O-R Weekly Recap: 5 things you need to know for the weekend
We’ve made it through another very eventful week in Southwestern Pennsylvania. In case you might have missed some of the top news stories in the Observer-Reporter this week, we’ve compiled a list of the five most-read stories to get you all ready and informed for the weekend!
A Monessen man was arraigned Monday morning on charges including two counts of attempted homicide in connection with a shooting of two people Sunday in the 1000 block of Fallowfield Avenue in Charleroi. The two victims were hospitalized and one underwent surgery Tuesday remove a bullet lodged in his head.
Emmanuel Diaz, 22, also was charged by Charleroi Regional police with four counts each of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment and one count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance. He was arraigned before District Judge Jay Weller and placed in Washington County jail on $300,000 bond.
For more details, click here to read Kathie Warco’s story.
The Carlton Kitchen restaurant off the Kammerer exit of Interstate 70 has closed. Judy Lohr, 74, whose husband died eight years ago, closed the restaurant Sept. 15, although the adjacent 25-room motel remains open.
Lohr said she “wants to retire” and is finished with working what she said often amounted to 20-hour days – signing in guests, checking them out, then rising in the wee hours of the morning to begin breakfast preparations, which in addition to being convenient for guests was popular among locals.
For the full story, click here to check out Michael Bradwell’s report.
A Waynesburg woman who failed to comply with the conditions of her sentence for selling and possessing cocaine was resentenced Wednesday by Greene County Judge Lou Dayich to 15 to 36 months in prison.
Shawna Jean Jeffries, 27, of 401 Sugar Run Road, was sentenced in December to three years in the county intermediate punishment program, for which she was required to spend the first 30 days under house arrest.
For the full details on the arrest, click here to read the original report.
Provisions in the natural gas and oil drilling law known as Act 13 were ruled unconstitutional Wednesday by Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
The case, Robinson Township et al v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, was challenged primarily in four areas – a medical gag against physicians; a provision that only public water customers would be notified of spills or leaks at gas drilling sites, not those who use private water sources; Public Utility Commission’s ability to withhold impact fee money if local ordinances didn’t comply with state law; and eminent domain privileges for natural gas companies using private land for storage of natural gas.
All were struck down as violating either state or U.S. constitutions.
Click here to read David Singer’s coverage of this story.
A paramedic found a full-term baby in a trash can Saturday while he was treating a woman who claimed to have suffered a miscarriage in a North Belle Vernon convenience store restroom, investigators said.
The woman and newborn were taken to Jefferson Hospital in Jefferson Hills following the discovery at about 1:15 p.m. at a 7-Eleven at 3 Fayette Ave., just off of Interstate 70 in Westmoreland County, court records show.
Westmoreland County detectives entered the case and seized the incident’s patient care reports from Mon Valley Emergency Services in Monessen under a search warrant signed Tuesday by District Judge Joseph Dalfonso. No charges have been filed against the woman.
For more information, click here to read Scott Beveridge’s story.