More than 250 people braved bitterly cold temperatures Thursday morning to ring in the New Year with a frigid splash into the Youghiogheny River for the 22nd annual Polar Bear Jump in Connellsville. The air temperature hovered around 17 degrees when the participants 鈥� many wearing patriotic ...
The Great Crossings Bridge that wowed hordes of visitors last year when the early 19th-century span emerged from the murky Youghiogheny River Lake is making an encore this fall, although the federal government鈥檚 shutdown could hamper the public鈥檚 ability to see it this time around. Thanks ...
A kayaker paddles over the falls at Ohiopyle State Park during a Saturday afternoon trip down the Youghiogheny River in Fayette County. The kayaker and another paddler both safely made it to the other side of the falls and continued floating down the Yough.
A man who attacked two people with a metal baseball inside a Connellsville home on New Year鈥檚 Day this year pleaded guilty Wednesday and was immediately sentenced to serve time in a state prison. Joshua Lee Mulnix, 31, of Connellsville, appeared in Fayette County Court of Common Pleas and ...
Construction on the span to replace the historic Layton Bridge over the Youghiogheny River near Perryopolis is expected to begin late next year. The state Department of Transportation updated its website this week detailing the progress being made to repair the 132-year-old span in Perry ...
Connellsville is now a 鈥渃ity divided.鈥� The Crawford Avenue Bridge that carries Route 711 over the Youghiogheny River closed to traffic Tuesday morning as part of a yearlong reconstruction project to rebuild the span connecting the eastern and western sides of Connellsville. Construction ...
