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Three Uniontown men are accused of a June assault against a couple outside their home in Uniontown. The men — Javon Brown, 33; Kevin Johnson, 35; and Jacob Stewart, 27 — are charged with aggravated assault, riot with intent to commit a felony, simple assault and harassment. On the night of June 21, the men are accused of severely beating Robert Engle outside his Pershing Court residence, causing an orbital fracture and three facial fractures, according to their criminal complaints. Uniontown police, who spoke with Engle that night, said he was bleeding from multiple places on his face and had swelling two to four inches wide from his forehead to his right cheek around the eye, ...
A Union Township man with a history of inappropriately touching young children is accused of indecent assault after he allegedly touched one girl’s chest under her shirt and followed other children around at a local grocery store. Dustin Arch Deshong, who is already listed on the state police Megan’s Law website for separate indecent assault convictions more than a decade ago, was charged last week with indecent assault of a child and multiple stalking counts for separate incidents in late May and early June. A couple was grocery shopping at Giant Eagle in Union Township on May 31 with their two young children and a friend’s daughter when a man began following the girls in the ...
The Albert Gallatin School District will look at the costs of closing both middle schools and assigning students to the high school building as a possible prelude to wider consolidation of buildings in the district. The board voted 6-0 Thursday night to direct the administration to set up ...
Two Fayette County residents will face trial on allegations of failing to report abuse and neglect of three children in a Dunbar home, including a 9-year-old whose guardians are charged with killing her last year. Theresa Shipley, 63, of Scottdale, and Sandra Umensetter, 51, of Connellsville, ...
Shawn Clemmer loves history, particularly local basketball history. “I've always been a historian and a stat person,” said the 1992 Albert Gallatin graduate. “Ever since I was young I've always kept notes of interesting facts and stats and things like that on basketball. “I played ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — There aren't a lot of West Virginia men's basketball players in the NBA, but the few made a lot of noise Wednesday in a busy offseason. As the president of basketball operations for the Philadelphia 76ers, former Mountaineers basketball player Mike Gansey made one of, if ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Struggling Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes isn’t pretending to know the answers to his sudden slipups on the mound, from where he’s dominated for two seasons. At least he wasn’t offering any on Wednesday night after his worst outing of the year. Skenes (6-8) ...
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, ...
The Garden Club Federation of Pennsylvania held a statewide garden tour on June 27 that showcased gardens across the entire state of Pennsylvania. Here in Fayette County the Great Meadows Garden Club had seven sites to visit and what a joy it was to see the talents of the participants. The ...
