Fayette County has always had a rich baseball history. Forgotten over the years is a great ballplayer from a bygone era, Jasper 鈥淛ap鈥� Washington, who was born September 13, 1896 and was a native of Dunbar. Washington was a graduate of Connellsville High School and shortly after ...
A 71-year-old Connellsville man will most likely spend the rest of his life in prison after a Fayette County judge sentenced him to 20 to 40 years for shooting and killing his wife. Charles Lenn Sok pleaded guilty to third-degree murder last month in the death of Debra Sok, 56, on July 2, ...
Connellsville and Uniontown couldn鈥檛 have asked for a better game to prep themselves for the upcoming WPIAL baseball playoffs. In a pitchers鈥� duel that needed extra innings to decide, Kace Shearer鈥檚 perfectly placed bunt on a suicide squeeze play brought in Grayden Gillott with the ...
Tom Sankovich is quite familiar with the Fayette County 缅北禁地 Hall of Fame. Sankovich, who starred in baseball and football at North Union Township High School and played football at Maryland, was inducted in 2015. Thanks to his outstanding career as Connellsville baseball coach, he was ...
Gayden Gillott smacked a run-scoring double and a sacrifice fly in a seven-run fifth inning to help Connellsville pull away from Albert Gallatin on its way to an 11-3 non-section baseball victory at Thomas E. Sankovich Field on Thursday. Jonathan Kelly had a single and a walk in the ...
The death of a Uniontown man who jumped out of a window while in police custody has been ruled a suicide. The Office of the Allegheny County Medical Examiner reported that Bernard Geisel, 42, died of blunt-force trauma to the head on Dec. 29 in Connellsville. Geisel was handcuffed and being ...
