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Greater Latrobe School Board approved a five-year extension of its wage-and-benefit plan for most of the district’s administrators. The Act 93 compensation plan, passed at this week’s board meeting, runs through the 2025-26 school year and covers 15 administrators across various departments and schools. In accordance with state law, the...

This time around, you won’t have to wait until dinner to enjoy a Greensburg Restaurant Week deal. For the first time, there will be breakfast and lunch options, courtesy of first-time participants Yumzio Bistro and South Greensburg Restaurant. Olives and Peppers at the Greensburg Train Station is the third new...

The controversy over regulating backyard chickens in North Huntingdon was back before the township commissioners Wednesday when the seven-member board once again split over whether to amend existing rules governing poultry in a neighborhood. The board majority on Wednesday let stand a decision to hold a public hearing at 6...

Murrysville officials hope to break ground on an amphitheater and performance space at Murrysville Community Park by late spring or early summer. Council on Wednesday voted to reissue a request-for-proposals for a project consultant. A similar request last year returned proposals that Chief Administrator Jim Morrison said ranged between $60,000...

The mother of a 2-year-old boy police said was brutally murdered by her boyfriend as she slept in a nearby room pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a related misdemeanor count of animal neglect. Police said Teresa Fetterman, 24, formerly of Aliquippa, did not get medical help for her 8-month-old mixed-breed...

Former President Donald Trump might have left the Oval Office, but his influence could color the special election to fill the vacancy in Pennsylvania’s 59th legislative district this spring. Leslie Baum Rossi, the Unity woman who created the Trump House — the red, white and blue shrine to the former...

Dolly Regoli wiped away a tear, paused and composed herself during an interview Wednesday as Joe Biden prepared to take the oath of office. The new president many hope will heal the nation’s wounds has a special place in the heart of the 81-year-old New Kensington woman. Three years ago,...

The Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County on Wednesday finalized a deal to take ownership and operate a tiny sewer system in East Huntingdon that serves about 700 township residents. The deal transfers ownership of the township’s 250 million gallon treatment plant to the county authority. Officials said the 20-year-old facility...

Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County water rates will remain unchanged for the third straight year under a 2021-2022 operating budget approved Wednesday. Authority board members unanimously voted to adopt the nearly $104 million budget that allocates about $7.3 million for routine capital improvement projects and maintenance of the water and...

A Greensburg woman is accused of stabbing her boyfriend with a kitchen knife during an argument last weekend, city police said. Laura M. Piper, 29, is charged with aggravated assault, harassment and simple assault after the incident Sunday morning at the Eastmont Estates apartment complex, according to city police. She...

Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania has started replacing gas lines in Youngwood in a project that is expected to last until April. Spokesman Lee Gierczynski said the project completion date will be dependent upon the weather. The work replacing more than 9,800 feet of underground pipeline got underway this week, he...

People tend to stay indoors more in the winter, but Rick Steele is hoping folks will take a walk to one of Greensburg’s three little food pantries to drop off a few supplies. The need is just as great in cold weather as it is in warm weather, said Steele,...

Westmoreland County had 173 coronavirus cases and 12 deaths added to its totals Wednesday. The county now has 23,624 cases and 553 deaths, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Of the newly reported cases, 93 are confirmed and 80 are probable. The county’s seven-day average of new cases dropped...

Police this week charged a 68-year-old patient at a Penn Township personal care home with sexually assaulting another patient. Daniel Gross is charged with indecent assault in connection with the Dec. 30 incident at Golden Heights Personal Care Home along Route 130. A nurse’s aide completing patient room checks before...

Penn Township police this week charged a McKeesport man with posting partially nude photographs of woman on social media. Det. Brad Buchsbaum charged Shawn Himich Jr., 24, with 12 counts each of dissemination of intimate materials and illegally transmitting obscene and sexual materials. Buchsbaum said in court documents the woman,...

Some Norwin elementary school students will attend different schools in the fall because of the district’s decision to change the attendance areas of its four elementary schools. The school board this week approved the redistricting plan to achieve what officials said would be a better balance in enrollment among the...

Meetings • The Western Pennsylvania Kidney Support Groups will host an online support group meeting from 2 to 4 p.m. Jan. 24. The group enables anyone with chronic kidney disease, transplant recipients and candidates, and caregivers to meet and share common experiences. Registration is required by Jan. 23. To register,...

The Norwin School Board put its stamp of approval on a deal to split about $11,150 a year with the taxing bodies of Irwin and the county for the next 40 years in return for not challenging the non-profit charitable status of the developer of a proposed 50-unit complex for...

A judge on Tuesday ruled that defense lawyers for a New Kensington man facing a potential death sentence for the death of a 2-year-old can hire a medical expert to evaluate and potentially refute prosecution evidence at his upcoming trial. Keith Dale Lilly Jr., 31, has been in the Westmoreland...

When Alyson Holt pursued a degree in electrical engineering, she was keenly aware of how few fellow students looked like her. “Women were 6% of the students,” said Holt, 48, of Murrysville. Holt came from a family full of technology careers — both grandfathers were engineers, and her grandmother and...

There’s a debate in business circles on whether it’s good or bad to be the first to interview for a job, but being number one worked for Michael Tusay — the new executive director at Latrobe Art Center. “He was actually our first in-person interview,” board member Katie Miller said....

The Penn-Trafford-Jeannette area had 63 confirmed new covid cases in the last six days, a slight dip from the week prior, according to data from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Since the pandemic began in March, the six ZIP codes covering most of the three communities have seen a total...