Last year, when a PennWest California professor pitched the idea of using an underwater drone to study aquatic life in the Monongahela River, his suggestion was met with laughter. No one is laughing now. “People thought I was nuts for wanting to do this in the Mon River,” recalled Dr. ...
As neighboring counties institute hiring freezes and furlough employees in the face of the continuing state budget impasse, officials in Washington, Greene and Fayette counties say they are not planning similar action – at least not yet. “We’ll have to keep waiting,” said Jared ...
When someone asks Jen Pardini about the night her ex-boyfriend brutally attacked her and nearly ended her life, she answers the questions openly and without a hint of hesitation. Nothing, the survivor-turned-advocate said, is off limits: not the night he fractured her skull with a hammer, ...
A portrait of the nation’s first president is now hanging in the president judge’s courtroom inside the Washington County Courthouse. The print of George Washington – mounted atop a horse with a sword extended from his right hand during the Revolutionary War battle in Trenton, N.J. – ...
Christopher Beers and his cohorts from Grandpa’s Joe’s were out and about before the quack of dawn a few weeks back to pull off a caper unlike any other in Canonsburg. Angling to ruffle a few feathers, the candy shop owner and his team, under the cover of darkness, secretly planted 2,000 ...
For the fifth year, UPMC Washington Teen Outreach Common Ground Teen Center will hold its Seesaw Marathon this week. The handmade seesaw will be outside the Teen Center at 92 N. Main St., Washington, from 4 p.m. Friday through 4 p.m. Saturday. Participants will pledge money to seesaw – ...
