Westmoreland County News

A Westmoreland County man is accused of pretending to be an 18-year-old woman and sending text messages to a 12-year-old girl, before propositioning the girl for sex.

A worker at a Westmoreland County home for Alzheimer's patients is accused of stealing rings off the fingers of three patients.

Two people are dead from a head-on traffic crash in southwestern Pennsylvania. The Westmoreland County coroner's office says an elderly man was declared dead at the scene of Thursday afternoon's crash of a sport utility vehicle and a van on Route 130 in Penn Township.

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Police in Westmoreland County said the actions of a concerned father helped them catch an alleged sex offender.

The president of the guards union at the Westmoreland County Prison said he has been suspended indefinitely because he advised corrections officers about what they should say to officials probing the alleged beating of an inmate last month.

A husband and wife from Loyalhanna Township will do time for smuggling an estimated millions of dollars worth of scrap silver out of a Murrysville plant in their lunch boxes.

An act of kindness brought smiles to the faces of flood victims in Westmoreland County facing a hefty cleanup after last week's devastating flash flooding.

It was a typical Mother's Day in the Chenault house in this tiny western Pennsylvania town.

Damaged and flooded by record rainfall is not the way Iron City Brewing wanted to go out in Pittsburgh, but that's what the company is facing at its soon-to-be-former brewery.

The Tribune-Review can be reached online or at 412-321-6460. Westmoreland County commissioners awarded a $418,988 contract Thursday to Tresco Paving Corp.

A former basketball coach from Cambria County has been sentenced to 10 years of intensive probation for indecent assault charges and other offenses related to her interaction with a female player from Westmoreland County.

State police issue a warning for businesses and clubs in Westmoreland County after a dozen of break-ins. The burglaries have been primarily at commercial buildings in Youngwood, New Stanton, East Huntingdon Township and Mount Pleasant Township.

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State police are investigating the theft of copper telephone cable that disrupted phone and Internet service to about 1,800 Verizon customers for several hours.

The Tribune-Review can be reached online or at 412-321-6460. The death of a truck driver from Verona in a crash on the Amos K. Hutchinson Bypass/Toll Route 66 in Westmoreland County has been ruled an accident, the Westmoreland County Coroner's Office said Wednesday.

A Westmoreland County doctor and his patient, who allegedly conspired to obtain pills by writing and passing scripts in the name of the patient's family members, were arrested Wednesday by agents from the attorney general's office.

State police say they used DNA found on a discarded beer can to link a Connellsville man to a fire that caused $200,000 damage to an unoccupied house in Westmoreland County.

People who suffered damage from last week's storms in Jeannette, Westmoreland County, will be able to apply for assistance to the Salvation Army starting on Tuesday.

Channel 11 News has learned about a possible scheme targeting senior citizens in Westmoreland County.