The trial of a New Kensington-Arnold music teacher accused of sending inappropriate text messages to students has been delayed for two months. Sean Timothy O’Neil, 34, was scheduled for trial in two cases on Feb. 10. They have been rescheduled for April 18. On Friday, Westmoreland County District Attorney Nicole
A Westmoreland County jury acquitted a Norwin Middle School teacher of failure to comply with child protective service laws but found her husband guilty of a similar charge. The jury deliberated more than five hours Tuesday before it rendered its mixed verdict to clear English teacher Tobitha Sasso, 42, of
Lawyers for a Norwin middle school teacher and her husband on trial for charges they did not comply with child safety laws told a Westmoreland County jury on Friday no crimes were committed. Tobitha Sasso, 42, and Brad Geyer, 39, both of Greensburg are on trial for misdemeanor charges related
The lawyer for a Greensburg man sentenced this week to serve life in prison for the 2017 murder of a Vandergrift woman whose body was burned beyond recognition claims in an appeal filed Friday that prosecutors hid evidence of a plea deal offered to a co-defendant and key witness in
A 41-year-old Penn Township man accused in the stabbing deaths of his father and elderly aunt avoided a hearing Tuesday on two criminal homicide charges and opted to proceed to trial. Neal M. Hubish, who has a history of violence and mental health issues, was arrested Nov. 9 after he