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Donora man accused of exposing self in ice cream shop’s bathroom

A Donora man is accused of touching himself inappropriately inside a Westmoreland County ice cream shop’s bathroom last month, as police said he was completely nude when a teenage girl employee went into the men’s room to clean it during closing time. State police said 22-year-old Calvin Horney went to the Dairy Queen in North Belle Vernon Borough shortly before the 9 p.m. closing time on Sept. 7 and entered the public restroom, where he allegedly performed a lewd act on himself. Police said the 17-year-old female employee was cleaning the restaurant’s two bathrooms at the end of the night when she opened the men’s room door and saw Horney fully exposed, sitting on the toilet ...

Teen Outreach kicks off new HOPE Consortium

The SW PA Teen Outreach announces its kickoff meeting for its newly formed HOPE Consortium. The consortium will gather community youth-serving agencies together at 4 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Common Ground Teen Center (92 N. Main Street, Washington). Teen Outreach is a Certified Hope Informed Organization through HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences) https://positiveexperience.org/. Two Teen Outreach professional staff, Amy Podgurski-Gough and Heather Crowe, are certified HOPE Facilitators and Heather Crowe is in training to be a HOPE Champion. The HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences) framework is a strengths-based, research informed approach that focuses on how ...

Peoples Natural Gas marks completion of pipeline upgrades

Peoples Natural Gas, an Essential Utilities company, Tuesday joined state and local officials, community leaders and customers to celebrate the successful modernization of the Goodwin Tombaugh pipeline system. This landmark infrastructure project upgraded more than 300 miles of natural gas ...

'Amity and Prosperity' author to speak at Pitt Greensburg campus

Eliza Griswold, who chronicled the impact of fracking on Washington County residents in her 2018 book “Amity and Prosperity,” will be at the Greensburg campus of the University of Pittsburgh on Thursday, Oct. 22. Griswold won a Pulitzer Prize for her work, and it touches on such issues as ...

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Avalanche rally past Penguins

DENVER (AP) — Nathan MacKinnon had three assists and a power-play goal, Artturi Lehkonen scored twice and the Colorado Avalanche rallied to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 on Friday night. T.J. Hughes scored his first NHL goal, while Mackenzie Blackwood settled in after a shaky start to ...

South Fayette demolishes Laurel Highlands, 69-0

UNIONTOWN - Aayden Wright ran for 216 yards and three first-quarter touchdowns, Braeden Plasko tossed a pair of TD passes to Owen Keener and South Fayette demolished winless Laurel Highlands 69-0 in a Class 4A Big Six Conference game Friday night. The Lions remain unbeaten in conference play ...

Unbeaten USC pulls away from Trinity

Josh Snyder passed for one touchdown and ran for another in the second half, sparking undefeated Upper St. Clair to a 35-14 win over Trinity in a Class 5A Allegheny Six Conference game Friday night at Hiller Field. USC (3-0, 8-0) led 14-7 at halftime. Snyder threw a 43-yard TD pass to Samuel ...

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OP-ED: The time to get AI right is now

As recently as early summer, artificial intelligence, or AI, was far from the center of public concern or worry. Now, it's at center stage, though to many it remains a mystery. During a recent class reunion, a friend confided that AI was a head-scratcher. "I don't know anything about it," he ...

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