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Joe Nixon knew it was time to retire from his nearly four-decade career as a police officer in Arnold, but knowing didn’t make doing it any easier. “The night I left, I cried the whole way home,” he said. “I knew I wasn’t coming back.” Nixon, 60, of Lower Burrell

A property tax increase is either long overdue or too much at the wrong time, according to members of the New Kensington-Arnold School Board. The school board voted, 6-2, Tuesday to approve the district’s $48.9 million budget for the 2022-23 school year. It carries a 5% property tax increase, the

A Braddock man was hospitalized Tuesday night after being shot three times in Arnold, according to Arnold Police Chief Eric Doutt. The 20-year-old Black man who was not identified by name was outside Arnold Manor along the 1600 block of Horne Boulevard when someone opened fire around 7:15 p.m., according

An Arnold man’s arrest Tuesday capped off a two-month drug investigation, police Chief Eric Doutt said. Doutt said police seized drugs worth more than $4,000 and about $1,600 in cash when they arrested Don Carter Jr., 27. Agents with the state Attorney General’s Bureau of Narcotics Investigation along with the

A new five-year contract between the New Kensington-Arnold School District and its teachers union is formally in place following the school board’s approval Tuesday. The board voted 8-0 in favor of the agreement, which increases teachers’ pay while also having them pay more toward health care. Board member Eric Doutt

When Greensburg police charged two men with a downtown shooting outside The Rialto bar, in which a bystander was wounded in late January, video footage helped investigators identify one of the suspects. “Without the surveillance video, that may not have been the outcome,” police Chief Shawn Denning said. “With the

Most days, Robert Simpson is president of a reinforcing bar fabricator in Arnold. On Tuesday, the president of Simpson Reinforcing was filming movie scenes with Tom Hanks. “It’s pretty cool,” Simpson said at the end of a lunch break that came after filming the same scene over and over again

The New Kensington-Arnold School Board seated four new members Monday night. Nicholas DiCarolis, Jane Graham and Sarah Yurga, all elected in November, were sworn into office by Westmoreland County Judge Anthony Marsili as part of the school board’s reorganization meeting. A former board member, also was sworn in to fill

A New Kensington man is accused of intentionally crashing his car into another vehicle with two young children inside and causing it to roll over. The incident was reported at the intersection of Constitution Boulevard and Ewing Street about 11:30 p.m. Thursday, according Westmoreland County 911. A woman driving the

The New Kensington-Arnold School Board on Tuesday approved a 3.7% increase in the district’s property tax rate along with approving the district’s $40.25 million budget for the 2021-22 school year. It will increase the district’s property tax rate from 88.27 mills to 91.57 mills. It’s less than the 4.4% maximum