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Connellsville teen charged with attempted homicide

A Connellsville teenager is facing criminal charges after he was accused of shooting at a man through a window Sunday night. Noah Dove, 17, is charged with attempted homicide, attempted aggravated assault, discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure, receiving stolen property, carrying firearms without a license, possession of a firearm by a minor and reckless endangerment. Police said shortly before 11:30 p.m., they responded to a report of a shot fired into the apartment window of Patrick Scheller on West Crawford Avenue in Connellsville. Scheller had yelled at a group of people outside his window for being loud, after which Dove fired a shot before running off into a nearby ...

Amwell supervisors table vote on data center ordinance

The Amwell Township Board of Supervisors opted to table an adoption vote on a data center ordinance last week after receiving pushback from residents. More than 50 people attended the Thursday night special meeting, with late-comers spilling out into the hallway after the main meeting room ...

Kids' play

WashPA Outdoors Founder Pam Kilgore hopes that the newly opened sensory play space in Washington Park will give local children an engaging, entertaining experience, even if they get a little bit muddy. The sensory playground located at the log cabin that serves as the headquarters of WashPA ...

Swinging into action

Several years ago, Bob Garbart and his wife, Marilyn, were walking to a church council meeting when they saw neighborhood kids playing in the adjacent parking lot in Uniontown’s East End. With no equipment set up for them, they were playing basketball on a broken portable hoop. “And Bob ...

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Greene machine

WASHINGTON — Carmichaels and West Greene defended their seeds in the quarterfinals of the WPIAL Class A softball playoffs at the same field Monday night at Trinity Middle School to set-up a showdown between the traditional softball powers and Greene County rivals. While the third-seeded ...

Vikings advance to Class 3A semifinals

The old adage that it’s hard to beat a team three times didn’t come through for Burell, as Mount Pleasant defeated its Section 1-3A rival, 9-4, on Monday in the quarterfinals of the WPIAL Class 3A softball playoffs at Gateway High School. The Vikings (14-4) will play Keystone Oaks (17-4) ...

Top-seeded Fort Cherry ousts California from playoffs

McMURRAY – The Fort Cherry High School baseball team’s potent lineup was late getting started Monday night in the WPIAL Class 2A quarterfinals. The reason for that was the Rangers’ game against section rival California began 50 minutes after its scheduled starting time because a Class A ...

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Cheers & Jeers

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 ...

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Easy insurance

It’s National Safe Boating Week. From May 16-22, state fishery and boating agencies, boating trade groups, US Coast Guard, and the US Army Corps of Engineers will be celebrating safe boating, reminding boaters of safe practices on the water and, unfortunately, summarizing the past year’s ...

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