A Smithfield woman who pleaded guilty last week to chaining her mentally disabled adult foster daughter to bed was sentenced to nine to 18 months in jail on Monday, but immediately released for time served. In tears, Marylou Dewitt, 54, told Fayette County President Judge Steve P. Leskinen ...
On Monday, Eric Dolfi, 44, of Smithfield entered a general guilty plea to theft, according to District Attorney Mike Aubele. Dolfi initially pleaded guilty to 494 theft-related counts last fall, and was sentenced to one to four years in prison in February. After the sentence was handed ...
A truck driver suspected in the death of a Fayette County man who plunged to his death in a West Virginia lake in January was arrested in the state of California Thursday. The arrest of Sukhjinder Singh, 37, of New York, follows the mistaken arrest of another man in Phoenix on Tuesday who ...
Sophia Zalar of Carmichaels is making the most of her college experience at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus. The sophomore is enrolled in the pre-veterinary program, while also playing volleyball, basketball and softball for the school. Since her field of study is not offered as a ...
A Point Marion woman is accused of leading police on a vehicle chase that began in Monongalia County, W. Va., and ended on Water Street in Smithfield, according to a criminal complaint. State police alleged Malorie Christine Crow, 38, “fled at a high rate of speed” from a traffic stop ...
Judge Nancy D. Vernon asked those representing the Fayette County Association for the Blind in court on Monday if they preferred the man who stole $47,949.21 from the nonprofit pay restitution or go to jail. “We want to be paid back for everything he took from us,” said Lawrence Kiefer, ...
