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Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. First it was the election and questions about whether the Post Office could be relied upon to deliver millions of mail-in ballots. Now, barely six weeks later, an unprecedented uptick in packages from online shoppers and staff shortages exacerbated by a rash of covid-19 outbreaks are combining to strain the U.S. Postal Service to its limits. Postal Service officials here were hesitant to comment on reports of delivery backlogs across the co...

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Westmoreland County commissioners on Tuesday rescinded a nearly $5,000 grant awarded last week to a Salem gym after it refused to accept a provision that requires recipients to pledge to adhere to state covid guidelines. Officials said representatives of Matshark Fitness, which operates as Wallace Training Systems, declined to sign off on a contract required to accept the grant commissioners approved this month to help small businesses recoup losses and costs associated with ...

Megan Tomasic | Tribune-Review A $750 check was presented to Jennifer Miller, CEO of the Westmoreland County Food Bank, as part of a United Way fundraiser.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Rather than mapping out the most efficient route through the East Pittsburgh Street Shop ’n Save in Greensburg on Monday evening, Renee Sasanko spent her time deciding on a nonprofit organization that would benefit from a $750 donation. The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania’s annual fundraiser, which normally...

AP Photo Air travelers arriving at Midway Airport in Chicago are reminded of the city’s covid-19 travel orders.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The number of new confirmed coronavirus cases in the Norwin area ending the week of Dec. 21 trended below the previous week , the first time since the Thanksgiving holiday , according to the state Department of Health. The number of new covid-19 cases last week increased by 229 to 1,846 in the four ZIP codes covering most of the Norwin area’s population of 3...

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Westmoreland County’s coronavirus incidence rate — a statistic that tracks the spread of the virus through the population — has more than tripled in the last month. It was 516.5 for the most recently measured 7-day period, which ended Thursday, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health data. That’s down slightly from the rate of 531.9 measured the previous week, but it’s still more than five times higher than the threshold of 100 that marks the “substanti...