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Charges held against South Park man

A district judge on Wednesday allowed charges to proceed against a South Park Township man who allegedly tried to elude and then fought a Monongahela police officer before the officer shot him last month.District Judge Michael Thatcher ordered counts of aggravated assault, resisting arrest and ...

Monongahela contractor wins $89 million judgment from Iraqi government

A federal judge ordered an $89 million judgment against the Iraqi government to a Monongahela contractor it hired to rebuild matériel U.S. forces destroyed while invading the country.In an opinion on Tuesday, Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., found the ...

U.S. Steel facing new lawsuit over Mon Valley facilities

Environmentalists filed a lawsuit against U.S. Steel on Monday, accusing it of breaking federal law by failing to disclose months of hazardous emissions following a Christmas Eve fire and then another in mid-June that destroyed equipment at its Clairton Coke Works.Attorneys from the ...

Uniontown man’s appeal in child’s death denied by Fayette County judge

A Fayette County judge denied the appeal of a Uniontown man convicted of third-degree murder in the death of his 23-month-old daughter.In May, Michael Lynn Wright, 35, was sentenced to serve 15 to 40 years in prison in Lydia Wright’s death.Prosecutors said Wright and his girlfriend, Andrea ...

Judge sentences woman for bank robbery

A Donora resident who pleaded guilty to robbing a Citizens National Bank inside a Carroll Township supermarket and fleeing from police last year was sentenced this week in Washington County Court.Angela Marie McKinley, 41, of McKean Avenue, appeared Tuesday before Judge Gary Gilman, who ordered ...