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Drivers were asked to avoid part of Route 40 in Fayette County on Monday afternoon after a truck rollover.

Gregory McCoy, 62, of Oley Township, was pronounced dead at 9:34 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 7, according to the Berks County Coroner's Office. Police were called to a wooded area near the 200 block of Geiger Road at around 8 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 7 and found McCoy hanging upside down from the tree, Amity Police Chief Jeffrey Smith said.

A Pennsylvania Lottery scratch-off ticket worth $5 million was recently sold in Washington County.

Police in Connellsville are looking for a man they say broke into his grandmother’s house and robbed her.

MORGANTOWN, WV (LOOTPRESS) – Nickolas Vadim Moore, 18, of St. Louis, Missouri, has been arrested following an investigation by the Morgantown Police Department into threats of a shooting at Morgantown High School. According to the Morgantown Police Department, on August 28, 2024, the Morgantown Police became aware of a social media post threatening a shooting […]

A fight at Kennywood quickly escalated during Saturday’s Phantom Fall Fest, leaving several police officers hurt while trying to break it up.

MORGANTOWN, WV (LOOTPRESS) – Travelers flying out of Morgantown Municipal Airport (MGW) can now book United Express flights, operated by SkyWest Airlines, offering convenient connections to Washington, D.C., and Chicago. The service will begin on December 13, 2024, just in time for the holiday season. The new flight schedule includes 12 nonstop round trips each […]

CLARKSBURG, W.VA.- On Monday, October 7, 2024, two Michigan men appeared in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia and were sentenced by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Thomas S. Kleeh for their roles in a drug trafficking organization operating in Monongalia County, West Virginia. According to...

UNIONTOWN, Pa. — A bike run on Sunday honored the life of a child who died after choking on a piece of food. The run started at the American Legion post in Uniontown and brought out a big crowd. The parents of Owen Hockenberry are trying to make other...

A Pittsburgh man is facing charges in Butler County after stealing checks and cashing them in for thousands of dollars. Middlesex Township Police received a call in early May from a man who claimed checks had been stolen from his mailbox and $1,985 was missing from his account. Upon investigation,...

CAMERON, W.Va. — A hearing took place Tuesday night at Cameron High School by the West Virginia DEP to discuss dam safety and longwall mining issues for residents in the area. "Is it worth somebody's life just to take, I was told $15 million worth of coal out from...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A Morgantown custom homebuilder is facing numerous federal charges after using fake employment information for illegal immigrants he was smuggling from central America to work at his business. U.S. Attorney Bill Ihlenfeld said Hector Reyes, 40, operated A & M Homes, LLC, since 2015 and got...

Thirty apartments were evacuated due to a fire in Castle Shannon Wednesday.

For months, Susan Shepherd fought to learn the names of the police officers who fatally shot her mentally ill son in Upper St. Clair so she could sue them. But Baldwin Borough, Bethel Park and Brentwood refused to tell her who pulled the trigger on Jan. 7 when members of a South Hills regional SWAT team killed Christopher Shepherd.

Waynesburg University’s radio station, WCYJ-FM, has undergone changes since the 2024 Spring semester. Richard Krause, chairperson and assistant professor of communication for the Department of Communication, spoke on what led to these changes. “Years and years ago before I was even a faculty member here, the radio station used...

A Penn Hills woman was ordered Monday to serve up to seven years in prison for her role in an 2022 incident at an East Huntingdon home that left one man injured. Kristen Marie Kruel, 28, pleaded guilty to lesser charges of theft, receiving stolen property and tampering with evidence in connection with what police first said was an attempted shooting. According to investigators Kruel handed a weapon to a friend then urged him to shoot during a fight that erupted at the West Overton home in the early morning hours of Aug. 31, 2022.

Jefferson-Morgan lost against Carmichaels back in September, and unfortunately they wound up with the same result on Thursday. The Jefferson-Morgan Rockets fell just short of the Carmichaels Mighty Mikes by a score of 3-2. The defeat continues a trend for the Rockets in their matchups with the Mighty Mikes: they've now lost three in a row.

As the Mountaineers on the field are expected to wear all black this Saturday night against No. 11 Iowa State, the Mountaineer on the sideline will likely be joining them as well.

It may have taken overtime to finish the job, but Waynesburg Central ultimately got the result they hoped for on Friday. They won a game that couldn't have been any closer, slipping by the Carlynton Cougars 27-26. Waynesburg Central was led to victory by Jacob Stephenson and Ross Tennant. Stephenson...

Canyon and Carter Swartz of Greene County, like many Pittsburgh baseball fans, have had enough of Bob Nutting's Buccos. “They're OK with being mediocre,” Canyon tells Pittsburgh City Paper of the team. The Swartz brothers have held season tickets since 2018. Canyon says the contrast with Pittsburgh's other teams during that time has been stark. “They want us to feel like it's OK to be bad.”