November 6, 2019 12:30 am
All numbers are unofficial and do not include write-ins, provisional or absentee ballots. Only contested races (not including write-in candidates) are listed.
Vote for 1 unless otherwise listed.
City of Washington–Mayor
Scott Putnam (D) 1,058, Mark Kennison (R) 905
City of Washington–Council (vote for 2)
Ken Westcott (D) 1,106, Joe Pintola (D) 1,000, Joe DeThomas (R) 776, Dana Hammond (R) 703
City of Monongahela–Mayor
Gregory Garry (D) 592, Claudia William (R) 335
City of Monongahela–Council (vote for 2)
Kenneth Kulak (D) 529, Daryl Miller (D) 487, Chad DeSantis (L) 376
Amwell Township Supervisor
Dee Frazee, Sr. (R) 431, James Ross (D) 372
Buffalo Township Supervisor
James Arbore, Jr. (D) 256, Tim Doman (R) 237
Burgettstown–Borough Council, 4 years (vote for 2)
Phillip Esno (D) 182, Annie Hull (R) 111, Kenneth McKinney (D) 90, James McGuiddy, Jr. (R) 87
Cecil Township Supervisor
Cindy Fisher (D) 1,831, Darlene Barni (R) 1,523
Chartiers Township Supervisor
Bronwyn Maggi-Kolovich (D) 1,068, Anthony Spin (R) 1,010
East Bethlehem Commissioner At-Large
Jason Henck (D) 245, Marta Jo McCombs (R) 219
Hopewell Township Supervisor, 2 years
Rick Moore (R) 161, John Miller (D) 95
Marianna–Borough Council, 2 years (vote for 2)
Timothy Burnsworth (D) 41, Fremont Lesnick (R) 41, Anita Kadlecek (D) 30, Stephen Matiyasic (R) 16
McDonald–Borough Council, 4 years (vote for 4)
Thomas McQuillan (D) 207, Tom Rockwell (D) 189, Elmo Cecchetti II (D) 185, Phillip Boggs (R) 182, Michael Schaal (R) 169
New Eagle–Borough Council, 4 years (vote for 2)
Saundra Bobnar (R) 222, Tanya Chaney (D) 216, William Sherry (R) 212, Barry Williams (D) 194
North Charleroi–Borough Council, 4 years (vote for 3)
Cynthia Randall (R) 162, Carrie Zeletski (D) 149, David Diess (D) 120, Joseph Duche (D) 114, Stacey Wolfe (R) 100
North Franklin Township Supervisor
Mike Quinn (R) 669, Richard Haskey (D) 415
North Strabane Township Supervisor
Emily Holmes (D) 1,763, Robert Balogh (R) 1,619
Peters Township Council At-Large (vote for 2)
Frank Kosir, Jr. (R) 3,078, Robert Lewis (R) 3,006, Julie Bramer Cantrell (D) 2,091
Robinson Township Supervisor
Christopher Amodeo (R) 199, Rodger Kendall (D) 188
South Franklin Township Supervisor
Robert Leibhart (R) 486, Mark Knestrick (D) 215
South Strabane Township Supervisor
Mark Murphy (R) 1,439, Kathy Pienkowski (D) 994
Union Township Supervisor, 6 years
Charles Trax (R) 734, Robert Dooley (D) 466
Union Township Supervisor, 2 years
Charles Trax (R) 696, Robert Dooley (D) 500
West Bethlehem Township Supervisor, 6 years
David Garland (D) 278, Ed Roth (R) 106
West Bethlehem Township Supervisor, 2 years
Lars Lange (D) 246, Maria Pinkney (R) 140
West Finley Township Supervisor
David Martin (R) 120, Mark Adams (D) 101
West Pike Run Township Supervisor
Dale Tiberie (D) 220, Joyce Morich Cherok (R) 189
November 5, 2019 10:21 am
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) – Police in Maryland say a man fatally stabbed another customer outside a Popeye’s restaurant in a fight over the recently re-released chicken sandwich. Prince George’s County police spokeswoman Jennifer Donelan told news outlets the two men were waiting in line at an Oxon Hill Popeye’s Monday night when one of the men accused the other of cutting in front of him in a line specifically for ordering chicken sandwiches. Police say the fight spilled outside where one of the men stabbed the other. Police say the 28-year-old victim was from the Washington area. He was taken to a hospital, where he died less than an hour later. Donelan said police are looking for the suspect and have called on him to surrender. The victim and the suspect’s identities haven’t been released.
November 5, 2019 7:20 am
MEXICO CITY (AP) – The nine women and children killed by cartel gunmen in northern Mexico lived in a farming community known as La Mora, where experts say residents identify as Mormons but consider themselves independent and separate from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The community’s roots lie in the church’s banning of polygamy in the late 19th century, when families established colonies in remote northern Mexico to continue the practice. Cristina Rosetti is an expert in Mormon fundamentalist groups and said Tuesday that today some La Mora residents still practice polygamy while others do not. Residents believe in the main Mormonism tenants, but there is little organized religious practice. Gunmen killed three women and six children traveling in three vehicles from La Mora on Monday. The victims were U.S. citizens. (Photo: CNN)
November 5, 2019 4:25 am
BEIRUT (AP) – A senior Turkish official says Turkey has captured the older sister of the slain leader of the Islamic State group in northwestern Syria, calling the arrest an intelligence “gold mine.” Little is known about the sister of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Turkish official said that the 65-year-old known as Rasmiya Awad was captured in a raid Monday on a trailer container she was living in with her family near the town of Azaz. The area is part of the region administered by Turkey. The official said the sister was with her husband, daughter-in-law and five children. The adults are being interrogated, he said, speaking on condition of anonymity In line with government protocol. Al-Baghdadi was killed in a U.S. raid in the nearby province of Idlib last month.
November 5, 2019 4:23 am
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran’s president says Tehran will begin injecting uranium gas into 1,044 centrifuges, the latest step away from its nuclear deal since President Donald Trump withdrew from the accord over a year ago. President Hassan Rouhani made the statement in an address carried live by Iranian state TV on Tuesday. Under Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal, these machines are supposed to spin without gas injection. Rouhani says the machines, at its nuclear facility in Fordo, will be injected with the uranium gas as of Wednesday. There was no immediate comment from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog. Iran on Monday doubled the number of advanced IR-6 centrifuges now in operation in another violation of the nuclear deal.
November 5, 2019 4:22 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House claims the release of two transcripts Tuesday shows “there is even less evidence” for impeachment that previously thought. Press secretary Stephanie Grisham says the testimony of Gordon Sondland, the Trump administration’s ambassador to the European Union, didn’t “identify any solid source” for his acknowledgement that he understood by September that American aid to Ukraine was linked to a public statement promising to investigate corruption in the country. Grisham concludes, “No amount of salacious media-biased headlines, which are clearly designed to influence the narrative, change the fact that the President has done nothing wrong.”
November 5, 2019 4:20 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Pennsylvania’s highest court is telling state elections officials not to tally or certify the results of a referendum on a victims’ rights constitutional amendment. A divided Supreme Court upheld a lower-court ruling Monday and directed the Department of State not to count or certify Tuesday’s results from Pennsylvania’s 67 counties. The ballot question was put in limbo last week, when Commonwealth Court Judge Ellen Ceisler issued an injunction at the request of the state League of Women Voters. Ceisler ruled her injunction should remain in place until the underlying lawsuit challenging the so-called “Marsy’s Law” amendment is resolved, including appeals. The amendment would enshrine into the state constitution rights that include notifications and being allowed to attend and weigh in during plea hearings, sentencings and parole proceedings.
November 5, 2019 4:19 am
It’s 2019 general election day with several key countywide races. There are four candidates vying for three seats for County Commissioner. There are also contested races for District Attorney, Register of Wills, Treasurer, Clerk of Courts and Prothonotary, as well as a race for Magisterial District Judge for Canonsburg, Chartiers, Houston and Canton. There are Mayor and Council races in Monongahela and Washington with a host of municipal and school board contests on the ballot as well. Polls opened at 7 am and closed tonight at 8. Join us for complete election coverage on WJPA until the votes are counted. Once ballots have been tabulated by the County, individual race results will be available.
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November 5, 2019 4:11 am
Washington City Council regained an absent member at its agenda meeting on Monday afternoon. Matt Staniszewzski returned after a two month absence stemming from a DUI arrest that occurred on August 26. Staniszewski says the office and the public have received him warmly and offered well wishes on his return. Staniszewski takes responsibility for his actions saying that he made a wrong choice in coping mechanisms in dealing with issues that had him depressed. He says he is continuing to work a program that he began during a self initiated treatment period after the arrest. In regular business action, council will finalize a .2% reduction in the Payroll tax that funded pensions in the city and they will finalize the agreement to act as a signatory on a City of Washington Parking Authority bond refinance. Council will also take preliminary steps to set the budget, payroll and tax rate for the 2020 year.
November 5, 2019 4:10 am
A wrong-way crash in North Strabane Township has left a Washington Man dead and another man injured. State Police say the crash happened just before two o’clock Tuesday morning in the southbound lanes near the Houston exit when 57-year-old Darnell Hudson, the sole occupant of a car, was traveling the wrong way in the southbound lane of Interstate 79. Troopers say he slammed head-on into a vehicle driven by 28-year-old Zachary Porta of Altoona, who was traveling south. Porta was flown to a Pittsburgh area hospital with serious injuries. That stretch of highway was closed for several hours.
