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Teen Outreach kicks off new HOPE Consortium

The SW PA Teen Outreach announces its kickoff meeting for its newly formed HOPE Consortium. The consortium will gather community youth-serving agencies together at 4 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Common Ground Teen Center (92 N. Main Street, Washington). Teen Outreach is a Certified Hope Informed Organization through HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences) https://positiveexperience.org/. Two Teen Outreach professional staff, Amy Podgurski-Gough and Heather Crowe, are certified HOPE Facilitators and Heather Crowe is in training to be a HOPE Champion. The HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences) framework is a strengths-based, research informed approach that focuses on how ...

Donora man accused of exposing self in ice cream shop’s bathroom

A Donora man is accused of touching himself inappropriately inside a Westmoreland County ice cream shop’s bathroom last month, as police said he was completely nude when a teenage girl employee went into the men’s room to clean it during closing time. State police said 22-year-old Calvin Horney went to the Dairy Queen in North Belle Vernon Borough shortly before the 9 p.m. closing time on Sept. 7 and entered the public restroom, where he allegedly performed a lewd act on himself. Police said the 17-year-old female employee was cleaning the restaurant’s two bathrooms at the end of the night when she opened the men’s room door and saw Horney fully exposed, sitting on the toilet ...

North Franklin won’t contract with Washington for police services

North Franklin will not be contracting with the Washington Police Department to have its officers patrol in the township despite a "cordial" meeting on the issue with the city’s police chief earlier this week. Board of Supervisors Chairman Bob Sabot said some residents have asked township ...

'Amity and Prosperity' author to speak at Pitt Greensburg campus

Eliza Griswold, who chronicled the impact of fracking on Washington County residents in her 2018 book “Amity and Prosperity,” will be at the Greensburg campus of the University of Pittsburgh on Thursday, Oct. 22. Griswold won a Pulitzer Prize for her work, and it touches on such issues as ...

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Avalanche rally past Penguins

DENVER (AP) — Nathan MacKinnon had three assists and a power-play goal, Artturi Lehkonen scored twice and the Colorado Avalanche rallied to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 on Friday night. T.J. Hughes scored his first NHL goal, while Mackenzie Blackwood settled in after a shaky start to ...

Waynesburg gets 400th victory

WAYNESBURG - Teagen Crouse ran for three touchdowns and passed for another as Waynesburg defeated Derry 44-15 in a Class 3A Interstate Conference game Friday night. The win was the 400th in Waynesburg football history. It also moves Waynesburg to 4-1 in the conference and 7-1 overall and sets ...

California rolls to 71-0 victory

CALIFORNIA - Chase Stramovsky and Brayden Crockett combined for five touchdowns as California rolled over Jefferson-Morgan 71-0 in the Class A Tri-County South Conference on Friday night. Crocket started the scoring with a 12-yard interception return and a 10-yard run, both in the first ...

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OP-ED: The time to get AI right is now

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 ...

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