Lawmaker calls for state audit, investigation of Fay-Penn use of public funds
An inmate formerly held at the state prison in Luzerne Township has been accused of raping another inmate. Court paperwork, filed Monday, alleged William Junior Savage, 49, of Somerset, assaulted the alleged victim in September 2025 at the State Correctional Institution at Fayette. State police said after the man was assaulted, he sought medical attention at the prison. When police spoke to him, the alleged victim told them he was nearing the time when he could be paroled and wanted to stay out of trouble, according to court documents. He said Savage told him he knew he would not fight because of that. When police interviewed Savage, he told police the sex was consensual. Savage is ...
A group of seven men who robbed motorists at rest stops in 2023 pleaded guilty Monday. According to a press release from state Attorney General Dave Sunday, the men pleaded guilty to five counts of third-degree felony robbery, and a Westmoreland County judge sentenced them each to at least three months in prison. Charged in the case were John Black, 41, Wendell Compton, 57, Robert Murphy, 73, Darrell Noel, 41, Robert Chandler, 47, Adam Smith, 41, and Danny Williams, 51. The men are all from Cincinnati, Ohio, except for Compton, who is from Knoxville, Tenn. In April 2023, the group targeted truckers and other drivers at the Pennsylvania Welcome Center in Donegal Township, a truck stop ...
The Ks Foundation raised more than $4,200 during its Dodge for a Cause dodgeball fundraiser Feb. 22 at the Uniontown YMCA. Ten teams participated in the round-robin event called “A Successful Celebration of Community and Kids’ Dreams.” The Ks foundation, which began in July 2025, covers registration for youth sports for families that earn $49,000 or less yearly. More fundraising events are planned to support the foundation’s mission to help every child participate in sports.
Charleroi police charged two more parents who were living with their children in a building without running water or sewage. Lucner Joseph, 43, and Navilia Norazier, 40, were each charged last week with felonies of endangering the welfare of children. Joseph and Norazier were living at 515 McKean Ave. with their four children. It is the same building where 40-year-old Jackson Alexis and 27-year-old Roldy Noel were living with two children. Their children were allegedly using a bucket to go to the bathroom. According to the criminal complaint, the building was recently condemned and police were “conducting a follow up.” Charging documents state that officers found Norazier in ...
Even as several polls suggest Americans have a mixed to negative view of the American war against Iran, U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler and both of Pennsylvania’s U.S. senators have expressed support for the military strikes that started Saturday. Reschenthaler, a Republican whose district ...
A Farmington man pleaded guilty to distributing videos of minor children engaged in sexually explicit conduct, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Nathan Fike, 41, sent the videos to an undercover FBI agent in October 2023, according to a release from the U.S. attorney’s office. When federal agents executed a search warrant at Fike’s home, they found additional videos and photos of young children. Fike will be sentenced in June, and faces a minimum of five years in prison, with a maximum of 20 years. He can also be fined up to $250,000. The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the ...
On Feb. 26, Mark Bedillion and his daughter, Lily, drove to a bee yard they operate on a property in Industry, Beaver County. Bee season is underway, and the pair were making a routine visit to the bee yard - one of more than 25 bee yards Bedillion Honey Farm owns across Southwestern ...
NAME: Kasey Mahoney SCHOOL: Laurel Highlands CLASS: Senior SPORT: Swimming MAHONEY’S WEEK: The PennWest Clarion commit won his first WPIAL championship last Friday when he topped the field in the 100-yard breaststroke for the Class 2A title in the boys division. Mahoney won the race ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia was presented with a can’t-lose situation on Tuesday. As a collective group, the Mountaineers walked into a half-empty Bramlage Coliseum and said, “We’ll see about that.” Kansas State guard Nate Johnson flirted with a triple-double, finishing ...
BOSTON (AP) — Marat Khusnutdinov and Casey Mittelstadt scored less than a minute apart early in the first period and the Boston Bruins held on for a 2-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday night. Pittsburgh's Erik Karlsson scored just 42 seconds into the game, but Khusnutdinov ...
Cheers: We’re in the home stretch of the Herald-Standard’s annual Give-A-Christmas campaign to support the Salvation Army service centers in Fayette County. It’s not too late to contribute to help us meet our $10,000 goal. All donations remain in the local area to help fund the ...
Do we really know what climate change will do to our planet? Deniers think it’s all a big hoax. They are quick to point to all that snow from the storm that buried the Northeast and what about the below-zero weather we had across Southwestern Pennsylvania and the chilly days in Florida this ...
