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Peters Township teen charged with sexting Washington boy

A Peters Township teen is accused of sexting a 14-year-old boy earlier this summer and trying to set up a meeting for a sexual encounter. Alexander Scott, 18, was charged by Washington police Thursday with numerous felony counts after communicating with the boy on an internet chat board June 29 that escalated until the juvenile felt he was being harassed and contacted authorities, according to court documents. Police said the two teens exchanged sexual images through a social media app, which were found on the victim’s phone after investigators took custody of the cellular device to search it. During the text exchange, Scott allegedly told the boy to delete the images they had ...

Uniontown man charged with arson, aggravated assault

A Uniontown man is accused of intentionally setting a fire at the home of his ex-girlfriend Wednesday morning. Javon Brown, 34, was allegedly seen walking up the back steps to the kitchen window at 150 Coffee St., immediately before a fire broke out around 3 a.m., according to the criminal ...

Preserving history

Brice Rush still remembers his first King Coal Show. It came in 1957, when his dad took Rush and his twin brother to the show after they’d finished milking the cows at their dairy farm in Khedive. “He gave us each $1,” Rush said. “I spent mine on a Coke and hamburger, and still had 65 ...

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Walk on the Wild Side

Trails at Fort Necessity National Battlefield in Farmington offer a convenient and appealing place for exercise. The battlefield’s paths traverse meadows and woods just as George Washington’s little army did in his 1754 campaign that kindled the French and Indian War. For a 3-mile ...

Black rock and brown sandstone

Isn’t it amazing that Appalachian Black Lung rates are the highest in nearly 50 years as coal miners protections stall while the Black Lung Trust Fund owes $3 billion to the US Treasury because of company bankruptcies and being under insured; all of this while the administration in June ...

LH grad Humbert resigns as Belle Vernon AD

Matt Humbert is leaving Belle Vernon. Humbert, who spent over a decade at Belle Vernon, has resigned as the school’s athletic director to take the same position at Bethel Park. The news was made official in a letter sent out by Belle Vernon Superintendent Dr. Timothy Glasspool Thursday ...

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Op-Ed: Rather the ‘saving’ America, the SAVE Act is about voter suppression

For months, President Trump and his administration have been fixated on one issue. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with ending the war in Iran or with the affordability of groceries and gasoline. The president’s primary goal this spring and summer has been the passage of the Safeguard ...

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Black rock and brown sandstone

Isn’t it amazing that Appalachian Black Lung rates are the highest in nearly 50 years as coal miners protections stall while the Black Lung Trust Fund owes $3 billion to the US Treasury because of company bankruptcies and being under insured; all of this while the administration in June ...

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