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Construction progresses on Layton Bridge replacement project

Construction crews for several weeks have been working around the Layton Bridge and adjacent tunnel, reshaping the terrain in preparation of building a new span across the Youghiogheny River near Perryopolis. Photographs and videos circulating on social media recently show how big machinery ...

Washington County native in running for best horror host

A South Strabane resident is a nominee in the best horror host category in the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards, a contest that honors horror research, creativity and film preservation. Erik Sprowls appears as "Captain Calico Drake" in the monster movie show “Dead and Buried Treasures.” ...

Bridgeville woman charged with theft from school booster group

A Bridgeville woman is facing charges after she was accused of taking money from a fund supporting a middle school choral group. Valerie Kubiak, 42, has been charged with theft by unlawful taking, access device fraud, receiving stolen property and misapplication of trusted property after she ...

Chernobyl, 40 years later

Gas masks littered on a floor. Forests overgrowing empty villages. An abandoned hospital operating room. Those are some of the photographs that Brook Ward, president of UPMC Washington and Greene hospitals and a photographer, captured on a 2018 trip to Chernobyl, the site of the world's ...