Westmoreland County’s elected officials will receive bigger paychecks starting in January. Annual cost-of-living increases for 2024 will total nearly 3.5% for county commissioners and row officers, marking the third year in a row that elected leaders will see a significant bump in pay. Since the start of 2022, Westmoreland’s elected
Pennsylvania parents have been charged with child endangerment after their 4-year-old son found a loaded gun under a bed and shot himself in the head, authorities said.
There was nothing to prevent two teens facing criminal charges from just walking out of the Westmoreland County-
administered shelter where they were staying, the county’s 
juvenile detention director said Monday. The teens, Braedon M. Dickinson, 16, who was charged last year with second-degree murder, and Robert Cogdell, 14, who is