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Monongahela police charged a former Greene Washington Regional Police officer Wednesday for evading police nearly a month ago. Nathanael Charles Ferree, 43, of McKeesport, faces a felony charge of fleeing or attempting to elude an officer, and summary traffic violations of failure to yield to an emergency vehicle, reckless driving and driving at a safe speed. According to the criminal complaint, the charges stem from an incident that occurred at 11:42 a.m. March 22 when police saw Ferree driving north on State Route 837 in New Eagle at a high rate of speed. Charging documents state that Ferree was driving in excess of 84 mph in zones where the speed limit is 35 mph and 45 mph. ...
Pennsylvania American Water is completing upgrades costing more than $11 million at its E.H. Aldrich Water Treatment Plant in the Washington County community of Elrama. The company says the upgrades will strengthen “drinking water reliability, efficiency, and safety,” and will affect about 527,000 customers in Washington and Allegheny counties, according to a news release. About $8 million is being allocated for upgrades of the treatment plant’s raw water intake and pump station. These upgrades became necessary, according to Pennsylvania American Water, as a result of water levels in the Monongahela River dropping by three to five feet when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...
Local residents and football fans are invited to attend a pre-draft party at the Farmers Market Pavilion in downtown Washington on Wednesday afternoon to celebrate local prospect Chase Mitchell. The free event will run from 4 to 8 p.m. rain or shine, and will feature live music from DJ Smoke, ...
The Washington County commissioners are poised to move their federal- and state-allocated funding back to the locally-based food bank more than five years after county officials began directing that money to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank to help fight food insecurity here. The ...
It doesn’t get much better for sports fans than this week will be in Western Pennsylvania. The NFL Draft finally comes to Pittsburgh, which is being billed as the largest event ever held in the city. The Penguins are back in the postseason, and get their arch-rival Philadelphia Flyers in the ...
PITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby would not take the bait, even though the smile on his face and the gleam in his eye hinted that maybe the Pittsburgh Penguins captain kind of wanted to. Told that Philadelphia Flyers coach Rick Tocchet — an assistant with the Penguins when Pittsburgh won ...
ROGERSVILLE – Carmichaels pitcher Bailey Barnyak walked off the field with a no-hitter and didn’t even know it. She was just happy that her team had recorded the final out. “I guess I was just trying to be in the moment and wasn’t thinking about it,” Barnyak said. Barnyak’s ...
Periodically, a news story comes across my iPad that I just can’t stop thinking about. This story started like this: “On February 21 police officers were dispatched to a bar.” That opening line drew me in almost as fast as “A Florida man ..." “The caller was the bartender,” and ...
Eighth-grade students from McGuffey School District were selected by the teachers and staff to receive the American Legion School Medal Award. Honorees were Claire Dami, Tripp Sovich, Skylar O’Brien, Holden Grice, Chays McKee, and Levi Hornbeck. The award is presented to students who ...
