Rich Cholodofsky | Tribune-Review
This photograph from a security video taken at the Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve was entered into evidence Tuesday, April 13, 2021 in the attempted rape trial of Luke Hoover, 23 of Latrobe. Witnesses testified the man in the picture attacked a woman walking along a nature trail at the site in 2017.
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A Westmoreland County jury deliberated just one hour Wednesday before finding a former Somerset County man guilty of the attempted rape of Saint Vincent College freshman in 2017.
Hoover, prosecutors said, accosted his then 18-year-old victim from Kittanning as she walked in a secluded trail in the Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve weeks after she started her first semester at the Unity school.
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A former Hempfield woman told a judge on Thursday she never really knew the man who died from the drugs she sold him in 2019, but, in the two years since his overdose, she got sober, got married, gave birth to a daughter and has turned her life around.
Hollie Ann Schreiber, 41, now of Jeannette, pleaded guilty in January to counts of drug delivery resulting in death and conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 14, 2019, overdose death of 28-year-old Christopher Holleran. She was sentenced Thursday to serve up to nearly two years in jail.
April 1, 2021
Two months after snow, ice, and temperatures as low as -6° F left 4 million Texans without electricity, the fight over how to power the state’s future is just heating up.
In February, the Texas grid came four minutes away from complete collapse. Half of the state’s electricity generating capacity failed. Coal, nuclear, wind, and solar plants left gaping holes in the state’s energy supply, and natural gas left the biggest: 17,000 megawatts. The outage left at least 100 people dead, and $90 billion in damages. It also sparked interest in building more power plants to guard against the next one. Last week, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Energy subsidiary pitched one of the ambitious proposals yet: Build 10,000 MW of natural gas plants with on-site fuel storage.
The sexual assault and child pornography cases against suspended Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Felipe Vazquez will be conducted May. Westmoreland County Judge Scott Mears, following a hearing Monday afternoon, ordered jury selection in the case to begin May 14 and for testimony in the trial to start on May 17. “Given
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A Delmont man was sentenced Friday to serve nearly two years in jail for possession of child pornography.
Michael Goodis, 53, was convicted by a Westmoreland County jury in October of 32 felony counts in connection with at least 30 different pornographic images found stored on his computer equipment depicting children as young as 7 being forced to commit sexual acts.
Jurors also found Goodis guilty of distributing those images and using a computer for that purpose.
“This defendant was not directly responsible for creating this child pornography but his conduct still has an impact on the victims,” said Common Pleas Court Judge Christopher Feliciani.