Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Monday, Jan. 12:
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Police say Verona woman assaulted, bit her father in fight
A 21-year-old Verona woman is facing charges of assault and resisting arrest after police say she got into a physical dispute with her father on Sunday morning.
According to a criminal complaint, police were called to a home along the 400 block of Jones Street over reports of a physical domestic dispute around 1:30 a.m.
Concerned neighbors told police they had heard a woman screaming for help throughout the night, according to the complaint.
Upon arriving, police said they were met outside by Lisa Ebner, who told them she was the mother of the person causing the domestic incident.
The complaint said Ebner led police inside the home and upstairs where they saw an older man restraining a woman acting violently.
The report said the woman, identified as Elizabeth Lekovitch, was on the floor being restrained by her father, identified as Michael Ebner, who police said had multiple lacerations and injuries to his hands and left arm.
Police restrained Lekovitch.
According to the complaint, the father said his daughter had come from a work party and was very “belligerent and intoxicated” and that she began to fight with him and her mother.
The father told police he tried to restrain Lekovitch, when she bit him on his left arm multiple times, the complaint said.
The father was later taken to the hospital for treatment.
Lekovitch was taken to the station, where police said she became combative toward officers.
A Facebook post from the Verona Police Department said pepper spray was used in order to subdue her.
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2 arrested for alleged drug possession in Verona
Verona Police Department arrested two people during a traffic stop just before 1 a.m. Sunday morning at South Avenue and First Street.
Police said in a Sunday morning Facebook post that the driver, identified as 40-year-old Frank Russo, and a passenger, identified as 37-year-old Robin Hrin, were both arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia and crack cocaine.
“Hrin was also found to have several outstanding arrest warrants out of Westmoreland County,” the post said.
Russo and Hrin were charged with prohibited acts and possession, according to court documents.
Both were jailed in Allegheny County, according to the post.
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Fort Pitt Tunnel Westbound lanes reopen
Traffic on the westbound lanes of the Fort Pitt Tunnel and Bridge reopened Monday morning after a tractor-trailer was cleared from blocking the roadway, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
Just after 2:30 a.m., PennDOT issued an alert that the westbound lanes of Interstate 376 in the Fort Pitt Tunnel were closed to traffic until further notice, citing the closure was due to “an oversized tractor-trailer.”
Yasmeen Manyisha, a spokeswoman for PennDOT, told reporters Monday morning that a truck that was taller than the tunnel’s height restriction had attempted to enter the tunnel.
A single lane headed westbound temporarily reopened to traffic, with PennDOT advising motorists to use caution but closed the lane again just before 5 a.m.
The westbound Fort Pitt Tunnel and Bridge remained closed until emergency personnel could help back the truck out.