O-R Weekend Recap: 5 things you need to know for Monday
Were you too busy fighting the wet, wintry weather this weekend to read local news? Well, the O-R has you covered with the Weekend Recap! Here are five of the most-read stories from our website from Friday through Sunday.
It was difficult getting into and out of Waynesburg Borough Sunday morning as heavy rain Saturday night caused Ten Mile Creek to flood.
Route 21 was closed in West Waynesburg to the west and to the east at the new bridge at the McDonald’s Restaurant in Morrisville. Traffic was being detoured onto Sugar Run Road and Porter Street, where Crawford Bridge remained opened.
For more details on the flooding and several pictures, click here to read Bob Niedbala’s story.
Four Points Barbeque and Brewing is under construction in downtown Charleroi. The restaurant end, actually, has operated for more than four years – as Fourth Street Barbeque. Dave Barbe Jr., the appropriately named owner of the established establishment and the future brew pub, will run the businesses as one – thus the all-inclusive name change.
Workers are only a week into renovating the four-story brick-and-frame structure next door, slightly uphill from the stylishly retro barbecue bistro, a popular location among locals. Barbe is striving for a mid-2017 opening but realizes the process could be longer.
For more information, click here to read Rick Shrum’s story.
Fort Cherry School District will be on lockdown Monday following the discovery of a threat found on a bathroom wall. An email to district families from Superintendent Dr. Jill Jacoby states the threat, which specified a safety hazard for Monday, was discovered Friday in the junior/senior high school.
State and local police officers will be on campus Monday, and schools will be on lockdown. Medal detectors will be placed at entrances.
Click here to read the full story.
A Jefferson Township man who was shot by state troopers last week after he charged at them with a large knife has died. The Allegheny County medical examiner’s office said Steven Garrett Ward, 20, died about 10 p.m. Thursday in Allegheny General Hospital.
According to police, Jodi Burns-Ward told police Dec. 7 her son was “flipping out” and fighting with family members and Ward later appeared with a shotgun and said he wanted to kill himself but couldn’t find any shells.
In a call to state police that night, Burns-Ward said she thought her stepson would harm himself and that he wanted police to shoot him – a fear relayed to troopers who were responding.
For the full story, click here to read Gideon Bradshaw’s report.
A home in North Franklin Township was heavily damaged by fire late Thursday.
The blaze, which started about 11 p.m., originated in the basement of the house at 1075 Scenic Drive. The homeowner originally thought the fire was caused by a woodburner, but an investigation revealed it was electrical, said North Franklin Fire Chief David Bane.