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TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. When Kim Ward was sworn in as a Westmoreland County commissioner in 2008, one of her first questions was: Who oversees the county’s health department? The former respiratory therapist was stunned to learn there wasn’t one. Westmoreland, like 61 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties, leaves the issue of public health to the state to handle. Only four cities statewide have their own health departments. That reality of the state’s public health infrastructure would come back to ...

Kristina Serafinia | Tribune-Review   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Carnegie Mellon University officials on Tuesday issued a harsh statement condemning speech that may have incited last week’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, as debate over comments by some of its leading scholars raised eyebrows in academic circles across the country. In a letter issued to the university community, a long list of administrators and deans joined CMU President Farnam Jahanian and Provost James Garrett in expressing horror a...

Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review Westmoreland County Commissioner Sean Kertes, 34, who suffered pulmonary embolisms, a racing heart and exhaustion after a mild case of covid-19, cautions agains ignoring post-covid ailments.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Sean Kertes says he first began to notice a slight tightness in his chest two days before New Year’s Day. The 34-year-old Westmoreland County commissioner tried to brush off his concerns as he went about activities in his Greensburg home, like taking do...

AP   Closing the gap Democrats in Pennsylvania still have a registration edge of 700,000 over Republicans, with 4.2 million Democrats, compared to 3.5 million Republicans. However, the GOP has been making gains, while Democrats have seen small losses. Over the last four years, Republicans added 205,000 registered voters, while Democrats saw their total registration slip by 10,000. Nowhere has this trend been more pronounced than Westmoreland County. As recently as 25 years ago, Democrats there boasted a 2-1 registration edge, but Republicans took the lead in registered voters in 2019. —...

Pittsburgh Police are investigating the shooting death of a McKees Rocks man Saturday night. According to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office, Blake Green, 41, was found with gunshot wounds at 10:30 p.m. Saturday on the 1400 block of Chicago Street in Pittsburgh. Green was transported to Allegheny General Hospital