Peters Township farmer loses peach crop to late freeze
“Alicia’s Law,” which is named for a woman who was abducted when she was a teenager from her Crafton Heights home by an online predator, was approved Wednesday by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. If the measure is approved by the state Senate and signed by Gov. Josh Shapiro, it would establish a state grant program to help law enforcement track down internet predators who target children. Twelve other states have already put similar laws on their books. Alicia Kozakiewicz, who survived her abduction on New Year’s Day 2002 and is now 38 years old, has been an advocate for strengthening laws that go after child predators who lurk online. The House bill was first ...
A man is accused of getting into a domestic dispute with his estranged wife Tuesday morning and later in the day going to an East Washington apartment and assaulting her and another person before briefly holding them at knifepoint. Borough police were called to the domestic dispute about 8 a.m. after Dustin James Cochrane allegedly violated a protection from abuse order filed against him by his wife, according to court documents. Cochrane was gone when police arrived, but he later went to a North Avenue apartment in the borough about 12:40 p.m. with a knife and kicked down the door to get in, police said. He then allegedly pushed his wife down the stairs and beat her, breaking ...
The Cecil Board of Supervisors tabled a motion Monday night to authorize township engineer Daniel Deiseroth to conduct a traffic study on the Pennsylvania Route 50 corridor that bisects the rural municipality, opting instead to wait and consider a revised proposal that will include the entire township. Deiseroth explained that the Route 50 study could have been used to inform the placement transportation impact overlay district on the area, which would have imposed a one-time fee on all future developments along the corridor. The revenue generated by the fee would be earmarked for road maintenance and related infrastructure enhancements that would offset the increased wear and tear ...
The Keystone Exams, which are part of a Pennsylvania high school student’s graduation requirements, could soon be under the microscope following a Monday vote in the state’s House of Representatives asking that a study be done to determine if alternatives could be used instead. The vote was 191-10, indicating broad bipartisan support for the measure in the narrowly divided House. It would require the commonwealth’s education department to look at whether other standardized tests that high school students take, such as the SAT, ACT or Smarter Balanced assessments, could be used in its place. The study would explore whether those tests match statewide academic standards and fulfill ...
The Washington County commissioners are considering paying more than $300,000 to a Michigan-based company to build a miniature golf course at Mingo Creek County Park, although the project could be close to a half-million dollars if the optional “water features” package is ...
PHOENIX (AP) — Paul Skenes threw eight brilliant innings in one of the best outings of the young star's career, Brandon Lowe hit a solo homer and the Pittsburgh Pirates edged the Arizona Diamondbacks 1-0 on Wednesday night. Skenes — the defending National League Cy Young award winner — ...
Name: Ryan Kent Grade: Senior School: Belle Vernon Sport: Track and field Kent’s week: In the last two weeks, Kent has proven himself as one of the best throwers in the state. He’s collected multiple gold medals at three different invitationals. Coming off sweeping the javelin, discus ...
Tom Vaeth has been around independent baseball long enough – six years as manager of the Wild Things and 17 years before that as a hitting coach in Winnipeg – to know not to make any bold predictions or hasty analysis of his team after seeing it practice for less than two weeks and play a ...
Periodically, a news story comes across my iPad that I just can’t stop thinking about. This story started like this: “On February 21 police officers were dispatched to a bar.” That opening line drew me in almost as fast as “A Florida man ..." “The caller was the bartender,” and ...
A new approach to fighting brain tumors is showing promising results by targeting cancer cells with a tiny radiation-emitting implant. The technique was first used in Southwestern Pennsylvania three years ago by neurosurgeons at Allegheny Health Network (AHN). Results of a 12-month followup ...
