Latrobe News

Richard Robbins is a Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 724-836-5660 or via e-mail. Westmoreland County Sheriff Jonathan Held, acting under a court order, seized nearly $500 from the cash box of the Westmoreland County Home Show on Saturday.

State police in Greensburg allege two brothers assaulted their cousin after he crashed his car into a utility pole on Route 982 in Unity Township last month.

Latrobe's free shuttle from Memorial Stadium to the downtown business district to ease the parking crunch will stop at the end of February if ridership does not increase, the city's manager said this week.

Ever since Savannah Scholl was born six years ago, her father, Larry, has been waiting for something like PT Raceway in Level Green.

Thanks to Ray Evans, a Derry Township native who formed the McChesneytown Cemetery Association in 1984 with the late George 'Dobey' Lynch, who practiced law in Latrobe and had grandparents buried there, the cemetery continues to receive recognition and maintenance.

Renatta Signorini is a Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 724-837-5374 or via e-mail. A former Salem Township man pleaded guilty on Monday to robbing three convenience stores in eastern Westmoreland County in November 2010.

Latrobe is exploring the possibility of offering its police services to other communities, which will give the community an opportunity to generate more revenue.

Forty-four years removed from the battlefields of Vietnam, Cliff Shrum of Latrobe still recalls his first night in that Southeast Asian nation, hearing mortar rounds hit Cam Ranh Air Base, making him realize "this isn't Kansas anymore, Toto." The 18-year-old kid from Latrobe was thrust into the midst of a raging war in January 1968.

Commercial National Corp. in Latrobe, Pa., said Tuesday that its fourth-quarter net income climbed 44% from the same period in 2010, to $1.2 million, as lower funding costs and increased income from investments more than offset a decline in loan balances.

Bob Karlovits is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-320-7852 or via e-mail. Sixteen young musicians will perform Sunday at the Ferrier Young Artists Competition Winners' recital at the Seton Hill University Performing Arts Center in Greenburg.

Here are tips to avoid and extinguish grease fires: -- Don't use grease or oil in a skillet or pan and leave it unattended.

A. Julius Caesar reformed the Egyptian calendar around 45 B.C., creating 12 months of 30 or 31 days, resulting in 367 days.

Derry Area School District officials are mulling three bids ranging from $5,101 to $146,000 that were opened last week for purchase of the district's closed Loyalhanna Elementary School.

Jarred Lux recorded two pins to lead North Allegheny to the WPIAL Class AAA semifinals for the first time since 1999.

The traditional trainmen's car, formerly the property of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Monongahela Railroad of Brownsville, was once used as a playhouse for the Costello family children of Summerhill in Cambria County.

Occupation: Partner with Randy A. Betton in Mark L. Ferry Auctioneers Inc., Unity Township; sales manager at Gregory Equipment Co.

Founding Fathers beer is the latest beverage produced at City Brewing Co. LLC's Latrobe brewery.

Latrobe native Seth Macey says he is not a fair-weather Steelers fan, and he has the photo to prove it.

PennDOT plans to replace the Lloyd Avenue bridge carrying Route 981 over Loyalhanna Creek in Latrobe -- a $6.5 million project that might not begin construction for four years.

Liz Hayes is a Valley News Dispatch staff writer and can be reached at 724-226-4680 or via e-mail. Council soon could select a contractor to complete the first phase of the borough's long-awaited sewer-separation project.