Melissa McCrory and some friends were sitting on the stoop of her Leishman Avenue home Monday when she heard a volley of gunfire ring out from somewhere up the street. Moments later, she said, she encountered one of the people involved in a shooting that took place in the 1500
All schools in the New Kensington-Arnold School District were on lockdown Monday afternoon as police from multiple agencies canvassed the Arnold-New Kensington area for a suspected shooter. According to Melanie Jones, spokeswoman for Westmoreland County District Attorney Nicole Ziccarelli, one gunshot victim showed up to a local hospital with non-life-threatening
Investigators are trying to determine whether four fires that erupted over the weekend — including one that sent a firefighter to the hospital with serious injuries — were deliberately set and connected to one another. Three of the four fires were on Leishman Avenue and one was on Fourth Avenue.
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
Move over, traditional school clubs. Creatively different and cool clubs are popping up in Alle-Kiski Valley schools. Digging in the dirt, jamming on a guitar, running a marathon or competing against peers in video games are just a few examples of extracurricular activities mixing up club choices on campus as