September 24, 2024 1:45 pm
State Police in Greene County are investigating the death of a Waynesburg man. Troopers say 65-year-old John Thralls died Monday after being assaulted on Friday in the two-hundred block of Tollgate Run. Thralls was taken to an area hospital where he later died.
September 24, 2024 4:51 am
A Washington man is headed to court for his role in a SWAT incident last month on East Maiden Street. 67 year old Walter Klick was in court Monday and is being charged with several counts of aggravated assault and terroristic threats after holding police at bay during a standoff and allegedly firing and striking a Beaver county SWAT vehicle in late August. The charging complaint states Klick, who lives in the 700 block of East Maiden Street, became angry after a female he resided with resisted his sexual advances and threatened to shoot her and her child. The woman fled the scene with her daughter and alerted police that Klick was threatening to kill them. When officers arrived to speak with Klick, he did not respond to calls or knocks at the door and a standoff ensued. Residents were advised to stay in their homes as police continued to try to negotiate with Klick. He held authorities off for several hours and shortly after the shots that struck the SWAT vehicle, police entered the residence and took him into custody.
September 24, 2024 2:51 am
(AP) – Counties in Pennsylvania have started testing their voting equipment to ensure that it’s working properly ahead of the November election. All election equipment used to count votes is tested during the process. This includes everything from machines that tabulate mail ballots to devices used by voters who cast ballots in person. The procedure, known as a logic and accuracy test, involves running a predetermined collection of sample ballots through the machines to confirm that they’re tabulating and processing ballots correctly. The testing helps officials ensure not only that the equipment is functioning properly but that ballots don’t have any proofing errors, such as missing candidates. (Photo: AP)
September 24, 2024 2:40 am
After spending the past eleven years with the Washington City Mission, Dr. Sally Mounts has announced plans to retire, effective September 30th of this year. Mounts, who was originally hired by former President and CEO, Dean Gartland, as a contracted grants writer, quickly moved into her current position as Chief Development Officer. During Mounts time at the mission, the facility’s annual budget grew from two-point-five-million-dollars to more than nine-million-dollars and it expanded from a ninety-six beds to a one-hundred and seventy-four bed facility with four distinct shelters, a medical clinic and career training and education center. As for her future plans, Mounts says she plans to enjoy family, traveling and coming back to the mission, as a volunteer. (Photo courtesy of City Mission. Former President and CEO Dean Gartland w/Dr. Sally Mounts)
September 23, 2024 2:20 am
In an anticipated 2-1 vote, Washington County Commissioners finalized the contract awarding a nearly $24.5 million dollar contract to Motorola Solutions, Inc. for the county’s new emergency radio system. It is an all inclusive system that includes subscriber radios and system management. The contract will take into account all changes recommeded by system consultant Mission Critical Partners, LLC, and the County Solicitor. Commissioner Larry Maggi was the dissenting vote calling the contract process “flawed” saying the contract was awarded and then price negotiations began. Commissioner Nick Sherman disputed that saying that the county had all of the contract numbers weeks ago. The county is now working on trying to recover approximately $8 million from MRA, Inc, the company awarded the contract initially to rebuild the radio system. According to Sherman, after nearly two years, consultants were unable to verify that the system MRA, Inc proposed would be able to be built.
September 18, 2024 3:58 pm
BEIRUT (AP) — Israel’s defense minister declares a “new phase” of war as Hezbollah officials and Lebanon’s state media say explosions went off in Beirut and multiple parts of Lebanon in an apparent second wave of detonations of electronic devices. The Hezbollah officials and state media said Wednesday that walkie-talkies and even solar equipment detonated a day after hundreds of pagers blew up. Lebanon’s Health Ministry says at least 14 people were killed and 450 were wounded. Israel’s defense minister made no mention of the mysterious waves of exploding devices in his remarks.
September 18, 2024 5:04 am
Instagram is introducing separate teen accounts for those under 18 as it tries to make the platform safer for children amid growing backlash against how social media affects young people’s lives. The teen accounts will be private by default. Messages are restricted so teens can only get them from people they follow or are already connected to. “Sensitive content,” such as videos of people fighting or those promoting cosmetic procedures, will be limited, Meta said. They will get notifications if they are on Instagram for more than 60 minutes and a “sleep mode” will be enabled that turns off notifications and send auto-replies to direct messages from 10 p.m. until 7 a.m.
September 17, 2024 4:56 pm
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Philadelphia voters are filling two vacant seats in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. In both cases the Democratic candidates are the only ones on the ballot. Tuesday’s special elections are for positions vacated this summer when state Reps. Donna Bullock and Stephen Kinsey resigned. Keith Harris is seeking Bullock’s seat, and Andre Carroll is in line to succeed Kinsey. Harris and Carroll also face no opposition on the ballot in November for full two-year terms. The state House has a 102-101 Democratic majority, counting the Bullock and Kinsey seats. Polls are open from 7 in the morning until 8 at night.
September 17, 2024 4:51 pm
BEIRUT (AP) — Hundreds of handheld pagers exploded near simultaneously in parts of Lebanon and Syria, killing at least nine people — including members of the militant group Hezbollah and a young girl. Officials in Lebanon say more than 2,700 were wounded on Tuesday, 200 critically. Hezbollah officials tell The Associated Press that the explosions affected a new brand of pagers used by the militant group. The explosions occurred in the suburbs of Beirut and in other areas that are Hezbollah strongholds. Hezbollah blamed the explosions on Israel. AP has reached out to the Israeli military, which declined to comment.
September 17, 2024 5:11 am
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The man suspected in an apparent assassination attempt targeting Donald Trump camped outside a Florida golf course with food and a rifle for nearly 12 hours. That’s according to court documents filed Monday. The papers indicated that the suspect was lying in wait for the former president before a Secret Service agent thwarted the potential attack and opened fire. Officials said Ryan Wesley Routh did not fire any shots, never had Trump in his line of sight and sped away after being shot at by an agent who spotted him. He was arrested in a neighboring county. The 58-year-old Routh appeared in federal court in West Palm Beach to face federal firearms charges. (Photo: AP)
