Masontown man wins $1M lottery prize
Laurel Highlands School District Superintendent Jesse Wallace received mostly negative marks in his most recent employment evaluation, which the Herald-Standard received late Friday close to a month after submitting a Right-to-Know request for the document. Wallace has been the subject of ...
A Brownsville man is accused of molesting two pre-teen girls on multiple occasions dating back more than eight years ago. George Michael Lacotta, 43, of Brownsville, was charged with multiple felony child sex crimes in connection with the alleged sex assaults and fondling of the girls at two Charleroi residences and a Washington home over several years. Charleroi Regional police said the mother of the two accusers contacted investigators this June and told them of the assaults, prompting the police to interview the two girls, who are now teenagers. One girl told police she was fondled and sexually assaulted on multiple occasions going back to when she was 9 and continuing until she ...
A Waynesburg woman is scheduled to appear for a preliminary hearing next week after being accused of severely assaulting her 18-month-old stepson while the child was visiting in May and failing to seek medical attention. Delaney Girvin, 24, is charged with aggravated assault, endangering welfare of children, recklessly endangering another person and harassment. The child’s grandmother noticed a contusion on his head and a limp when Girvin dropped him off after a four-hour visit on May 19, according to her criminal complaint. Girvin told the grandmother she hadn’t noticed any bruising, but that the child had fallen a couple of times while playing with her 1-year-old son outside, ...
Four local teams remain unbeaten while another will be playing the third of four consecutive rivalry games heading into Week Three of the high school football season. Uniontown, Beth-Center, Waynesburg Central and Mount Pleasant will each look to go 3-0 Friday night. The Red Raiders travel ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Rookie Esmerlyn Valdez hit a solo shot, rookie Konnor Griffin singled in two runs in Pittsburgh’s three-run seventh inning and the Pirates held on to beat the Chicago White Sox 4-2 on Wednesday night for their third straight victory. Rafael Flores Jr. added an RBI single ...
Thomas Jefferson's Ryder Mulvihill and Laurel Highlands' Kayden Smith both shot an even-par 36 to tie for medalist honors but it was the host Jaguars who came away with a 190-196 boys golf victory to hand the Mustangs their first Section 2-3A loss of the season at Butler's Woodside Golf Course ...
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 ...
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — Just off one of New York’s famed Hamptons beaches, shark researcher Greg Metzger reels in one of the day’s prize catches: a young but powerful sand tiger shark. He and another marine researcher quickly lasso the tail of the sharp-toothed female to the side of ...
