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A Donegal Township man is accused of raping a woman inside her Chartiers Township home after helping her when she called him with car trouble last week. Chartiers Township police said the woman called 28-year-old Logan Matthew McDonough to help with her car and then invited him into her home for coffee shortly before 9 a.m. Tuesday. While in the kitchen, McDonough allegedly forced himself on the woman despite her telling him she did consent to the sexual encounter, police said. The situation caused her to bleed and McDonough eventually stopped before leaving the house, according to court documents. The woman went to the Chartiers Township Police Department and reported the alleged ...
A Westmoreland County man was charged Thursday with striking and killing a pedestrian on Interstate 70 in Canton Township in March, and accused of continuing to drive another 46 miles back to his house near Irwin without stopping or notifying authorities. State police said Anthony Joseph Pugliano was driving east on I-70 with three other people in his SUV when he struck 46-year-old Timothy Booker of Avella on the highway near the Chestnut Street interchange shortly before 4 a.m. March 8. A tractor-trailer driver who came upon Booker’s body lying on the highway and called 911 to report the incident, although it was not immediately clear how the incident happened or why the victim was ...
A documentary about the ongoing war in Ukraine, “Stand Tall for the Rule of Law,” will be shown Oct. 13, at 6 p.m., at Washington & Jefferson College’s Yost Conference Room in the Burnett Center. The program is hosted by the college’s pre-law and conflict and resolution studies programs, the Washington County Bar Association, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. In early December 2023, a documentary film crew and a delegation from the American Society of International Law crossed the Polish border in Lviv, Ukraine, to meet with members of the Ukrainian Association of International Law for a three-day “Stand Tall for the Rule of Law” summit. It included 75 ...
Next spring, the Centerville Clinics practice in Uniontown will be moving to a larger location that its CEO said will allow it to offer more services to patients. After 24 years, the practice has outgrown its existing site on McClellandtown Road, near WVU Medicine Uniontown Hospital, said ...
A Monessen woman pleaded guilty in federal court last week in Pittsburgh to bank fraud for a nearly $1.9 million check-cashing scheme over more than a decade in North Strabane Township. Emily Roberts, 55, pleaded guilty to the scheme while providing cleaning services at a home, where she repeatedly stole checks from the victim’s checkbook, wrote the checks out to cash and forged a signature on the checks before depositing the money into her own personal bank account. Investigators said Roberts obtained $1.89 million through the deposit of 636 checks from January 2014 to March 2026. U.S. District Judge W. Scott Hardy scheduled sentencing for Feb. 10. The FBI and North Strabane ...
EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Caleb Komolafe rushed for a career-high 188 yards and a touchdown, and Northwestern routed Penn State 34-13 on Friday night in the first game at the new Ryan Field. Led by Komolafe and Joseph Himon II, Northwestern set season highs with 413 yards rushing and 506 yards ...
CLEVELAND – The Pittsburgh Steelers got rid of a lingering headache by trading cornerback Joey Porter Jr. to the Cowboys. Much later in the day, it was replaced by heartache after another loss to the Cleveland Browns. Andre Szmyt made a career-long, 56-yard field goal with 10 seconds ...
Thomas Jefferson High School’s Tyler Eber ran for three long touchdowns and helped the Jaguars rally for a 19-14 victory over Trinity at Hiller Field. Thomas Jefferson is now 5-0 overall and Trinity is 3-3 overall as the game was the first for both teams in the WPIAL Class 5-A Allegheny 6 ...
As recently as early summer, artificial intelligence, or AI, was far from the center of public concern or worry. Now, it's at center stage, though to many it remains a mystery. During a recent class reunion, a friend confided that AI was a head-scratcher. "I don't know anything about it," he ...
PennWest University celebrated the grand reopening of the Rutledge Institute for Early Childhood Education on Friday, Sept. 25, following a $5.5 million renovation that expands opportunities for young children and the university students preparing to teach them. Funded by institute ...
