DAR honors three women in American history
A Fayette County man serving a prison sentence for murdering his girlfriend in 2021 received an additional six- to 12-month prison sentence Thursday for dumping a large amount of waste tires at Ohiopyle State Park. Thomas L. Dean, 53, entered a fast-track guilty plea Thursday to misdemeanor violations of the Solid Waste Management Act, Attorney General Dave Sunday announced in a release. Dean is also ordered to pay a $2,500 fine to the Pennsylvania Solid Waste Abatement Fund. The Office of Attorney General’s Environmental Crimes Section investigated and prosecuted the case, which involved Dean — and his nephew, Donald Dean — dumping tires at the park while working at an auto ...
A 5-year-old boy was taken by a medical helicopter to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh after nearly drowning in a backyard swimming pool in Nottingham Township Friday afternoon. The incident occurred in the 200 block of Pine Nut Drive, according to a Washington County 911 dispatcher. The boy was pulled from the water about 12:40 p.m. by someone who was attending a party at the pool, according to Pennsylvania State Police spokesman Rocco Gagliardi. EMS personnel administered CPR to the boy before he was flown to the hospital. Pennsylvania State Police are investigating.
A fire at the City Mission in Washington forced the evacuation of the entire campus and its nearly 200 residents Friday morning, although the blaze was contained quickly by the shelter's upgraded sprinkler system, minimizing the damage. City firefighters were called to the sprawling shelter on ...
A teen from Allegheny County accused of being involved in a fatal hit-and-run on the Southern Beltway last year will stand trial on all charges following his preliminary hearing Thursday morning. Jaxon Ramon Farrell, 18, of Oakdale, appeared before District Judge Lou McQuillan, who bound his ...
GRANVILLE, W.Va. – Starter Chansen Cole and reliever David Hagen combined on a four-hitter and West Virginia used a pair of five-run innings to beat Binghamton 10-1 in the first round of the Morgantown Regional on Friday at Kendrick Family Ballpark. WVU (40-14), the No. 1 seed in the ...
PITTSBURGH — Leslie Dowdle called it. Months before her son Rico entered free agency after running for more than 1,000 yards for Carolina, Leslie Dowdle rang Rico just minutes after the Pittsburgh Steelers announced that Mike McCarthy would replace Mike Tomlin as head coach in January. "She ...
AVON, Ohio – Andrew Czech went 3-for-3 with a home run, Kobe Foster pitched seven strong innings and the Wild Things defeated Lake Erie 10-4 in a series opener Friday night. Foster (4-0) scattered six hits and allowed two runs. He was backed by an offense that scored five unearned runs, ...
Memorial Day, a day set aside to honor fallen veterans, is a red letter day for American labor - literally. On Memorial Day 1937, union blood was spilled in Chicago, when 10 were killed and nearly a hundred protesters were injured during a steelworkers' strike rally. It was a tragic, ...
Dr. Norma Thomas doesn’t amass possessions — she’s more of a “get it and give it away” person, she said. The exception is history, where she and the local center she founded have become a magnet for people looking to add to the documentation and understanding of the Black ...
