No Kings protest returns to Washington, draws hundreds
After sexual assault charges were filed against two Laurel Highlands High School teachers within a week, state Rep. Charity Grimm Krupa asked the state attorney general’s office to determine whether the district followed state mandatory reporting policies and properly investigated reports. “Families in this community deserve to know whether all appropriate steps were taken to protect students and to respond to allegations when they arose,” she said in her letter to state Attorney General Dave Sunday. Last week, social studies teacher Martin Gatti, 50, of Uniontown was charged with attempted institutional sexual assault after allegedly repeatedly asking a female student under ...
Peters Township could be carved out of the Washington County Elections Board’s overall plan to consolidate precincts and merge polling places in more than a dozen municipalities ahead of the May 19 primary election. During a nearly three-hour hearing before Judge Michael Lucas at the ...
DONORA Assault alleged: Cody Dewayne Roach, 35, of Monessen, was charged by Donora police Wednesday with aggravated assault, simple assault and reckless endangerment. According to the criminal complaint, at about 7 p.m. Wednesday, police were called to the 100 block of Ninth Street for a domestic incident. Roach is accused of punching his ex-girlfriend and throwing two knives at her 12-year-old son. District Judge Mark Wilson sent Roach to the Washington County jail on $50,000 bond. EAST WASHINGTON Trespassing: William Andrew Biggs, 32, of Pittsburgh, was charged by East Washington police Wednesday with burglary, criminal trespassing, resisting arrest and false identification to law ...
A Cecil Township man convicted in September of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy over two years could spend the rest of his life in prison. Ryan Lewis Wolstoncroft, 40, appeared Thursday at the Washington County Courthouse and was sentenced by President Judge Valarie Costanzo to serve 36 ...
It didn’t take long for Kristin Erb to make her pitch to the PennWest California University softball team. The first-year coach has been making great pitches for a long time. Erb is the all-time winningest pitcher in NCAA Division II history and had been a veteran assistant coach at the ...
Pressure is only what is allowed to be let in. From the outside, it would seem that with the talent returning coming off a state title there was a lot of pressure on the South Fayette girls basketball team this season. But for Juliette Leroux and the rest of the Lions it was more about ...
Faith Partozoti and Z Kyiah Hines combined for seven RBI as Washington defeated host Beth-Center 13-4 in a non-section game on Thursday. Beth-Center led 4-3 before Wash High tied it in the fourth and scored four runs in both the fifth and sixth innings. Winning pitcher Chessa Henderson struck ...
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 ...
We all dream of it: A breathtaking, lush, verdant garden that nourishes our souls and makes us the envy of the neighborhood. And to make that dream come true, our first thoughts tend to focus on plants. But the garden is a structure, and like any structure, it requires a good foundation. ...
