Paul Peirce stories, Page 7

West Newton police charged a woman with multiple criminal counts after they accused her hitting her boyfriend with an ashtray, causing injury. Melissa Sue Horner, 37, fled the scene of the alleged assault that occurred in an East Main Street apartment at 12:20 a.m. Saturday that sent a man to...

Family always came first for Brian P. Hyde of East Huntingdon. “We always came first for my mother and dad,” said his eldest son, David Hyde. “Dad was always there for us, too. Not only us but anyone who needed help, whether family or friend, acquaintance. … He was always...

A woman accused a Trafford man of assaulting and choking her inside an apartment and told police she ran inside a neighbor’s apartment for safety late Friday, according to court documents. Police arrived at Cavitt Avenue to find Kevin L. Krivansky, 49, who lives nearby, attempting to force his way...

The power line technology program at the Central Westmoreland Career and Technology Center in New Stanton received a shot in the arm Friday that will continue a late graduate’s legacy of helping others. More than 50 family members, friends, school officials and former West Penn Power co-workers of the late...

The driver of a pickup and a tow truck operator were cited for misdemeanor and traffic charges after state police said the men engaged in a miles-long road rage incident along Route 22 through Salem. Troopers said they used witness accounts and a video volunteered by the pickup driver to...

An Oklahoma man pulled over for drifting between eastbound lanes of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Mt. Pleasant Township was later arrested by state troopers on drug trafficking charges. Investigators said they found 59 vacuum-sealed packages of marijuana in his minivan. Zhi Yu Lin, 43, of Muskogee, Okla., was ordered held...

Well before starting a 32-year career with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Jim Miller said he enjoyed fishing as a teenager along Mill Creek in the village of Waterford in Ligonier Township. “It was well known even then as a cold-water fishery back then and had natural trout. It...

When Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf hailed President Joe Biden’s plan to ban Russian energy imports to the U.S. in response to President Vladimir Putin’s invasion in the Ukraine, he also announced support for a so-called federal gas tax holiday through 2022 as prices at the pump skyrocket. Wolf said he...

A suspected shoplifter’s return trip Tuesday to a Dollar General store in Jeannette ended in the man’s arrest on multiple felony drug delivery and possession charges when police said they discovered him with crack cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and prescription opioid medication. Police said they seized nearly a brick of heroin,...

A state police fugitive task force learned a man wanted for skipping court hearings was hiding out in a Blairsville apartment March 2, where they descended and found him atop “a second-story roof walkway on the roof and looking to escape by climbing a brick wall,” Trooper Stephen Limani said....

A 57-year-old Madison woman was killed in a head-on collision Monday on Arona Road in Hempfield, according to the Westmoreland County Coroner’s Office. Two others were hurt in the crash, according to township firefighters. Dawn E. Coyne was pronounced dead at 12:32 p.m. at Excela Health Westmoreland hospital in Greensburg,...

Seven-year-old Escher Beldham of Plum was eager to have his quilt artwork, designed and cut from colorful construction paper, added to the art masterpieces already displayed on the walls of The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg. Beldham and his brother, Aven, 4, worked feverishly Sunday with scissors, construction...

Calls made to the state’s child abuse hotline resulted in the arrest Friday of a Derry Township man by state police on accusations of sexually abusing a former township resident and three children in 2019. John M. Coiner, 58, was charged with three counts each of corruption of minors, indecent...

Greensburg police said security video of a suspected burglar wearing a designer sweatshirt and reports of a man fleeing the scene in a car with out-of-state license plates led officers to a suspect in a break-in early Saturday. Carlton B. Taylor, 23, was arrested shortly after the 4 a.m. break-in...

Greensburg planners and consultants listened to suggestions from residents Saturday to clear residential blight, improve playgrounds, repair sidewalks, restore old homes and expand downtown redevelopment in round one of an effort to update the city’s 14-year-old development plan. “I think the city could clean up a little better. I know...

An Armstrong County man who escaped custody from the back of a Kittanning police cruiser Thursday is back in custody. Kittanning police reported on its Facebook page that Dalton K. Mull, 28, of Manorville, was taken into custody Friday afternoon by borough police with the assist of Manor Township police,...

A state trooper assigned to the turnpike detail in southwestern Pennsylvania remains in jail after investigators allege he possessed dozens of computer files containing child pornography, including on a personal cellphone he was carrying when arrested Tuesday at the New Stanton station. Sean R. McKenzie, 37, a corporal, is charged...

Three days after a transient man was released on bond from the Armstrong County Jail last month, he was arrested in Westmoreland County for possessing methamphetamine in a Salem motel, according to court documents filed Tuesday. Ryan J. Fredericks, 27, who has lived in Johnstown, Apollo and Derry Township, was...

A Latrobe man is in the Indiana County Jail after being accused of dragging a state policeman with his car as troopers responded to a harassment complaint, according to court papers. Matthew A. Rebar, 29, was arrested after an incident in White Township, just outside of Indiana Borough, where state...

A certified nurse anesthetist who worked at Excela Health Westmoreland was arrested by agents from the state Attorney General’s office on accusations of stealing powerful painkillers from locked cabinets in the Greensburg hospital’s operating rooms, according to court papers. Todd A. Hrtyanski, 59, of Unity, who worked at the hospital...

A former Export man remains in jail without bond after a standoff with police late Friday outside a former girlfriend’s residence, where he is accused of threatening her with a shotgun, according to state police. Alvin A. Kovatch Jr., 38, was arrested on charges of burglary, criminal trespass and harassment...

An 18-year-old Norwin student is accused of using computer software at his home Thursday to threaten an attack on the district before heading to work at a nearby home improvement store, police said. Nolan R. Kugler, who lives in North Huntingdon, initially denied making the threat when questioned by township...

Three managers at a Jeannette manufacturing plant testified Thursday that a co-worker barged into a plant supervisors’ meeting Dec. 2 and stabbed the facility’s safety officer with a utility knife and then attempted to stab the human resources manager. After listening to more than three hours of testimony from Omnova...

A 35-year-old Unity man was sentenced this week to federal prison on charges of violating narcotics trafficking laws, U.S. Attorney Cindy K. Chung said. Alan “Mugs” Masecar, currently in the Allegheny County Jail, was sentenced to 51 months in prison, followed by three years supervised release by District Judge Robert...

When Windber police this month nabbed two Johnstown men on charges of stealing firearms out of storage units in the small Somerset County borough, little did they know their case would be the gift Greensburg police needed to solve a Christmas Eve pawn shop burglary. City police used a tip...