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Equitrans appealed to the state Superior Court after a Greene County judge denied its motion for relief in a lawsuit over a 2018 house fire in Morgan Township. The state Attorney General’s office filed a felony charge in 2023 against Equitrans for violating the Pennsylvania Clean Streams law after a grand jury accused the company of failing to investigate long-known methane leakage at the Pratt Storage Field, which sat below the house. Residents Cody White and Samantha Adamson were in the house with their 4-year-old son James at the time of the explosion, which was set off when Cody lit the stove to make macaroni and cheese for his son. All three suffered severe burns over more than ...
The Washington County coroner has identified skeletal remains that were found in Washington last year as a man who had gone missing in 2020. According to Coroner Timothy Warco, the remains belonged to 30-year-old Robertson Wuyoch, of South Strabane Township and formerly of Micronesia. Wuyoch had been reported missing by family members on June 11, 2020 after he did not return to his home on North Main Street. The morning of May 4, 2025, a passerby found his remains in a wooded area near 150 Terrace Ave. According to Warco, his cause of death was hanging. Warco’s office was not able to determine a manner of death due to a lack of information, but officials do not believe his death ...
Private personal data of current and former Bentleyville officials was part of a packet distributed to council and members of the public at the borough’s most recent council meeting. The information — which included unredacted Social Security numbers, addresses, names, and driver’s license numbers — was part of an audit handed out by the finance committee during its report Tuesday. Borough Solicitor Dennis Makel said the details had been listed in a banking statement that was erroneously left unredacted. “It was inadvertent,” he said. The names included eight officials: six former council members, the borough’s former secretary, and Police Chief Rich Young. Young’s ...
Cecil Township supervisors and residents expressed support for proactive regulation of data centers during a meeting last week. Supervisor Cindy Fisher emphasized that while the township has not received any applications for data center projects, the board believes it is imperative to take steps to “protect our residents” ahead of any future data center development. Data centers have been top of mind for municipalities across Washington County in recent months as several companies have expressed interest in bringing the high-tech industry to rural Southwestern Pennsylvania. “No Data Centers” signs are a common sight across nearby South Strabane Township following rumors of ...
HOHOUSTON (AP) — Artemis II’s astronauts closed out humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century with a Pacific splashdown on Friday, blazing new records near the moon with grace and joy. It was a dramatic grand finale to a mission that revealed not only swaths of the ...
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 ...
The baseball field at Fort Cherry, with its short dimensions, is designed for offense. And there was plenty of offense Friday. Colton Temple hit three of Fort Cherry’s six home runs, including a walk-off two-run blast in the bottom of the seventh inning as the Rangers rallied for a wild ...
One of the more frequent questions I am asked as a firearms instructor is: “What is the best handgun I should buy?” While it could take volumes to answer that question, my response is usually something along the lines of “Buy whatever fits you the best and that you shoot the best.” ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Yohan Ramírez escaped bases-loaded jams in the 10th and 11th innings, and the Pittsburgh Pirates took advantage of a throwing error by Caleb Thielbar to score the go-ahead run in a 4-3 win over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday that clinched the three-game series. Alex Bregman's ...
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 ...
Melvin Pike of Uniontown met his match at the end of a shotgun while his 11-year-old daughter looked on in a Canton Township gymnastics studio. When names like "Snooky," "Codfish," and "No Legs" surfaced 13 years later, it was clear that the case had all the markings of a mob hit. On April ...
