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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 Westmoreland County man was arrested and jailed Wednesday after he allegedly attempted to lure a 12-year-old girl for sex via text messages sent from his cell phone.

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Three suspects open fire at a local Wal-Mart, while a bomb goes off at the Westmoreland County Prison and another detonates at a five-star hotel.

A teenager was killed while riding a motorcycle when he struck a guide wire on a utility pole Sunday night on Wohl Lane in South Huntingdon Township, according to the Westmoreland County Coroner's office.

A 14-year-old boy from Smithton died when his motorbike crashed Sunday night. The accident happened at 8 p.m. on Wohl Road in South Huntington Township, Westmoreland County, State Police told Channel 4 Action News.

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It has been nearly 20 years since the previous Big Block Modified made laps around Pittsburgh's Pennsylvania Motor Speedway.

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Pittsburgh's Pennsylvania Motor Speedway is usually the land of late models, but all that changes tomorrow, when the BRP Modified Tour makes its first appearance at DIRT's Monster Half Mile.

A Mt. Pleasant woman charged with killing a Smithton man in a two-vehicle collision more than a year ago had a blood-alcohol level of nearly three times the limit at which a driver is considered to be intoxicated, police said.

The Constructors Association of Western Pennsylvania is observing its tenth annual National Work Zone Awareness Week that will begin on Monday and end on April 13.

A local woman is dealing with a setback after flames destroyed her home in Smithton, Westmoreland County.

A drug ring that funneled more than $1.4 million worth of cocaine through a violent Detroit gang onto the streets of Allegheny and Westmoreland counties has been cracked with charges filed against nine people, ...

A California truck driver said he had sex with a 15-year-old girl on a cross-country trip from Los Angeles to Westmoreland County.

After spending more than two years in jail awaiting trial, a truck driver admitted Thursday that he had sex with a teenage girl during a trip from Southern California to Westmoreland County.

Attorney General Tom Corbett this morning announced the arrests of nine people connected to an alleged cocaine ring operating between Detroit and Western Pennsylvania.

The attorney general's office said the break up of a $1.4 million Detroit-to-Pennsylvania cocaine ring nabbed nine dealers, three of whom are allegedly part of violent street gang.