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A pickup truck crashed into a Five Below discount retail store Friday afternoon in Cranberry, smashing through the storefront’s glass facade, flying past the entryway cart corrals and crushing gift boxes and wrapping paper rolls beneath its wheels as it came to a rest against a shopping aisle. An ambulance...

The Pennsylvania Wildlife Samaritans calendar featuring photos of wildlife throughout the state will benefit a Butler County wildlife rehabber and other nonprofits. The Wildlife Samaritans calendar is on sale for $26.99 ; 100% of the profits go to the featured wildlife rehabilitation nonprofits. One of the beneficiaries is Wildbird Recovery,...

Western Pennsylvania residents waking up from a tryptophan-induced turkey coma likely saw a light dusting of snow on the lawn Friday. That was the first of several small patches of snow expected to move through the region over the weekend. “Across northwest Pennsylvania, more toward Erie and Crawford counties, they’re...

For the first time, the Pennsylvania Game Commission will offer buck and doe hunting concurrently statewide for two weeks starting Saturday. It’s not even called the opening of buck season anymore, but the opening of firearms deer season. The regular firearms deer season begins Saturday and includes Sunday , one...

In the early 1980s, the Tribune- Review’s Operation Santa Claus started as an idea in the newspaper’s editorial department. “At the time, George Beidler was the Greensburg editor, and he kind of spearheaded the whole thing to get it off the ground,” said retired Tribune-Review General Manager Art McMullen, who has...

Police, firefighters and federal officials are investigating a plane crash that killed one person Wednesday evening near Grove City, officials said. A single-engine Cessna 210 with two people aboard crashed around 5:45 p.m. in a wooded area near a landfill on TCI Park Drive, according to Federal Aviation Administration spokesman...

What time will you gather around the table for Thanksgiving dinner? According to a 2018 survey of U.S. consumers, early afternoon is the preferred time to dig in to the turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie. More specifically, 42% of respondents said they’d be sitting down between 1 and 3 p.m....

Recent retiree Rick Garlow, 66, of North Huntingdon and his wife, Chrissy, 65, sat out Thanksgiving and Christmas travel last year as covid-19 infections surged. They dared to venture out to visit their son and his family in Baltimore for New Year’s only after they tested negative for covid-19. This...

The Ellwood City Police Department recently purchased a new 2021 Dodge Charger, which will be the new K9 vehicle for the department. The vehicle was purchased with donations made by Reed Services, donors and past fundraisers. Reed Services, Sgt. Michael McBride and K9 Officer Richard Kruger will be going to...

Climate change isn’t what’s driving some U.S. coal-fired power plants to shut down. It’s the expense of stricter pollution controls on their wastewater. Dozens of plants nationwide plan to stop burning coal this decade to comply with more stringent federal wastewater guidelines, according to state regulatory filings, as the industry...

Black Friday isn’t what it used to be. That, of course, won’t stop sisters Jenna and Jamie Fratangelo of Scottdale. They’ll have Thanksgiving dinner with their family, get their five children ready for bed, plot their game plan and then head out before sunrise to spend the day shopping for...

The coroner was called after a man reportedly fell from a barge in Beaver County, according to a 911 dispatcher. It was reported about 7:30 p.m. near the Montgomery Lock and Dam on the Ohio River between Monaca and Shippingport, the dispatcher said. The U.S. Coast Guard and multiple other...

As more travelers are expected to head to the nation’s airports over the holiday season, the last thing any of them want is an additional delay. And the last thing airport security officers want is for that delay to happen due to the discovery of a gun in a passenger’s...

Hours after learning that a judge awarded primary custody of his three children to his estranged wife, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sean Parnell said he cannot continue with his campaign. “There is nothing more important to me than my children, and while I plan to ask the court to reconsider,...

Trib Total Media is looking for aspiring journalists to apply for its Journalism Scholarship Program. “Through this program, we hope to encourage, develop and inspire the next generation of promising young journalists,” said Jennifer Bertetto, Trib Total Media president and CEO. Trib Total Media’s Journalism Scholarship Program began in 2019...

We are? If the answer to the popular college cheer is “Penn State,” there are fewer voices chiming in these days. Although Penn State’s University Park campus, which turns away hundreds of well-qualified students every year, bounced back to better than 2019 enrollment numbers, increasing from 46,313 students last year...

Murrysville officials are considering using some of the municipality’s $1.9 million in American Rescue Plan money to expand broadband internet access. “I think it’s vital,” Murrysville Chief Administrator Jim Morrison told Murrysville Council members this week. He encouraged residents to complete a survey being undertaken by the nonprofit Southwestern Pennsylvania...

A Greene County man admitted bilking Western Pennsylvania investors out of more than $2 million under the guise of funding a promising renewable energy company, only to use the money to pay for lavish personal items and the living expenses of he and his fellow schemers. Authorities say the money...

Since the Transportation Security Administration was created in the wake of 9/11, terrorists haven’t carried out any large-scale attacks involving commercial airliners or U.S. airports. Some say that’s a testament to the TSA and proof that its security measures are working. But some aviation security experts say the TSA, created...

A federal judge on Friday denied the request of a former Charleroi woman charged in the Capitol riot to be allowed to possess a firearm to protect her livestock pending trial. Tara Stottlemyer, 36, is accused of obstructing official proceedings, disorderly conduct in the Capitol building, entering a restricted building...

A Mercer County man said he will plead guilty next month to participating in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Matthew Perna, 37, of Sharon, is scheduled to plead guilty on Dec. 17 to the four-count indictment returned against him. He appeared before U.S. District Judge John Bates...

Butler Memorial Hospital workers said the usual quiet of a treatment waiting area was shattered Tuesday night when the mother of a 20-month-old toddler screamed for help and accused a wheelchair-bound patient of punching her child, according to court documents. “He hit my baby!,” Butler Township police quoted the mother...

A crew from the Washington County Coroner’s Office was called to the scene of an apparent murder-suicide Thursday afternoon, officials said. Crews responded to a home in Canton Township for reports of the incident that took place between 1 p.m. Wednesday and noon Thursday, according to a release from the...

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission on Thursday approved a $1 million settlement related to a massive failure of the Revolution pipeline that occurred in September 2018 in Beaver County. On Sept. 10, 2018, a pipeline failure occurred near Ivy Lane in Center Township, releasing more than 3 million cubic feet...

One person was killed and three others were injured Wednesday in a head-on crash on Interstate 79 in Butler County, state police said. The crash happened shortly before 5 p.m. on the highway in Muddy Creek Township. State police said James E. Dapper, 58, of Zelienople, was driving a pickup...