A fire displaced a Houston family Monday morning. Firefighters were called to 226 E. Grant St. at 9:48 a.m., according to a Washington County 911 supervisor. Crews arrived on scene to find the house in flames. Richard Burgess, one of the homeowners, was at work when he received a call from ...
A Donora man died early Tuesday morning after he was struck by a train. According to Washington County Coroner Timothy Warco, Cody David Kimmel, 30, was hit near 65 E. First St. in Donora at about 11:40 p.m. Monday. Kimmel was transported to Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital, where he was ...
EIGHTY FOUR – State police charged two men Monday in connection with a shooting that killed an 18-year-old woman and injured a juvenile girl earlier this month. Charged in the case are Windale Barfield Jr., 19, and Karon Whitlock, 20, both of Washington. According to the criminal ...
In her 1970 classic “Big Yellow Taxi,” Joni Mitchell laments the use of insecticides and asks of farmers, “Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.” In 2019, researchers affiliated with Cornell University issued a study finding that the population of ...
What goes around, truly does come around. Ross Miller has spent more than 50 years serving the Wharton Township community as a volunteer firefighter, so when a tree fell on him as he was fighting a March 29 brush fire, the community stepped in to repay him. Miller sustained multiple ...
Skeletal remains discovered in North Union Township this week are now under the jurisdiction of the Fayette County coroner, with an autopsy scheduled for Friday. Coroner Bob Baker said a team of forensic anthropologists was able to find a fairly complete skeleton that also had some tissue ...
