Peer power
Three schools in the Uniontown Area School District were locked down Thursday morning while police searched for an individual experiencing a mental health crisis. State police said the crisis involved a man from South Union Township, but did not specify what occurred. Shortly before 10 a.m., state police posted to social media that schools in the area would be locked down. Affected by the lock down were Uniontown High School, Hatfield Elementary School and Hutchinson Elementary School. The individual was located and the lock downs lifted after about 30 minutes.
Steven Bradley Ward had a generous heart and was a friend to all, according to his sister. When he died of a pulmonary embolism in 2015 at age 34, his family wanted to honor his unwavering kindness. They started the nonprofit Steven Bradley Ward Foundation to provide financial help to those ...
Recently, a friend of Paige Szuhoza’s had a panic attack – racing heart, shaky, dizzy. Szuhoza, a junior at Ringgold High School, sprung into action. She calmly told her friend to breathe in and then used the 3-3-3 Rule, a grounding technique used to calm down by naming three things ...
The contractor for the renovations of the front of the Waynesburg borough office said he anticipates work being completed within the next four weeks after a series of delays he attributed to suppliers and subcontractors. Prompt Quality Painting of Waynesburg was awarded the bid for the project ...
A family-owned, Chicago-based investment company is closing in on a deal to purchase the Pittsburgh Penguins from Fenway Sports Group. Multiple outlets, including Victory Sports and ESPN, citing anonymous sources, reported Wednesday that the Hoffmann Family of Companies is nearing the ...
West Virginia signed a lot of players during the early signing period. Forty-nine high school and junior college players signed their letters of intent, which was the most in the county. Rich Rodriguez said he’d have a big class, and he wasn’t lying. WVU’s class didn’t come from one ...
Jefferson-Morgan outlasted Bentworth in a 39-32 victory on Wednesday night in Section 3-2A boys wrestling action at Bentworth High School. The Rockets’ E.J. Lingenfield (152), Geno Orlandi (160), Landon Heath (285) and Caleb Dulaney (114) won by fall. Jefferson-Morgan’s Payton Bastian ...
Every time a high-profile shooting makes headlines, America relives the same cycle: shock, outrage, and the inevitable chorus of demands to ban “assault weapons,” defund the police, blame political opponents, and spend more federal money in cities. But these slogans conceal more than they ...
AccuWeather, the independent weather provider service, published an article last week showing the FEMA Risk Maps ranking every county in the United States for their susceptibility to natural disasters, including hurricanes, floods, droughts, winter storms, extreme heat and cold, high winds ...
