a North Side apartment and taking several items. Pittsburgh police charged Ukaegbu in December...

Officials have identified a man found dead Thursday afternoon along the Ohio River in Ohio Township as a Pittsburgh man who was reported missing in March. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said Brandon Pfeifer Davis, 22, was pronounced dead shortly after 2:15 p.m. Thursday in the 2800 block of...

Educators in Westmoreland and Allegheny counties are seeking out teaching practices that best prepare students for careers in science, technology, engineering and math. Faculty and staff members from five school districts in Westmoreland and six in Allegheny will participate in partnership with intermediate units, the Consortium for Public Education and...

South Hills resident Timmy Morgan, 36, was introduced to the sport of ultra running the same way a character in a movie discovers a destined journey. It was a dark and stormy night. Morgan and a friend had decided to set up camp after hiking along the Pacific Crest Trail...

Many former high school athletes have a box filled with trophies and medals from their glory days. Alongside may be piles of cleats, gloves, bats and sticks that they’ve long outgrown but saved for posterity. Now these pieces of sporting equipment have a chance to see a field again with...

The eastbound lanes of the 86-mile stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike between New Stanton and Breezewood will close for overnight work beginning at 11 p.m. on Saturday. A detour in excess of 100 miles is being suggested for motorists who must exit at the New Stanton interchange. Turnpike work crews...

More than 500 third grade students will have a chance to explore robotic medicine, dental hygiene and other topics next week at the 38th annual Children’s Health Fair at Charter Oak United Methodist Church in Unity. The event is hosted each year by the Latrobe Area Hospital Aid Society in...

A group of fourth grade students at Baggaley Elementary School now have a better understanding of alternative communication methods. Students in Elizabeth Frescura’s class are reading the novel “Out of My Mind” by Sharon M. Draper. The story centers around a girl with cerebral palsy who uses word cards and...

After failing to reach a new lease agreement, Mutual Aid EMS is moving out of the Latrobe municipal building to two existing stations a few miles away at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Unity and a second site in Derry Township. According to city manager Terry Carcella, the nonprofit ambulance...

Greater Latrobe students exercised their green thumbs on the site of the former Saint Xavier Academy in Unity during a Capstone program project. Patrick Roberts teaches the Latrobe Capstone students and is on the board of directors for the Westmoreland Land Trust. The Trust recently purchased the St. Xavier property...

The Air North DC-3 “Yukon Sourdough” will be added as an attraction in the Shop ’n Save Westmoreland Airshow in June 2023. Produced by the Douglas Aircraft Corp. in 1942, the transport aircraft flew mostly in Canada, merging into instruction and training use until it was sold in 1963. During...

Students milled around the Mt. Pleasant Area High School swimming pool parking lot Friday, watching members of the Hecla Volunteer Fire Department raise the truck hoses to begin spraying the tarps placed on the grass field below. Some of the students shivered as the wind picked up and they were...

High school students from across the county gathered Thursday at Twin Lakes Park to test their knowledge of the natural world during the 2023 Westmoreland Envirothon competition. With each high school having entered at least two teams, about 125 students rotated among six stations in the park, which is east...