A Brownsville man who served as a volunteer firefighter and a youth football coach allegedly helped to plan multiple instances of sexual assault of a boy, according to charges filed on Wednesday. James Brooks Jr., 46, allegedly told Patricia Mudery, 47, of Uniontown, how he wanted her to ...
On Sunday, Leigh Shields wheeled out about 20 green wagons, filling each with tropical plants, hanging baskets and flats of flowers. Those, along with delicate herbs and other annuals, took up residence in an already-crowded greenhouse to wait out the frost at Shields Herb & Flower Farm in ...
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG 鈥� This year, every member of Pennsylvania鈥檚 House ...
Two women are charged with failing to report suspected child abuse against a 9-year-old girl believed to have been killed last year, as well as other children in the same home. Theresa Shipley, 63, of Scottdale, and Sandra Umensetter, 51, of Connellsville, both face three counts each of ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. 鈥� An eagle chick from the Mon Valley is resting and recuperating at the Cheat Lake-based Avian Conservation Center of Appalachia after an emergency weekend surgery to extract a fishhook from its stomach. The bird 鈥� known as USS11 鈥� is part of a family of eagles 鈥� ...
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