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A Washington County priest is facing hundreds of felony charges after being accused of stealing more than $117,000 from his parish. Father George Athanasiou, 37, is an assistant priest at All Saints Greek Orthodox Church in North Strabane Township. Through an investigation, authorities said they discovered that between April 2022 and mid-November 2023, Athanasiou made 219 unauthorized ATM withdrawals from the church account. Last month, church members notified police about missing donation checks to the church. The investigation led authorities to a PNC Bank on Washington Road where church donation checks were deposited into a personal account. Additionally, Athanasiou was...

CANONSBURG, Pa. (KDKA) — A protest is planned for one of the area’s biggest Fourth of July events. Participants are pulling out of the annual Canonsburg Fourth of July Parade, fearing the planned protest. “We’re going to shut it down,” Trey Willis Sr. said on his Facebook Live video discussing the protest. Willis Sr. told KDKA that the demonstration will remain peaceful, but protesters want their voices heard. He expects 100-200 people will join him in protest on the morning of the parade. “We’re intending to just shed light on the practices coming out of the district attorney’s office,” Willis...

CANONSBURG, Pa. - Two police officers were shot early Thursday during a SWAT situation in Canonsburg, Washington County. The officers were shot at about 4 a.m. and an active search for the shooter is ongoing.

CANONSBURG - After weeks of controversy about whether a nativity scene should remain in front of the Canonsburg Borough offices, Janet Moeller wanted to make sure that Christ remains part of Christmas. Moeller and her sister, Dale Seamon, braved frigid temperatures and lightly falling snow Sunday to join about 100 others for an evening that included a live nativity scene and Christmas carols. The scene was set up in a lot adjacent to the borough building. Earlier this month, a crèche that has been in front of the borough building for the past 57 Christmas seasons was moved after a...

Knights of Columbus to reassemble the creche in front of the borough building as part of a larger holiday display as soon as Tuesday ---snip--- Members of council after the meeting said they expected the nativity to be back in its place in front of the borough building as soon as Tuesday morning. It will join the Christmas tree, wreaths and other holiday decorations already on the lawn. After the vote, Milioto applauded the residents of Canonsburg for their tenacity and cooperation through the process. "Tonight was a display of peaceful government working together," he said, acknowledging that all of...

I'm sorry for the vanity but I was just thinking.....Canonsburg Boro has a Council meeting this Monday. Any Pittsburgh-area FReepers wanna go? I am trying to get a group to go because I'd like to personally donate to the Council my copy of David Barton's "Separation of Church & State" so that these fools can get a little education. It seems that they are allowing a Satan-loving mental health patient (Megan Hartley) to dictate how this little town observes the Christmas Holiday. There have been numerous threads here on FreeRepublic about this story so I'm sure most of you have...

(CANONSBURG, Pa.) New information has been discovered about the background of Megan Hartley, identified as the resident whose complaint about a Nativity scene in a borough building led to its removal. As reported on ThePittsburghChannel.com, the 57 year tradition of the local Knights of Columbus chapter of setting up the nativity scene in the borough building has come to an end due to a written complaint from Ms. Hartley. Since no other information was given about Ms. Hartley a search began. There is only 1 "Megan Hartley" listed in CANONSBURG, Pa in this people search thru VEROMI and that is...

CHARTIERS TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- A student was taped to the wall at a school -- and it was caught on video, police said. Chartiers Township police said that they received videotape found by an administrator of the Western Area Career & Technology Center, in Canonsburg. The video showed a student being duct-taped by his arms, hands and head to the wall of a bathroom, police said. According to police, an aerosol was sprayed on the student's shoes and the floor and then ignited. Police said that on the tape, does not appear that the student was injured in the incident,...