A city man who was sentenced Friday in Washington County Court to 20 to 40 years in prison on charges he illegally possessed guns, plus heroin and fentanyl, that he planned to distribute when investigators searched his home in 2018.Common Pleas Judge Valarie Costanzo imposed the sentence for ...
A surgeon testified that Troy Harris was “borderline comatose” when he arrived at Allegheny General Hospital late one night last spring.“In essence,” Dr. Benjamin Kautza said of Harris’ injuries when he arrived at the Pittsburgh hospital, “his entire mid-face was fractured.”Kautza ...
<strong>An article and headline in the Feb. 1 edition</strong> about appellate rulings affecting two lawsuits involving parish mergers in the Mon Valley incorrectly identified the court that issued the rulings. It was the Commonwealth Court.<strong>The ...
A state appellate panel Thursday partly reversed two rulings by a Washington County judge who dismissed lawsuits brought by parishioners who challenged the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh’s handling of parish mergers in the Mon Valley.In two similar decisions, three judges of the ...
A lawsuit filed by a worker who reports ongoing injuries from a 2018 fire at an East Findlay Township shale gas well pad accuses an oil field company of causing his injuries through its “normal and routine practice” of fueling dangerously hot pumps while leaving them running.The lawsuit was ...
A Washington County judge agreed to exclude evidence that a Fallowfield Township man apparently had at least one gun on his person during a beating from the trial of two Pagans Motorcycle Club members accused of participating in the attack.Common Pleas Judge John DiSalle made the ruling on ...
