Westmoreland County News

Charles D. Bancroft, 42, was pronounced dead at Excela Health Latrobe Hospital at 3:14 p.m.. An autopsy will be performed Saturday.

KENNETH LEIGHTY'S ATTORNEY SAYS HE'S COOPERATING WITH AUTHORITIES AND HE IS PLANNING TO WAIVE HIS FORMAL ARRAIGNMENT AND PRELIMINARY HEARING ON murder CHARGES.

Local parents are upset after they say their children returned from a Penn State field trip with bed bug bites all over their body.

State police are asking for help from the public in identifying the suspects in a recent break-in at a bar in Westmoreland County.

The City of Jeannette Friday asked Westmoreland County detectives to investigate a Washington County contractor who accepted $65,000 in public money to build a recreation center and will not repay the money, said the city's attorney.

The first hospital to be built in western Pennsylvania's Westmoreland County in more than half a century will be located in Unity Township.

The state Supreme Court is taking a one-stop shop approach in addressing several lawsuits filed by Pennsylvania judges who are fighting a state law that requires them to retire at age 70.

Nine students in one Westmoreland County school district may miss their high school prom because they were found not to have the chickenpox vaccine.

Authorities have released the name of the man killed in a motorcycle crash early this morning along the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Westmoreland County.

Penn State Extension will offer a Web-based seminar focusing on low-impact development, a stormwater-management strategy designed to mitigate the impacts of increased runoff and resulting pollution.

It's noon at the The Ellis School in Shadyside. We are in Alumnae Hall, handsomely designed with a vaulted ceiling and soft lighting.

She was born in Westmoreland County, daughter of Jacob W. and Sallie Gilmer. She married Marcus A. Ketterer in St.

Police say witnesses who saw a western Pennsylvania bank robbery suspect duck into a backyard and change his clothes are the reason they nabbed the man - and all of the money - within 10 minutes of the heist.

A western Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to death for murdering his mother, sister and elderly aunt in his automotive glass shop where the victims sometimes also worked.

A Latrobe police officer and the city's K-9 officer, Rocky, suffered minor injuries Saturday afternoon when they were bitten by a pair of pit bulls during a heroin bust on Weldon Street.

A jury in western Pennsylvania was set to begin the penalty phase of a trial for a man convicted last week or killing his mother, sister and elderly aunt in his automotive glass shop in 2009.

PennDOT crews will be performing maintenance work in the Plum area this week. Work will occur through Friday, May 10.

State police said a man who kidnapped a boy Friday in Fayette County stopped in Somerset County before taking the boy to Westmoreland County to rape him.

State Police have canceled the Amber Alert for a 6-year-old boy who went missing Saturday afternoon after he was located in Westmoreland County.

The City of Jeannette is shopping its water authority to the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County in an effort to raise cash to pay debts, city officials said.