A nearly 40-year veteran of the Smock Volunteer Fire Company died Sunday following an explosion inside his garage, according to state police. Police reported that William “Kim” Jesko, 69, was taken to WVU Medicine Uniontown Hospital after the blast at his home on Pleasant View Smock ...

According to a criminal complaint, a Smock man tried to run from authorities after crashing his SUV into a wooded area in an attempt to avoid police. State police said Frederick Briscoe, 57, was driving on Route 119 in Dunbar Township around 3:30 a.m. on Tuesday when authorities noticed he ...

Debbie Williams, a deacon at Pleasant View Presbyterian Church in Smock, applies ashes to Katherine Barbabella of Smock for the church’s “Ashes to Go” service on Ash Wednesday. Parishioners were able to drive up to the church to take part in Ash Wednesday services without leaving their ...