Belle Vernon News

Education: Graduate of Brownsville High School and the Uniontown Area Fayette Vocational Technical School Occupation: Supervisor of PennDOT's drivers license center in Washington, Pa.

Criminal charges have been filed against a Washington Township woman whose 2-year-old foster child drowned after wandering away from a church social.

Council members Monday had no answer for how they will find more than $100,000 needed to finish the borough's storm water and waste water separation project.

The foster mother of a boy who drowned after wandering away from a Fayette County church picnic has been charged with reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child.

A Fayette County jury took only two hours Friday morning to find a Washington County man guilty of shooting a Smithfield man in the face last year, nearly severing his nose.

Police never found the rifle that a Washington County man is accused of using to shoot a Fayette County man in the face, but the same weapon was used to fire spent cartridges that were found at the scene and in ...

Carol Manack may not be in the classroom, but the Belle Vernon Area teacher is spending her summer devoted to improving education.

Police are investigating a home invasion in Carroll Township similar to two that occurred earlier this week in Belle Vernon.

She's been gone from Donora for 45 years, but Cynthia Elkins-Vansil still keeps a special place in her heart for the community.

An M-80 explosion last week that injured a 9-year-old Belle Vernon boy marked the first fireworks-related incident in the area this Fourth of July season.

Police in Belle Vernon are looking into burglaries at a home on Grand and Graham Avenues early Monday morning.

The Southwest Regional Police Department is investigating two overnight home invasions in Belle Vernon.

A man claiming to be Brandon C. Barcus Sr., eluding arrest after being charged with reckless endangerment, contacted the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette yesterday to give his version of events that led his 9-year-old ...

They arrive in tandem every summer as the Fourth of July approaches. Tents filled with colorfully packaged devices pop up in parking lots, and people injured by items that smoke, crackle and spark file into ...

The Belle Vernon Area School Board on Monday marked its fifth consecutive year without a considerable real estate tax increase.

The boy was badly injured and taken to Children's Hospital. Police said Brandon C. Barcus Sr., 37, of Water Street, had left his son unattended with fireworks and a cigarette lighter around 5:30 p.m. Saturday.

Police in Fayette County are investigating the second attempted child abduction reported this week.

State police at Belle Vernon are investigating an alleged child-luring incident Monday in Jefferson in Fayette County.

Two-time cancer survivor Rosalie Nicksich is hoping the Relay For Life set for this weekend will top last year's goal.

Dave Wingrove, of Belle Vernon in Westmoreland County, practices his short game on the putting green on his property.