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Equitrans appeals ruling in lawsuit over Greene explosion

By By Garrett Neese

Equitrans appealed to the state Superior Court after a Greene County judge denied its motion for relief in a lawsuit over a 2018 house fire in Morgan Township. The state Attorney General’s office filed a felony charge in 2023 against Equitrans for violating the Pennsylvania Clean Streams law after a grand jury accused the company of failing to investigate long-known methane leakage at the Pratt Storage Field, which sat below the house. Residents Cody White and Samantha Adamson were in the house with their 4-year-old son James at the time of the explosion, which was set off when Cody lit the stove to make macaroni and cheese for his son. All three suffered severe burns over more than ...

Personal information of Bentleyville officials given to public at meeting

Private personal data of current and former Bentleyville officials was part of a packet distributed to council and members of the public at the borough’s most recent council meeting. The information — which included unredacted Social Security numbers, addresses, names, and driver’s license numbers — was part of an audit handed out by the finance committee during its report Tuesday. Borough Solicitor Dennis Makel said the details had been listed in a banking statement that was erroneously left unredacted. “It was inadvertent,” he said. The names included eight officials: six former council members, the borough’s former secretary, and Police Chief Rich Young. Young’s ...

Flying high

The arsenal of loops and dives Angstrom Eberenz pulls off on a given day with his model plane is getting an impressive addition: a 10,000-mile swoop Down Under. Eberenz, 15, of Smithfield, will compete with Team USA at the 2026 Control Line Aircraft World Championships in Perth, Australia in ...

Splashdown! Artemis astronauts back on Earth

HOUSTON (AP) — Artemis II’s astronauts closed out humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century with a Pacific splashdown on Friday, blazing new records near the moon with grace and joy. It was a dramatic grand finale to a mission that revealed not only swaths of the lunar ...

State police respond to 6 fatal crashes over holiday weekend

State police responded to six fatal crashes across Pennsylvania during the Easter weekend. From April 3 to 5, troopers were called to 532 total crashes. Six people were killed in those accidents, and 42 of the crashes were related to motorists driving under the influence. Those numbers are similar to last year, when during the same three-day period state police responded to 527 crashes. Four of those crashes were fatal, killing six people in total. State police did not provide the enforcement numbers for individual troops. Of the six fatal crashes, one occurred in Donegal Township. Just after 6 p.m. April 4, Daniel Pasqualucci was driving a sedan at speeds above 80 mph while going ...

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Long time coming

JEFFERSON – Addy Larkin's line drive that fell into shallow right field in the bottom of the eighth inning and drove in the winning run ended a couple of long streaks. It was the first time that Jefferson-Morgan had beaten Carmichaels in a dozen years and ended the Lady Mikes' 21-game ...

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Pirates tightrope way past Cubs into first place

CHICAGO (AP) — The Pittsburgh Pirates entered Sunday in an unfamiliar position in the standings. Yohan Ramírez escaped bases-loaded jams in the 10th and 11th innings, and the Pirates took advantage of a throwing error by Caleb Thielbar to score the go-ahead run in a 4-3 win over the ...

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Ovechkin appreciates reception from Penguins fans

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The 100th career matchup between generational stars Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin never materialized during the Washington Capitals 6-3 victory against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday. But that didn’t stop the crowd from showing its appreciation for Ovechkin in ...

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Cheers: We’re in the home stretch of the Herald-Standard’s annual Give-A-Christmas campaign to support the Salvation Army service centers in Fayette County. It’s not too late to contribute to help us meet our $10,000 goal. All donations remain in the local area to help fund the ...

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Earth’s climate out of balance

Warning lights are flashing according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization “WMO.” Mother Earth is being pushed beyond its limits and every key climate indicator is flashing red. Earth’s energy imbalance, the gap between heat absorbed and heat released, is the ...

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