Football fever
State police responded to six fatal crashes across Pennsylvania during the Easter weekend. From April 3 to 5, troopers were called to 532 total crashes. Six people were killed in those accidents, and 42 of the crashes were related to motorists driving under the influence. Those numbers are similar to last year, when during the same three-day period state police responded to 527 crashes. Four of those crashes were fatal, killing six people in total. State police did not provide the enforcement numbers for individual troops. Of the six fatal crashes, one occurred in Donegal Township. Just after 6 p.m. April 4, Daniel Pasqualucci was driving a sedan at speeds above 80 mph while going ...
Operators of two amusement companies have pleaded guilty to distributing illegal video gaming devices in Washington County and other communities in the Pittsburgh region. According to a news release from the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office, the proprietors of Buffalo Skills Games Inc. and J.J. Amusement Inc. agreed to dissolve the companies and forfeit $5 million in assets as part of the plea deal. In 2024, the devices were seized at bars, convenience stores and gas stations in Washington County, along with Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Cambria, Crawford, Indiana, Somerset, Erie, Venango, Armstrong and Westmoreland counties. Close to 400 illegal gambling devices were seized at ...
When the Artemis II astronauts splash down off the coast of San Diego on Friday, a ship with strong local ties will be waiting for them. Hundreds of military personnel and civilians aboard the USS John P. Murtha will work together to bring the four astronauts aboard the Orion capsule to ...
Local leaders including state Sen. Camera Bartolotta, North Strabane Township Board of Supervisors Chair Neil Kelly and state Rep. Tim O'Neal welcomed residents to the freshly inaugurated North Strabane Administration Building Tuesday afternoon. North Strabane officials opted to purchase ...
M.J. Maruschak gave Canon-McMillan its second dominant pitching performance in as many days and the Big Macs remained undefeated with a 4-1 win at Norwin on Thursday in Class 6A Section 2. One day after Sebastian Shulsky struck out 16 batters in a win over Norwin, Maruschak fired a ...
Ally Krenzelak went 3-for-3 with two of Trinity’s five extra-base hits as the Hillers defeated visiting Albert Gallatin 11-0 in five innings in a Class 5A Section 4 game Wednesday. Trinity (4-1, 9-1) won with a nine-run third inning. That was enough for winning pitcher Maddie Ray, who struck ...
Sebastian Shulsky fired a two-hit shutout with 16 strikeouts as Canon-McMillan remained undefeated with an 8-0 win over visiting Norwin in a Class 6A Section 2 baseball game Wednesday. The win makes C-M 4-0 in the section and 9-0 overall. It was the opening game of a three-game set against ...
Periodically, a news story comes across my iPad that I just can’t stop thinking about. This story started like this: “On February 21 police officers were dispatched to a bar.” That opening line drew me in almost as fast as “A Florida man ..." “The caller was the bartender,” and ...
If the aches and pains of ongoing osteoarthritis are getting to be too much for you to bear, there may be a new way to find relief. More than 32 million Americans suffer from osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease caused by the gradual breakdown of cartilage. It can impact nearly any ...
