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North Franklin Township will hold a public hearing next month on an ordinance that would regulate the development of cryptocurrency mining and data center facilities in the township. The municipality’s board of supervisors voted Tuesday to schedule a public hearing on the ordinance for 4:30 p.m. April 14. There will also be a public hearing for an ordinance concerning fossil fuel electric generating facilities. Bob Sabot, chair of the board of supervisors, said there are currently no plans for a data center in the township. “No one has come forward saying they want to put a data center in North Franklin Township, but we’re being extremely proactive,” Sabot said. The ...
The former director of a local youth football league will head to trial on charges that alleged he embezzled about $235,000 from the organization. Charges against 57-year-old William Spencer were held for the Washington County Court of Common Pleas on Wednesday. He had been scheduled to appear for a preliminary hearing that morning. Spencer, of Canton Township, resigned from his role leading the Western Pennsylvania Youth Football League last March after the league’s members became concerned about the organization’s finances and lack of a payment to its insurance provider. According to charging documents, investigators from the state attorney general’s office found 187 ...
South Strabane police arrested a man Tuesday after he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend. Garrett Devon Ware, 29, of South Strabane, faces a felony charge of strangulation and misdemeanors of terroristic threats and simple assault. According to the criminal complaint, shortly before 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, police were called to the 1600 block of Pierce Avenue. Ware allegedly choked Rachel Gilles and punched her. Charging documents state that Ware was in possession of a firearm and threatened her life. Ware was arraigned Tuesday afternoon before District Judge Charles Tenny, who sent him to the Washington County jail on $25,000 bond.
Two Republican state senators from Southwestern Pennsylvania will likely be facing challengers in the upcoming primary election, according to filings on the state Department of State’s elections database. Republican candidates filed their election paperwork with the state by Tuesday’s ...
The alleged middle man in the murder-for-hire plot at a Rostraver Township shopping center more than three years ago has been arrested in Philadelphia and charged with helping to facilitate the killing. Westmoreland County detectives on Tuesday charged Tuan Minh Dang, 47, of Philadelphia, with ...
A state Department of Corrections employee is accused of coercing a Fayette County prison inmate into sexual acts. Court paperwork stated Elise Fahringer, 37, admitted she had a physical relationship with the inmate in July and August of 2025 while counseling him as a psychological service specialist at the State Correctional Institution at Fayette in Luzerne Township. The inmate, now at SCI-Smithfield in Huntingdon County, said he felt pressured into participating in the sexual acts out of fear that Fahringer would accuse him of sexual assault, according to the criminal complaint. Fahringer also told the inmate she could have his upcoming parole release denied by telling the parole ...
ALTOONA – On the final night of section play, Peters Township had to win at Bethel Park just to get into the WPIAL playoffs. Now the Indians are in the state quarterfinals. It’s been quite a journey over the last month-plus for Peters Township and that continued with a dominating 54-32 ...
Jeannette raced out to a 23-2 lead in the first quarter and never looked back in rolling a 68-36 victory over Jefferson-Morgan in a PIAA Class 2A second-round boys basketball playoff game at Peters Township High School's AHN Arena on Wednesday night. Markus McGowan scored 13 of his game-high ...
McMURRAY – The South Fayette girls basketball team’s destruction of Penn-Trafford was slow, methodical and brutally effective. South Fayette, the defending state champion, had an answer for everything Penn-Trafford threw its way. And South Fayette’s full-court pressure defense, like ...
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 ...
Doctors have a new emerging weapon in the fight against cancerous tumors: ultrasound. After a five-year study by the University of Michigan showed promising results in treating liver cancer with ultrasound, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the procedure called ...
