After a yearslong saga that resulted in the implosion of two towering smokestacks and the two-part demolition of a massive boiler house at the former Cheswick Generating Station, the property owner says the site will likely become a data center.

FLOURTOWN — Things are getting back to normal for Rory McIlroy, and it’s anything but routine for this week’s Truist Championship at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, the sixth of eight signature events on the PGA Tour this season.

WASHINGTON — The president of Haverford College was berated by Republican lawmakers in a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism Wednesday, with some suggesting the school should lose federal funding because of her refusal to discuss student discipline in the wake of pro-Palestinian protests.

A Canonsburg man who embezzled nearly $7 million from Hempfield-based Hillandale Farms over more than 13 years is going to federal prison.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars released veteran receiver Gabe Davis on Wednesday, moving on nearly 14 months after signing him to a three-year, $39 million contract in free agency.

A Connellsville man was convicted Wednesday in Westmoreland County for recording and possessing a sexually explicit video of a teenage girl.

A Canonsburg man who police said embezzled nearly $7 million from Hillandale Farms Co. has been sentenced to more than two years in prison.

Shawn and Mary McMullen didn’t expect hoopla when they arrived at the ticket counter of Arnold Palmer Regional Airport Wednesday morning to purchase airfare for an upcoming trip to Disney World.

Ten Westmoreland County sheriff’s deputies on Wednesday claimed in a federal lawsuit a Pennsylvania State Police trooper used his position to initiate frivolous criminal investigations against them.

Saplings grown from a chestnut tree that inspired Holocaust victim Anne Frank have taken root at places around the globe — including at Greensburg’s Seton Hill University, where officials believe it can provide the same hope Frank expressed in her famous diary.

WASHINGTON — House Republicans appear to be backing off some, but not all, of the steep reductions to the Medicaid program as part of their big tax breaks bill, as they run into resistance from more centrist GOP lawmakers opposed to ending nearly-free health care coverage for their constituents back home.

The Atlantic Coast Conference is reducing its 20-game men’s basketball schedule to 18, giving teams two more spots for marquee nonconference games in a bid to boost a league getting a dwindling haul of NCAA Tournament bids, a person familiar with the decision said Wednesday.

Sarku Japan restaurant in Monroeville was ordered closed after a May 5 inspection revealed five health code violations.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — An alligator killed a Florida woman after tipping over a canoe she and her husband were paddling, which investigators say appeared to be an accidental encounter.

MINNEAPOLIS — The Golden State Warriors are planning to play without Stephen Curry for at least the next three games of their second-round series against Minnesota, after an MRI exam Wednesday confirmed a mild strain of the star guard’s left hamstring.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Three former Memphis officers were acquitted Wednesday of state charges, including second-degree murder, in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after he ran away from a traffic stop in 2023.

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Four U. S. Postal Service carriers at the Monroeville Post Office entered elite company on Tuesday.

The Pittsburgh Pirates started their series in St. Louis on Monday with Oneil Cruz making the fastest throw in the major leagues with a 100-mph strike to get Victor Scott II out at home plate.

In 11-year-old Michaela Champion’s eyes, Carnegie is a small community with loads of talent.

A grandmother and her boyfriend who both used heroin around her 7-month-old grandchild while they were babysitting — leading to the child’s death from fentanyl poisoning — were sentenced on Wednesday in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court.

More than 40,000 Pennsylvanians are set to receive letters this week indicating they’ll be receiving money because of unclaimed property, state Treasurer Stacy Garrity announced Wednesday.

In recent weeks, there has been growing conversation around potential legislation that would consolidate smaller, rural transit systems — such as our own Westmoreland County Transit Authority — into Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT).

Dozens of paws will march down Mike Thomas Way in Plum this month for the borough’s first annual “Walking and Wagging” community dog walk.