West Leechburg News

It's about time: Donegal Construction bailed out of the sewer-separation project in West Leechburg in early June and finally returned to work on Monday.

Four guards were fired Monday by the Westmoreland County Prison Board and two resigned in the wake of an investigation into the alleged beating of an inmate last month.

A Westmoreland County Prison inmate was taken out of his cell, punched, choked, kicked and threatened with death as punishment for talking back to a guard, according to a statement given by a corrections officer who said he witnessed the incident.

Brian C. Rittmeyer can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4701. A narrow strip of gravel running down South Avenue has Vicky Myers wishing she hadn't bought her home there a year ago.

The average assessed value on a house in the Armstrong County portion of Leechburg Area School District is $23,402, according to district officials.

Brian C. Rittmeyer can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4701. Jamie Silicki thought of the grandfather she never knew while carrying the flag in Leechburg's Memorial Day parade.

The average assessed value on a house in the Armstrong County portion of the Leechburg Area School District is $23,402, according to district officials.

The operator of Pittsburgh International Airport expects to help pay for the removal of a dam 53 miles away in northern Westmoreland County, to compensate for the environmental impact of two small dams it is building on the Findlay-Moon border.

Residents of Leechburg Area School District will still see their property taxes increase in the new school year, but not by as much as projected earlier.

Some Alle-Kiski Valley races for tax collector have attracted a number of candidates for Tuesday's primary.

Seven Democrats and no Republicans are vying for four seats on council May 19. They include four incumbents, Brian Carricato, Jack Jewett, Frank "Beans" Moliterno and Christine Wilson.

The following were committed to the Armstrong County Jail on Wednesday and Thursday, according to jail records: * Todd Allen Reiter, 21, of 1170 Bar Slope Road, Clymer, by the court, held for court on a charge of simple assault.

Air quality: Air samples at Highlands High School show unhealthful levels of chromium, according to the Allegheny County Health Department.

Charlie Ban is a freelance writer for the Valley News Dispatch. The product of an era of national economic crisis is making way for another.

At age 10, Tim Grantz liked walking along railroad tracks where, one day, he found an odd-shaped hunk of glass.

Burning garbage trigged a brush fire that consumed a saw mill off Upper Mateer Road in Parks Wednesday afternoon.

When he was laid off in October, Robin Scott of West Leechburg never expected to set foot in the shuttered Kensington Windows plant again.

A West Leechburg man allegedly grabbed a pizza shop cash bag so he could pay court fines for his girlfriend, police said.

A search party discovered the corpse of a West Leechburg man Monday afternoon along railroad tracks in Wetmore Township after Kane-based state police discovered his abandoned vehicle Sunday morning on U.S. ...

The car of a missing 38-year-old West Leechburg man, whose family said is depressed and suicidal, was found abandoned Sunday morning along Route 6 in rural McKean County, about 100 miles from his home, state ...