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As recently as this year’s primary election, too few people have sought to be elected to the New Kensington-Arnold School Board. In May, only three people were on the ballot for six seats, with Democrats having all three on their ballot and Republicans just one. In the last election in

An 8-year-old girl was ejected from the window of an SUV that Arnold police were chasing Saturday. The vehicle was driven by a woman who didn’t have a license because of a DUI suspension, police said. An officer arrested Amanda Nicole Shaw, 30, of Arnold at gunpoint after she drove

After New Kensington police arrested a woman on charges of endangering her two children, officers turned the 3-year-old and 1-year-old over to their father, who is charged with rape and accused of performing sex acts in front of the children. New Kensington police Chief Bob Deringer said his department was

Stocking the trout certainly helped, but they didn’t seem to be needed for some fifth graders from Roy A. Hunt Elementary School to enjoy a morning of fishing in Little Pucketa Creek outside Valley High School. Some students were as happy catching the numerous itty bitty fish in the creek

New Kensington-Arnold School District property owners won’t pay more in real estate taxes as a result of next school year’s budget. The school board voted, 7-0, Tuesday night to pass a preliminary budget for the 2023-24 school year that includes no tax increase. Board members Eric Doutt and Jane Graham

While voters in other communities have an overabundance of candidates from which to choose to fill school board seats, those in New Kensington and Arnold will find mostly blank ballots for the May primary. Examples of many include Plum, where 13 are vying for five seats; Highlands, where 11 are

An Arnold police officer is on unpaid leave after the state Game Commission filed charges against him stemming from the alleged unlawful taking of a whitetail deer. Jacob A. Pollick, 29, of Murrysville faces a summary charge of unlawful killing or taking of big game and misdemeanor charges of tampering

Arnold No. 1 fire department is examining its finances after removing its chief and accusing him of misuse of funds, the department’s president said Friday. Brian Gouza was removed as chief effective Dec. 26 and is no longer a member of the fire department, President Al Colelli said. Gouza has

Police from multiple departments in the Alle-Kiski Valley were called out to search for suspects who fled after a vehicle was shot up in Arnold late Monday morning. The incident began at 11:30 a.m. in the 1900 block of Kenneth Avenue, according to a Westmoreland County 911 supervisor. There were

An East Deer man who went bathing in the Allegheny River on Friday was found dead in the water two days later, according to police. Arnold police Chief Eric Doutt identified the man as Addam Isaac Roe, 28, of Sherman Street in East Deer. A boater found Roe’s body floating