Monessen police arrested a man and woman this week in connection with the abuse of a 5-year-old boy, including forcing the child to eat his own feces. Charles W. Smitley V, 29, and Colleen Cassidy, 36, both of Monessen, each face felony charges of endangering the welfare of children, unlawful ...
A Washington teenager charged in a shooting last month was arrested in Pittsburgh Thursday. Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh confirmed that Tristan Lassic was taken into custody following a standoff with a SWAT team serving an arrest warrant around 5:30 p.m. Lassic was in a home ...
A North Strabane Township man will stand trial for his role in a fatal crash last October. Gregory Richard Gold, 57, had a preliminary hearing Tuesday before District Judge James Saieva. According to online court records, Saieva held all charges for common pleas court. The case stems from an ...
The special counsel for Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh has asked for a delay in submitting a response to a Philadelphia group鈥檚 petition asking the state Supreme Court to restrict his ability to pursue the death penalty against defendants facing homicide charges. Lancaster ...
A Fayette County jury convicted Sylvester Conaway, 56, of East Millsboro, of third-degree murder in the stabbing death of Shawn 鈥淪onny鈥� Hriscisce II at a home in Redstone Township on Jan. 31, 2024. The jury returned its verdict late Wednesday afternoon. In a complaint filed against Conaway, ...
Tardy state budgets in Pennsylvania are hardly out of the ordinary 鈥� an impasse between Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and the Republican-controlled General Assembly dragged on for nine months during the first year of Wolf鈥檚 tenure a decade ago. Now that a month has passed since a final ...
