Dunbar Elementary School breaks ground on renovations
The Ohio woman accused of driving the wrong way on the Mon-Fayette Expressway and crashing into another car head-on earlier this year will stand trial in connection with the collision that killed the other motorist. Maciola B. Newman appeared Thursday before District Judge Eric Porter in Washington County Central Court at the courthouse and agreed to waive her case to court without testimony in connection with the wrong-way crash on the toll road that killed Jacob M. Huber. Newman, 72, of Pickerington, is facing one felony charge of homicide by vehicle, along with misdemeanor counts of involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment and several summary citations. She appeared in ...
Days after a flower display at the George C. Marshall Memorial Plaza was torn apart, a Fayette County man is accused of a separate act of vandalism at the Uniontown site Tuesday afternoon. Uniontown police arrested Patrick Moore, 33, shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday at the nearby Sunoco station ...
A Fayette County man was killed Tuesday night in Connellsville Township when his vehicle caught on fire after a crash. Police responded to a report of a single-vehicle crash shortly after 10 p.m. on Springfike Pike east of Citro Lane. Jess Schroyer, 45, of Mill Run, was traveling northbound when he failed to negotiate a left-hand curve and continued off the right side of the roadway, according to a release from Pennsylvania State Police. Schroyer’s Chevrolet Cruze struck a fallen tree and sheared a utility pole before the vehicle came to rest and caught fire, the release said. The car was fully engulfed when firefighters arrived. First responders found Schroyer inside the ...
The Greater Washington County Food Bank is selling its property in Centerville and preparing to move its main distribution center to the former Crown Center mall location in North Franklin. Last week, the food bank listed for sale its 24,500-square-foot building at 903-909 National Pike W. ...
There are three area high school football teams with one or fewer losses heading into Week Nine and two of those will meet Friday night in an important Class 3A Interstate Conference battle. Belle Vernon (4-0, 7-1), which has won seven in a row, travels to Waynesburg Central (4-1, 7-1), ...
NAME: Chace Petrosky SCHOOL: Belle Vernon CLASS: Senior SPORT: Football PETROSKY'S WEEK: On Friday night Petrosky showed the many ways he can impact a football game. He returned a punt for a touchdown, had two rushing touchdowns and caught a pair of touchdown passes. It added up to five ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — In a coordinated statement along with the University of Cincinnati, the family of Bob Huggins announced Wednesday that the former West Virginia men’s basketball coach is living with a “progressive cognitive condition that is affecting his memory and aspects of daily ...
People talking without speaking. People hearing without listening. And no one dared … Disturb the sound of silence. – “The Sound of Silence,” Paul Simon Sometimes an idea for an essay comes from unusual places and at unexpected times. Such was the case this week. After hearing a ...
(To request to have an item added to the Outdoors Calendar or to send a digital image of your harvested bear, deer or turkey photo for possible publication please email hssports@heraldstandard.com.) HUNTER-TRAPPER INDEPENDENT STUDY COURSE NOTE: Must be 11 years old to register. Students must ...
