‘How he lived each day’
Carmichaels Area school officials are pushing back on a misleading campaign attack mailer sent out by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania incorrectly claiming the district imposed a new tax in 2024 and then “raised our taxes through the roof” the following year. A mailer attacking ...
The residency of Republican state Senate candidate Al Buchtan is being challenged in an effort to remove him from the May 19 primary ballot, which he says is a “bogus” ploy as he tries to unseat state Sen. Camera Bartolotta. Three registered Republicans living in the 46th state Senate ...
An attorney who used to work in Washington County was indicted by a grand jury this week on allegations that he embezzled more than $1.3 million from a Pittsburgh nonprofit. Christopher Furman, 53, of Pittsburgh, faces charges of wire fraud and money laundering. According to a press release from the Department of Justice, Furman was named the president of the Society for the Preservation of the Duquesne Heights Incline, which has operated the Duquesne Heights Incline since 1964. The indictment accuses Furman of funneling $1,379,300 from the group’s bank accounts into his own between October 2024 and September 2025. Furman currently works for the Pittsburgh law firm Gabriel Fera. ...
Whenever the WPIAL releases its new alignments for each sport every two years there are always a few schools that get caught on the wrong side of the enrollment numbers. For the 2026 football season that team is Waynesburg Central. The Raiders played in the Class 2A Century Conference in ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Alex Bregman, welcome to the NL Central. Welcome back, Eugenio Suárez. Bregman is hoping to lead the Chicago Cubs to their first Central title since 2020 after signing a $175 million, five-year contract with the North Siders in free agency. But the competition is tough in a ...
Friday brought us what we call “the first day of spring.” But announcing spring is an arbitrary declaration, as we saw by last week’s weather. The latest date I’ve seen snow flurries in our local mountains is June 2, 1977. Spring, like all the seasons, can be hard to pin down. So, what ...
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 ...
Elmer Brown was following two friends on his four-wheeler last November, hunting caribou across a frozen channel in northern Alaska when the ice gave way. All three plunged into the frigid water. One friend drowned, and Brown, 45, later died of hypothermia, leaving behind five children. “He ...
