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

By By Mike Jones

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 ...

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 ...

Fatal rockslide traps two near Connellsville

One person is dead and another injured after a rockslide trapped both on a section of the Great Allegheny Passage near Connellsville. According to Fayette County Coroner Bob Baker, his office was called to the scene after the rockslide killed one cyclist and sent the other to the hospital. The person who died is a 76-year old woman from Florida, according to a statement from the coroner’s office. No information was immediately available on the identity of the other cyclist. A senior leader from the Morrell Volunteer Fire Company in Dunbar Township said that the slide left a boulder that weighed about 1,000 pounds on top of the two bikers around noon on Saturday. Morrell VFD was ...

Benson 'all in' as WVU's 27th president

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The swearing-in was complete. Prewritten remarks delivered by a procession of speakers had been delivered and applauded. Everything was moving with a practiced precision. And then, for a brief moment, it wasn’t. There was nobody at the podium. The emcee wasn’t ...

'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 ...

Big first half propels Bentworth past Sto-Rox

McKEES ROCKS – Noah Leichty had a pair of rushing touchdowns and Bentworth held off a second-half rally to secure a 30-22 win at Sto-Rox in Black Hills Conference play on Friday. Bentworth (2-2, 4-4) had a 30-8 lead at halftime, but Sto-Rox (0-4, 3-5) scored two touchdowns in the third ...

Many happy returns for Chartiers-Houston

HOUSTON – Brody McCrerey scored three touchdowns, two on punt returns in the first quarter, and Chartiers-Houston routed Carlynton 53-12 in a Class 2A Century Conference game Friday night. McCrerey returned punts 43 and 50 yards for scores in the opening quarter that ended with ...

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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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