Giving2Grow: Nonprofit supports groups that fight childhood food insecurity
A Nemacolin man is charged with homicide after he was accused of severely assaulting a woman he lived with in May 2025. Several witnesses told investigators that Jerome Rafail, 51, had a history of assaulting 31-year-old Shayla Black before the assaults that led to her death in May, according to court documents. Charges against Rafail were filed Tuesday with District Judge Lee Watson. Police said Black had numerous visible injuries, a broken jaw and significant wounds on both shins when they responded to the report of a woman who had stopped breathing at 258 Grant St. in Nemacolin during the early morning hours of May 19. An autopsy on Black conducted by Dr. Jennifer Hammers ...
Freedom Transit's administrative office and transit center will be closed Monday in observance of Labor Day. Fixed route bus service will not operate on Labor Day. Shared ride service will be available. To schedule a shared ride for Monday, Sept. 7, or Tuesday, Sept. 8, call customer service by noon Friday, Sept. 4, at 724-223-8747. For more information on public transportation in Washington County, visit www.freedom-transit.org or call 724-223-8747.
Volunteers from the Washington Rotary Club will assist with recycling of empty bottles and jars this Saturday, Sept. 5, from 9 a.m. until noon at the Log Cabin Drive entrance to the Washington Park recycling center. Only glass bottles and jars are accepted, but color does not matter and lids and labels are acceptable. No other types of glass, including mirrors, light bulbs, window glass or ceramics, are permitted. Rotary members assist with glass recycling on the first Saturday of each month through November, but glass may be recycled any Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. by entering the recycling area at the Wheeling Street entrance. Plastic caps and lids are no longer ...
CALIFORNIA – There were six touchdowns in the first 19 minutes of Thursday’s football game between California and Charleston. If it seemed like it took a long time for that amount of points to be put on the scoreboard, that’s because they were scored over the span of more than four ...
California’s Brandon Meier and Fort Cherry’s Colin Sieg were certainly impressive in their varsity debuts at quarterback last Friday night. For an encore, they will face off in Week 2. The Rangers host the Trojans, 7 p.m. tonight for a nonconference football game at Jim Garry ...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Matt Campbell has been around Rocco Becht long enough to know the quarterback can bounce back from nearly anything. The Penn State coach has seen Becht immediately forget bad plays that might linger with other signal-callers for unhealthy amounts of time. He's watched ...
A tariff is a tax imposed on imported goods, and it sits at the center of how nations manage trade, protect industries, and shape economic strategy. At its core, a tariff raises the price of foreign products entering a country. This makes imported goods less competitive compared to domestic ...
“The Adventures of Charlie” series continues with a second book written and published by Natalie Eddy of Mount Morris, “The Adventures of Charlie: The Mason-Dixon Line,” available on Amazon.com. Readers first meet the main character Charlie, named as a tribute to Eddy’s grandson, ...
