Dillon Carr stories, Page 27

Penn State University is coming to the Sampson Family YMCA to show people how to cook foods that helps reduce high blood pressure. There are around 15 spots for the 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 24 cooking class. Tickets cost $39. The class will be held in the YMCA’s Teaching...

A student found a bullet on a school bus heading to Gateway Middle School on Thursday morning. Principal Rocco Telli said in an email blast to parents that the bus was greeted by building administration, who ushered students through bag searches and metal detectors. “No items of concern were discovered,”...

The Gateway girls soccer team got a break from the season recently when they took a Saturday to give back to the community. Coach Kelly Bender said 24 girls, two parents and a player’s brother divided into groups to lend a hand to several service organizations in Monroeville, Pitcairn and...

Mayor Sara Kuhn and Councilman John Petrucci offered formal apologies to two people they erroneously alleged to have not complied with a municipal policy requiring board and committee members to undergo a criminal background check. Arlene Holtz and Rita Spalding, both former members of the Penn Hills Arts Council, were...

Four blighted properties in Penn Hills, including what officials described as a nuisance bar, are slated for demolition using Community Development Block Grant funding. Council awarded Lutterman Excavating its $42,790 bid to tear down the structures. The properties include 49 Verona Road, 4268 Verona Road, 4813 Verona Road and 470...

Penn Hills will use $311,000 of federal grant funding to pave three roads and one parking lot as part of the latest round of the Community Development Block Grant program. The roads include Westminster, Eastminster and Thon drives. Each road will be paved in its entirety. The Penn Hills Service...

Oakmont now has more beverage options. Rev22 Juice and Wellness Bar plans to celebrate its grand opening in the borough Friday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., when all will be welcome to sample its juices, smoothies and coffee drinks at the former Oakmont Bakery site. The juice bar is...

An Export man faces drug and gun charges after police said he drove into a parked trailer and through a yard in Plum. Police said Carl D. Helms, 42, was driving a GMC Suburban that was pulling a trailer Sept. 13 when he crashed into a parked trailer. He then...

Bassists unite! Bass guitar slappers, luthiers and students alike will congregate Sunday for the sixth annual Pittsburgh Bass Day. The event is open to the general public for $25, which gets people in the doors at Penn Hebron Garden Club, 237 Jefferson Road, access to bass clinics and chances to...

A Pittsburgh artist visited the Monroeville Library on Wednesday to start a project that aims to educate people on diversity and eventually to install a permanent art piece on the library’s property. Andrea London, of Point Breeze, brought a part of her art installation, entitled “We Are All Related,” in...

A Brookline man was arrested Sept. 19 while allegedly performing a lewd act as he watched students waiting for a school bus, police said. Anthony Cardamone, 55, faces seven misdemeanor charges related to the incident, according to court records. According to a criminal complaint, a male student on Wednesday reported...

Penn Hills, Verona, Oakmont and Plum are slated to receive state grants totaling more than $650,000 to be used for park improvements, state Sen. Jay Costa Jr. announced Tuesday. Penn Hills got $104,410 to replace the Red Oak and Maple pavilions at Penn Hills Community Park along Colorado Street. The...

The Penn Hills school board is trying to remove the district’s state-appointed financial recovery officer, Daniel Matsook. In a letter obtained by the Tribune-Review, the school board alleges Matsook attempted to “employ or appoint people, entities or other businesses of his own choosing without notice, input or consultation with the...

The Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League will investigate whether “homophobic comments” and “racial slurs” were uttered during a game between two high school boys soccer teams on Labor Day. Pittsburgh Allderdice High School parents wrote a letter outlining allegations that said two of their varsity soccer players were “goaded …...

A raccoon that was found in Monroeville tested positive for rabies, the Allegheny County Health Department said Tuesday. The raccoon was discovered near the 500 block of Patton Street. It’s the county’s 20th rabid animal so far this year. There have been 15 raccoons, four bats and one cat, according...

Two varsity soccer players from Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh were “goaded … with racial slurs” during a Labor Day boys soccer match against Connellsville Area High School, according to a group of parents. Pittsburgh Public Schools Superintendent Anthony Hamlet said Monday in a prepared statement he is aware of...

A Monroeville Public Works employee was charged last week on drug-related offenses. Christopher Masters, 44, of Monroeville was not home when Pennsylvania Attorney General investigators entered his residence with a search warrant. According to a criminal complaint filed against him, police found several types of drugs during the probe. Police...

An online petition to rename a park in Indiana County has purportedly garnered more than 18,700 signatures since its launch a week ago. Nadia Tillman, of Blairsville created the petition in early September, two days after Nalani Johnson — who would have turned two on Sunday — was found dead...

Plum council members plan to form a stormwater management task force and could hold its first meeting by the end of the month. The idea was first discussed Sept. 4 during a workshop meeting by council Vice President David Seitz. Officials have received several complaints from residents whose homes, businesses...

Monroeville District Court Judge Jeffrey Herbst handled these cases recently. Defendants will have court dates set in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. Charges were filed by Monroeville police unless otherwise noted. Held for court • Crystal A. Knopsnider, 28, of Hutchinson on charges of intent to deliver drug...

Police filed the following charges Sept. 5 through Sept. 10 in District Judge Jeffrey L. Herbst’s office. All charges were filed by Monroeville police unless otherwise noted: • Bobbie J. Lloyd, 43, of Pitcairn with theft by deception in connection to an incident that happened along the 4500 block on...

Got late fines from the library? Not anymore — at least for members of the Monroeville Public Library and 11 others in Allegheny County. As of Sept. 1, those past due library fines have been deleted and the libraries will not continue fining patrons for missed due-back dates. The hope...