Remembering a legacy
A Westmoreland County man is accused by state police of sending sexually explicit photos to a pre-teen girl living in West Bethlehem Township earlier this year and having her send a nude photo of herself. Logan Garrett Rowles, 18, of Scottdale, was arrested Thursday on felony charges alleging that he communicated with the 12-year-old girl using a social media app on their electronic devices to send and receive the sexual images, according to court documents. The girl’s grandmother became suspicious of the situation and looked through her tablet, where she found numerous sexual photographs being sent and received, police said. The conversations on the social media platform Snapchat ...
Food collection The Brownsville Area Ministerial Association’s "Food For Falcons" food program is collecting sandwich crackers and Pop-Tarts during the month of June. There will be a donation area in each participating BAMA church and at the end of the collection period the items will be gathered and taken to the Brownsville First Christian Church to be packed and sent home with selected elementary students. Yard sale Brownfield United Methodist Church, 1429 Brownfield Road, off of Hopwood Fairchance Road, will hold a yard sale starting at 8 a.m. Saturday, June 6. The fellowship hall will have refreshments and snacks. Rain date will be Saturday, June 13. Strawberry ...
WVU Medicine Uniontown Hospital has expanded its cardiovascular services, bringing comprehensive vascular diagnostic testing to Fayette County residents through a generous $50,000 gift from the Ptak family, which was made on the WVU Day of Giving in March. Longtime Uniontown residents John and ...
The Washington County commissioners approved their final round of grants for 2025 from the state’s opioid settlement fund, but not before officials had stern words for the process that initially rejected other grants and is now seemingly backtracking on those decisions. During a special ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one in a monthlong series about the people who make up our community, in celebration of America's 250th anniversary. The predicted rain was late (if, indeed, it planned to arrive at all), so Dorothy Parker stood beneath a cloudless blue sky with a stretch of dock all to ...
Add one more honor for recent Geibel Catholic graduate Emma Larkin. The Belmont Abbey College women's basketball recruit ended her record-breaking high school career as the Lady Gators and Fayette County's all-time scorer leader with 2,541 points. The Pennsylvania House of Representatives ...
HOUSTON (AP) — Ryan O’Hearn homered and drove in three runs to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 5-1 win over the Houston Astros on Thursday night. O’Hearn hit an RBI single in the first inning and his two-run homer in the sixth made it 4-0. Pittsburgh’s Jared Jones (1-0) allowed ...
Have you ever wondered about how it all happened? Why does a certain plant grow in the shade, while another must have a sunny location to reach its potential to just survive? What did the first plants look like and how different were they from what we see today? For billions of years the ...
Memorial Day, a day set aside to honor fallen veterans, is a red letter day for American labor - literally. On Memorial Day 1937, union blood was spilled in Chicago, when 10 were killed and nearly a hundred protesters were injured during a steelworkers' strike rally. It was a tragic, ...
(To request to have an item added to the Outdoors Calendar or to send a digital image of your harvested bear, deer or turkey photo for possible publication please email hssports@heraldstandard.com.) HUNTER-TRAPPER INDEPENDENT STUDY COURSE NOTE: Must be 11 years old to register. Students must ...
