Two Southwestern Pa. senators facing GOP primary challengers
The Washington County Coroner's Office is seeking information for Edith F. Recchion, who was born May 3, 1951, and died May 1 in Washington Hospital. She most recently lived at Premier Washington Health Center in Washington. If you have information, call the coroner's office at 724-228-6785.
The October death of a Uniontown woman who was found dead at home in what the Fayette County coroner’s office called unsanitary conditions has been deemed a homicide by the coroner. Elizabeth Fike, 44, had been bed-ridden for three months at her home on North Gallatin Avenue in Uniontown before dying from complications of neglect, Fayette County Coroner Dr. Bob Baker wrote in a news release Thursday. Baker said Fike’s caretaker had “basically let her rot in a bed for three months.” “He was her primary caregiver, and a paid caregiver, hired caregiver, and her care was dependent on him,” he said in an interview Thursday. “He just let her lay there.” Baker performed an ...
This year’s Running of the Wools will be a celebration of life for one of the original organizers who shepherded his flock through the streets of Washington, along with the farm that lost all of its sheep in a terrible barn fire, but is now making a triumphant return to the races. The ...
A Texas man has been identified as the driver killed Thursday afternoon when he crashed head-on into a tractor-trailer on Interstate 70 near the Taylorstown exit. Joshua Hopkins, 23, of Austin, was driving east on I-70 near the 10-mile marker in Buffalo Township about 1:30 p.m. when his car ...
A newly tie-dyed Volkwagen Beetle now has a permanent parking place. The borough’s zoning board voted 4-0 Monday night to grant an exemption to allow Farley’s Hotel Cafe owner Farley Toothman to mount the painted shell of a Beetle on the garage wall opposite his cafe on Morgan Street. ...
PHOENIX – Pittsburgh Pirates phenom Konnor Griffin stepped to the plate on Tuesday night against the Arizona Diamondbacks and ripped a 110.1 mph laser high off the center-field wall at Chase Field, cruising into second base for a double. D-backs manager Torey Lovullo's jaw dropped almost to ...
There is much to be said for peaking in the postseason, and the Washington & Jefferson College baseball team is speaking loud and clear each time it takes the field in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference tournament that is being held at Ross Memorial Park. The second-seeded Presidents ...
In a strange, but interesting regular season finale, Avella played Aquinas Academy, the same team it’ll face next week in the first round of the WPIAL Class A baseball playoffs. The Eagles hope they’ll get the same result as they did Friday when the two teams meet again. Noah Kimberland ...
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 ...
Jennifer Hinebaugh would quickly rise through the ranks of whatever company she worked at. But just as unfailingly, the company either closed, moved, or was sold, leaving her in the lurch. “After about the third time of that happening, I decided I just wanted to work for myself, because ...
