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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
