Indiana County News

The Homer-Center School Board has approved a resolution that will grant temporary tax-free status to future businesses on a plot of land in Center Township.

A driver was taken to a Pittsburgh hospital after suffering major injuries in a car crash in Indiana County this weekend.

The Tribune-Review can be reached online or at 412-321-6460. The Indiana County man killed yesterday when his pickup truck struck three utility poles and a tree in Green Township has been identified.

Two separate crashes in Indiana County left one man dead and hurt two other people on Monday night.

State police in Indiana County are searching for an 89-year-old man who has been missing since yesterday morning.

A Ligonier family practice physician and Indiana County painting contractor face charges of conspiring to obtain thousands of painkillers over four years by writing and passing prescriptions for the contractor, family members and employees.

State police in Indiana County said a man trapped under a vehicle was saved by four bystanders, who rolled it off the victim.

An Indiana County man died yesterday from injuries he suffered in a head-on collision Wednesday in Washington Township, Indiana County.

The Indiana County commissioners Wednesday approved applications for three separate grants that could net the county more than $160,000. The unusually short agenda for the meeting was dominated by the grants, one each for highway safety, solid waste authority planning and storm water management planning.

A.J. Panian can be reached via e-mail . An Indiana County man allegedly fought with two police officers investigating an apartment for possible illegal fireworks early Wednesday.

A Ligonier family practice physician and an Indiana County painting contractor were charged Wednesday with conspiring to obtain thousands of painkillers over a four-year period by writing and passing prescriptions in the names of the contractor, family members and employees.

Two people were injured in a four-vehicle crash Tuesday morning on Route 22 in West Wheatfield, Indiana County, state police said.

Route 22 has reopened after a four-vehicle accident with injuries in Indiana County this morning.

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The dedication this week of the Q-Span, a bike/pedestrian bridge over the Conemaugh River that connects Indiana and Westmoreland counties, also served as the completion of the 15.35-mile West Penn Trail between Blairsville and Saltsburg.

Burrell Township's supervisors plan to confer with their solicitor on a proposed water tap-in ordinance and a tentative settlement with Chestnut Ridge Golf L.P. over property tax credits claimed retroactively to 2005.

Dawn Law is a stringer for the Tribune-Review. Croquet anyone? What a blessed day was Sunday for the Greensburg YMCA.

Outdoors lovers now have a larger area for recreation thanks to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.

An appellate court has refused to reinstate criminal charges against an Indiana County man accused of striking and killing bicyclist Sean Pearce in 2005.

A bill passed this past week by the U.S. House Appropriations Committee includes an earmark that would provide $650,000 in federal money to Indiana County for upgrades to the emergency communication system.