Fairchance News

Thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the federal stimulus, Head Start/Early Head Start of Fayette County will serve more than 100 additional children beginning next year.

For the second time in less than a month, Fayette County commissioners will attempt to hire a director for its Veterans Affairs office.

A Uniontown resident is accused of stabbing another man in the stomach during the weekend.

A volunteer firefighter has been treated for a leg injury he suffered while running out of a burning house that collapsed behind him in Fayette County.

A southwestern Pennsylvania candidate who can't believe he got so few votes last year has filed an emergency appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

A failed candidate has filed an emergency petition with the state's Supreme Court seeking to stay election results from the May primary and November general election in Fayette County.

State police in Uniontown are charging a Fairchance man in connection with an alleged scam that could involve 1,000 people who purchased tickets and as much as $10,000. Police said a man contacted the Morrell Volunteer Fire Department about holding a cash bash at the fire hall Aug.

A Fairchance man was charged with deceiving people into buying tickets from him for a nonexistent cash bash that was to be held in August at the Morrell Fire Hall in Dunbar Township, state police at Uniontown said Saturday.

A Fayette County woman with learning disabilities has been reported missing, state police said.

Troopers continue to search for an attacker armed with a sawed-off shotgun who state police said threatened, kidnapped and assaulted a mother Friday morning who just dropped off her child at a day care in Fayette County.

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Former Uniontown police chief Kyle Sneddon will leave his job with the Fairchance police department to become director of safety and security at the Community College of Allegheny County on Oct.

A Fayette County man with law enforcement experience is the Community College of Allegheny County's new director of safety and security, school spokesman David Hoovler announced Tuesday.

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Friday announced a $900,000 Economic Development Administration grant to the Fayette Industrial Fund, Georges Township, and the Fairchance Georges Joint Municipal Sewage Authority in Smithfield to make road and water infrastructure improvements to serve the Fayette Business Park.

Mary Pickels can be reached via e-mail or at 724-836-5401. A Fayette County motorist accused of hitting a pedestrian while driving drunk sought Friday to have several charges against him dismissed in a pretrial hearing.

The 55th annual Fayette County Fair officially kicked off Thursday with a ribbon cutting and well wishes for a successful year.

A failed candidate for two Fayette County offices has lost his second try at persuading a judge that impersonators voted in place of dead people in the May primary.

Share + Jul 29, 2009 8:56 am US/Eastern UNIONTOWN, Pa. A southwestern Pennsylvania county wants the Commonwealth Court to nix the appeal of a failed district judge candidate who just can't believe he received so few votes.

Read the Trib on your Kindle The Fayette County Firemen's Convention, hosted this year by the Everson Volunteer Fire Department, is a time when firefighters can set aside the seriousness of their job and have a little fun.

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