Pennsylvania moves to evidence-based reading curriculum
A UPMC Greene employee who used his cellphone to secretly film inside a women’s restroom at the hospital was sentenced to two years probation after pleading guilty Wednesday. Under the plea agreement, Daniel Rose, 46, of Vestaburg, must also perform 50 hours of community service, continue mental health treatment, and pay a $1,000 fine. He is also barred from contact with the victim. “I somewhat reluctantly accept the plea agreement … this is highly concerning behavior,” said Greene County Court of Common Pleas Judge Jeffry Grimes. The 80-minute video, filmed in May, began with Rose placing the phone in the vent and later showed a co-worker using the bathroom. After an ...
The communities of McDonald and Mt. Pleasant Township will take the next step in merging their police departments next week, though the unified agency is likely still months away from operating. The Northern Washington County Police Department Commission will hold its first meeting at 6 p.m. Jan. 20 at 31 McCarrell Road, Mt. Pleasant Township. The commission comprises Mt. Pleasant Township Supervisors Shane Maga and William Nimal, McDonald Mayor David Cooper and McDonald council member Mike Bish. Both municipalities approved a charter to form the regional police department in October. Elected officials in Midway and Robinson Township rejected the charter. According to Maga, the ...
Pennsylvania schools are preparing for a major change in how children are taught to read. For the 2027-28 school year, all schools in the state will be required to use evidence-based reading curriculum, which uses methods such as phonics, a method that teaches students to decode words by ...
Bentleyville is reopening its 2026 budget, which includes a one-mill tax increase. If approved, it would be the borough’s first tax increase since 2018. Council voted unanimously at a special meeting Monday to advertise the reopened spending plan for 2026. “After we went through ...
Drew Volchko has an exercise for new cadets at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Police Academy. He’ll give them a few background facts about a suspect – troubled childhood, runaway who settled in Oakland, convict who spent 10 years in Folsom State Prison for attempted murder. Then ...
Name: Jason Zellie School: Beth-Center Class: Senior Sport: Basketball Zellie’s week: Zellie scored a combined 61 points in Beth-Center’s last three games, including the 1,000th of his career in a 52-45 loss to first-place Chartiers-Houston last Tuesday. The 6-foot-1 senior tallied ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Art Rooney II sensed Mike Tomlin might be ready for a change. Nineteen years doing any job is a long time, let alone in the white-hot spotlight that comes with coaching the Pittsburgh Steelers. So when Tomlin walked into Rooney's office on Tuesday and told his longtime boss ...
ATLANTA (AP) — Brandin Cummings scored 23 points and Barry Dunning Jr. added 17 for Pittsburgh in an 89-66 win over Georgia Tech on Wednesday night, snapping a three-game losing streak. Nojus Indrusaitis put up 16 points off the bench for the Panthers (8-9, 1-3 Atlantic Coast Conference), ...
Cheers: We’re in the home stretch of the Herald-Standard’s annual Give-A-Christmas campaign to support the Salvation Army service centers in Fayette County. It’s not too late to contribute to help us meet our $10,000 goal. All donations remain in the local area to help fund the ...
The Game Commission is asking for the public’s help finding turkey flocks for ongoing research. Pennsylvanians are encouraged to report the location of any turkey flocks they see across the state. Information is being collected online at https://pgcforms.pa.gov/TurkeySightingSurvey now ...
