Seward News

Seward Borough Council on Tuesday agreed to advertise its preliminary 2010 budget that is balanced and retains current taxes.

About a dozen residents upset by a proposal to close Laurel Valley High School and send students to Ligonier told the Ligonier Valley school board how unhappy they are with that plan.

The debate continues in Ligonier Valley School District over the possible closing of Laurel Valley Middle/High School, with some parents promising they will put their children in cyber school if that happens.

Derry lawyer Larry Burns was ordered Friday by Westmoreland County Judge Richard E. McCormick Jr.

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

The city Planning Commission approved a church on River Street, a laundromat on Chestnut Street and a restaurant on Main Street at its monthly meeting Wednesday.

Paul Peirce can be reached via e-mail or at 724-850-2860. A freshly cut swath littered with fallen timber slices through 50 acres on the western slope of Laurel Mountain as though it had been leveled by an F5 tornado.

Irvin Tantlinger announced his resignation as Ligonier Valley school board president, effective at the conclusion of Monday night's meeting.

In poker parlance, Westmoreland County attorney Larry Burns is dead money. A jury deliberated just over two hours before finding Burns, 65, of Derry guilty of 12 misdemeanor counts of organizing and operating illegal gambling by holding Texas Hold 'Em tournaments in Adamsburg and Seward in 2007.

Investigators in Westmoreland County say Texas hold 'em tournaments held in Adamsburg and Seward raised several thousand dollars for volunteer fire departments, but also put several thousands more into the pockets of Greensburg attorney Larry Burns.

Investigators in Westmoreland County say Texas hold 'em tournaments held in Adamsburg and Seward raised several thousand dollars for volunteer fire departments, but also put several thousands more into the pockets of Greensburg attorney Larry Burns.

Investigators in Westmoreland County say Texas hold 'em tournaments held in Adamsburg and Seward raised several thousand dollars for volunteer fire departments, but also put several thousands more into the pockets of Greensburg attorney Larry Burns.

A former Rockwood resident and head of Kaiser Himmel Corp. pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to securities fraud, said the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

A former inmate at the Westmoreland County Prison has filed a federal lawsuit claiming he was given inadequate medical care at the Hempfield facility.

Borough Council agreed Tuesday to hire up to three part-time police officers to bolster its force.

Four men have been arrested in connection with the theft of two John Deere Gators in March from Maple Mountain Equipment.

A.J. Panian can be reached via e-mail . Each school day, 12-year-old Braxtyn Clark boards the bus near his Seward home for Laurel Valley Elementary School in St.

The field of candidates vying for four, four-year seats on the Ligonier Valley School District's board of directors was trimmed to five Tuesday, according to unofficial primary election results.

The officer who was appointed officer-in-charge of the Seward Borough police on Tuesday was suspended without pay for 10 days two days later.

He will conduct a write-in campaign. McLaughlin, a civil engineer at Quaker Sales Corp.