Fayette County judge grants mother new trial in daughter’s death
A failed attempt to smuggle drugs into the Fayette County jail with a crossbow arrow has led to Uniontown police filing criminal charges Monday against four individuals. Staff at the jail discovered the arrow June 6 near the southeast wall of the facility. According to the criminal ...
A Uniontown woman who spent close to a decade in prison after the death of her 23-month-old daughter will receive a new trial. Andrea Dusha, 35, was sentenced to nine to 19 years in prison after pleading no contest to third-degree murder in 2018. Dusha and Michael Wright Jr., 41, were both ...
A 5-year-old boy was grazed by a bullet Monday morning after playing with an unsecured firearm Fayette County District Attorney Michael Aubele said police were called at about 6:40 a.m. to 1033 Penncraft Road in Luzerne Township. According to Aubele, the boy found a pistol in his mother’s ...
Andino Vecchiolla’s two-run double sparked a six-run first inning that helped propel the Carmichaels Copperheads to a 7-3 win over the visiting Charleroi Magicians in Fayette County Baseball League action Tuesday. Both teams entered the game with 3-0 records. Carmichaels’ big first ...
High school athletes dream of leading their team to a WPIAL championship. Pete Smith accomplished that goal in not one, but two sports in the same year. The Uniontown graduate was the point guard on the Red Raiders boys basketball team that won WPIAL and PIAA championships in 1962 and also ...
A year ago, Waynesburg Central’s baseball team let a section title slip away with a couple late-season losses to Mount Pleasant then fell in the first round of the WPIAL playoffs. Despite a 13-4 overall record, the Raiders felt unfulfilled. Waynesburg broke through on two fronts in ...
On a summer evening in Milwaukee, with his team mired near the bottom of the National League, Pirates' manager Bobby Bragan emerged from the dugout mid-game. Bragan headed toward the umpires. Strangely enough, he was sipping from a small drinking carton. Moments earlier, the brash Bucco ...
It grabs your attention when a place you’ve been to and enjoyed earns acclaim. That happened to me this week when I learned of an economic study performed by the prestigious natural resource research firm Responsive Management, based in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Their research studied the ...
