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Baldwin-Whitehall School District shifts to remote learning through Dec. 11
Baldwin-Whitehall School District officials announced all students will switch to remote learning Tuesday due to rising covid-19 cases. Superintendent Randal Lutz said via district website post Monday that students would remain online through at least Dec. 11. “All students are expected to join their classes as they normally would have...
Highlands moving all students to remote learning
Highlands School District will move all students to full remote instruction beginning Dec. 1 and continuing through Jan. 15, the district announced Monday. All extracurricular activities and sports will be suspended during that time. The announcement comes a week after the district closed its middle school through the Thanksgiving break...
Covid-19 claims Jeannette elementary school secretary Dana Hall
The Jeannette community is mourning the loss of Dana Hall, a secretary at Jeannette City School District, who died over the weekend of covid-19 complications. Jeannette football Coach Roy Hall said that his sister-in-law was last at work a week and a half ago, before she became ill. The 55-year-old...
School districts must sign off on covid-19 safety procedures or go virtual by month’s end
School districts in Westmoreland, Armstrong and Allegheny counties have until 5 p.m. Nov. 30 to switch to full remote instruction or affirm that they are complying with the state’s covid-19 safety measures. Gov. Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Rachel Levine announced the new directive Monday for all public schools...
Man accused of robbing New Kensington store, then asking for a job
A 20-year-old man is accused of demanding employees at a New Kensington Family Dollar store fill a bag with money, or give him a job, according to police. Police charged Marcus Tyquan Walker of New Kensington with two felony counts of robbery. He was arraigned before District Judge Frank Pallone...
Springdale couple charged with assaulting police officer responding to domestic incident
A Springdale couple is charged with aggravated assault and disorderly conduct, accused of attacking a borough police officer called to their apartment for a domestic incident, according to a criminal complaint. Springdale police Officer Larry Bonazza said he was punched and bitten during the incident and was taken to a...
Norwin reports 13 more coronavirus cases; pushes total to 78
The spike in coronavirus cases among Norwin’s students and staff continued this week with the school district reporting 13 more on Monday — 10 students and three staff members. On Monday, three students each at the high school and at Stewartsville Elementary reported they tested positive for coronavirus along with...
Congressman Mike Kelly, Sean Parnell seek injunction to stop Pa. election certification
The Republican congressman and congressional candidate challenging Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballot system that led to more than 2.6 million such votes being cast in the Nov. 3 election are seeking an emergency injunction to halt the certification of the state’s election results. An initial complaint filed with Commonwealth Court by U.S....
Tarentum Station Grille delays reopening amid coronavirus surge
The owner of JG’s Tarentum Station Grille said Monday he made the difficult decision to postpone the restaurant’s reopening, which had been set for Dec. 1. The restaurant, in a historic train station in the heart of Tarentum’s business district, has remained closed since March because of the coronavirus pandemic....
Toys for Tots distribution begins in Harrison as program struggles for donationsVideo
A Toys for Tots program serving part of the Alle-Kiski Valley began distributing gifts to needy families Monday, but could use more donations and some help to make sure children have a merry Christmas. More than 630 families have signed up to receive toys from the Allegheny Valley Marine Corps...
Munhall neighbors’ dispute ends in gunfire
A dispute between neighbors in Munhall over a water leak ended Sunday with one man shot and another in jail facing attempted homicide charges, police said. The shooting happened about 10:30 a.m. at a house on Shady Avenue near Superior Street, police said. According to the criminal complaint, the argument...
Tarentum shooting leaves 18-year-old dead, other teen injured
The sound of gunfire, and her dog barking, woke Yvonne Scarselli in her Tarentum home around midnight Monday morning. What Scarselli heard was a shooting that left an 18-year-old man dead and another, 19, wounded. Scarselli said she heard what sounded like gunfire being exchanged near her home on Conroy...
Jeannette man accused of pulling gun on women who gave him a ride
Two women told Jeannette police they gave a man a ride only to have him pull out a handgun and threaten to shoot one of them because she blocked him on social media. Police obtained an arrest warrant for Jamar “Philly” McIntosh, 42, of Jeannette on charges of reckless endangerment,...
Kiski Area High School reopens, district introduces online covid tracker
Kiski Area High School reopened Monday after a week-long closure, allowing students to attend class in person for up to four days a week. Students had moved online last week after seven cases of covid-19 were reported among students and staff. The school district had just reported two new cases...
Coronavirus cases rise again in Norwin area
Coronavirus cases increased by 10% in the North Huntingdon, Irwin and North Irwin area over the past seven days, but the percentage rise in cases was not as steep as earlier this month, according to state Department of Health data. The number of confirmed virus cases in the Norwin area...
New Kensington woman charged with firing gun into occupied hotel room in Harmar
Police arrested a New Kensington woman at a Harmar hotel last week after, they say, she fired a gun inside her hotel room during an argument and a bullet went into another occupied hotel room. Angelia Anderina Waszkiewicz, 30, remained in the Allegheny County Jail on Monday afternoon after failing...
Pa. Supreme Court says undated mail-in ballots in Nicole Ziccarelli case can be counted
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Monday afternoon ruled that 2,349 undated mail-in ballots in Allegheny County can be counted in the state’s election results — dashing a challenge by 45th senatorial district candidate Nicole Ziccarelli. The court’s 35-page opinion also clears the way for 8,329 mail-in ballots in Philadelphia County that...
Coronavirus numbers tallied for Murrysville-Export-Delmont area
The most recent state data shows 385 people in the Murrysville area have had confirmed cases of coronavirus since the start of the pandemic in March, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The area registered an additional 68 confirmed cases in the past seven days. It is the third...
Coronavirus numbers tallied for Penn-Trafford area
Recent state data shows there have been 553 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the Penn-Trafford area since the start of the pandemic in March, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The health department on Sunday released data on confirmed cases of the virus in the six Penn-Trafford area ZIP...
Man accused of fighting with shoppers, kicking trooper outside Walmart in Hempfield
A Greensburg man is accused of getting into two fights and kicking a state trooper after being yelled at by shoppers for driving erratically and speeding through the parking lot of the Walmart in Hempfield. David C. Wisniewski, 30, was arraigned on 18 criminal counts, including aggravated assault, aggravated assault...
Westmoreland judge tosses more than 200 ballots elections board wanted counted
A Westmoreland County judge ruled Monday that 46 provisional ballots be counted after voters provided testimony to the board of elections that they did not vote on machines at their polling places despite signing a poll book. But another 204 ballots must be tossed out because the board didn’t do...
10 Allegheny County Jail employees test positive for covid, 50 in quarantine
Ten Allegheny County Jail employees tested positive for coronavirus since Saturday and another 50 are quarantining after they were identified as close contacts, officials said Monday. Officials said the cases are the result of community transmission — not exposures in the workplace. “While these steps will impact staffing levels at...
Pa. to ban alcohol sales at bars, restaurants for 1 night
State officials laid out new covid-19 mitigation efforts but stopped short of issuing a statewide stay-at-home order, instead advising Pennsylvanians to stay home and putting a one-night ban on alcohol sales Wednesday. New orders also scale back the maximum capacity for indoor and outdoor gatherings, capping outdoor limits for the...
Call for creativity to help build mosaic mural for new AHN Wexford Hospital
Members of the public are invited to summon their artistic creativity to help adorn the new hospital Allegheny Health Network is building in Pine by submitting artwork for a mosaic mural dubbed “Caring for the Community.” “Since announcing our plans to build a hospital in Wexford, the community has welcomed...
Deer Lakes switches to fully remote learning as covid-19 cases rise
Deer Lakes has moved to fully online learning in response to rising covid-19 cases in Allegheny County and a shortage of teachers. Students will learn remotely until at least Monday, Dec. 7, according to district spokeswoman Coby Detar. Deer Lakes includes the Allegheny County communities of East Deer, West Deer...
