A lawsuit that sought to reverse a court order issued two decades ago requiring the Westmoreland County Sheriff’s Department to transport jailed inmates to preliminary hearings was dismissed Tuesday.
TribLIVE.com: Westmoreland formally adopts jail policy on undocumented immigrants to shed sanctuary label
Westmoreland County’s Republican delegation used a news conference Thursday to assure residents the county is no place for undocumented immigrants in trouble with the law. The county prison board ...
Westmoreland formally adopts jail policy on undocumented immigrants to shed sanctuary label
Westmoreland County Community College provides high-quality, affordable education at 8 convenient locations and online.
Chelsea Building Products and ARCO Pittsburgh broke ground on a project to build a 228,000-square-foot manufacturing facility at Commerce Crossing at Westmoreland yesterday morning, marking a major investment in Westmoreland County’s industrial growth.
Formed from, successively, Lancaster, Cumberland, and Bedford counties, Westmoreland County was founded on , and was the first county in the colony of Pennsylvania whose entire territorial boundary was located west of the Allegheny Mountains.
The county was created in 1773 and named for Westmoreland, Eng. Greensburg, the county seat, is situated near Hannastown, which was the county seat for more than a decade until it was destroyed by a Seneca Indian raid in the 1780s.