Fairchance News

Fayette County commissioners on Thursday named County Manager Warren Hughes as acting chief clerk.

State police have issued a warrant for the arrest of a Fayette County woman accused of cutting someone Wednesday with a kitchen knife.

Water rates will increase by 6 percent today for customers in Fairchance. The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission approved the rate hike by a 5-0 vote Thursday.

A pickup crashed into a fuel tanker as it was offloading gasoline at a Fayette County service station late Sunday, forcing the temporary closure of two streets while crews contained the spill.

Fayette Civic Forum will hold a candidates' forum for all candidates running in any opposed May primary election for a judicial office in Fayette County starting at 6 p.m. Monday in the State Theatre Center for the Arts, 37 E. Main St., Uniontown.

Closing its 2009 spring season, California University's Department of Theatre and Dance will present an evening of student-directed one-act plays.

A 16-year-old girl is charged with assaulting the principal of a western Pennsylvania school for troubled youths because the girl was upset about spilling milk on her pants.

After close to 40 years working in education, Fred Labutta is finally ready to slow down and appreciate the little things.

A month before the start of trout season, Paul Hindes of South Park dead-drifts a Copper John at Spring Creek's Fisherman's Paradise, which was among the first special regulations fishing areas where anglers ...

Randy S. Abraham, a Fayette County district judge for 23 years, is seeking re-election. Abraham's District Court 14-3-02 in McClellandtown serves Fairchance, Masontown, Point Marion, Smithfield and Georges, ...

No serious injuries were reported in a four-vehicle collision at approximately 9:30 p.m. Monday on Crawford Avenue.

Two Churchill men are charged with taking a Fayette County newspaper carrier's car at gunpoint.

Charges of false imprisonment and simple assault were filed Friday against a Penn State student after police said he grabbed a woman by her hair, threw her to the floor of his Nittany Apartments residence and ...

Connellsville City Council will have a discussion meeting regarding the proposed Landlord Registration Ordinance at 6 p.m. Monday in city hall.

A Fayette County man will serve eight to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to numerous charges involving a home invasion in Uniontown last May.

A former district judge in Fayette County will seek election to the same office in a different district.

A Fayette County judge will be asked on Monday to order that records in a civil lawsuit involving a tourist railroad be placed off limits to the public.

A driver drops in change at the toll booth interchange on Route 43 in Springhill Township Friday.

A Uniontown man was killed Tuesday when the car he was driving and a 5-ton dump truck collided in Georges Township.

A Fairchance woman is behind bars for allegedly stalking the commander of the state police barracks in Uniontown and his wife.