Hot weather did not hamper area residents from attending Fayette County’s first Juneteenth Unity Fest celebration at Storey Square in Uniontown on Wednesday. Crowds of people lounged in lawn chairs or sat on benches to watch live entertainment performances, including Legacy Arts Project, ...
Two separate shooting incidents in Uniontown Tuesday afternoon left one man dead and two others injured. Uniontown police public information officer Tom Kolencik said they were first dispatched to the 30 block of Dunlap Street shortly after 2 p.m. Officers found Joshua Stevens suffering from ...
The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights Movement gained traction has died. His family said Lawson, who was born in Uniontown, passed away on Sunday after a short illness in Los ...
Jamie Pikulsky, owner of the eatery From Scratch in Uniontown, woke up to a barrage of voicemails, text messages and Facebook notifications Wednesday morning. The notifications, unfortunately, came because her business was one of several in the city vandalized overnight. Two large front ...
Approaching the midpoint of 2024, Fayette County has already exceeded the number of homicide investigations than at the same point last year. District Attorney Mike Aubele has taken on seven homicide cases during his first five months in office. In 2023 there had been five cases by ...
A father who was granted a new trial last year after being convicted of third-degree murder in the death of his 23-month-old daughter in Uniontown has pleaded guilty to lesser charges and is now free after being sentenced to time served. Michael Lynn Wright Jr., 40, pleaded guilty last month ...
