Legislation would allow nonprofits to accept electronic payments for raffle tickets
Dine and donate A Mon Valley Paws dine and donate event will take place throughout the entire month of October (Thursday-Sunday) at Felicia’s Restaurant, 450 Schoonmaker Ave., Monessen. The spaghetti dinner includes salad, bread, meatballs and coffee or a soft drink. Call 724-314-6571 to purchase tickets. Tickets are also available at the MVP Office located in the Pet Supplies Plus-Belle Vernon store. For additional information, please visit our website, monvalleypaws.com. Herbs of the Bible From cilantro to saffron, discover how herbs and spices shaped cuisine, remedies and rituals from ancient times to today. The "Herbs and Spices of the Bible" presentation will explore how ...
A documentary about the ongoing war in Ukraine, “Stand Tall for the Rule of Law,” will be shown Oct. 13, at 6 p.m., at Washington & Jefferson College’s Yost Conference Room in the Burnett Center. The program is hosted by the college’s pre-law and conflict and resolution studies programs, the Washington County Bar Association, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. In early December 2023, a documentary film crew and a delegation from the American Society of International Law crossed the Polish border in Lviv, Ukraine, to meet with members of the Ukrainian Association of International Law for a three-day “Stand Tall for the Rule of Law” summit. It included 75 ...
A round of “a-paws” goes to Jason Dunkle of Washington and his 11-year-old Italian Greyhound, Greyson, for the 2027 Old West calendar featuring the local celebrity pooch as Mad Dog Greyson, the treat-smuggling bandit. Photographed at Wild Gals Old Time Photo in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., the ...
A Monessen woman pleaded guilty in federal court last week in Pittsburgh to bank fraud for a nearly $1.9 million check-cashing scheme over more than a decade in North Strabane Township. Emily Roberts, 55, pleaded guilty to the scheme while providing cleaning services at a home, where she repeatedly stole checks from the victim’s checkbook, wrote the checks out to cash and forged a signature on the checks before depositing the money into her own personal bank account. Investigators said Roberts obtained $1.89 million through the deposit of 636 checks from January 2014 to March 2026. U.S. District Judge W. Scott Hardy scheduled sentencing for Feb. 10. The FBI and North Strabane ...
A Donegal Township man is accused of raping a woman inside her Chartiers Township home after helping her when she called him with car trouble last week. Chartiers Township police said the woman called 28-year-old Logan Matthew McDonough to help with her car and then invited him into her home for coffee shortly before 9 a.m. Tuesday. While in the kitchen, McDonough allegedly forced himself on the woman despite her telling him she did consent to the sexual encounter, police said. The situation caused her to bleed and McDonough eventually stopped before leaving the house, according to court documents. The woman went to the Chartiers Township Police Department and reported the alleged ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Chase Briscoe held off a last-lap charge from points leader Kyle Larson to win the NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Briscoe swept all three stages on the 1.5-mile track to earn maximum playoff points. Larson lost control on the final stretch and ...
AMES, Iowa (AP) – Aiden Flora accounted for five touchdowns, including the go-ahead score with 1:57 left, and Iowa State held off West Virginia 45-42 Saturday in a wild game in which the teams combined for over 1,000 yards of offense. Iowa State (3-2, 1-1 Big 12) came from behind twice in ...
Each Monday we’ll look back at the highlights of the week that was in local high school football. This week saw history for Canon-McMillan, Fort Cherry dominate its rival, a special night for an Avella duo, South Fayette claim the “Battle of the Bridge” and Beth-Center become the last of ...
As recently as early summer, artificial intelligence, or AI, was far from the center of public concern or worry. Now, it's at center stage, though to many it remains a mystery. During a recent class reunion, a friend confided that AI was a head-scratcher. "I don't know anything about it," he ...
