Washington County News

Thomas Wright was scheduled to plead guilty to retail theft charges at 9:30 a.m. Friday before Washington County Judge Janet Moschetta Bell.

A medical chopper crew rushed a local truck driver to a Pittsburgh hospital after a Wednesday afternoon accident with a passing train.

A trucker from Rostraver Township was seriously injured Wednesday when his tractor-trailer went airborne into a ravine after it struck a train in Monongahela.

The public can now search online for information about inmates in the Westmoreland County Prison through a new feature on the county's Web site.

A Fayette County man who was shot in the face during an attempted robbery testified Wednesday he saw the bullet as it passed through his nose, nearly severing it.

The family of Ashley Guarino will say goodbye to her and her two young children Monday.

A 78-year-old man is battling with a Washington County township over his right to remain utility-free. William Williams doesn't use electricity or natural gas.

Funeral services are set for a Washington County woman and her two young children who were found slain in their home last week.

Last week I posted here a copy of a notable motion to dismiss a federal criminal indictment for felon in possession based on Heller and the Second Amendment.

The second of two men wanted for what investigators called "a gang-style attack on a defenseless man" in a motel near Washington was arrested Wednesday in Mercer County by members of the U.S. Marshal's Western ...

In Western Pennsylvania, police are searching for a husband whose family was found slain.

The Washington County coroner says a western Pennsylvania mother and her two children died of asphyxiation.

A Fayette County jury took only two hours Friday morning to find a Washington County man guilty of shooting a Smithfield man in the face last year, nearly severing his nose.

Signs of stress cracked the veneer of the happy marriage of Orlando and Ashley Guarino in the weeks before she and their two children were found dead inside their Washington County home, friends and neighbors ...

State police remain on the scene of a triple homicide in Washington County, where a young mother and two children have been found slain in their home.

The Washington County Sheriff's Department says a Pennsylvania man was found dead in a pool in Clear Spring.

We have 941 guests online Here's the hotel Indiana University of Pennsylvania is hoping to build on a borrowed $20 million: Six floors, 140 rooms, 91,000 square feet.

Mounting complaints from a Monongahela neighborhood led to the arrest of a city woman Wednesday on charges she was dealing crack from her home.

A deadly motorcycle accident in Washington County is under investigation. Gary O'Donnell, 62, from McDonald, was riding his motorcycle in Cross Creek Township, when he apparently lost control.

A Washington County man is accused of stabbing and partially scalping his girlfriend during an argument early Sunday morning.