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‘Unseen hands’

Matthew Raffaele and his wife, Emily Powell, were sitting on the back porch of their Peters Township home when a thought occurred to them. “We always sit on our back decks and think, how can we save the world,” Raffaele said. “We both work with the homeless, so we came up with the idea ...

Icy rescue

Shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday, emergency crews were called to the 200 block of Redd Run Road in Amwell Township after a dog became trapped in the middle of an icy pond. Morgan Pelosi said she was able to track her dog, Bailey, a livestock guardian dog, through her Halo Collar and saw that ...

UPMC shooting highlights dangers facing health-care workers

A man who took staff members hostage in the ICU at UPMC Memorial Hospital in York County last weekend, killing a police officer and wounding five before he died in a shootout with police, was the most recent incident of increasing violence against U.S. health care workers. Workplace violence ...

Man killed in tree-cutting accident in Washington County

A Pittsburgh man died Monday when he was struck by a falling tree while cutting it down on a friendĢƵ Hanover Township property. James Krapp, 71, was cutting down trees at 536 Meadow Road when at some point between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. he was fatally struck, Washington County Coroner Tim Warco ...