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Charges were filed Thursday against a Uniontown man accused of aggravated assault after an alleged attack on another man that police said left him unconscious for two days. Richard Saluga, Jr., 23, is charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person. John Gamble was not awake, cognitive or able to eat until Aug. 9, two days after he was brought to WVU Medicine Uniontown Hospital, a nurse told police. When initially taken to the hospital on the night of Aug. 7, the man was treated as a stroke patient due to his medical assessment, court documents said. The criminal complaint did not list an address for Gamble. Four days after he was ...
A Farmington man is in custody on child pornography charges. Police recovered multiple images from the phone of Gary Phares Jr., 39, as the result of an investigation last month by state police in Uniontown and the state police’s Computer Crime Unit, according to charging documents. Phares is charged with possessing child sexual abuse material. Judge Nathan Henning set Phares’ bond at $100,000 Friday. He was lodged in the Fayette County jail. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 26.
Public health officials and pediatricians across Pennsylvania have raised concerns after President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week lowering the number of recommended vaccines for children. Monday's order decreases the number of diseases covered by federal vaccine ...
A Greene County man accused of setting multiple fires in Waynesburg last August, including at a church, will stand trial in November. The attorney for Jesse Patterson asked the court to set aside three days for a trial at a hearing Monday afternoon in Greene County Court of Common Pleas. ...
A Greene County man was sentenced to 5 to 10 years in prison on child pornography charges Wednesday. Jacob Rex, 20, of Crucible, will serve consecutive sentences for possessing child sexual abuse material and distributing film of child sex acts. They are being served concurrently with a sentence on separate charges for distribution, corruption of a minor and criminal use of a telecommunications facility. Rex must also register as a Type II offender under Megan’s Law. In December, TikTok alerted a national tip line to four videos Rex had uploaded on the app, including one of a girl appearing to be between 5 and 7, according to court documents. Investigators later traced the IP ...
BEALLSVILLE — Kayden Smith knew he had some tough competition ahead of him Friday morning in the TriCADA Golf Tournament at Nemacolin Country Club, but the Laurel Highlands senior didn’t allow that to intimidate him in finishing as runner-up in the annual event. Smith shot a two-over-par ...
The 51st season of the Fayette County Baseball League ended with Carmichaels earning its 15th championship under manager Dickie Krause and the Copperheads reaped plenty of hardware in the aftermath. FCBL president Ryan Encapera revealed award winners for the 2026 campaign, and the ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike McCarthy loves playing the role of teacher during what he calls “Quarterback School,” shorthand for his highly detailed process of teaching young signal callers the finer points of their position. The first-year Pittsburgh Steelers coach's latest pupils are proving ...
For months, President Trump and his administration have been fixated on one issue. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with ending the war in Iran or with the affordability of groceries and gasoline. The president’s primary goal this spring and summer has been the passage of the Safeguard ...
Have you noticed that the sun is setting earlier and rising a few minutes later each morning? We have now lost some 75 minutes of daylight and our average temperatures have slipped a few degrees downward. In fact most of the 90 degree-plus weather may be over. So far this summer we have ...
