An inmate at the State Correctional Institute at Fayette is facing 52 charges after he allegedly forced another inmate to have sex at least 10 times between Aug. 18 and Sept. 5, 2017.State police in Belle Vernon charged Michael D. Hardison, 27, with 10 felony counts each of rape, involuntary ...
Several local groups geared toward feeding hungry children and families are teaming up to hold a food drive in the Mon Valley over the next two months.The Smithton-based nonprofit Bikers Helping Others is working with the area Salvation Army and Bag Brigade, an outreach group from a local ...
RICHEYVILLE – There were 10 people in the Hiller Volunteer Fire Company’s junior firefighting program when Scott Dolan joined in 1991. Now, he said, there are two.“That number continues to dwindle,” Dolan, now chief of the company in Luzerne Township, Fayette County, told Democratic ...
Fayette, Greene, Washington and Westmoreland counties all ranked above the statewide average opioid-related hospital admissions rate in 2017, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.Fayette County had the fourth-highest rate of ...
A Cumberland Township detective has been dropped from a federal lawsuit filed earlier this year by Masontown’s council president, in which he alleged his own borough’s police officers tried to intimidate him by searching his home as retribution for criticism of the department.Both sides ...
The U.S. Small Business Administration will award low-interest loans to qualifying victims of flooding last month in the region caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Gordon.The money follows Gov. Tom Wolf’s request to the SBA to declare a disaster in Westmoreland County following ...