Brian C. Rittmeyer stories, Page 104

Highlands School District’s new bus company wants to set up its operations on the site of a slag operation in Harrison. Commissioners have approved having township Solicitor Chuck Means prepare an ordinance that would amend the township’s zoning to allow the property on Spring Hill Road to be used for...

Tarentum placed a borough employee on paid leave following an alleged physical altercation, borough Manager Michael Nestico confirmed Wednesday. The incident happened at the borough’s public works garage on July 19, Nestico said. Council met in an executive session closed to the public on July 22 to review details of...

A 35-year-old man was found dead on train tracks in Baldwin Borough on Wednesday morning, Allegheny County police and medical examiner said. Michael Thomas Plocki was found at 6:13 a.m. in the middle of the train tracks in the area of East Carson Street and the Glenwood bridge. He was...

State police are investigating a burglary at a Butler County convenience store. State police responded shortly after 3 a.m. Wednesday to alarms at Widenhofer Garage on Route 422 in Summit Township. Police determined that three people wearing black hooded sweatshirts, gloves and masks entered the store by forcing through a...

A woman took $15,000 and four vehicle titles from the home of a man she was staying with in Armstrong County, state police allege. State police have issued an arrest warrant for Lisa Wolbert, 51, of Cranberry Township. According to state police, Wolbert had been staying with a 65-year-old man...

A Pittsburgh man is accused of homicide in the May 28 death of Donovan James Goodwine. Police said Lavaar Peters, 19, shot Goodwine in the head in the 7300 block of Forrest Way in the city’s Homewood neighborhood. Investigators linked Peters to the shooting when two people came forward in...

A Mt. Pleasant woman became a victim of an online secret shopper scam, according to state police. Troopers said the unidentified 46-year-old woman signed up online to be a secret shopper at Walmart. An unknown person sent her instructions along with a check for $4,000, which she cashed at her...

Tarentum police are working to identify a man wanted in connection with an assault. The assault happened in the 300 block of East 6th Avenue, police Chief William Vakulick said Tuesday. He did not say when the assault happened. The man was seen driving a black Chevrolet Avalanche. Borough police...

A man with several gunshot wounds was found behind a residence in Pittsburgh’s South Side Slopes on Tuesday morning, authorities said. Officers responded around 6:15 a.m. to a Shotspotter alert of multiple rounds fired in the 2300 block of Cobden Street, according to Pittsburgh police. The victim was taken to...

“Star Trek” had been just a short-lived 1960s science-fiction TV show when it made its first journey to movie theaters in 1979 with “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.” It was a special-effects-heavy affair, more like “2001: A Space Odyssey” and differing significantly in look and feel from its sequel, “The...

Route 908 Extension in Fawn and Frazer will be closed weekdays through August, PennDOT announced. The road will be closed between Bull Creek and Bakerstown roads from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays through Aug. 30. PennDOT crews are repairing a slide, replacing cross pipe and inlets, improving shoulders and...

First, there was the ice cream licker. Now, a woman is accused of — well, altering — food at the Walmart store in West Mifflin. Police say that a South Hills woman urinated on potatoes at the Walmart on Century Drive. Grace M. Brown, 20, of Whitehall turned herself into...

The steel frame for a new O’Reilly Auto Parts store is up in New Kensington. Work is continuing on the store along Tarentum Bridge Road at Carl Avenue. The store is scheduled to open this fall, said Nathanael Coram, a project administrator at the company’s headquarters in Springfield, Mo. The...

Gas prices are down for a second straight week in Pittsburgh and across the nation. “Concerns still abound over the lack of a China-U.S. trade deal … but by and large, motorists can expect to see little organized movement at the pump in the week ahead, and barring any new...

Police were looking for the driver of a pickup who ran away after hitting several cars and a house in West Mifflin Sunday night. The incident happened just after 10 p.m. Sunday on Duquesne Avenue, the Trib’s news partner, WPXI-TV, reported. Vehicle into a home causing some major damage. Stay...

Three men were found stabbed after a fight in a restaurant spilled out into the parking lot in Pittsburgh’s Overbrook neighborhood Saturday night, police said. Police responded to a report of a man stabbed around 11 p.m. Saturday in the 2600 block of Library Road. According to police, officers found...

A deer hit by one vehicle on a Butler County road Sunday went airborne and through the windshield of another vehicle, killing its driver, according to state police. The crash happened shortly after 4 p.m. Sunday on Route 68 in Connoquenessing. State police said Anthony McCoppin, 53, of Blawnox was...

Plans to develop 162 acres near the Tarentum interchange along Route 28 are moving forward, according to a consultant on the project. Nothing has been built on the Harrison site known as Jobe’s Hole since trees were cleared from it more than two years ago to protect an endangered species...

Vegetation used to be a problem at Prospect Cemetery. Now, it’s an enhancement. The historic Brackenridge cemetery, where many prominent and notable figures from the area’s past are buried, was once being consumed by grass and weeds. That slide into disrepair was reversed. And now, a small hill in the...

The trains that ferry passengers between the landside and airside terminals at Pittsburgh International Airport are functioning normally Friday morning following a breakdown overnight, an airport spokesman said. Airport spokesman Bob Kerlik said there was a “brief period” earlier Friday when both trains were down. The south train was out...

New Kensington-Arnold School District officials are optimistic that teachers will have a new contract before classes resume next month. The district’s teachers have been working without a contract for almost two years. The last contract ended on Aug. 31, 2017. At a school board meeting Thursday, Superintendent John Pallone said...

Help is continuing to come in and be made available for Plum residents hit by flooding brought on by heavy rain earlier this week. That includes dumpsters for residents to dispose of flood damaged property; cleanup and hygiene kits; and a Facebook group where residents who can help and those...

A woman riding across the country on horseback to bring awareness to domestic violence will make a stop in Tarentum on Monday. Meredith Cherry and her horse, Apollo, are expected to be at Riverview Memorial Park at noon on Monday, according to the Alle-Kiski Valley H.O.P.E. Center, a domestic violence...