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West Nile virus detected in Greene County

West Nile virus has been detected in mosquitoes in Greene County. The Greene County Conservation District said four mosquito samples tested positive for West Nile virus - two in Cumberland Township, and one each in Morgan Township and Waynesburg Borough. At this time, there are no known ...

Greene man charged with homicide in 2025 death

A Nemacolin man is charged with homicide after he was accused of severely assaulting a woman he lived with in May 2025. Several witnesses told investigators that Jerome Rafail, 51, had a history of assaulting 31-year-old Shayla Black before the assaults that led to her death in May, according to court documents. Charges against Rafail were filed Tuesday with District Judge Lee Watson. Police said Black had numerous visible injuries, a broken jaw and significant wounds on both shins when they responded to the report of a woman who had stopped breathing at 258 Grant St. in Nemacolin during the early morning hours of May 19. An autopsy on Black conducted by Dr. Jennifer Hammers ...

Uniontown school board votes to close two schools

Two Uniontown Area School District buildings will close at the end of the school year. The district board of education voted 6-3 Tuesday night to shutter Franklin Elementary School in Vanderbilt and Marclay Middle School in Markleysburg in what district administrators said was a response to ...

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Worth the wait

CALIFORNIA – There were six touchdowns in the first 19 minutes of Thursday’s football game between PennWest California and Charleston. If it seemed like it took a long time for that amount of points to be put on the scoreboard, that’s because they were scored over the span of more than ...

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Rodriguez: WVU will be ‘fun to watch’

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — For a fan, West Virginia football’s 2025 season wasn’t very fun. The Ohio game wasn’t enjoyable to watch, the UCF was brutal knowing the circumstances, the start to the Big 12 was rough, and it crescendoed to a 49-0 loss to Texas Tech to close out the season. Rich ...

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Pirates use 6 relievers in 5-2 win over Giants

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Six relievers combined on a two-hitter to lift the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 5-2 win over the San Francisco Giants on Thursday afternoon. Rookie Khristian Curtis (1-0) earned the victory by working three-plus innings. The 24-year-old right-hander gave up the first two runs of ...

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Op-Ed: Rather the ‘saving’ America, the SAVE Act is about voter suppression

For months, President Trump and his administration have been fixated on one issue. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with ending the war in Iran or with the affordability of groceries and gasoline. The president’s primary goal this spring and summer has been the passage of the Safeguard ...

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How was your summer?

Compared with last year’s drought and excessive heat this was a pretty nice summer. We did have a few too many rainy weekends but overall we managed plenty of nice, sunny, comfortable days and the rains we experienced kept lawns green and crops and flowers happy. Meteorological summer ...

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