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Bill would help push back school start times

Middle school and high school students across Pennsylvania might be able to sleep in a bit longer during the school year. A new bill in the state House of Representatives would give the OK for school districts to voluntarily adopt later start times for secondary school. The bipartisan ...

Waynesburg U. launching nursing immersion lab

Teri was in trouble. The 65-year-old patient was admitted with repeated chest pain, with a preliminary diagnosis of coronary heart disease — at least, until more investigation could be done. But the investigating into what ails the manikin begins next semester, when the first crop of ...

Whether itÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 100 degrees outside in summertime or 11 below zero like it was last weekend, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ crews are out manning the nearly two dozen locks and dam facilities in its Pittsburgh district keeping waterway traffic moving along the three rivers. Even as the ...

The Charleroi office of District Judge Eric G. Porter was condemned Wednesday, forcing the magistrate and his staff to find a new location. Borough Manager Joe Manning said a water leak in the building at 416 Fallowfield Ave. made the space uninhabitable. “The pipes may have frozen ...

A man from Speers Borough who recorded himself saying racial slurs to a Black woman in a Rostraver Township Walmart now faces criminal charges. State police announced in a press release Wednesday that 36-year-old Michael Todora faces misdemeanor charges of ethnic intimidation and harassment, ...

Two hospitalized after fire at Bentley Tower

Two people were flown to Pittsburgh following a fire at a senior high rise in Bentleyville Monday night. Emergency crews were called just before 9 p.m. to Bentley Tower at 304 Washington St. Dominic Sicchitano, the assistant fire chief for Bentleyville Fire-Rescue, said firefighters arrived to ...