The Washington County commissioners agreed to hire special counsel to represent District Attorney Jason Walsh in the petition filed against him with the state Supreme Court, and will pay the Philadelphia-based attorney nearly $500 per hour, although most of it will be covered by the county鈥檚 ...
The sun was a few hours from setting in Pennsylvania and had already been up for a couple of hours in Japan when the Enola Gay moved rapidly in the sky over Hiroshima and dropped a single bomb on the city on Aug. 6, 1945. What happened that day was one of the pivotal events of the 20th ...
There are about 11 million vehicles registered in Pennsylvania, but only a little more than 27,000 of them have the new 鈥淟et Freedom Ring鈥� license plates that have been issued to commemorate the United States鈥� 250th anniversary in 2026. That works out to about 0.2% of the cars, SUVs, ...
The admission by Coroner Timothy Warco that he filed a fraudulent death certificate with the state Department of Health 鈥� allegedly at the behest of District Attorney Jason Walsh 鈥� will likely have legal 鈥渞everberations鈥� for past and future homicide cases in Washington County, according ...
A Washington County man will stand trial in the killing of another man in New Kensington nearly three years ago. Larry Osborn Nix II, 41, of West Brownsville, waived his formal arraignment Wednesday at the Westmoreland County Courthouse in connection with the fatal shooting of 31-year-old ...
A Waynesburg woman charged with criminal homicide in a 2022 killing will spend 10 to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to lesser charges. On Monday, Shawna Smith, 26, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, kidnapping, tampering and obstruction in two separate cases. In exchange, ...
