Charleroi Area School District briefly locked down its campus Tuesday after a woman who lived nearby allegedly struck her boyfriend in the mouth with pliers and fled.The decision to lock down the schools was made after state police were summoned to 7 Raymond St., Fallowfield Township, about 10 ...
The cost of caring for nearly 200 cats that were seized in Donora and Monessen from their owner has grown to hundreds of thousands of dollars while officials await the surrender of the animals.A Washington Area Humane Society police officer said Wednesday he might file additional charges in the ...
Brownsville Area High School senior Sainiana Waqanivalu knew she had to find a better way to study when her AP Calculus class of 20 crowded into McDonald鈥檚 for a study session.Nowhere else in Brownsville did the students have public access to high-speed internet. Many students in the school ...
The Superior Court reversed an Ohio man鈥檚 conviction for the 2003 homicide of a state police informant in Washington County.The appellate court granted Michael J. Duncan, 43, his bid for post-conviction relief on Monday, granting him a new trial on charges he shot John L. Newman with an ...
MONESSEN 鈥� A city police officer is facing some backlash after making a Facebook post about late basketball legend Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash Sunday.Screen shots shared on social media show the officer posted on her personal Facebook page asking, 鈥淲ho was Kobe Bryant?鈥� ...
For decades, Washington County鈥檚 voting machines, whether punch cards or touchscreen devices, have been collapsible and fairly portable.But with the addition of a paper record with which the electronic tabulation of votes can be compared, scanners and the bins in which paper will be deposited ...
