A Masontown woman is charged with an alleged assault that left bruises and fingernail marks on her 1-year-old child. After taking a polygraph test, Arayiah Harris, 19, confessed to assaulting her child in her home, according to her criminal complaint. She told police her child had been crying ...
Five days after voting 6-1 to lay off the staff of the borough’s police department, the Masontown Borough Council rehired the officers at a special meeting Saturday night. The 6-0 vote restored funding for the department throughout fiscal year 2026, while carrying over any surplus into ...
Days after it voted to lay off police department staff, the Masontown Borough Council is planning to undo the move. The council has scheduled a special Saturday night meeting where it will vote on a resolution to recall all officers it let go Monday. In that 6-1 vote, the council approved ...
Destiny Mickens was just 11 years old when her father Leon Mickens, of Masontown, was gunned down near his home. “I will never forget the blood tear that I saw coming down my father’s face that night,” Destiny said. “My family told me I was sitting on the foot of my father’s bed, ...
A “pristine” cigarette butt left at the scene of an unsolved murder in Fayette County has led to police filing a homicide charge against a Merrittstown man. Masontown police charged Frank Timothy Campbell Jr., 37, Wednesday for the murder of 35-year-old Leon Mickens Jr., of Masontown, on ...
At 96, Louis Watkins Davis of Masontown has lived a full life. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, opened a small coal mine in Ronco, married the love of his life, and was father to five children, grandfather to nine and great grandfather to 12. But among his many life ...
