Category Archives: Local News
OPENING ARGUEMENTS IN EADES TRIAL HEARD TUESDAY
Opening arguments were heard as the criminal trial of Michael Eades got underway Tuesday. Eades is charged along with Kevin King, Stanley Boynton and DeAndre Jones for the execution-style killing of 3...
Jun 21, 2017
SALTSBURG MAN FACES HEARING TODAY IN WESTMORELAND COUNTY COURT
A preliminary hearing is scheduled today in Westmoreland County for a Saltsburg man charged with drug delivery resulting in death and three counts of manufacture, delivery, or possession with intent t...
Jun 21, 2017
THREE MOTIONS HEARINGS SCHEDULED FOR COUNTY COURT TODAY
Three motions hearings are scheduled before Judge Thomas Bianco in Indiana County Court today. Two of them are rescheduled hearings from prior dates. 31-year-old Timmy Betts Jr. of Robinson is charged...
Jun 21, 2017
INDIANA COUNTY COMPANY GRANTED MEDICAL MARIJUANA PERMIT
The state Health Department yesterday awarded permits to twelve companies to grow marijuana for medicinal purposes, and the recipients include AGRiMED, the company that has applied for a dispensary pe...
Jun 21, 2017
POLICE LOOKING FOR ALLEGED JEWEL THIEF FROM INDIANA
An arrest warrant has been issued for an Indiana man accused of stealing jewelry and selling it for cash. State police say 34-year-old April Lewis of Clymer allowed 25-year-old Brian Eiselman to stay ...
Jun 21, 2017
ROUZER PLEADS GUILTY AGAIN IN HIT-FOR-HIRE CASE
A man accused of trying to hire someone to kill a man he tried to kill twice before has once again pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit aggravated assault. 49-year-old Gregory Rouzer ple...
Jun 20, 2017
CO-DEFENDANTS EXPECTED TO TESTIFY AGAINST EADES TODAY
With the Michael Eades murder trial ready to begin, President Judge William Martin yesterday ordered that the two principle witnesses against him, co-defendants Stanley Boynton and Kevin King, be brou...
Jun 20, 2017
APSCUF PRESIDENT CALLS FOR MORE FUNDING
The president of the State System faculty union yesterday testified before the House Democratic Policy Committee, pushing for more funding for the fourteen state-owned universities. APSCUF President K...
Jun 20, 2017
POLICE: LANTZ TEXTED THAT HE'D "KILLED SOMEONE"
The criminal complaint sworn out against 27-year-old James Eugene Lantz of Commodore charges him with a single offense...criminal homicide. Lantz is accused of shooting to death 23-year-old Derrick Da...
Jun 20, 2017
POLICE: WOMAN SHOWED UP DRUNK AT HOMICIDE SCENE
A Commodore woman has been charged with public drunkenness after police say she showed up intoxicated at the scene of Saturday's homicide in Green Township. 32-year-old Beverly Stewart arrived at the ...
Jun 19, 2017
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