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A man state police said they chased around a New Stanton motel for allegedly driving under the influence this month was arrested Sunday. Eugene Lamar Davis, 49, is being held in the Westmoreland County Prison on $10,000 bail. He is charged with drug possession, flight to avoid apprehension, driving on...

The Westmoreland County Coroner’s office identified the man struck and killed by a train Saturday in Hempfield as Bryson K. Braun, 28, of Hempfield. Braun was walking along train tracks near the end of Clark Street about 4:45 p.m. The westbound train’s conductor and engineer spotted him, started to brake...

Hundreds of grants to small businesses will be awarded at a special meeting this week as part of an effort spend $31.5 million in federal coronavirus relief funds, Westmoreland County commissioners said. County officials said the first $10 million of the covid grants funds will be allocated to assist small...

Members of the Delmont Historical Society and volunteers held a clean-up day Saturday at the Shields Farm log house and prepared the backyard for the planting of a colonial-era garden....

Murrysville Police Sgt. Scott Kettren was not shy about his emotional state when his K-9 partner of nearly a decade, a Belgian Malinois named Argos, spent his last day with the department in May 2019. “I cried driving home that night,” Kettren said. Kettren took stock of his professional skills...

A person has died after being struck by a train in Hempfield. A Westmoreland County dispatcher said the incident took place around 4:45 p.m. Saturday along the Norfolk Southern tracks at the end of Clark Street. Authorities could not confirm if the victim was a man or a woman. Railroad...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Saturday reported 14 new cases of covid-19 in Westmoreland County. No additional deaths were reported, leaving the death toll at 50 — where it has remained since Thursday. Prior to that, the county last reported a death from the virus on Aug. 19. In...

Greensburg Central Catholic Junior-Senior High School will commemorate its 60th anniversary with a livestreamed Mass on Sept. 27. “The Mass is the greatest prayer that we can offer, and it’s through that celebration that we’re able to give back to the Lord for what he’s blessed us with at Greensburg...

A week after the Trump administration abruptly announced that hundreds of thousands of covid-19-related jobless Pennsylvanians would receive an extra $300 weekly for six weeks only rather than through the end of the year, as initially promised, the state said it already distributed almost half of its allocation. Pennsylvania sent...

Pennsylvania’s economy continued to improve in August as the state regained slightly more than half of the jobs it lost since the pandemic-related economic shutdowns of March and April, with the jobless rate falling 2.2 percentage points from July to 10.3%. The unemployment rate for August is the lowest rate...

An Allegheny Mountain ridge stretching some 30 miles from the Casselman River in southern Somerset County to Deep Creek Lake in Western Maryland has been the focus of controversy as attempts continue to change a name dating to the French and Indian War. The name in question: Negro Mountain. The...

Norwin officials plan to reveal at Monday’s school board meeting the district’s plans for evaluating how to transition from its hybrid model of two days in school and three days of online learning to either fully in class five days a week or to a completely remote online learning model....

The final four people charged last year for their alleged roles in the Iannelli gambling ring that operated throughout western Pennsylvania were sentenced Friday to serve one year probation terms as part of a deal with prosecutors in which their criminal records could ultimately be expunged. Each of the four,...

In a typical year, members of the Jewish community would’ve dressed up and assembled Friday night at the local temple for two days of services with friends, family and fellow congregants to mark the start of the High Holy Days. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in 2020 are different. Congregations...

Greensburg Police doing a routine check of a man asleep in the driver’s seat of his car in a store parking lot Thursday wound up arresting him for illegal possession of 47 bricks of heroin, a plastic bag of cocaine, several hundred Xanax pills and multiple strips of Suboxone. Patrolman...

Greater Latrobe School District is considering investing in a technology that would use building ventilation systems to curb the coronavirus. Proposed installation of Needlepoint Bipolar Ionization devices would cost about $450,000, according to Kurt Thomas, the district’s director of facilities, operations and planning. He said about 150 devices would be...

For the third time since April, state troopers on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Westmoreland County stopped a driver for traffic violations and ended up seizing more than 100 pounds of marijuana. Chui Jiang of Oklahoma City and Guangzhang Ye of San Antonio, both 41, were charged with manufacture, delivery and...

Two hours of local bus service on Westmoreland County Transit Authority routes will be added in early October as the struggling agency seeks to rebound from massive losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Authority Executive Director Alan Blahovec said final details on the expanded service will be released as early...

Westmoreland County added 11 new coronavirus cases Friday, the Pennsylvania Department of Health reported. The county has had a total of 2,032 cases, with 1,952 of those confirmed and 80 reported as probable. All of Friday’s new cases were confirmed. There have been 40,423 people who had negative PCR tests....