Bridge to the future: Groundbreaking held for Layton Bridge replacement
State police arrested a Fayette County man accused of being at the center of a string of thefts involving sports trading cards. Ryan Michael Rates, 44, of South Union Township, faces felony charges of corrupt organizations, organized retail theft and receiving stolen property. According to the criminal complaint, at about noon Dec. 23, police were called to the Target at 120 Matthew Drive in South Union after more than $1,200 in trading cards were stolen. Charging documents state that similar thefts had occurred at multiple stores between Dec. 18 and 3. Investigators identified four people involved in those thefts, but they were not named in court paperwork. One of the suspects told ...
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 layoffs of the borough鈥檚 police chief, two full-time officers and four part-time officers, citing a desire to lower the borough鈥檚 property taxes. Nearly all of those revenues go toward the police department. Council President John Stoffa said the decision to schedule Saturday鈥檚 meeting came after three members of the council, the mayor and police chief met for a discussion Thursday ...
State police arrested a Richeyville man Wednesday on charges of possession of child sexual abuse material. Dustin Kenyan McMasters, 20, faces 20 felony charges of sexual abuse of children - possession of child sexual abuse material and disseminating photos/videos of child sex acts, and four additonal felonies of criminal use of a communication facility. According to the criminal complaint, in May 2025, messaging app Kik reported that an account belonging to McMasters had uploaded multiple files depicting the sexual abuse of children. Police served a search warrant Wednesday at McMasters鈥� home in the 800 block of Wood Street and seized a phone that was found to contain child sexual ...
State and local officials were on hand for a groundbreaking ceremony in Perry Township Thursday to mark the start of construction on the replacement of the 127-year-old Layton Bridge. 鈥淧ennDOT is about to invest $56 million to replace this bridge here in Layton, and that represents progress ...
When she enrolled at Penn West California as a nontraditional student, Justina Arena envisioned becoming a meteorologist. The area she鈥檇 planned to make her whole career is now just a small part of it 鈥� specifically, 551.5 in the Dewey decimal system. Arena began her new job as ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) 鈥� By his own admission, Ryan O'Hearn did some digging when the Pittsburgh Pirates approached the All-Star first baseman/outfielder in free agency. The more digging O'Hearn did, the more the Pirates seemed like the right fit. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a team that can pitch and is one or two ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) 鈥� Evgeni Malkin scored a power-play goal in his return from an upper-body injury and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the New Jersey Devils 4-1 on Thursday night for their sixth straight victory. Erik Karlsson pushed his career-best home points streak to nine games with a goal, ...
MORGANTOWN 鈥� Rich Rodriguez went on a rant after losing to Arizona State about how the difference in the game was that West Virginia couldn't get a yard of push from the line. Rodriguez has made fixing that issue a top priority in the portal. Two offensive linemen transferred to the ...
Cheers: We鈥檙e in the home stretch of the TikTok成人版鈥檚 annual Give-A-Christmas campaign to support the Salvation Army service centers in Fayette County. It鈥檚 not too late to contribute to help us meet our $10,000 goal. All donations remain in the local area to help fund the ...
The Game Commission is asking for the public鈥檚 help finding turkey flocks for ongoing research. Pennsylvanians are encouraged to report the location of any turkey flocks they see across the state. Information is being collected online at https://pgcforms.pa.gov/TurkeySightingSurvey now ...
