Pain at the pump: Gas prices increase in Western Pennsylvania
Canonsburg residents may soon spot a public safety drone flying over their town, as borough council unanimously approved the creation of a Public Safety Drone Program during a Monday night meeting. The program will allow the borough to authorize fundraising efforts, accept donations for the program and establish operational policies in compliance with applicable laws and borough ordinances, according to the meeting’s agenda. Borough Manager Jennifer Foster previously said that borough staff recognized the need for an expanded, formalized drone initiative after severe flooding struck the region twice in August, leaving the Canonsburg Police Department’s two small drones ...
An Allenport woman driving a stolen car led police on a chase in the Mon Valley that ended in a crash in Fallowfield Township. A Charleroi Regional police officer was posted in his police cruiser in the 700 block of Lincoln Avenue in North Charleroi about 10 p.m. Saturday when he saw a hatchback car with its driver’s side window down and marijuana smoke emanating from the vehicle, according to court documents. A similar looking car had been reported stolen earlier in the day, and the police officer confirmed it was the same vehicle when checking its registration information while following close behind. The officer tried to stop the vehicle, but the driver sped off, eventually ...
Police are seeking a Waynesburg man accused of injuring several people Sunday night after backing his car into a garage while allegedly drunk. Witnesses told Waynesburg police that James Roach, 35, had been asked to leave a gathering at 310 E. Lincoln St. before backing his Jeep Grand Cherokee into the garage shortly after 7 p.m. Stacey Lewis, who was standing near the garage entrance, was hit with the back of the vehicle near the fuel tank, the complaint said. Roach then left the car, got back in, then backed up the car while Lewis was underneath, court documents stated. He then put the car in drive and headed out. Lewis was transported to the hospital for treatment. Terry ...
South Strabane firefighters are trying to make emergency repairs to a stormwater pipe to prevent a sinkhole that opened up next to their station on Oak Spring Road from getting any bigger. The large pipe buried beneath the parking lot behind the department’s building collapsed during ...
Timothy Chopp can’t remember a time when he didn’t want to climb into the cockpit of a plane and take off across the heavens. “As soon as I was alive, I wanted to fly,” Chopp explained from his home in Amwell Township. Now 82 and still buckling up, revving up the engines and hurtling ...
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Logan Brown homered and drove in four runs and Evansville held off two big comebacks by Washington to beat the Wild Things 14-13 in a wild Game 1 of the best-of-5 Midwest Conference finals Tuesday night at Bosse Field. Game 2 is Wednesday night (7:35) in ...
In a sense a weight was lifted off coach Tyler Hamstra’s shoulders last year when the Bentworth girls soccer team broke through for the program’s first WPIAL title. It was a moment that was years in the making after steadily building the Bearcats’ program. Now there’s a new task in ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jacob Misiorowski struck out seven in five shutout innings and the Milwaukee Brewers won their their fourth straight National League Central title with a 5-1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night. About 50 minutes after the final out, the Brewers clinched the ...
For months, President Trump and his administration have been fixated on one issue. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with ending the war in Iran or with the affordability of groceries and gasoline. The president’s primary goal this spring and summer has been the passage of the Safeguard ...
Although he now lives in San Diego, Kevin Shaeffer is a proud member of Steelers Nation. He and his wife, Blanca, will be in attendance when Pittsburgh kicks off the 2026 NFL season against the Atlanta Falcons on Sept. 13 at Acrisure Stadium. “We bleed black and gold,” Shaeffer said. ...
