South Strabane Township officials and their city counterparts are completing work on a final agreement that would make a two-decade-old proposal to build an alternative entrance into Washington Park for emergency purposes a reality.Township supervisors Tuesday tabled a vote on whether to ...
Acres of trees were cut down in Washington Park over the weekend as a fill project that was planned and approved earlier in the year is finally underway.The project was an agreement between the city and Lane Construction Corp., a Pittsburgh company contracted by the state Department of ...
A Washington man was arrested by a trooper with the state police Bureau of Criminal Investigations after he allegedly threatened and assaulted a 30-year-old Washington man Tuesday night in Washington’s West End.Tierone Anthony Barnes, 35, of 525 W. Chestnut St., is accused of calling his ...
Washington police are telling residents to be aware of their surroundings and report suspicious activity after four armed robberies were reported in the Seventh Ward area since Aug. 9.Three of the robberies occurred late at night or early in the morning. A fourth robbery happened about 5 p.m. ...
A Washington woman told city police early Friday two men tried to rob her at gunpoint as she walked along an alley off Third Street.The 20-year-old woman told police she was walking in the alley behind a professional building in the 400 block of Jefferson Avenue, holding her 18-month-old son on ...
Lorraine Walls-Perry still remembers Eva Brooks, the “very sweet,” “little tiny lady” who was Sunday school teacher while she and several other generations of children attended St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church.“She just loved children,” she said.Walls-Perry, 70, who grew ...
