Belle Vernon News

A Belle Vernon native who spied on a teenage girl in a public bathroom in England has pleaded guilty to a charge of voyeurism.

A few concerned citizens turned out for the first neighborhood watch meeting in Dawson Borough Thursday night.

A soldier from Belle Vernon was just minutes away from the building -- which he often visits -- where 12 people were shot and killed at the Fort Hood Army post.

Despite rumors that as many as six students at the middle school have H1N1, Southmoreland Superintendent John Halfhill said there have been no cases there or anywhere else in the district.

Two Fayette County prison guards accused of pushing an inmate into a dumbwaiter will be suspended for 30 days without pay.

The timing was right for the Belle Vernon Area School District to establish a multiuse facility.

The Great Treasure Hunt, a company that appraises and buys collectibles, will be in Belle Vernon for three days starting Thursday to appraise and buy collectibles.

You gotta love 'em! Only five or 10 people called about their sewage bills. They just got them! If I had not called my neighbors, they probably would not have even opened them yet.

Two Fayette County prison guards who were assigned to monitor live surveillance-camera feeds of an inmate's cell failed to notice as the man made two attempts to hang himself over at least 20 minutes before succeeding, according to county officials.

The Belle Vernon Area School District will receive $266,279 less in basic education subsidy because of state budget cuts, Business Manager Eileen Navish said.

Criminal charges are pending in connection with the stabbing early Friday of a Frazier school board member in his Fayette County home, according to state police.

Dawson Volunteer Fire Co. will hold a Halloween dance from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday at its fire hall.

Serving their country is a tradition in Travis Micjan's family and nowhere is this more prevalent than at the American Legion in Charleroi.

If the Penn-Trafford golf team wins a WPIAL Division I Team Championship today, then it might want to thank Max Palinski.

There was no large political rally taking place in the 200 block of Center Street the morning of Oct.

A Rostraver Middle School student in the Belle Vernon School District yesterday was found to have an unloaded BB gun in his gym bag yesterday.

Police in Belle Vernon said officers arrested a man who had no idea the van he was driving was on fire.

A Belle Vernon man was arraigned early Wednesday on charges of aggravated assault, simple assault and harassment after he allegedly assaulted a male juvenile with a sword during a domestic dispute.

A Washington County man who was stopped early Wednesday while driving a burning mini-van through Belle Vernon will be charged with driving under the influence, police in Fayette County said.

A western Pennsylvania man faces drunken driving charges after police and firefighters say he drove a burning van near Interstate 70.