State police locate missing Hempfield man

Patrick Varine | Thursday, August 26, 2021 2:47 p.m.

Patrick Varine | Tribune-Review

A member of the Westmoreland County Sheriff K-9 team brings a dog along Fry Hollow Road in Hempfield on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021.

State police safely located a Hempfield man missing from his home since Wednesday night.

Police from Troop A in Greensburg were joined by the Westmoreland County Rough Terrain Fire & Rescue team, Hempfield firefighters and Murrysville Medic One personnel on Thursday morning, as a state police helicopter made several passes overhead looking for Dannie Ray Churning, 49, of Hempfield.

Churning reportedly left his home on Fry Hollow Road between 8 and 9 p.m. on Wednesday evening on his yellow dirt bike.