New Kensington Police Chief Ron Zellers Has Died
The police department told KDKA-TV Zellers had a heart attack at home and passed away at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
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The police department told KDKA-TV Zellers had a heart attack at home and passed away at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
A typical drive to school turned out to be anything but that for two students at Greensburg Salem High School when they came upon a fatal accident.
A Westmoreland County man is now headed to trial in his wife's murder. Derry school teacher Rebecca Stahl was found strangled to death back in February. Thursday, a judge heard a taped confession from her husband.
According to our news partners at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, two homicide detectives from Pittsburgh are now heading to California to talk with a doctor who may have tried to warn a UPMC doctor about Western Psych shooter John Shick.
An early Wednesday morning fire in Westmoreland County is under investigation.
A vigil was held for a young woman who was killed five years ago Tuesday. Samantha Lang, 22, was found murdered in a home on Route 982 in Latrobe.
Officials with the Valley School District in New Kensington are bracing for a legal battle with an atheist group that's threatening a lawsuit if a Ten Commandments monument is not removed from school property.
Seven people are facing charges in connection to the shooting death of Lower Burrell police officer Derek Kotecki. Kotecki was killed after he was ambushed by 33-year-old Charles Post, a fugitive, in the parking lot of the Dairy Queen in the 300-block of Greensburg Road back in October.
A robber was after one thing at a local CVS Pharmacy in Westmoreland County, and it was not cash.
Pennsylvania State Police have filed charges against three suspects in a robbery ring that spanned Allegheny, Indiana and Westmoreland counties.
Vicki Naggy says she always missed the lottery by at least one number. But when HGTV came knocking on the door of her Acme, Westmoreland County, home at 9:38 p.m. on March 5, she knew her luck had changed.
Crews were called to a fire in Westmoreland County. It happened on Indian Hill Road in Allegheny Township near Leechburg.
A man is accused of stalking a Greensburg woman, but police are concerned there could be more victims. John Bennish, 49, of Hempfield, is charged with stalking and burglary.
The funeral for a young man who was killed during a shooting at Western Psych last week was held Tuesday morning.
Viewing was held Monday for the young man who died during last week's shooting at Western Psych. Michael Schaab grew up in Westmoreland County and hundreds of family and friends came out to pay their respects.
A candlelight vigil was held Sunday evening for the young man killed in last Thursday's shooting at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Oakland.
A memorial service was held this weekend for a local middle school teacher who was found dead last month in Westmoreland County.
The pursuit began in Swissvale Friday night and involved officers from the City of Pittsburgh, State police and eastern suburbs in Allegheny County.
David Stahl needed an attorney, so his preliminary hearing could not go forward. He was sent back to the Westmoreland County Jail.
The results of an autopsy on the body of a 17-month-old who was found unresponsive in his Indiana County home were released Tuesday morning.
The child was found unresponsive in unit 11 on Hemlock Way in Saltsburg, Indiana County. The boy was pronounced dead at Latrobe Hospital after he was found not breathing by his mother.
Sixty-year-old Larry Dunkel, of New Kensington, says his specialized wheelchair is "everything to him" because he can't around without it. But last week, during a 90-minute period, a thief swiped his chair out of the couple's fenced-in backyard.
Two firefighters were injured battling a fire in Jeannette. The fire broke out just before midnight at a building on Lowry Avenue near Vine Street.
Two firefighters were injured in an early morning fire in Westmoreland County.
Aluminum cans were stolen from a Cub Scout recycling project in Westmoreland County.
