Heavy rains throughout Thursday night into Friday morning led to a landslide above Villas on the Green in South Strabane Township, damaging a home on Golf Course Drive in the housing development. Jim Kashery, president of the Villas’ homeowners association, said they had been preparing for ...
A Cecil Township man convicted in September of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy over two years could spend the rest of his life in prison. Ryan Lewis Wolstoncroft, 40, appeared Thursday at the Washington County Courthouse and was sentenced by President Judge Valarie Costanzo to serve 36 ...
State police are handling an investigation into Donora's police department after a man died last week following an encounter with an officer. According to a report from the office of the Allegheny County Medical Examiner, 57-year-old John F. Miller died at 10:55 p.m. March 22 at UPMC ...
The South Strabane Township Board of Supervisors enacted an ordinance this week that will dissolve the parks and recreation commission. The supervisors voted 3-2 to do away with the commission at their meeting Tuesday. Supervisors Bob Weber and Russ Grego voted against it. Earlier this year ...
The sound and the fury that roars out of Washington, D.C., on a daily basis may attract the lion’s share of attention, but local government and its more mundane duties have a more direct impact on people’s daily lives. That was the verdict from Washington County municipal officials who ...
Peters Township could be carved out of the Washington County Elections Board’s overall plan to consolidate precincts and merge polling places in more than a dozen municipalities ahead of the May 19 primary election. During a nearly three-hour hearing before Judge Michael Lucas at the ...
