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A Waynesburg man allegedly used a buck knife to stab another man at a Greene County home. Waynesburg police found Brian Willard with uncontrolled bleeding to the left side of his stomach after Christopher Noble, 44, stabbed him on Thursday, court paperwork alleged. An officer waited with Willard until an ambulance arrived to take him to UPMC Greene. His condition was not immediately available. According to court paperwork, Noble stabbed Willard at a mobile home at 260 W. High St. around 10 p.m. Thursday. Police were called to the trailer after a report of a man with a knife who hit a woman and found Willard walking away from the trailer with a woman later identified as Rebecca ...
Days after it voted to lay off police department staff, the Masontown Borough Council is planning to undo the move. The council has scheduled a special Saturday night meeting where it will vote on a resolution to recall all officers it let go Monday. In that 6-1 vote, the council approved layoffs of the borough’s police chief, two full-time officers and four part-time officers, citing a desire to lower the borough’s property taxes. Nearly all of those revenues go toward the police department. Council President John Stoffa said the decision to schedule Saturday’s meeting came after three members of the council, the mayor and police chief met for a discussion Thursday ...
State police arrested a Fayette County man accused of being at the center of a string of thefts involving sports trading cards. Ryan Michael Rates, 44, of South Union Township, faces felony charges of corrupt organizations, organized retail theft and receiving stolen property. According to the criminal complaint, at about noon Dec. 23, police were called to the Target at 120 Matthew Drive in South Union after more than $1,200 in trading cards were stolen. Charging documents state that similar thefts had occurred at multiple stores between Dec. 18 and 3. Investigators identified four people involved in those thefts, but they were not named in court paperwork. One of the suspects told ...
State police arrested a Richeyville man Wednesday on charges of possession of child sexual abuse material. Dustin Kenyan McMasters, 20, faces 20 felony charges of sexual abuse of children - possession of child sexual abuse material and disseminating photos/videos of child sex acts, and four additonal felonies of criminal use of a communication facility. According to the criminal complaint, in May 2025, messaging app Kik reported that an account belonging to McMasters had uploaded multiple files depicting the sexual abuse of children. Police served a search warrant Wednesday at McMasters’ home in the 800 block of Wood Street and seized a phone that was found to contain child sexual ...
Uniontown has suffered a couple closely-fought losses in Section 1-5A play this season where foul shooting was its downfall. That wasn’t the case Friday night. The Red Raiders got off to a strong start, built as much as a 15-point lead and then hit clutch free throws down the stretch to ...
Laurel Highlands graduate Rodney Gallagher III has found his landing spot after leaving West Virginia via the transfer portal. Gallagher traveled to Tucson to visit Arizona on Friday and announced on Saturday on social media that he has committed to Wildcats, which means he will remain in the ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Tomlin has no interest in shucking the weight of the Pittsburgh Steelers' recent playoff failures onto the shoulders of his players heading into Monday night's opening-round visit by Houston. “I’m certainly not going to unpack my bags on the collective’s bed, ...
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 ...
After an interesting weather month in December with periods of cold and snow along with several nice breaks that allowed some mild sunny days to creep back into play, the overall month ended up just a tad below normal in the temperature department and above normal snowfall. The long-term ...
