Laurel Highlands OKs tax increase, budget
Four people are accused of aggravated animal cruelty and related crimes after they allegedly kept dozens of animals — some of which were found dead — in filthy conditions without adequate food in Greene County. Charges were filed Friday with Judge Thomas Ankrom against Timothy Cook, 21, of Marianna; Patricia Brungardt, 51, and Streame Chrest, 24, both of Creekside; and Thomas Brungardt, 44, of Derry. The investigation dates back to February, when a state police trooper from the Waynesburg barracks was called to a garage in Cumberland Township where a dead dog was found inside a towed vehicle. The vehicle, which troopers noted to have a “foul odor of decomposition, feces and ...
The Dunbar Township Tax Office reminds property owners that the last day to pay county/township real estate and per capita tax without penalty is June 30. The office will have extended hours from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday with no break for lunch. All payments postmarked June 30 will be accepted. Taxpayers can also pay online by visiting allpaid.com. Pennsylvania law states that failure to receive a tax notice does not relieve taxpayers from their responsibility to pay the taxes due. The tax office can fax, email or text a copy of the notice upon request. Property owners can call the office at 724-626-0804, email dunbartownshiptaxoffice@yahoo.com or text 724-323-3834.
Three kayakers were rescued after falling into the Youghiogheny River in Upper Tyrone Township Sunday afternoon. Crews were called out at 1:42 p.m. after receiving a report that kayaks carrying three people had overturned near Everson, Fayette County 911 said. The three people had made their way to a riverbank on the Upper Tyrone side but could not be reached due to the terrain, according to a Facebook post from the Everson Fire Department. Firefighters from Morrell, which was also called, could see the kayakers and made phone contact with them while they awaited rescue, the Everson department said. The alarm was upgraded to send out the New Haven Hose and Dawson departments, both ...
Multiple consecutive days with temperatures in the mid- to upper 90s and "feels like" temperatures around 100 degrees are forecast for Southwestern Pennsylvania this week, as residents prepare to celebrate America’s 250th birthday on July 4. According to the National Weather Service in ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one in a monthlong series of profiles of the people who live and work in Washington, Greene and Fayette counties, in celebration of the nation's 250th anniversary. Whenever Jean Turcheck would travel — for work meetings in the United States, or her 17 trips for fun to ...
Belle Vernon has been at the top of the Fayette American Legion baseball standings all season with Uniontown and Thomas Jefferson battling for second and third place. There is another team that's been lurking as a fourth top threat to be one of the two teams out of Fayette's division that ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cristopher Sánchez returned to form after a couple of shaky outings, allowing only three hits in seven innings as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-0 on Tuesday night. Sánchez (10-3) struck out nine and walked only two in becoming the first ...
THURSDAY PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 12:35 p.m. DISTRICT BASEBALL FAYETTE COUNTY LEAGUE Hopwood at Mill Run, 6 p.m. FAYETTE AMERICAN LEGION Thomas Jefferson at Charleroi, dh, 5 p.m. Uniontown at Belle Vernon, dh, 6 p.m.
Memorial Day, a day set aside to honor fallen veterans, is a red letter day for American labor - literally. On Memorial Day 1937, union blood was spilled in Chicago, when 10 were killed and nearly a hundred protesters were injured during a steelworkers' strike rally. It was a tragic, ...
(To request to have an item added to the Outdoors Calendar or to send a digital image of your harvested bear, deer or turkey photo for possible publication please email hssports@heraldstandard.com.) HUNTER-TRAPPER INDEPENDENT STUDY COURSE NOTE: Must be 11 years old to register. Students must ...
