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Byline: Brian Bowling April 12--If you think your hobby could be turned into a business, you might want to attend a free workshop being held April 19 at the Center [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling March 27--Making a threat by phone or social media to attack someone at school in Idaho is now the same as making that threat while standing on [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling March 06--Growing up on an Iowa farm, Carla Murray learned how to make the things she wanted whether it was sewing clothes or renovating rooms. She would [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling March 05--Given an opportunity to investigate one of Greensburg's oldest buildings before it becomes one of the city's newest restaurants, members of the IUP Paranormal Society set [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling March 01--A Greensburg teen whose heroin trafficking is linked to the death of a Charleroi man will spend five years in prison, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Feb. 28--The best 'best song' in Oscar history is 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' while the worst 'best song' is a tie between two songs from the 1930s [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Feb. 27--A high-tech solution to the perennial problem of the friend who never has cash when it comes time to pay for the pizza, peer-to-peer payment systems [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Feb. 26--Westmoreland County judges ordered about $14.4 million in payments in civil and criminal cases in 2017, but only about half likely will be collected, based on [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Feb. 19--Being late with their paperwork will cost state lobbyists more under a new law that takes effect in about two months. Current law penalizes them $50 [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Feb. 06--A decorated World War II combat veteran, Walter Albright had plenty of stories to tell, but they were mostly about his kids, grandkids and great-grandkids, his [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Feb. 01--Pennsylvania was flush with cash in January due to several factors but most of them don't represent long-term gains for the state, according to an Independent [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Jan. 31--Revved up by all the economic talk surrounding the State of the Union address and craving more? Two online debates have plenty of wonk talk. Cato [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Jan. 24--The extended freeze that hit Western Pennsylvania the first week of the year was unusual in its timing but not in the road damage it caused, [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Jan. 23--Pittsburgh is the 'most livable' of the 20 places contending to be the home of Amazon's second headquarters, as long as you ignore its tie with [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Jan. 18--Quicker recall notices will alert consumers to problems with a product while the Food and Drug Administration is still analyzing the risk the product poses, according [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Jan. 15--Asked an open-ended question about what they thought was the 'most important problem' facing the United States, Republicans and Democrats were united in not thinking about [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Jan. 15--In her 20s, Sheila Lytle and a friend decided winter could use some more color so they tried to dye icicles. 'We actually tried Kool-Aid and [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Jan. 15--A map near the end of an online presentation by the Department of Environmental Protection on stream quality shows a lot of orange dots in Westmoreland [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Jan. 08--Saved to a text file, it's 22.6 megabytes. Written out five digits per second, it would take 54 days to write and, if sized at 5 [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Jan. 05--Driving along Route 119 near Connellsville, motorists can see green, blue and red ice cascading down the side of a cliff along Buttermore Boulevard. While a [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Dec. 28--The United States population will hit 326,971,407 people on New Year's Day, according to the Census Bureau. With an average of one birth every 8 seconds, [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Dec. 28--The United States population will hit 326,971,407 people on New Year's Day, according to the Census Bureau. With an average of one birth every 8 seconds, [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Dec. 28--Despite the challenges of raising three boys on a waitress's salary in the 1950s and '60s, Mame Toman kept a positive outlook and greeted everyone with [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Dec. 21--With about 15 trees left, Boy Scout Troop 372 is hoping to clear out its Christmas tree lot before the holiday. Located next to Fat Daddy's [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Dec. 20--Illinois' loss was Pennsylvania's gain, sort of, according to Census Bureau population estimates. The Keystone State picked up an estimated 18,452 people in 2017, and that [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Dec. 20--Motorists heading to grandma's house for the holidays can use a new 'Check My Route' feature on the state-operated 511PA.com to see when the roads were [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Dec. 15--When the Steelers face the Patriots on Sunday, a Franklin Regional alum will be in the sky above Heinz Field. Lt. Brian Buckley, 28, of Murrysville [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Dec. 13--Edward J. Blaszkowski could leave his house to buy a loaf of bread and not come back for hours because of all the people he stopped [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Dec. 06--Angela Gradischek loved community events and, in particular, loved to help organize them, her family said. 'She was such an amazing organizer ...,' said her daughter, [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Nov. 04--The eighth of nine kids, Mitch Yackovich grew up working and worshipping God, and that's how he lived his life, his family said. 'He was just [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Nov. 04--Searchers found the body of a St. Clair Township man who had been missing for more than a week. The body of Scott Herman Neuner, 45, [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Oct. 19--Jack Wilkinson had three priorities in life: 'His family, his farm, his faith,' said his daughter Joyce Rettura. In his early 20s, he also had a [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Oct. 01--Route 30 had more severe accidents than any other roadway in Westmoreland County over the past five years, according to PennDOT data. Given the state highway's [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Sept. 23--The internet has made undercover work more difficult than it was in the 1970s, but things really haven't changed that much, retired FBI Special Agent Joe [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Sept. 09--Phylis Caplan loved teaching young children, her family said. 'She took other jobs off and on over the years, but she always went back to teaching,' [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Sept. 06--Westmoreland County saw mixed economic news in the first quarter of 2017 with the county losing jobs but gaining wages, according to the Bureau of Labor [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Aug. 29--When MaryAnn Cherubini read about families suffering from fires or other catastrophes, she had an immediate reaction, her husband said. 'It would be nothing for her [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Aug. 23--Seeking to improve the scientific literacy of the next generation of policy makers, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine released nine modules that apply [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Aug. 19--For 12 years, Thomas Eugene Grabowski commuted weekly between Level Green and Baltimore so that he could support his family without disrupting their lives. 'He traveled [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Aug. 10--For people wondering where Westmoreland County's newest residents came from, the Census Bureau has updated its online, county-to-county migration mapping tool with data from its 2011-2015 [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Aug. 09--Bette Iannuzzo spent her life helping others, pushing her children and grandchildren to meet high standards and showing up late at restaurants. 'She was fun, very [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Aug. 07--Half the states in the country had enough money in their rainy day funds at the end of the 2016 fiscal year to fund their operations [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling Aug. 04--Gary Richard Boyle of Murrysville met life with humor. 'He was always there with a smile and making you laugh, even in a situation where it [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 29--An 8-year-old boy killed by a dump truck Thursday in Pittsburgh's Spring Garden neighborhood died of blunt force trauma to the head and trunk, the Allegheny [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 28--A South Carolina man admitted in Pittsburgh federal court Friday that he pretended to be missing Duquesne University student Dakota James online to harass an area [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 20--Sister M. Jeremy Mahla completed an Outward Bound survival course in her 50s, became a licensed scuba diver instructor, taught science, math and English in South [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 13--Detailed race and ethnic data the Census Bureau released Thursday provides little detail for Allegheny and Westmoreland counties because of the relatively low diversity in the [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 13--Detailed race and ethnic data the Census Bureau released Thursday provides little detail for Allegheny and Westmoreland counties because of the relatively low diversity in the [...]

Byline: Brian Bowling July 07--A Fayette County commissioner agreed with a plea bargain that allowed his wife, who shot him in the neck last year, to receive a sentence of [...]