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Personal information of Bentleyville officials given to public at meeting

Private personal data of current and former Bentleyville officials was part of a packet distributed to council and members of the public at the borough’s most recent council meeting. The information — which included unredacted Social Security numbers, addresses, names, and driver’s ...

Murder for hire

Melvin Pike of Uniontown met his match at the end of a shotgun while his 11-year-old daughter looked on in a Canton Township gymnastics studio. When names like "Snooky," "Codfish," and "No Legs" surfaced 13 years later, it was clear that the case had all the markings of a mob hit. On April ...

Family, friends pledge to ‘Live Like Lyv’

April 1 was a typical day for Alyvia Kemis. That afternoon the Canonsburg teenager, who went by Lyv, had gone to Kutters Edge Body Piercing for a new nose ring, and then went to sit by Chartiers Creek. Michelle Kemis, her mother, explained that the creek was a favorite spot of hers. “It ...

CHROME credit union hitting 55-year milestone

Five dollars, of course, went a lot farther in 1971 than it does today. The five spot that seven employees of Washington Steel Co. each contributed at that time was enough to launch a credit union for them and their co-workers. More than a half-century later, that collective investment of ...

Crop damage among topics discussed during farmers’ Harrisburg visit

The cost of fuel and fertilizer, milk prices and the destruction wrought by deer and other wildlife were among the topics Washington County farmers discussed with lawmakers in Harrisburg last week when they were there for the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau’s annual legislative conference. “There ...

Coroner responds to ‘king’s bench’ petition filed by DA, Peters Township

A disagreement between law enforcement and the Washington County coroner over whether an autopsy was needed for the investigation of a stillborn fetus at a Peters Township home led to the “king’s bench” petition filed last month with the state Supreme Court. According to court filings to ...