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The Clark Kellogg Award is presented annually to The News-Herald’s boys basketball player of the year. The winner will be announced after the completion of the state tournament on a date to be announced. This list can fluctuate throughout the season. Candidates are listed in alphabetical order. G/F Luke Barbo, Jr., Geneva: The leading scorer […]

Devin Akamichi plead guilty to conspiracy to commit homicide.

Two mothers embraced as they shared a moment of grief and understanding Monday morning in a Westmoreland County courtroom. Lisa Rodgers offered an apology for her son, who had just pleaded guilty for his role in the violent murder of Beverly Richason’s daughter nearly six years ago. “I know you

An Export man will stand trial next year in connection with the murder of a Vandergrift woman whose charred remains were found in a wooded area near Keystone State Park in 2017. Defense attorney Brian Aston said during a court hearing Tuesday that efforts over the last year to resolve

The lawyer for an Export man awaiting trial for his role in the 2017 murder of a Vandergrift woman whose remains were burned beyond recognition in a wooded area near Keystone State Park claims his client did not have a plea deal in place when he testified last summer in

The lawyer for a Greensburg man sentenced this week to serve life in prison for the 2017 murder of a Vandergrift woman whose body was burned beyond recognition claims in an appeal filed Friday that prosecutors hid evidence of a plea deal offered to a co-defendant and key witness in

Beverly Richason didn’t hold back her anger in court Monday as she spoke about the horror her daughter endured when killed by friends who then burned her remains beyond recognition and left them in a heap of ashes in the woods more than four years ago. “She had her faults,

Jun. 11—The Greensburg man prosecutors said beat a Vandergrift woman with a hammer, choked her to death and burned her body in a remote area near Keystone State Park in early 2017 was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder. After 13 hours of deliberations over two days, a Westmoreland County jury returned a guilty verdict against Walter Cable, 28, for his role in the death of 34-year-old ...

The Greensburg man prosecutors said beat a Vandergrift woman with a hammer, choked her to death and burned her body in a remote area near Keystone State Park in early 2017 was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder. After 13 hours of deliberations over two days, a Westmoreland County jury returned

A jury will resume deliberations Thursday morning in the trial of a Greensburg man charged with the murder of a Vandergrift woman whose charred remains were found at a secluded Derry Township campsite four years ago. Jurors deliberated about four hours Wednesday and did not reach a verdict in the