Challenge questions Republican state Senate candidate’s residency
Monongahela police charged a man Wednesday for allegedly assaulting another man at a bar last week. Dwight Allen Moore Jr., 29, of North Charleroi, faces a felony charge of aggravated assault and a misdemeanor of simple assault. According to the criminal complaint, at about 12:17 a.m. March 13, police were called to the The Drunken Hippie at 131 W. Main St. Charging documents accuse Moore of slapping Robert Painter on the top of his head multiple times. When Moore went to leave, he allegedly grabbed Painter while in the doorway and threw him to the ground. According to the complaint, Moore punched Painter and kicked him in the head multiple times. Police said Painter lost ...
An attorney who used to work in Washington County was indicted by a grand jury this week on allegations that he embezzled more than $1.3 million from a Pittsburgh nonprofit. Christopher Furman, 53, of Pittsburgh, faces charges of wire fraud and money laundering. According to a press release from the Department of Justice, Furman was named the president of the Society for the Preservation of the Duquesne Heights Incline, which has operated the Duquesne Heights Incline since 1964. The indictment accuses Furman of funneling $1,379,300 from the group’s bank accounts into his own between October 2024 and September 2025. Furman currently works for the Pittsburgh law firm Gabriel Fera. ...
State police charged a Nottingham Township man Wednesday after he was accused of sexually assaulting a juvenile. William James Caramana, 46, faces felony charges of aggravated indecent assault, corruption of minors and a misdemeanor charge of indecent assault. According to the criminal complaint, on Feb. 4 the 13-year-old victim's mother reported the accusations. During an interview later that month, the alleged victim said Caramana touched her inappropriately on more than one occasion. According to court records, the incidents occurred between August of last year and February. Online court records list Caramana's attorney as Christopher Blackwell. Blackwell did not immediately ...
The board of supervisors in North Strabane Township will decide next week if they will move ahead with an ordinance that would allow golf carts in certain neighborhoods. Officials will vote at their meeting Tuesday on whether or not to have their solicitor, Sweat Law Offices, draw up the ordinance. Harold Close is the supervisor pushing for the ordinance. “It's for the more populated HOA, and non-HOA neighborhoods, for younger folks to be able to get to some of the other amenities these communities provide,” Close said. Close says he envisions that golf cart riders would need to be licensed and have insurance. He notes it would only allow for golf carts to be driven within ...
The cost of Motorola’s emergency radio project in Washington County keeps going up. In a split vote Thursday, the county commissioners approved a $1.147 million change order to build three new equipment shelters, generators and tanks for the P-25 emergency radio system, raising the overall ...
CHICAGO — Alex Bregman, welcome to the NL Central. Welcome back, Eugenio Suárez. Bregman is hoping to lead the Chicago Cubs to their first Central title since 2020 after signing a $175 million, five-year contract with the North Siders in free agency. But the competition is tough in a ...
Junior Sydney Gonglik, an LSU recruit, fired a five-inning no-hitter as Bentworth opened its season with a 10-0 win over Mahomet-Seymour (Ill.) on Thursday in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. Mahomet-Seymour had only one batter reach base, that being a hit batsman with two outs in the second inning. ...
The first time Ryan Oldaker, Juliette Leroux and Haylie Lamonde played basketball together was in the fourth grade. When asked what stood out to them about playing together back then, Leroux gave a quick answer. “I remember us winning a lot,” Leroux said. That makes sense, because it’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 ...
Right now, to borrow from the title of a James Brown song, the technology industry is a man’s world. Even as women make up 58% of undergraduates enrolled in colleges and universities and make up almost half of the United States’ labor force, just 27% of those employed by tech companies are ...
