Farrell News

Farrell council members Monday lauded city employees, including police and firefighters, who have agreed to wage freezes for 2010, as officials deal with their greatest fiscal challenge since Sharon Steel Corp.

Reopens at site of former Sheetz By Courtney L. Anderson and Patrick Cooley Herald Staff Writers SHARON - Alexandra Lennon and Ashley Showalter, two Sharon teenagers, used to walk to the Sheetz convenience store and gas station all the time when it was open to pick up snacks and other sundries.

The nationally acclaimed Blackwood Gospel Quartet will give a concert at 7 p.m. Saturday in Shenango Valley Baptist Church, 40 S. Neshannock Road.

Blood doesn't respect city lines. People from Sharon, Farrell, West Middlesex, Sharpsville and Warren, Ohio, are suspected in the Nov.

A western Pennsylvania woman has been ordered to stand trial on charges she passed a drug-filled balloon to a state prison inmate while kissing him.

A* Farrell High School class of 1974 holds its 35th class reunion beginning at 6 p.m. Nov.

Two guards at the State Correctional Institution at Mercer thought they caught something criminal in a long kiss between an inmate and visitor.

Sharon police are looking for a man wanted for robbery in connection with the shooting death of John B. Hosey III on Nov.

A Farrell woman accused of having her 12-year-old son make and detonate a chemical bomb in the driveway of a Southwest Mercer County Regional policeman on Sept.

A Sharon man faces sexual assault charges for incidents involving a 14-year-old girl this summer at his home, police said.

Two more men wanted for taking part in the Nov. 6 robbery that led to a shootout and the death of a Sharon teen were caught over the weekend and another gun used in the crime was recovered, police said.

Attendees of the Hermitage Holiday Light Parade better be on their best behavior - they will be under the watchful eye of Mercer County's top judge.

There's an old joke about the City of Detroit: If you fly into the airport there, they ask you if you have a gun.

Here are some thoughts from a guy who always considers Veterans Day to be a very special day in more ways than one.

The Veterans Day parade today in Farrell will form on Indiana Avenue between Idaho Street and Roemer Boulevard and will move promptly at 6:30 p.m., proceeding south on Indiana to Roemer and west on Roemer to Veterans Square behind the city building.

Two veterans say hello to each other on the State Street Bridge in Sharon during the cityA's annual Veterans Day observance.

The driver of the car involved in a car-motorcycle accident in which a Sharon policeman suffered career-ending injuries has denied negligence and said the policeman bears some of the blame for the crash.

The second annual "Catch the Vision" banquet of Operation Capital City is tonight in Tiffany's Banquet Center, Brookfield.

When the 1990 Census figures didn't smell right, Wheatland Mayor Tom Stanton took a map and walked every block of the borough, discovering that about one in seven households had been missed.

Police unraveling 'complex' case By Courtney L. Anderson Herald Staff Writer SHARON - A Sharon teen is dead after being hit by gunfire from a botched drug deal early Friday in Sharon near the Farrell line.