Pennsylvania schools are preparing for a major change in how children are taught to read. For the 2027-28 school year, all schools in the state will be required to use evidence-based reading curriculum, which uses methods such as phonics, a method that teaches students to decode words by ...
The communities of McDonald and Mt. Pleasant Township will take the next step in merging their police departments next week, though the unified agency is likely still months away from operating. The Northern Washington County Police Department Commission will hold its first meeting at 6 p.m. ...
Drew Volchko has an exercise for new cadets at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Police Academy. He鈥檒l give them a few background facts about a suspect 鈥� troubled childhood, runaway who settled in Oakland, convict who spent 10 years in Folsom State Prison for attempted murder. Then ...
Workers from Allison Park Contractors put the finishing touches on the cement walkway for the new pedestrian bridge that is being built next to the site where the historic cast-iron bridge that crosses Dunlap Creek in Brownsville is being rehabilitated. Market Street has been closed since ...
A Uniontown man was sentenced to six to 12 months in prison last week for tampering with physical evidence in connection with the disposal of a body of a Fayette county woman who died of an overdose in 2022. Joseph Lockett, 40, was released after the sentencing, having spent 1,136 days in ...
A Westmoreland County man accused of firing his gun at another person outside a house party in Charleroi more than two years ago pleaded guilty to lesser charges and was sentenced to jail. Samuel Valle, 21, of Monessen, appeared Tuesday morning at the Washington County Courthouse and pleaded ...
