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The local Rotary Club was an easy fit for John Hartman.
“I’m a retired chief of police, so public service was front and center my entire career,” said Hartman, 66, of Penn Township. “While I was a police officer, I found out about the Rotary and its mission and thought it was a great addition to what I was doing professionally.”
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One of two Franklin Regional National Science Bowl teams took the top spot at a regional competition in February, and will compete for a national title. The team is, from the left, Darius Colangelo, Atharva Mayekar, Max Wang, Urvish Jain and Praneel Varshney.
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Darius Colangelo, Max Wang, Praneel Varshney, Prerit Yadav, and Urvish Jain pose for a photo following their third-place finish at the 2020 National Science Bowl’s regional competition. Colangelo, Wang, Varshney, Jain and junior Atharva Mayekar won the regional competition in 2021. Yadav was also part of a second 2021 FR team, along with Abhinav Komanduri, Timothy Cao, Joshua Selvakumar and Gary Zhang.
• Japanese troops invade Phillippines on Dec. 8, 1941
About 75,000 Filipino and American soldiers on the Bataan Peninsula of the island of Luzon surrendered to the Japanese Army on April 9, 1942
• Prisoners were forced to march 65 miles in intense heat to prison camps.
• Thousands died or were killed by Japanese guards in what became known as the Bataan Death March.
Source: History Channel website
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An event next month will honor those 76,000 American and Filipino soldiers who endured a 65-mile forced march in the Philippines as prisoners of the Japanese during World War II.
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Murrysville police said a 26-year-old man was arrested early Sunday on charges of harassment, simple assault and strangulation following an alleged incident inside a woman’s apartment.
Zachary Musto of Rochester, Beaver County, was arrested following the reported attack around 12:10 a.m. that occurred in the 1100 block of Ohio Street.
Officer Jason Varner said, when police arrived for report of a domestic disturbance call, they found the apartment door was forcibly opened and the glass shattered.
According to court records, the woman told police that, after forcing his way into her apartment, Musto threw her to the floor and began choking her.