John Lesko News Today

Janet Buchinsky passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the The Tribune Democrat on 2023-10-31.

HARMONY - We are sad to announce Richard "Butch" Lesko, 75, of Harmony, died peacefully of natural causes at home on ...

We should not raise the Social Security retirement age, as Sen. Angus King says. Nor should we raise the age for early withdrawals. Both make capitalism itself work better. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu says, on “PBS NewsHour,” that government’s job is “to create doors of opportunity,” and that he is “amazed by people that […]

Ed DiOrio knows the long and the short of hair, and a related fact that’s kept him in business for more than 60 years: “Hair grows back.” At 85, the Greensburg man is retiring Thursday from his trade as a barber, along with the barber chair that has followed him

One of the last appeals for Pennsylvania’s longest-
serving death-row inmate has been denied. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Tuesday rejected 64-year-old John Lesko’s request for a new trial and sentencing hearing. He was convicted in the 1980 murder of Apollo police Officer Leonard Miller, 21,

One of the last appeals for Pennsylvania’s longest-serving death row inmate has been denied. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Tuesday rejected 64-year-old John Lesko’s request for a new trial and sentencing hearing. He was convicted in the 1980 murder of Apollo police Officer Leonard Miller,

For a time in the mid-1970s, Donetta W. Ambrose was the only woman practicing law in Westmoreland County. Then in 1981, she became the first woman to be elected as a Westmoreland County Court of Common Pleas judge. Later, after former President Bill Clinton appointed Ambrose to be a federal

Even as the global covid pandemic kept its grip on the Alle-Kiski Valley for a second year, 2021 saw its share of other significant developments, including the arrival of a major brewery, a concerted effort to diminish blight and even the rebirth of some downtown areas. Here are some of

John Peck stood before a Westmoreland County jury in early December and for the next 40 minutes argued for a conviction. It marked the last time Peck would do so as the county’s district attorney — a job he’s held since 1994. He leaves at year’s end after failing in

The manor house at 3 East Wall St. A rendering of the plan for 3 East Wall St. NORWALK, Conn. — The historic Morgan-Lockwood House, built a century and a half ago, will undergo a full-scale renovation and be joined by a new building on the same site as part of a historic preservation development approved by the Norwalk Zoning Commission. Together, the projects will add 26 units, three of them affordable housing, to the 3 East Wall St. site next to Raymond Funeral Home and across the street f...