Heavy rains cause flooding in the region
The South Strabane Township Board of Supervisors enacted an ordinance this week that will dissolve the parks and recreation commission. The supervisors voted 3-2 to do away with the commission at their meeting Tuesday. Supervisors Bob Weber and Russ Grego voted against it. Earlier this year supervisors had reopened the budget and developed a new spending plan that would have cut the $10,000 allocated to parks and recreation. However, that revised budget never came to fruition because it was not properly advertised prior to the Feb. 15 deadline. Supervisor Jeff Bull said the decision to move ahead with the cut “was more of a budgetary reason than anything. “Ten thousand dollars ...
State police are handling an investigation into Donora's police department after a man died last week following an encounter with an officer. According to a report from the office of the Allegheny County Medical Examiner, 57-year-old John F. Miller died at 10:55 p.m. March 22 at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh. Miller had been hospitalized several days prior after he had become unresponsive, "while in police custody," the report states. The medical examiner's report says the incident occurred shortly before 10 p.m. March 17. Social media posts suggest that a Donora police officer had used a Taser on Miller. Further details about what occurred were not immediately ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sebastian Shulsky flew under the radar for a while during his junior season at Canon-McMillan. That was until a game at Norwin last year. College coaches were not there to see him pitch. They came to watch a player from Norwin, Caden Sirvich, but Shulsky opened some eyes by pitching well with ...
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 ...
NEW YORK — Brett Baty laced a bases-loaded triple and the New York Mets chased Paul Skenes in the first inning of his worst major league start, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 11-7 on Thursday in their season opener at Citi Field. Carson Benge homered in his first career game, going ...
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 ...
Deja Glemba has to laugh when she remembers how her brother handled growing up with only sisters as siblings. Her brother, Caleb Jackson, was the only boy among the six kids. "He was spoiled," she chuckles. "So he knew that if he went to Mom and Dad and they said no, then he could come to ...
