Fayette, Greene, Washington and Westmoreland counties all ranked above the statewide average opioid-related hospital admissions rate in 2017, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.Fayette County had the fourth-highest rate of ...
A Cumberland Township detective has been dropped from a federal lawsuit filed earlier this year by Masontown’s council president, in which he alleged his own borough’s police officers tried to intimidate him by searching his home as retribution for criticism of the department.Both sides ...
The U.S. Small Business Administration will award low-interest loans to qualifying victims of flooding last month in the region caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Gordon.The money follows Gov. Tom Wolf’s request to the SBA to declare a disaster in Westmoreland County following ...
An Advanced Disposal garbage truck careened into the Uniontown City Police station Monday morning, totaling a police car, damaging a second police car and tearing down wires and barricades.“It shook the building,” said Uniontown City Police Capt. David Rutter.No injuries were reported. He ...
The state court system has moved cases out of a Fayette County district court where a shooting spree ended Wednesday with the gunman shot dead by police.The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts said Thursday that District Judge Daniel Shimshock's office in Masontown will remain closed ...
MASONTOWN – Crystal Dowdell told Fayette County Court in her Aug. 27 request for a protective order from her husband that he had grabbed her and threatened her with a gun three days earlier when she asked for a divorce.Weeks later, Patrick Shaun Dowdell would run through a crowded magisterial ...
