A man convicted of illegally having a gun and drugs when he was found at a North Huntingdon motel with a runaway teenage girl was sentenced Tuesday to four to 10 years in a state prison. Judge Meagan Bilik-DeFazio ordered Robert Easley, 42, no hometown available, spend an additional year
A former Westmoreland County Prison guard was ordered to serve time in the facility where he once worked. Brian Joseph Prinkey, 27, of Connellsville was sentenced Friday to serve 10 days to 23 months behind bars at the county lockup for his role in the assault of an inmate there
A New Kensington man accused in a drive-by shooting pleaded guilty Tuesday while his co-defendant got a new lawyer. Isaac A. Weihrauch, 20, was sentenced to five to 10 years in a state prison under a plea agreement with Westmoreland County prosecutors. He pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, attempted aggravated
Jacqueline Ankey’s biggest regret isn’t the more the $3,300 she lost to a Scottdale contractor. It’s that she waited to report the swindle to authorities. “We thought it was just going to be a civil matter then I read about all of these other folks in 2021 and 2022. It’s
Hunting wasn’t in the cards for Derry Township attorney Larry Burns. So Burns went to court to ask that he once again be allowed to participate in the hobby he enjoyed for decades before he was convicted in 2009 of gambling offenses. He was operating what authorities said were illegal