however we can now tell you the future branding on the large convenience store and gas station planned for M-139 at Miners Road in Royalton Township Township Manager Steve Tilly confirmed to MoodyOnTheMarket.com that the new ten pump gas station will be a BP branded outlet The new complex will also feature a full-service Deli serving sandwiches more than just the snacks and beverages found at many gas stops The facility is being developed by an Indiana-based operator of similar outlets in South Bend and Mishawaka Construction is said to have been slowed down by a delay in obtaining the large underground gas storage tanks Tilly said he expects the station to open in late summer or early fall A Pri-Mart convenience store and gas station about a block South on M-139 was recently rebuilt and expanded Award-winning real estate firm Optima is setting a new benchmark for sustainable luxury with its $1 billion mixed-use community Optima McDowell Mountain Featuring meticulously designed residences cutting-edge green building techniques and open space the new community is all about modern desert living Designed by internationally acclaimed architects David Hovey Sr. Optima McDowell Mountain is home to the most extensive private rainwater harvesting system in the U.S This revolutionary system collects rainwater for on-site irrigation and reduces residential water consumption Through a partnership with the City of Scottsdale Optima has secured 2,750 acre-feet of available water – equivalent to 30 years of residential and commercial occupancy – ensuring a reliable supply for the city “Optima McDowell Mountain is the culmination of everything we’ve worked toward over the past four decades regarding sustainability architecture and community integration,” Hovey Jr The community will also be Scottsdale’s first development built under the newly adopted International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) and International Green Construction Code (IgCC) The project reflects decades of collaboration between Optima President David Hovey Jr. who founded Scottsdale’s Green Building Program in 1998 “From the largest private rainwater harvesting system in the country to 75 percent open space at grade level paired with architecture that embraces and celebrates the beauty of the Sonoran landscape we believe this project will set a precedent for sustainable design and architecture in the Valley,” Hovey Jr Construction is underway on the first residential tower and the finished project will span 22 acres on the southeast corner of Scottsdale Road and the Loop 101 Freeway Optima McDowell Mountain will offer 1,330 condos and apartments and 36,000 square feet of commercial eight-story buildings has been uniquely refined and has its own amenities Residents will also enjoy access to six rooftop decks that will feature 50-meter Olympic-length swimming pools The first tower is expected to begin selling this spring and will welcome move-ins in September. For more information, visit optimamcdowellmountain.com and website in this browser for the next time I comment TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need A Scottdale man was arrested Wednesday on state police accusations that he was driving a pickup truck that crashed reckless endangerment and related offenses in connection with the 2021 death of Brandalyn Pomaibo Troopers said in court papers that Gilbert was driving south on Water Street in East Huntingdon on Sept 2021 during heavy rains when the Ford pickup drifted off the road and began to spin into oncoming traffic It collided with a car driving the opposite direction about 7:15 p.m The crash happened between Scottdale and the village of Alverton on a winding section of Water Street A state police crash reconstruction showed that speed may have contributed to Gilbert’s ability to negotiate a bend in the road The reconstruction also pointed to Gilbert’s physical condition as being a factor — his blood tested positive for cocaine and fentanyl The arresting trooper could not be reached Gilbert was taken to a hospital after the crash for treatment and authorities seized cocaine and marijuana from him He could not be reached and did not have an attorney listed in online court records Renatta Signorini is a TribLive reporter covering breaking news, crime, courts and Jeannette. 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(KYMA, KECY) - Recent surveillance video shows the moment a jet crashed at the Scottsdale airport on Monday According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) a Learjet aircraft veered from the runway causing it to collide with another parked plane Two pilots and two passengers were on board the plane A Tennessee-based lawyer for Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil said, in a statement that the plane that crashed upon landing belongs to the singer Jet Pros is the owner of the Gulfstream plane that was struck No one was on board that plane at the time of the incident Jalen joined KYMA in 2022 and is a morning anchor/producer Send your story ideas to him at: jalen.fong@kecytv.com reach out to him at dillon.fuhrman@kecytv.com KYMA KECY is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. 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He can be reached at pvarine@triblive.com A Westmoreland County judge Tuesday declared a Scottdale man who completed a six-year prison sentence in 2023 for assaulting a teenage boy Kiliany’s accuser told police the sexual assaults started when he was 12 and continued for about four years “This (hearing) is necessary to identify a unique type of individual in our society This is for community safety and the community should have the ability to know this,” said Assistant District Attorney Cassidy Hatten Kiliany returned to court two years after he was released from prison after serving the maximum six years of his sentence Kiliany has a lifetime requirement to register as a convicted sex offender and serve an additional five years on probation mandatory part of the prosecution to determine the seriousness of the case was never completed Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court Judge Michael J Stewart II on Tuesday found Kiliany to be a sexually violent predator That designation carries additional restrictions that requires Kiliany to register with the state police every four months and to indefinitely continue sex offender treatment Kiliany testified he halted treatment after completing an 18-month program following his release from prison I’ve had a hard time with job placement over this sexually violent predator process My employers fire me,” Kiliany told the judge “I wasn’t able to testify before so now I can say the number of times they say this occurred is not accurate at all a member of the state’s Sex Offender’s Assessment Board testified multiple incidents of rape was the primary factor in determining Kiliany is a sexually violent predator Defense attorney Owen Seman argued Kiliany’s history does not justify the predator label He’s not violating his parole or probation in any way There’s been no deviate action to anyone else He has taken responsibility for his actions and there is no indication of any deviant behavior to any other individual,” Seman said Rich Cholodofsky is a TribLive reporter covering Westmoreland County government, politics and courts. He can be reached at rcholodofsky@triblive.com Neighbors remember Thomas Zeller as a somewhat eccentric man who pursued a low-tech lifestyle died Saturday when flames destroyed his Scottdale home “It’s a sad thing,” Market Street resident Chuck Brownfield said Sunday “He didn’t really associate with a lot of people According to Westmoreland County Coroner Tim Carson and Zeller was pronounced dead after he was located by emergency responders about 90 minutes later A ruling on the cause of death is pending results from an autopsy Brownfield counted Zeller as an acquaintance “He said he had the cure for cancer.” Zeller drew some criticism when vegetation in his yard became overgrown and maintenance of the home was lacking Brownfield said he noticed the stairs to the loft were in poor shape when he recently stepped inside the house to give notice of some chairs that were intended for delivery there but had been incorrectly addressed In 2012, Zeller billed himself as a holistic healer who was living off food grown in his yard but borough officials deemed that the property needed to be cleaned up and issued a citation Zeller served a one-to-two-year prison sentence in the late 1990s for growing marijuana plants in his Market Street home Zeller maintained he grew the marijuana for medicinal purposes and said the Bible allowed him to do so Zeller appeared to have encountered health problems with ambulances recently arriving at his home several times “I really haven’t seen him hardly all summer.” he could be seen riding a bicycle through town and his pursuits included making his own beer and wine and gardening He said Zeller at one time would share his harvest with Brownfield’s nearby father-in-law offered Zeller leftover crops from his garden recalled seeing Zeller trimming weeds in his yard and maintaining a woodpile at the rear of the home “They always went through a considerable amount of firewood,” Wesolowski said you would sometimes see smoke coming out of the chimney It’s a pretty rustic building.” Next-door neighbor David Darulla was among those who reported Saturday’s fire to 911 He said he was watching football on TV when “I heard a really wild popping sound I looked out my front window and I saw flames just shooting out of the roof of (Zeller’s) house.” Darulla said he heard a woman who escaped the fire talking with her rescuer while “the flames started getting really bad ‘Is there anyone else in the house?’ and she said you could tell that person had no chance.” Darulla said the fatal fire left his family shaken “You could feel the heat off of it.” The extent of the woman’s injuries wasn’t known TribLive news partner WTAE reported two responding firefighters went to a local hospital for treatment of minor burns from pretty much the ground floor through the roof,” Jim Echard safety officer with the Scottdale Fire Department Additional details weren’t immediately available from firefighters The fire also is being investigated by police the Westmoreland County District Attorney’s office and the state police fire marshal Neighbors credited a fast response by firefighters and weather that was calm instead of windy for containing flames to the Zeller property Some vinyl siding melted on a corner of Darulla’s home closest to the neighboring blaze “If those firefighters weren’t so fast we’d be dealing with something similar over here,” he said Jeff Himler is a TribLive reporter covering Greater Latrobe, Ligonier Valley, Mt. Pleasant Area and Derry Area school districts and their communities. He also reports on transportation issues. A journalist for more than three decades, he enjoys delving into local history. He can be reached at jhimler@triblive.com Department of Health and Human ServicesCongenital heart defects• Heart defects are the most common types of birth defects.• Heart defects are common Every 15 minutes a baby is born with a heart defect in the U.S.• Heart defects affect nearly 1% of — or about 40,000 — births per year in the U.S.• Data shows improved survival over time.• Prevalence of some heart defects is increasing.• About 1 in 4 babies with a heart defect have a critical heart defect Infants with critical heart defects generally need surgery or other procedures in their first year of life.Source: Centers for Disease Control Thirteen-year-old Marshall Fee of Scottdale is the rare person who will celebrate a birthday twice in one year his second commemorates the day he received a new heart — which has given him hope for a full life who had suffered from a congenital heart defect received a heart transplant at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh on Jan ”We look forward to celebrating his ‘heart birthday’ on that date each year from now on,” said his mother a seventh grade student at Southmoreland Middle School said last week he is feeling better but is not quite back to normal The whole experience in the hospital was hard and traumatizing “But there were nice people helping me in there” he reported of his monthlong experience at Children’s Hospital Marshall has been home for two weeks but returns regularly to UPMC Children’s for doctor appointments to test his body’s response and track his progress He goes to clinics and physical therapy sessions “He will require a lifetime of specialized care even after he resumes his ‘normal’ day-to-day with school family and other activities,” Fee said Medical research offers hope for Marshall to thrive and resume his normal activities The pediatric heart transplant survival rate averages 92% for the first year and close to 97% for children Marshall’s age a spokeswoman for the Center for Organ Recovery and Education in Pittsburgh “We are just taking each day at a time and giving him space to adjust at his own pace,” Fee said “We’re anxiously awaiting the green light for him to travel long-distance so he can go to visit all the places where his family lives that he’s never been able to see for himself.” Marshall has been dealing with heart issues since he was born in October 2011 with hypoplastic left heart syndrome An ultrasound during prenatal screening of his mother determined he had a heart defect who is Marshall’s pediatric cardiologist Marshall went straight from the delivery room into a cardiology unit at Children’s Hospital where he underwent heart reconstructive surgery in the first day of his life he underwent a second procedure to redirect blood flow from his heart to his lungs a condition where lymphatic fluid builds up in the airways and forms caulk-like plugs that block the airway according to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia He underwent a lifesaving Fontan heart procedure to redirect blood flow but the procedure revealed that his heart would not last a lifetime As a result of the respiratory illness that sickened Marshall he really struggled for the next few years the medical director of the heart failure and transplantation programs at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Patients like Marshall are evaluated by the hospital’s cardiologists to determine whether their heart function is compromised to the extent they should be placed on the waiting list “We know we are going to introduce risk” with a heart transplant When Marshall was placed on the national United Network for Organ Sharing waitlist in April 2023 for a donor heart as time went on and he had more difficulty doing normal activities that should have been easy for a boy his age The fact that Marshall needed a heart transplant when he got older is not that unusual for children born with heart defects About one half of the transplants performed at Children’s — which typically does 12 to 16 heart transplants annually — are because of congenital heart defects With her son on the heart transplant waiting list Fee said she was anxious during what turned out to be 21 months before Marshall got the transplant She expected that the call notifying them that a donor heart had been found could have happened at any moment The family remained within a four-hour drive of Pittsburgh to be ready if the call came from the hospital “The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland became our favorite place to visit when we needed a change of scenery,” Fee said She even created a special ringtone on her cellphone for Children’s Hospital “I was always nervous — what if my phone didn’t work for some reason or what if I forget my phone in the other room,” she said The United Network for Organ Sharing and UPMC say wait times vary with UPMC pointing out that a person’s blood type weight and location may affect a person’s wait time for a transplant When the call from the transplant team finally came Jan were on a family video call with relatives across the nation “I am so grateful that it happened that way because we were all together — virtually,” said Fee who described herself as in a bit of shock when the call came What followed was “an hour of white-knuckle driving on snowy icy roads to get to Pittsburgh,” Fee said ”It really was a dizzying turn of events,” she said Tests determined that the donor heart was a good match The surgery took 9½ hours to complete Feingold gave them the great news in the morning that Marshall’s new heart was “beating beautifully,” Fee said but I was still so nervous knowing about the extremely long road to recovery that lay ahead.” Her son is learning to find his new normal since coming home He’s managing his new medicines well and appreciating the comforts of his own bed and having his familiar surroundings to help him heal the rest of the way It’s unlikely that he will return to school in person this year because he is immunocompromised but Fee hopes he can pick up some required reading or check in with his teachers and classmates online so it has meant the world to him to receive all the cards and signs and gifts from his friends and people in the community,” Fee said The Southmoreland student looks forward to being in the school environment “The biggest test of his new heart will be to see if he can take a spot with his drums in the marching band,” Fee said Whether it is the United Network for Organ Sharing, the Center for Organ Recovery and Education or UPMC, there is a common message: Register to become an organ donor “Donor heart availability is difficult to predict,” UPMC said More children with heart disease could have an improved quality of life if there were more donor hearts “There are many children waiting for organ donors that can save other lives,” Feingold said “There is not enough donor organs available for transplant.” Fee said they are so appreciative of the donor and stressed the importance of people becoming organ donors “Marshall’s angel donor is a hero in the very truest sense giving most generously and selflessly so that a stranger might live after they leave this Earth It means the world to know people choose to be organ donors,” she said Joe Napsha is a TribLive reporter covering Irwin, North Huntingdon and the Norwin School District. He also writes about business issues. He grew up on Neville Island and has worked at the Trib since the early 1980s. He can be reached at jnapsha@triblive.com A prosecutor told a jury Monday there is no reasonable way to explain why a Mt Pleasant woman ran over another woman two years ago outside of a Scottdale apartment building and other offenses in connection with an incident that police said left a woman hospitalized after Moore attacked her with a baseball bat and ran over her with the car They say the incident began as a verbal confrontation and ended with the woman being dragged under the vehicle “It was not reasonable at all that the defendant let her anger take over,” said Assistant District Attorney Steven Reddy during opening statements in the trial before Common Pleas Court Judge Scott Mears incident involved a dispute that erupted over allegations Moore allegedly left a 3-year-old child alone in a vehicle as she visited a friend at a Pittsburgh Street apartment building Investigators say that as a verbal altercation ensued Moore removed a wood baseball bat from her vehicle swung it repeatedly and hit the other woman three times The woman then retrieved a brick from the ground and threw it at Moore’s vehicle Reddy suggested Moore had an opportunity to drive in reverse and away from the scene He said evidence will show that Moore intentionally drove forward and over a railroad tie hitting the woman with the vehicle and dragging her several feet through a grassy area The woman was hospitalized for several days with a fractured pelvis and other broken bones Defense attorney Ken Noga said Moore acted in self defense and never attempted to injure the woman with her car and immediately went to police to report the incident “She panicked and she didn’t know what else to do She just wanted to get out of there,” Noga told jurors “She was a flustered woman in a state of panic and did what she had to do to get herself and her child to safety,” Noga said Testimony in the trial will continue on Tuesday Nicole Louise Moore doubled over and let out a cry of joy as a Westmoreland County jury acquitted her Wednesday of allegations that she drove over and severely injured a woman two years ago in a Scottdale parking lot Following two days of testimony and more than two hours of jury deliberations Pleasant was found not guilty of aggravated assault reckless endangerment and leaving the scene of a crash drove over a woman after an altercation that turned violent and suffered multiple broken bones and a fractured pelvis that left her unable to walk for three months as a result of being struck by Moore’s car as Moore drove away from the parking lot Authorities said the women fought after Stout confronted Moore over concerns that she left a 3-year-old child alone in a parked vehicle at a Pittsburgh Street apartment complex suggested outside the courtroom that race played a factor in the verdict rendered by the all-white jury in the case of a white defendant “I think it is crazy they found her not guilty of running over someone I feel it was whitewashed and there was money involved,” Stout said “I will see her in the street.” Westmoreland County Common Pleas Judge Scott Mears found Moore guilty of a summary traffic offense for reckless driving Moore has been in jail sporadically since her arrest and had her bond revoked last spring after failing to appear for a previous court hearing She was expected to be released from custody Wednesday night she maintained she acted out of fear and claimed her actions were in self-defense said Moore acted under duress when she drove over Stout and she was trying to get away,” Noga said Witnesses testified the dispute between the women started when Stout attempted to take video of a child in Moore’s vehicle Stout claimed she was concerned about the child’s welfare Moore said she attempted to move away from the fight when she was kicked by Stout and slammed into her car door she retrieved a baseball bat and swung several times to create distance between the women Stout claimed she was hit at least twice by the bat and responded by throwing a brick toward Moore Moore claimed Stout threw two or three bricks including one that struck Moore’s vehicle as she attempted to leave the scene Assistant District Attorney Steven Reddy argued a video showed Moore initially backed out of her parking spot but then immediately accelerated forward and ran over Stout who was in front of the vehicle in a grassy area Moore then backed up and again drove over Stout and a railroad tie Her explanation is simply ridiculous,” Reddy said “It wasn’t a distraught lady but a psychotic woman putting the life of herself and her child at risk.”