Renatta Signorini stories, Page 141

A Madison man is accused of leading police on a 9½-mile chase Saturday with an open bottle of vodka in his car, according to arrest papers. Brian Allen Smith, 47, allegedly caused at least $1,000 worth of damage to a state police cruiser during the incident. He was being held...

Firefighters pulled two people from their vehicles Friday after a head-on crash in Murrysville, according to a Westmoreland 911 dispatcher. The crash occurred just before 2 p.m. at the intersection of School Road and Foxwood Court. School Road was closed for about an hour. One person was flown to UPMC...

A Derry Township woman who had animal cruelty charges against her dropped in 2016 is now accused of the same after humane agents seized emaciated and sick horses, dogs and cats from her property in November. Faun Dillon was arraigned this week on more than 200 charges, including aggravated cruelty...

Jeannette police plan to add more surveillance cameras to Clay Avenue after the ones recently installed assisted in a stolen vehicle investigation last month. City council approved buying six more cameras that will be affixed to utility poles at intersections along the street, said police Chief Shannon Binda. “Our intersections...

When a teenage girl started going to a Greensburg gym in 2015, she looked up to the chiropractor who was training her in power lifting. But as the weeks and months went on, Moses Jevicky, 36, of Greensburg, started to get progressively inappropriate, making comments about her body parts and...

Lead-footed drivers and other traffic scofflaws are getting a speedy response from Jeannette police, who are now using an electronic ticketing system that cuts down on the time needed to complete traffic stops. For the last month, officers have used a new system that improves their safety and lessens downtime...

A district judge found a Penn Township man not guilty of three summary citations connected to a dog attack last year that seriously injured a UPS driver from Hempfield. Matthew Zavarella had been accused of failing to keep his three German shepherds under control in the Aug. 28 mauling at...

A North Huntingdon man was arraigned Tuesday on accusations that he was speeding before a violent crash in December that seriously injured another driver. Chad William Brutout, 24, is charged with aggravated assault by vehicle and summary vehicle code violations. A westbound BMW 300xi T-boned a Honda Accord around 8:30...

State police are looking for a woman who they say used a Blairsville woman’s debit card information to make a purchase at the Target store in North Huntingdon. Investigators said the suspect stole the victim’s bank information and bought $110.23 worth of merchandise on Dec. 24. Troopers released a surveillance...

Don Mahoney was right where he needed to be. The Butler County man’s interest in space made him a perfect fit to offer his time at the Heinz History Center’s Destination Moon exhibit. But little did he know, the 65-year-old man was about to get help from Jeannette EMS and...

A Pitcairn man was arrested Sunday evening after police said he set a fire at a borough house earlier that day. Michael Zachary Cruse, 23, told investigators he started the fire on the Wall Avenue home’s back porch to scare a group of people he had been drinking with, according...

The markers are uneven, jutting from the grass like crooked teeth. Each represents a person, who was once loved, but now is identified only by a letter and number. The identification corresponds with a small handwritten notation in a decades-old book stored in the annals of the Westmoreland Manor. It’s...

Local veterans can obtain free gun locks at Westmoreland County’s veterans affairs department. Supplies of the locks are limited and anyone who wants one should check with the agency to confirm availability at 724-830-3530. Locks are available through a partnership between the Westmoreland County Department of Veterans Affairs and the...

A West Newton man was arrested Thursday on police accusations that he placed an infant girl in the middle of a borough street after stealing $70 from the baby’s mother, according to court papers. Nathaniel Scott Bartko, 24, was being held at the Westmoreland County Prison on $50,000 bail. A...

A Penn Township woman was jailed Friday after police said she hit a man with a car in front of a Jeannette restaurant Thursday night and fled, according to court papers. The pedestrian told police he had parked across the street from Johnny’s Wife’s Place and was walking toward the...

Murrysville police were looking for a car that fled after hitting a pedestrian, according to a Westmoreland 911 dispatcher. The male victim was hit near the intersection of William Penn Highway and Vincent Hall Road at about 1:15 p.m. Thursday. His injuries appeared to be minor, the dispatcher said. An...

State police arrested 90 people for driving under the influence on roads in the region during the four-day New Year’s holiday. Troopers also cited 939 motorists for speeding in the area including Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Fayette, Washington and Westmoreland counties. The enforcement period stretched from Saturday to New Year’s Day,...

A Salem Township man started off 2019 in jail after state police said he hit two people with a baseball bat at a New Year’s Eve party in Hempfield. Adam James Daniels, 26, showed up at a get-together at Sinister Muscle Cars on Forbes Trail Road at 2 a.m. Tuesday...

Route 22 eastbound was closed for about an hour Wednesday morning at the intersection of Route 66 after a two-vehicle crash, according to a Westmoreland 911 dispatcher. A vehicle apparently drove underneath a flatbed tractor-trailer at 7 a.m. near Scenic Drive, east of Route 66, in Salem Township, the dispatcher...

Jeannette wants to create a downtown historic district to preserve the look of buildings and open up funding opportunities. Council could vote next week on an ordinance defining the district and its requirements. “It gives us the ability to research for grants that might apply for that area,” city clerk...