‘Justice in Motion’
A Washington man is facing felony charges after city police said he pointed a gun at another man outside a local convenience store and threatened to kill him. Police said Brett M. Carroll approached a man at the Uni-Mart store at 500 N. Main St. about 4 p.m. Tuesday and pulled out a handgun while demanding the man pay him a $400 debt. “I’m going to kill you,” Carroll allegedly told the man, according to court documents. “You better run.” Carroll chased the man as the man ran from the scene, but Carroll eventually got into an SUV and left the area, police said. Washington police were called and responded to the scene, where they were able to speak to the victim and review ...
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation District 12 updated its anticipated timeline to start work on the currently closed Locust Avenue in South Strabane Township, saying that work will begin on July 27, instead of July 13 as initially projected. The section of roadway between Interstate 79 and Hudak Hill Road closed in March following a landslide induced by a rainstorm. PennDOT District 12 Community Relations Coordinator Melissa Maczko estimated that the road will reopen in mid-October. Until then, the current detour following Country Club Road will remain in place, she said. The effort to improve drainage and stabilize the deteriorated slope will cost between $1 and $2 ...
A man convicted of killing and raping a 12-year-old Greene County girl 20 years ago is no longer facing the death penalty after the court determined he met the standards for intellectual disability. The sentence for Jeffrey Martin, 68, was amended to life in prison without parole in Greene ...
The celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence happened last weekend, but lessons about it continued Tuesday afternoon at the LeMoyne Community Center in Washington. The teachers were a group of former judges and a former Pennsylvania governor who told students ...
Public health officials in Pennsylvania and other states are on the lookout for cases of cyclosporiasis, a parasite that spreads through contaminated food and water and can cause severe diarrhea. While there have been outbreaks in Michigan, Northwest Ohio and Illinois, the number of cases in the commonwealth have remained close to normal, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH). So far this year, there have been 28 reported cyclosporiasis cases in Pennsylvania, with 11 of those cases coming from the southwest corner of the state. In 2025, there were 40 reported cases in Pennsylvania and 87 the year before. This stands in contrast to Michigan, which has reported almost ...
Inclement weather forced the Pittsburgh Pirates to postpone Friday night's game with the Milwaukee Brewers. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader Saturday. The first game will be at 12:05 p.m. with the regularly scheduled game to follow at 4:05 p.m. Prior to the postponement the ...
When Maddie Cavenaugh was a senior at South Fayette, she had two offers to play college softball. Slippery Rock and Indiana (Pa.). In one year, Cavenaugh proved to NCAA Division I programs that they swung and missed when they didn’t recruit her. Cavenaugh had an outstanding freshman season ...
Canon-McMillan’s Marlee Solomon is a gold medalist for Team USA. Solomon won gold in girls freestyle wrestling at the U20 Pan-American Games Friday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She defeated Ariana Saenz Abanto of Peru via a 10-0 technical fall in the championship match to secure the ...
Pennsylvania is divided into 67 counties and features a remarkably high number of local governments. Each parcel of land within the commonwealth falls into a specific city (57), borough (956), incorporated town (1), or township (1,546). The large number of municipalities resulted from early ...
Janine Surmick’s favorite item in the Duncan & Miller Glass Museum isn’t one of the elegantly crafted pieces of tableware that is behind glass, or one of the swan-shaped dishes. Instead, it’s a vintage glass-making press that sits in the museum’s basement on Ridge Avenue. It came ...
