Greene man sentenced to 32 to 64 1/2 years for abusing infant son
Throughout Jessica Welsh’s slide show, Zachary Bryte didn’t react. Not at the image of his son, Kai, as a healthy newborn. Not at the photos taken at the hospital 31 days later, documenting the litany of severe breaks, bruises and other abuse at Bryte’s hands that had left him on the brink of death. And not at the long list of after effects that Welsh, a Greene County Children and Youth Services case manager who subsequently adopted Kai, said will severely limit what he will do in a shortened life. “He’s never going to get married, and go to school, go to prom,” she told Bryte at sentencing. “His life was stolen because you took it from him, and he didn’t deserve ...
A Connellsville man was killed Thursday morning in a two-vehicle crash in Uniontown. The crash occurred around 4 a.m. in the northbound lanes of Route 119, just before the Main Street exit to Route 21, according to Fayette County dispatch. The Fayette County coroner’s office identified Lee Black, 23, as the victim in the crash. Northbound lanes of Route 119 were closed to traffic for several hours. Additional information about the circumstances of the crash had not been released as of Thursday afternoon.
Charges were filed Thursday morning against a Uniontown man accused of fleeing the scene of a fatal crash in Redstone Township Wednesday. Mark Dimatteo, 66, was detained by police after people provided information identifying him and his Chevy Colorado in surveillance footage, according to ...
Fayette County is going after additional improvements at Dunlap Creek Park. The county board of commissioners voted to apply for a $75,710 grant from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission for a new Americans with Disabilities act-compliant boat dock at the park, located off Route 40 in ...
Exchanging hugs with their parents or climbing off the school bus, students arrived on the front steps of Ben Franklin Elementary/Middle School in Uniontown Tuesday morning for the first day of class. Students in Laurel Highlands, Brownsville, and Uniontown began school Tuesday, following ...
The high school football season kicks off Friday night with four games pitting local teams against each other. All 16 area teams will be involved in non-conference action, including Albert Gallatin which hosts Burrell. The Colonials, under coach Drew Dindl, return to the WPIAL riding a ...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jackson Merrill doubled, tripled, drove in a run and scored another to help Randy Vásquez reach 10 victories as the San Diego Padres beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-0 on Wednesday to avoid a three-game sweep. The Padres remained in possession of the National League's third ...
FRIDAY PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m. DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Uniontown at Brownsville, Redstone Field, 7 p.m. Mount Pleasant at Laurel Highlands, 7 p.m. Southmoreland at Connellsville, 7 p.m. Burrell at Albert Gallatin, 7 p.m. West Greene at ...
The Civil War brought tremendous suffering. The death of Robert J. Brownfield is illustrative. Cpl. Brownfield of Fayette County was shot in the arm near Spotsylvania Courthouse in Virginia. Forgotten or simply overlooked, he went unattended for a full day. Taken first to Fredericksburg, ...
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