Monday, April 22, 2013
Cranberry, Adams Area and Zelienople firefighters assisted at the scene.
Several fire companies battled a blaze on Old State Road Monday afternoon that heavily damaged a Pine Township home. Wexford Volunteer Fire Company Chief Tim Flaherty said crews were called to the home located near Wexford Bayne Road at about 2:15 p.m. for reports of a fire in the laundry room on the first floor of the home. The blaze quickly spread through the building. Flames could be seen shooting from the roof of the three-story home, which was built more than a century ago. "The house is pretty old, so there were a lot of void spaces in attic and the roof structure," the chief said of why the blaze spread so quickly. Flaherty said one of the owners was at home when the fire started. She and two dogs escaped unharmed. Firefighters …
Monday, October 29, 2012
After the numbers jumped from 350 to 650, Duquesne Light says less than 100 homes are in the dark. Penn Power reports electricity is completely restored in Cranberry, Adams and Pine townships.
UPDATE: As of 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Duquesne Light is reporting there are less than 100 customers remaining in the area without service. Power should be restored everyone by 11 p.m. tonight, according to the power company. Earlier Tuesday there were about 650 Duquesne Light customers without power as a result of the strong winds and rain from Superstorm Sandy that swept through western Pennsylvania Monday. The numbers dipped to 350 before jumping back up to 650 customers Tuesday morning. Duquesne Light crews spent the day restoring power by removing trees and repairing downed wires. Company spokesman Brian Knavish has said the outages are scattered throughout Allegheny and Beaver counties. Duquesne Light also warns that downed wires are a …
Friday, October 19, 2012
Mark Doncic is held for court on six felony charges, including statutory sexual assault and corruption of minors.
A man charged with having sexual relations with a 15-year-old Pine Township youth he met through a Craigslist ad has been ordered to stand trial by Magisterial District Judge William K. Wagner. Mark Doncic, 52, of Castle Shannon, was held for court Wednesday on six felony counts—statutory sexual assault, corruption of minors, aggravated indecent assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and two counts of unlawful contact with a minor. He pleaded not guilty through his attorney, Stanton D. Levenson. The FBI also is investigating Doncic and intends to prosecute its case in federal court, according to a criminal complaint. The FBI referred information about the encounter between Doncic and the 15-year-old to Allegheny County Police …
Friday, October 5, 2012
Matthew Lohr is in Butler County Jail.
A Mars man charged stealing jewelry from a home Pine Township is in the Butler County Jail, where he faces 73 charges brought by police in Zelienople and Mars Borough. Matthew Lohr, 29, is charged with felony counts of burglary, theft and receiving stolen property in the Pine incident, according to Northern Regional Police Chief T. Robert Amann. Zelienople police charged Lohr with 58 felony counts of burglary, criminal trespassing and receiving stolen property, according to court documents. He is charged with stealing baseball cards and jewelery from a home on Emerson Drive in Zelienople on Aug. 30 in that incident. Less than a week later, he attempted to sell two of the stolen cards at Baseball Card Castle in Cranberry, according to the …
Thursday, August 30, 2012
PennDOT is looking for public feedback on the project in Pine Township.
Have you got something to say about improvement plans for Route 910 at the Pearce Mill Road intersection in Pine Township? If you answered yes, then you need to be at Pine Community Center from 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6. PennDOT District 11, in cooperation with Pine Township, is looking for feedback on the project to widen and improve about 1,610 feet of Route 910 (Wexford Road) from Lyndhurst Circle to west of Pearce Mill Road. The improvements will provide a center left-turn lane and improvements to the Route 910/Pearce Mill Road intersection. The plan also includes replacing two bridges that carry Route 910 over the North Fork of Pine Creek and a tributary to the North Fork of Pine Creek. "Feedback from the community is a …
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Seth B. Jelic waives his preliminary hearing.
A Seven Fields man waived his preliminary hearing Wednesday on charges of resisting arrest, possessing cocaine and driving on a suspended license for an incident that occurred in Pine Township. Seth B. Jelic, 32, also was charged with tampering with evidence and possessing heroin, but the district attorney's office dropped those charges when Jelic appeared before Magisterial District Judge William K. Wagner. Jelic's formal arraignment is scheduled for August 30. Northern Regional police pulled Jelic into the Best Tile Plaza along Route 19 for a traffic stop on May 17, the criminal complaint states. A Pennsylvania State Police trooper joined Northern Regional Officer Andrew Bienemann as he questioned Jelic, who had an open beer can in the …
Sunday, July 1, 2012
The star of Ten Dollar Dinners will conduct food demonstrations and sign her book at the store July 7.
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Sunday, July 1, 2012
Melissa d’Arabian, winner of the season five Food Network Star show and host of Ten Dollar Dinners will conduct a food demonstration and book signing at the Pine Township Market District on Saturday, July 7 at 3:30 p.m. The appearance is free to the public. Details and advance reservations can be made at www.marketdistrict.com. d’Arabian, a stay-at-home mom with young daughters, embraces the finest kind of home cooking in her recipes and program. Ten Dollar Dinners showcases her tasty recipes and her $10 promise—four people, ten bucks, infinite possibilities. She uses her culinary and life experiences to provide food lifestyle solutions and recipes for everyone, on any budget. For d’Arabian, it is about the people she cooks for, not the …
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Tyler McWilliams had BAC of .366 percent, according to criminal complaint.
When police arrived at a Treesdale home around 1 a.m. on April 28 to check out a report of an underage drinking party, they discovered a 20-year-old man who was "completely unresponsive" and called for an ambulance. That man—Tyler McWilliams—is the man who was arrested and charged over the weekend with felony counts of possessing and dealing marijuana, as well as underage drinking, according to court documents. The Gibsonia resident also faces misdemeanor charges of possessing suspected marijuana and Metadate/Methylphenidate, the criminal complaint states. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for today. McWilliams was taken to UPMC Passavant where tests showed he had a blood alcohol content, commonly referred to as a BAC, of .366 percent, …
Monday, May 7, 2012
Patrica K. Smith could serve six years in prison.
Although Patricia K. Smith, the Cranberry woman who embezzled $10.2 million from Baierl Acura and used it to fund her lavish lifestyle and that of her family members, won’t be sentenced until Wednesday, the prosecution recommends she serve five to six years in prison. The former controller of the Pine Township-based car dealership, Smith, 58, pleaded guilty in January to one count of wire fraud before Senior United States District Judge Gustave Diamond. According to documents filed in federal court in Pittsburgh, Smith, a married mother to three grown children and grandmother to three, electronically transferred funds from Baierl’s payroll bank account to one of her personal bank accounts on more than 800 occasions from Dec. 2004 until …
Tyler Joseph McWilliams is charged with felony counts of possessing and dealing marijuana, the police chief said. Bryan Thomas Watt faces misdemeanor charges.
A week after law-enforcement officials spent the day investigating a Treesdale home for the possibility that a clandestine lab was manufacturing drugs or explosives, two men have been charged in the case, according to Northern Regional Police Chief T. Robert Amann. Tyler Joseph McWilliams, 20, of Gibsonia, has been arrested and charged with felony counts of possessing and dealing marijuana at an April 28 party at the Condor Lane home, said Amann. He also is charged with underage drinking. A second Gibsonia man, 19-year-old Bryan Thomas Watt, is charged with misdemeanor counts of possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia, along with underage drinking, the chief said. His preliminary hearing is set for June 20. Police are awaiting lab …
Jessica Sinichak
12:48 pm on Friday, October 5, 2012
Hey Christine, it's Lohr. I just corrected it in the dek. Thanks! more ›