Fayette man accused of driving drunk, killing motorcyclist
UPMC Washington has received the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus quality achievement award for providing evidence-based stroke care for the 17th consecutive year. Stroke is the fourth-leading cause of death in the U.S., claiming over 160,000 lives annually, and it remains a leading cause of long-term adult disability, with approximately 795,000 new or recurring strokes occurring each year, according to the American Heart Association. A stroke occurs when a blood vessel supplying the brain is blocked by a clot or ruptures, preventing blood and oxygen from reaching brain tissue and causing brain cells to die. Early detection and rapid treatment ...
A Monongahela couple is facing felony child endangerment charges after their 2-year-old daughter was found with more than two dozen bite marks across her body and a laceration on her abdomen that required stitches. City of Monongahela police were dispatched to Penn Highlands Mon Valley ...
More than 650 local households have been invited to participate in a federal health survey during a two-month stop in Washington County. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is an annual data collection program run by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
At the Fayette County Fairgrounds Wednesday night, people kept craning their necks in amazement. The sight that drew multiple comparisons to New York City was the fair’s new small species barn, which many were seeing for the first time at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. At 100-by-176 feet, ...
Madison Wiltrout has had many high points in her javelin career. One of the most memorable was her heave of 185 feet, 8 inches on May 7, 2015, at Norwin, as a sophomore at Connellsville, which still stands as the girls national high school record. Wiltrout went on to become a four-time ...
Hopwood Village Plaza found itself in a familiar position Thursday in Game 2 of their Fayette County Baseball League first-round playoff game at Charleroi. The Magicians pushed across three runs in the first inning, but Hopwood rallied to tie it and pulled out a 5-4 win in eight innings to ...
Carmichaels' 4-1 lead seemed fairly safe as it headed into the seventh inning of its Fayette County Baseball League playoff game on Thursday at Mill Run. The Copperheads made completely sure they wound complete a sweep of their best-of-three first-round playoff series in their final ...
At about 9 years old, I decided I wanted to build a treehouse. We had a sturdy black walnut tree in our backyard, and I had amassed a pile of old weathered fence slats with enough splinters to disable a battalion of enemy soldiers. I had a handful of nails I had painstakingly pulled from ...
Yes, crop damage from overabundant deer is a big problem for agriculture in this region. And everyone agrees that deer on the highway are a hazard to motorists’ safety (not enough of a concern, though, to curb speed). Less obvious but serious for the future is the damage too many deer ...
