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Teen who shot Washington woman pleads guilty to third-degree murder

The teenager who shot and killed a Washington woman as she sat on her front porch pleaded guilty Monday morning nearly three years to the day after the fatal shooting. Juan Worthey III entered an open guilty plea of third-degree murder before Judge Valarie Costanzo moments before jury ...

Four-year-old boy from Ohio, mother killed in I-70 crash

The Washington County coroner has identified the mother and child who died in Sunday’s head-on collision with a tractor-trailer on Interstate 70. Killed was 25-year-old Aisha Trawally and 4-year-old Abdul-Salami Touray, both of Columbus, Ohio, according to Coroner Timothy Warco. State ...

Deadline looms to request mail-in ballot for May 20 primary election

Today is the final day to request a mail-in ballot for the May 20 primary as election officials are urging voters to quickly return them. People have until the close of business today to fill out an application in-person at their county’s elections office or by going online to vote.pa.gov to ...

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Skenes joins Team USA for the World Baseball Classic

Associated Press NEW YORK — Paul Skenes is ready to take on the world. The Pittsburgh Pirates ace announced Tuesday that he will join Team USA when the World Baseball Classic returns next March. "Being around the best players in the game for three, four weeks, however long it is — ...

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Infante, DiValerio play key roles in Wild Things win

To use a baseball scouting term, the Wild Things’ Sammy Infante has all the “tools.” In other words, he can hit, field, throw and run better than many of his counterparts. Those “tools” made Infante a second-round draft pick of the Washington Nationals out of high school in ...

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OP-ED: Homer City: The end of one era, dawn of the next

It is a somber sight to see towering smokestacks fall. They serve as monuments to a past era, symbols of industry and progress – until they are no longer needed. Last month, the demolition of the Homer City Generating Plant in Indiana County marked the end of a once mighty, coal-fired power ...

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Fallowfield Township native named director of the Frick Pittsburgh

Like many people who acquire a fascination with history, it all started early for Amanda Dunyak Gillen. In the years before she graduated from Charleroi Area High School in 1993, she would travel with her family to historic sites that were within a day’s drive, like the Gettysburg ...

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