Driver charged in March crash that killed pedestrian on I-70
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia head coach Rich Rodriguez has been coaching in college football for over 40 years. He’s been to a lot of places, including both Death Valleys, the Shoe and the Big House. In all his years, Rodriguez has never been to Ames, Iowa, home of Iowa State (2-2). This ...
Brandon Meier threw four touchdown passes as California (3-0, 4-2) rolled to a 62-0 win over Mapletown (0-3, 0-6) in Tri-County South play. Meier hit Weston Monticelli on two touchdowns and Alan Dennis and Elijah Carpenter had once each. Meier finished 8 of 10 passing for 122 yards. Dennis ...
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 ...
