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Garbage truck hits Uniontown police station, damaging building and two cars

An Advanced Disposal garbage truck careened into the Uniontown City Police station Monday morning, totaling a police car, damaging a second police car and tearing down wires and barricades.“It shook the building,” said Uniontown City Police Capt. David Rutter.No injuries were reported. He ...

Fayette County district closed following shooting

The state court system has moved cases out of a Fayette County district court where a shooting spree ended Wednesday with the gunman shot dead by police.The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts said Thursday that District Judge Daniel Shimshock's office in Masontown will remain closed ...

Court documents outline threats by gunman prior to Masontown shooting

MASONTOWN – Crystal Dowdell told Fayette County Court in her Aug. 27 request for a protective order from her husband that he had grabbed her and threatened her with a gun three days earlier when she asked for a divorce.Weeks later, Patrick Shaun Dowdell would run through a crowded magisterial ...

Gunman killed by police during shooting at Masontown magistrate’s office

MASONTOWN – A police officer shot and killed a gunman Wednesday after the man opened fire inside a packed district judge’s office in Fayette County, injuring three people and another police officer.The gunman had been scheduled to appear that afternoon before District Judge Daniel Shimshock ...

California Borough man charged with rape in Fayette County

A California Borough man was in custody Thursday, charged with rape and related offenses in Fayette County.Washington Township police arrested Michael Christopher Brown, 23, on Sunday following accusations he raped a woman about 4:45 a.m. that day in a residence on Grata Street, court records ...

EDITORIAL Financial hardship more prevalent than we might think

We pointed out in an editorial last Friday that the minimum wage is not cutting it for workers across Pennsylvania, particularly since it has not been boosted in the commonwealth for 11 years. This means that, as the editorial stated, “someone working in a minimum-wage job in this state could ...