Fishing for solitude
A bill that would provide grants to hospitals to upgrade security advanced out of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives’ health committee Tuesday. If it makes it way through the General Assembly and is signed by Gov. Josh Shapiro, it would create a Hospital Security Grant Fund for nonprofit hospitals with documented security needs. The hospitals would be able to apply for a maximum of $150,000 in grants every year, and the funds could be used for items like trauma kits and metal detectors, or undertaking a threat assessment. The House bill was sponsored by state Rep. Jason Ortitay, a Cecil Republican who represents the 46th Legislative District, which includes northern parts of ...
A South Franklin man is accused of fabricating a story he told police claiming his father pointed a gun at his head and threatened to kill him. Jarod Weaver contacted Greene-Washington Regional police Tuesday and told officers that earlier in the day he and his father, George Weaver Jr., got into an argument over a weedwhacker, prompting the elder Weaver to brandish a handgun. Jarod Weaver claimed that his father pointed a handgun at him and told him he would “put a bullet in his head” after dropping him off at his home in the 2100 block of Park Avenue, and then later promised to return with another man to “finish the job,” according to court documents. He then said his father ...
The Washington County commissioners approved their final round of grants for 2025 from the state’s opioid settlement fund, but not before officials had stern words for the process that initially rejected other grants and is now seemingly backtracking on those decisions. During a special ...
The Greene County Board approved two plans Thursday that commissioners said would help guide future growth in the county. In 3-0 votes, commissioners approved a Barriers to Workforce Study and the Greene County Business Operations and Strategic Plan. The business plan, prepared by Waynesburg University eHIVE, mapped out operations for the county’s new incubator in the Silveus Building on Waynesburg’s High Street. “They have multiple strategic partners that they have received throughout the community,” said board Chairman Jared Edgreen. “They did focus groups throughout the community, got small businesses involved, so they have a lot of contacts, a lot of good information ...
PITTSBURGH – Nick Herbig knew most NFL teams thought he was too small to play outside linebacker. That three years of creating chaos across the Big Ten while coming off the edge at Wisconsin wouldn't be good enough to convince clubs that he could do the same at the sport's highest level. The ...
In the end, it took one more dramatic, post-season walk-off win and two native Washington Countians to propel Denison University to the NCAA Division III World Series Thursday evening at Classic Auto Group Park in Eastlake, Ohio. In what had been a magical season for Denison baseball coach ...
A different path may have been taken, but it has led to the same place for the Chartiers-Houston softball team. The state semifinals. Chartiers-Houston is on the eastern side of the bracket, but continues to produce in the PIAA tournament. The Bucs cruised to a 13-1 win in six innings over ...
Memorial Day, a day set aside to honor fallen veterans, is a red letter day for American labor - literally. On Memorial Day 1937, union blood was spilled in Chicago, when 10 were killed and nearly a hundred protesters were injured during a steelworkers' strike rally. It was a tragic, ...
Here's a heads-up. UPMC Sports Medicine and the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation have teamed up to bring the HeadsUP Pittsburgh program to the UPMC Wellness Center at the Wilfred R. Cameron Pavilion in Washington this summer, offering free pediatric and adult ImPACT concussion baseline testing ...
