Lower Burrell News

It takes a lot of $4.93 per gallon diesel fuel to fill the area's garbage trucks, and customers are paying more for it.

Kara Krawczykiewicz, who is expecting her first baby on July 18, has been enjoying her pregnancy -- especially since pampering, prenatal massages became a part of it.

A Lower Burrell man remains in critical condition following a July 3 accident involving his motorcycle and a pickup truck.

A day of shopping turned into a nightmare Saturday morning for a 65-year-old Washington Township woman when she was mugged in the parking lot of Hillcrest Shopping Center.

The first half of 2008 has proved to be a deadly period for motorists in Westmoreland County.

Pat Mascarello, 65, was on her way to Community Market, a grocery store, in Lower Burrell when she felt someone tug at her purse.

Lower Burrell business owners are brainstorming ways to regenerate interest in the city.

Board members of the new Westmoreland Land Trust will be speaking at a number of municipal meetings and other community venues throughout Westmoreland County during July to introduce the young land-preservation ...

A kitchen fire at a Parnassus home quickly escalated Thursday evening and engulfed three Sixth Avenue homes.

Optimism surrounding talk about merging New Kensington and Arnold into one municipality fades when Lower Burrell is mentioned as a third possibility.

The Westmoreland County Coroner was called to the scene of an accident in the 1300 block of Greensburg Road.

The idea of turning the cities of Arnold and New Kensington into one municipality may be gaining momentum.

Two people were killed in an accident involving a tractor-trailer in Lower Burrell.

Police tell KDKA Becky Lee Horne, 24, of Vandergrift, was driving east on Route 366 when she apparently crossed the center line and crashed into the semi.

Both Horne and the driver of the truck, Thomas Keith Nale, 51, of Knox, were killed.

The tractor trailer was hauling coal ash which spilled on the road. HAZMAT crews were called to the scene as a precaution, but no hazardous situation occurred.

The following is a partial list of criminal cases handled by judges in the most recent term of Westmoreland County criminal court.

The Alle-Kiski Valley festival season kicked into high gear this week. A few days after the Saxonburg Fireman's Carnival got things started, hundreds of residents took Riverview Memorial Park on Friday night ...

Tomson's Scrap Metal 11, North/South Buffalo No. 2 5 -- For Tomson's, Blake Leri pitched well and doubled, Ryan Boda singled, and Issac Gillette singled and doubled.

Four days ago, the central air conditioning system at Ted Scanga's Lower Burrell home started to slow down.

The following is a list of defendants charged with a first offense of driving under the influence in Westmoreland County criminal court.

Wilbur Stewart doesn't think twice about driving 70 miles a week while volunteering, even with unleaded gasoline at about $4 a gallon.

The city's zoning hearing board will consider a request for a proposed cell phone tower off Seventh Street at an as yet unscheduled hearing.