Charleroi has a new mayor, but it’s a person familiar to the position. Former Mayor Ed Bryner was elected to return to the post by council at its reorganization meeting Monday. Bryner served the borough as mayor from 2018-21. He also has been a member of Charleroi council. Bryner, 71, ...
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 ...
A Redstone Township man will stand trial on charges that allege he held a woman in his house for four days and assaulted her. Kevin Patrick Fields, 33, was charged by state police last month with felonies of aggravated assault and strangulation, and misdemeanors of unlawful restraint, ...
In a widely expected move, Gov. Josh Shapiro announced Thursday that he and Lt. Gov. Austin Davis will be seeking another term this year. Shapiro and Davis, both Democrats, launched their re-election campaign at two events on two ends of the commonwealth – in the afternoon at the Carpenters ...
Elijah Dowling sported a onesie bearing the sentiment “New Around Here” while his mom, Rhiannon Jackson, held him Tuesday, one day after he was born at UPMC Magee-Womens in UPMC Washington. Elijah’s birth wasn’t the only event the hospital celebrated Tuesday afternoon. UPMC ...
A Somerset County man was killed Wednesday evening in a two-vehicle crash on Route 40 in South Union Township. First responders were called to the scene about 6:28 p.m. The crash involving a minivan and a tractor trailer occurred in the eastbound lane of Route 40, near the Lick Hollow ...
