Confluence, PA

CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. — A Connellsville man is facing charges after he allegedly admitted to shooting and killing his wife. According to the criminal complaint, police responded to 1001 Morrell Avenue around 11:47 p.m. on July 2 for reports of a homicide. The call originally came in for a fireworks...

A Fayette County man is accused of shooting and killing his wife. According to the criminal complaint, Debra Sok was shot to death at a home on Morrell Avenue in Connellsville late Saturday night. Police say her husband, 69-year-old Charles Sok, admitted to officers that he shot her. Police say...

BRUCETON MILLS, W.Va (WDTV) - A Preston County man faces charges after officers said he threw a knife at a patrol car while walking down the road. An officer was patrolling North Preston Highway in Bruceton Mills when Wayne Rishel, 29, “took a pitcher’s stance” and threw an object that nearly hit the officer’s patrol car, according to a criminal complaint.

Chants of "Save hospice house" rang out Tuesday outside UPMC Somerset, as more than 100 people attended a protest of the closing of inpatient services at In Touch Hospice House. Last week it was reported that In Touch — a 10-room facility in Somerset Township — is set to end...

A Pennsylvania man has been charged with criminal homicide after he allegedly found out his wife was cheating on him and shot and killed her. Charles Sok of Connellsville allegedly shot Debra Sok in the chest because he caught his wife cheating on him, WPXI reports. Police were reportedly called for a fireworks complaint and […]

SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — A man is behind bars after a welfare check revealed a 5-year-old had been assaulted. Zachary Eppley, 25, of Jennerstown, is being accused of causing several injuries to a child on July 2, according to charges filed by Somerset Borough police. Officers who responded noted the child was bleeding from […]

It’s located at a resort that has dozens of activities for both golfers and non-golfers.

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va – CommuniCare Health Services recently announced that it would be acquiring Stonerise Healthcare and its 17 centers that span throughout West Virginia and Ohio. Operations in north central West Virginia include Clarksburg, Bridgeport, Morgantown and Kingwood. The expansion footprint includes more than 110 healthcare centers across seven states and a 14,000 ‘resident bed […]

Advance Auto Parts, a leading automotive aftermarket parts provider and entitlement sponsor of the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series (NAAPWS), is offering race fans free grandstand admission to the Advance My Track Challenge celebration night at historic Jennerstown Speedway on July 9. Last week's resultsFleegle, Kostelnik sweep Double Down...

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The Relay For Life of Somerset was held June 25 at the Somerset Athletic Field. The event was filled with music, activities, a survivor lap and meal, basket alley, live auction and a breathtaking luminary service. The event’s goal was $68,000. To date, the total raised is just over $69,000...

Though she grew up in Somerset, Donna Gibson was living close to Pittsburgh during the terrorist attacks on 9/11. After moving back to Somerset, she and her husband received an invitation to plant trees at the Flight 93 National Memorial in 2012. And, since then, she’s brought a team to “Plant a Tree” every year.

A former English and drama teacher from the Somerset Area School District is preparing a Johnstown theatrical group for a live production of one of William Shakespeare’s best-known dramatic plays. Laura Gordon is artistic director of the Band of Brothers Shakespeare Company, a nonprofit theater company which she and...

To work in a hospital, medical personnel know they will go above and beyond to help somebody in need every day. But in this instance, the UPMC Somerset hospital personnel went even farther to make sure the one needing help got it. Doug Pinard, who was traveling in his 18-wheeler...

After EMT and firefighter Andrew Beck died suddenly in January at just 23 years old, his friend and mother wanted to carry on his legacy of service in Westmoreland County. In February, the pair co-founded the Andrew Logan Beck EMS and Fire Scholarship Fund, which will provide funding for local high schoolers and adults to attend EMT, paramedic and firefighter training.

KINGWOOD, W.Va. (WBOY) — Mon Health Preston Memorial Hospital honored Madison Corley on June 27 with the DAISY Award for extraordinary nurses. At the presentation of this award, Corley was given many gifts. She received a DAISY Honorary Pin, hand-carved Healer’s Touch Sculpture, a benefits gift bag, a certificate and the late Patrick Barnes’s favorite, […]

PIEDMONT, W.Va. (WV News) - Recent problems with grease clogging up a downtown sewer line ha…

KINGWOOD —Dollie Payne Wilfong Tacy went home to be with the Lord in the early morning hours of July 3, 2022. She was 97 years old, born on Jan. 28, 1925, in Greenbank,, a daughter of the late Jonas Wardell Wilfong and Ruth Bryant Arbogast Wilfong. On July 5,...