Final preparations are underway as Westmoreland County’s juvenile detention center is set to reopen Wednesday. The center will have four beds available at first while staff members get their footing, said director Rich Gordon. “Some of our staff have never worked in corrections, some of our staff have never seen
PITTSBURGH – A class action, nuisance-based lawsuit from a group of Westmoreland County residents against a Belle Vernon landfill, which charged the facility produces noxious odors and has negatively impacted their quality of life, was recently settled.
A Unity couple said the words uttered in court at the conclusion of their weeklong trial was what they waited nine years to hear. Bruce Palmer collapsed into the arms of his wife and audibly sobbed as the jury foreman read they were not guilty to charges of sexual assault
PITTSBURGH – The mother of a man killed in a shooting at a New Kensington pub more than two years ago has opposed preliminary objections in her wrongful death litigation against the establishment, insisting its alleged over-serving of alcoholic beverages to the shooter and overall failure to prevent her son’s death.
A Pittsburgh man who was shot and killed Friday night was one of three people who police said broke into an Arnold home just before the shooting took place. Allen L. Austin Jr., 29, was pronounced dead after being found around 6 p.m. Friday on the 1600 block of Cherry