A 100-foot-wide navigation channel was opened Thursday at Monongahela River Locks and Dam 3 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District. Commercial vessels will now be able to pass through the center of the dam and the first such vessel did so Thursday morning. The channel has a ...
Washington County Controller April Sloane pleaded guilty to felony animal cruelty in the starvation death of her pet dog last year and must resign from office at the end of the month, although she will avoid any jail time as part of the plea deal. Sloane appeared Thursday morning before Judge ...
The Burgettstown man accused of striking police officers with a metal pipe and throwing objects at them during the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol is expected to plead guilty to federal charges this afternoon. Joshua Lee Atwood, 32, is scheduled for a change of plea hearing at 2:30 p.m. ...
Washington County paid more than $75,000 in legal expenses to its special counsel hired to defend the county鈥檚 Board of Elections in the recent lawsuit filed by seven voters concerned about the lack of ballot curing options available for mail-in voting. David Berardinelli of the ...
A worker was seriously injured Tuesday morning after falling from the second floor of a house under construction in South Strabane Township. The worker, who was not identified, was installing an HVAC system when he fell from an elevated area of the house shortly before 11 a.m., South Strabane ...
Arson is suspected in an early morning fire Tuesday that destroyed a vacant house in Charleroi. Firefighters from multiple departments were dispatched to 1025 Oakland Ave. in the borough shortly after 3 a.m. and found the two-story structure engulfed in flames with fire shooting from the ...
