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South Carolina man arrested in Rostraver homicide

Police arrested a man from South Carolina after a woman was shot and killed in Rostraver Township Wednesday night. According to a press release from the office of Westmoreland County District Attorney Nicole Ziccarelli, Rostraver Township police and county detectives were called just before ...

Family of Grindstone man shot by police starts GoFundMe

A Grindstone man who was fatally shot by police during a welfare check on Tuesday had been struggling with his mental health, his sister wrote in a GoFundMe post. Christopher Hackney, 27, was shot by Redstone Township police at his home on Lyndale Road around 9 p.m. Tuesday. According to a ...

Two charged in Greene road rage incident

Cumberland Township police charged two men Wednesday after they were accused of assaulting a motorist who honked at them to move through an intersection. Scott Michael Cottrell, 39, of Point Marion, and Tyler K. Spacht, 44, of Mather, face felony charges of burglary and rioting, as well as ...

Father accused of caging 6-year-old daughter pleads guilty

Jacob William Weight Sr. did not hesitate when President Judge Steven P. Leskinen asked him why he had his 6-year-old-daughter hogtied naked in a cage. “Mainly because she was doing stuff she wasn’t supposed to…She’d get up, get in the fridge and run through the house and keeping ...