Friday, February 8, 2013
Henderson, who is representing himself, said the videos do not prove anything. He is charged with raping and robbing three women.
The prosecution in the trial of Arthur Lamont Henderson on Thursday used surveillance camera videos to show his alleged whereabouts on the day he is accused of raping a woman in Ross Township, according to local media reports. But Henderson, who is representing himself, countered that the videos do not prove anything, KDKA reports. The 39-year-old North Side man is charged with raping and robbing two women in Ross Township and one in Hopewell Township in January 2012. One video shows a man in a gray hooded sweatshirt walking down a hallway leading to a Citizens Bank ATM in Manchester where police say the man tried to use three credit cards belonging to a Ross Township woman who had just been raped, according to KDKA. Henderson cross-…
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The assaults took place at two different Ross Township apartment complexes, and the home of a Hopewell Township woman.
Testimony began Tuesday in the trial of Arthur Lamont Henderson, who is charged with raping and robbing women in Ross and Hopewell townships a year ago. Among the first to testify was a Hopewell nurse, who told jurors she pleaded with Henderson not to rape her as he held a gun to her head early on the morning of Jan. 7, 2012. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported the woman testified with tears in her eyes. “I kept telling him don't do this to me. Please don't do this to me,” she said. “I knew what my eyes were seeing, but my mind was not believing it.” The woman, 50, was stoic when she took the stand and relayed to the jury what occurred, the Trib reported. She choked up when describing how Henderson raped her twice and barely winced when…
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Police warn the practice of leaving an unattended car running is a dangerous one.
Ross Township Police charged one man after recovering a stolen car in the parking lot outside the upper entrance to Dick's Sporting Goods store in the Northway Mall Tuesday morning. Jason Michael Mohoska, 35, of Pittsburgh, is charged with theft, receiving stolen property and resisting arrest, according to court records. Police said the thief didn't have to work hard to steal the Lexus sedan because it had been left running and unlocked outside the owner's home, less than a mile from the mall. "The owner was warming up the car, and when he returned to the driveway, it was gone," said Detective Brian Kohlhepp of the Ross Township Police Department. "Letting a car warm up on a bitterly cold morning is tempting, but it's also a very …
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Rothfus of Sewickley wins the congressional seat with 52 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results.
Republican Keith Rothfus of Sewickley defeated incumbent Democrat Mark Critz of Johnstown by a margin of 52 to 48 percent to win election to the newly re-drawn Pennsylvania 12th congressional district. Rothfus said his number one priority is the economy. "We got get the economy rolling again," he said after delivering a victory speech at the Holiday Inn on McKnight Road in Ross Township Tuesday night. "I'm concerned about tax policy, about the possibility of another tax increase on our small businesses on January first. The president said a couple of years ago; you don't want to raise taxes in a slow economy. And so we have to convince the president of the wisdom of his argument from a couple of years ago." Rothfus was asked about the …
Monday, October 1, 2012
Kathy Duritza is just the 21st teacher in the country to receive the award since the program began in 2008.
Kathy Duritza said Wednesday began as a "pretty mediocre" day. It was cloudy and cool outside the North Hills KinderCare Learning Center, where she's worked for seven years, teaching 3-year-old's. But mediocre became magnificent around 10 a.m. as Kathy sat and listened, while the center's director began to read a story to the two dozen or so children assembled at their feet. It was a story about a very special teacher, who had won a $ 10,000 prize. At the end of the story, Rebecca Stein, the center's director, turned the final page of the book to reveal the name of the prize-winning teacher, Kathy Duritza. Watch the video to see her reaction. As the children and staff applauded, Kathy broke down in tears. "Not in a million years would I …
Friday, September 21, 2012
The first of the job fairs is Saturday, Sept. 22.
Giant Eagle will host two job fairs on Saturday, Sept. 22 and 29 at the Holiday Inn, 4859 McKnight Road, to fill a combined 550 positions in the northern suburbs of Allegheny County. The grocery store chain is looking for employees for the future Valu King on McKnight Road, the Giant Eagle stores in Shaler, Bellevue, Ross Township, and Fox Chapel, and GetGo locations in Cranberry and Ross Township. Positions include management, food preparation, grocery, meat cutters, deli, bakery, clerks and cashiers. No appointment is necessary. Applicants may simply attend the job fair between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Interested persons can also apply in advance online at Careers.GiantEagle.com and Valu-King.com/careers. Keeping up with news in the …
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Casper Reel died in 1824 and is believed to be buried near the golf course's 18th hole.
When Heartland Homes develops the former Highland Country Club, it may have to consider the fate of the land’s permanent resident. His name is Casper Reel, and he died in 1824. He, and members of his family, are believed buried near the 18th hole of the old golf course. Who is Casper Reel? “Reel, a prominent early European settler of northern Allegheny County, was born in Frankfurt, Germany and immigrated to the colonies as a young child,” according to the Papers of Casper Reel which are part of the collection of the University of Pittsburgh Historical website, and the Historical society of western Pennsylvania. Reel was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1742. By 1774, he had settled at Fort Pitt, on Fifth Street near Wood, where he …
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Police investigating initial report of a road rage incident.
An unidentified man is in the hospital after falling from a car that was dragging him along McKnight Road late Wednesday afternoon. A call was made to 911 at 5:41 p.m. "I looked out the window and saw a person hanging onto the side of a vehicle going down McKnight Road," said a clerk at the Mattress World store, 7203 McKnight Road. The clerk did not want to be identified. "I watched it and I saw him fall off the vehicle and I called 911. I went to see if he was okay, and he was having some problems and I basically just stayed with him until the police and paramedics arrived,” he said. Ross police are investigating initial reports the man, after some sort of confrontation, had been dragged from the intersection of McKnight Road and Patrick …
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
A preliminary hearing is scheduled next week before District Judge Robert Ford.
A Ross Township man faces a preliminary hearing next week in Leetsdale District Court on charges he molested his ex-girlfriend’s then 7-year-old daughter. Brian Horlick, 46, of Boscom Avenue, faces one count of aggravated assault, two counts each of indecent assault and two counts of endangering the welfare of children. Franklin Park police reported that the first incident against the girl, now 14, occurred about seven years ago when she was 7. Police said the girl was with her mother and Horlick, visiting her great-grandmother in Franklin Park, and had spent the night sleeping between the two adults on the floor. Police said sometime in the night she woke to find Horlick’s hand down her pajama pants. She removed his hand, and he rolled …
Monday, February 20, 2012
A 7-year-old boy told police that a stranger tried to take him from the Goodwill Store on Saturday.
Ross Township Police are searching for a man who on Saturday approached and attempted to kidnap a 7-year-old boy. According to police, officers were called to the Goodwill store in the Ross Towne Center on McKnight Road around 6:30 p.m. Saturday after the boy told his mother a man he didn't know grabbed him by the coat and said, "Let's go." The boy ran away and alerted his mother, who called police, according to a news release. The man had already left the area before officers arrived at the store. Police describe the man as white, in his mid-to-late 30s, about 5-feet-8 inches tall, with a heavy build and a goatee. He was wearing a red cap with a black stripe and a red coat with black stripes. Anyone with information is asked to contact …
Joanne
3:30 pm on Tuesday, March 20, 2012
What made her finally report it? I am so glad she did and completely understand why she didn't then, the poor girl more ›