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State police are looking for the driver of car who allegedly attacked another driver after hitting his car in Lawrence County. The man police said hit the car and then attacked the driver fled the scene, officers said. The driver who was attacked had a minor injury but declined to...

Gasoline prices have slid to their lowest level since March thanks to rising U.S. inventories and sluggish demand, according to an analyst for the price-tracking firm GasBuddy. “The jump in gasoline inventories has been so large it has offset oil prices, which touched $60 per barrel last week, as well...

The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory from 4 p.m. Monday through 11 a.m. Tuesday. A mix of snow up to around an inch with a light glaze of ice from freezing rain is possible, according to the advisory for Allegheny, Washington and Westmoreland counties. Roads could be...

State police are seeking the man who robbed a bank in Fayette County Friday afternoon. The man, wearing a green jacket and a blue tassel cap, robbed the Vanderbilt branch of the Scottdale Bank & Trust Co. at 704 Main St., Vanderbilt, at about 12:30 p.m., according to state police...

Penn State Extension will present a one-day conference on growing industrial hemp on Feb. 11 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at The Chadwick in McCandless. The conference will focus on planting, growing and harvesting industrial hemp. Hemp was designated a legal crop in the 2019 Pennsylvania Farm Bill. There...

U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb said Thursday he plans to vote in favor of both impeachment articles Democrats plan to lodge against President Donald Trump. The Mt. Lebanon Democrat — a rising-star politician serving his first full year in Congress — said the last few weeks of evidence and testimony in...

A Beaver County man this week pleaded guilty in federal court to robbing a Cranberry bank over the summer. Michael Ryan Neppach, 40, of Patterson, pleaded guilty to a charge of bank robbery, prosecutors said. Authorities said shortly after 4:45 p.m. Aug. 28, Neppach went to the PNC Bank at...

Chevron, one of the largest producers of natural gas in the region, may begin divesting in its gas operations in Appalachia, the company announced Tuesday. In Chevron’s exploratory budget for 2020, the company announced a flat spending budget of $20 billion. Domestic projects include the Permian Basin, which spans much...

A video showing two teens torturing an injured deer has rocked a small Western Pennsylvania community while generating outrage far and wide, including online where nearly 600,000 people have signed a petition calling for criminal charges. As of midday Wednesday, authorities had not charged the teens, who can be seen...

MEADVILLE — The on-campus rape of an Allegheny College student inside her dormitory room by an armed man early Tuesday morning is under investigation by Meadville Police Department and Allegheny College. The female student was attacked by an unknown man in her room in Ravine Hall, according to authorities. Ravine...

A 44-year-old Indiana County man with a taste for stolen Slim Jims hit a Sheetz employee with his car as he fled the store near Blairsville last month, police said. James Fitzgerald Higgins, of Josephine, is in the county jail on $50,000 bail in connection with the Nov. 24 incident...

A permanent electronics recycling facility in eastern Washington County announced its 2020 dates for accepting items, most of which will be collected at no charge. The JVS Environmental site at 1 American Way in Ellsworth will replace the monthly electronics collection program previously staged at the Washington County Fairgrounds and...

More than half of the flu cases reported in Pennsylvania so far this season are in the Greater Pittsburgh area, with Allegheny County having the most of any county in the state in a season that is off to an early start. A total of 4,424 laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza...

A Western Pennsylvania native and his wife were among the 18 people who were hurt when a volcano erupted Monday in New Zealand. At least five people were killed and dozens of others were missing after the eruption on White Island, New Zealand’s most active cone volcano. Matthew Urey, 36,...

Vice President Mike Pence promised during a visit Tuesday to a Beaver County Veterans of Foreign Wars post that he and President Trump would make Pennsylvania “more prosperous than you could possibly imagine” if reelected in 2020. Pence called the impeachment inquiry a “disgrace,” vowed continued support for military veterans...

Gasoline prices fell in most states over the past week as a large increase in gasoline inventories may have offset a surprise oil production cut announced by OPEC, said Patrick DeHaan, head of petroleum analysis for price-tracking service GasBuddy. “While OPEC’s announcement was certainly not expected, it lasts just three...

An Aliquippa man Friday was charged with shooting and killing another man last month in Beaver County, authorities said. Javonte Eric Simmons, 24, remained in the Beaver County Prison on Sunday after being denied bond. He faces charges of homicide, tampering with evidence and a firearms violation in connection with...

Vice President Mike Pence will visit Rochester, Beaver County next week to meet with veterans supporting President Trump’s campaign, according to a release from the Trump campaign. The visit is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 10. Pence will be at the Rochester Veterans of Foreign War Post 128,...

A bridge that connects Westmoreland and Indiana counties has been renamed in honor of a local Army reservist who was killed in an Iraqi missile attack during Operation Desert Storm. Gov. Tom Wolf last week signed legislation designating the Route 56 bridge over the Conemaugh River as the Specialist Beverly...

Flip-flops and lawn chairs might be replaced with Christmas lights and mittens, but one thing holds true at the drive-in theater — tradition. At Starlight Drive-In in Butler, Beth Chiesa-Manson and her husband John Manson are gearing up for their annual Christmas at the Drive-In, an event scheduled this week...

A 50-year-old Eighty Four man was discovered dead Thursday, pinned under his all-terrain vehicle on his Washington County farm, according to the county Coroner S. Timothy Warco. Warco’s office reported that Scott Manko had left his home off Route 519 on the ATV about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, but did not...

Several Westmoreland County volunteer fire departments will soon be able to add training sessions and purchase new equipment thanks to a grant from the Chevron energy corporation. These volunteer fire departments will receive grants up to $5,000: Sewickley Township stations 1, 2, 3 and 4; Smithton; Sutersville; Turkeytown; and Yukon;...