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Jeffries retiring as Fayette County magisterial judge

A Fayette County magisterial court judge is leaving the bench. Jennifer Jeffries, whose district encompasses Menallen and South Union townships, is retiring effective June 30, said Deputy Court Administrator Lori Lambie. She was first elected in 2015, winning re-election to another six-year ...

Cellphone ban gets good reception at Uniontown school

Lafayette Middle School students were given an early taste of what life might be like for all Pennsylvania students soon. For the last two months of the school year, the school tried a pilot program where students could not access their cellphones during the day, Superintendent Daniel Bosnic ...

Community mourns death of C-H grad, Waynesburg U. wrestler

Jessie Orbin, a standout wrestler at Waynesburg University and a PIAA Class AA state qualifier at Chartiers-Houston, died following a motorcycle accident Saturday night in North Strabane Township. Orbin, 20, was driving a motorcycle on Linden Road when he crashed at about 10:30 p.m. He ...

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Persistence pays off

Caden Holland attempted to try out for Barca Academy when he was 12 years old, but after reaching out to the only U.S. Soccer Development Academy program in the country with a full-time residential program partnered with a top-international professional club, the striker was informed he would ...

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WVU’s magical run ends in CWS semifinals

OMAHA, Neb. – Ben Lumsden’s fly ball in the bottom of the ninth Wednesday, man, for a split second, it looked really good for West Virginia. “Definitely thought it was a homer,” WVU baseball coach Steve Sabins later said following the Mountaineers’ 12-7 loss against North Carolina in ...

Smithfield-Fairchance rallies past Charleroi

Smithfield-Fairchance stormed back from a 3-0 deficit with four runs in both the fourth and fifth innings on its way to defeating visiting Charleroi, 8-3, in Fayette American Legion Baseball action on Thursday. AJ Watson was 2 for 2 with a sacrifice fly and two RBIs, Ben Lilley had two hits ...

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OP-ED: Changing the direction of U.S. labor

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, ...

Outdoors

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Anglers’ opinions differ on forward-facing sonar

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Ah, the serenity of fishing. Just an angler, a fishing pole and maybe thousands of dollars worth of sonar equipment offering an exact image of what that walleye or bass is doing in the watery depths below. It's called forward-facing sonar, and the hot-selling ...

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