Jack Troy

6 days ago | triblive.com | Jack Troy

U.S. Steel is among the industrial polluters seeking exemptions to Biden-era requirements to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals. The Pittsburgh-based company, with its Mon Valley Works, is taking up the Trump administration on its offer to request a two-year presidential pass on recently updated provisions of the Clean Air Act. Specifically, it’s asking for exemptions on coke, taconite and integrated iron and steelmaking rules.

1 week ago | triblive.com | Jack Troy

A private investigator claims a blue backpack carried by Cherrie Mahan at the time of her disappearance 40 years ago from a Winfield school bus stop could be key to cracking the case. “I am convinced through some fairly recent testimony and input that Cherrie’s book bag was very likely submerged in a pond in an area very near her grandmother’s home,” said Iowa-based private eye Steve Ridge at a Tuesday news conference in Summit Township.

1 week ago | triblive.com | Jack Troy

Parks Township Supervisor Scott Kifer, a first-term Republican, faces a primary challenge from retired general contractor and PennDOT maintenance operator John Kuruc. Barring a Democratic Party write-in campaign, the winner of the May 20 primary will run uncontested in the general election and earn a six-year term on the three-member board. Kifer, 56, was elected to the board in 2019. He is a pastor at House of Hope Family Worship Center in the township.

1 week ago | triblive.com | Jack Troy

Two candidates are running to represent Region 3 on the Kiski Area School Board. Incumbent Nicole Kamer is cross-filed and will appear on the Democratic and Republican primary ballots May 20. Newcomer the Rev. Trista Lucas of Vandergrift is running only as a Republican. If Lucas were to win the Republican nomination and Kamer the Democratic, the two would rematch in November, with the winner serving a four-year term. Region 3 includes East Vandergrift, Hyde Park, Parks Township and Vandergrift.

2 weeks ago | triblive.com | Jack Troy

On warm afternoons, James Buchanan likes to turn on the radio, crack a beer and watch the cars go by from his garage where Route 356 and Bear Creek Road meet. The entertainment amps up around rush hour, when shoppers and commuters pour onto the highway cutting through Buffalo Township and traffic goes bumper-to-bumper. “You wouldn’t believe the wrecks we see here,” Buchanan, 72, said recently.