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Traffic fatalities decreased in Pennsylvania in 2025 while holding steady or decreasing in the region, according to state statistics. The statewide total dropped to 1,047, 80 people fewer than in 2024 and the lowest number since record keeping began in 1928, the Pennsylvania Department of ...

A sting operation in Fayette County led to the arrest Saturday morning of a man accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl. State troopers began investigating Monday after receiving a report that Samuel Newman, 53, of Bruceton Mills, W.Va., had committed sexual crimes against the ...

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A Fayette County man was killed in a single-vehicle accident when his pickup truck crashed Sunday morning in North Union Township. Joseph Franks, 52, of Lemont Furnace, was the only person inside the vehicle at the time of the crash on Mt. Braddock Road, according to a release from Fayette ...

Uniontown hosts Americanism parade

Uniontown's May Day Parade, the 93rd annual Americanism Day Parade, was held Friday at 7 p.m. downtown. American Legion Lafayette Post 51 hosted the parade. Participants ranged from local first responders, bands, veterans groups, students and more.

At first, the crowd at Tanger Outlets could have been mistaken for the normal cluster that forms when some friends run into each other on a busy shopping day. It kept growing past coincidence, until more than 80 people milled around between the Coach and American Eagle stores. Then, at 2 ...