West Leechburg is the latest community that may be getting 24/7 police coverage. The Southern Armstrong Regional Police Commission voted unanimously to extend a proposal to West Leechburg Police Department in January. Southern Armstrong Police Chief Chris Fabec said a revised proposal was submitted last week to West Leechburg Council,
Creating an in-house school police department is paramount for the safety of students and staff at North Allegheny, said Superintendent Dr. Brendan Hyland. Under Hyland’s plan, the district’s school resource officer program that uses municipal police officers would be replaced with an in-house school police department, whose officers would be
Several Western Pennsylvania school districts were the target of swatting emails this week, authorities said. They included Mt. Lebanon, North Allegheny, Pine-Richland and South Park in Allegheny County and Belle Vernon and Derry Area in Westmoreland County. The school districts reported receiving threatening messages via email on Tuesday and Wednesday.
McCandless Police need help identifying a man investigators say was caught on home security video in the midst of a home invasion on Bristol Court, just off Grubbs Road, around 11 a.m. Friday.