Jerome News

Do seemingly distant communities such as Windber and Waynesburg share common challenges? Could ideas developed in Somerset also be useful in Steubenville, Ohio? Would planning for growth in Johnstown or Jerome be meaningful in Mercer or Monessen? For Allen Kukovich and others involved with the Regional Visioning Project, the answer to all of those ...

Former NBA player Jerome "Pooh" Richardson passed along a tip from a police officer friend that federal agents were about to raid the home his half-sister shared with a drug kingpin, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday.

A family of six escaped their burning home early Tuesday after an electric blanket malfunctioned and started a fire in a bedroom, authorities said.

By July, the Conemaugh Township Area school board is expected to approve a plan that calls for closing its early grades elementary school in Jerome and paves the way for $25 million in capital spending.

Even with four fire companies in Conemaugh Township, it sometimes is difficult to find people to turn out for daytime emergencies, township officials said.

BY RUTH RICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM History will be shown through art during a local society's display.

Members of Menoher Post 155 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Geistown have served their nation not only on the front lines but also on the home front.

A 73-year-old western Pennsylvania man has been ordered to stand trial on a charge of criminal homicide in the shooting death of the 73-year-old woman he had married just a few weeks earlier.

The following defendants were sentenced in Cambria County Court after entering guilty pleas: Benjamin Altimus, 29, 100 block of Balsam Street, Johnstown, DUI third offense, DUI fourth offense and two counts each of driving while his license was suspended and public drunkenness.

District Judge Art Cook on Friday ordered a Jerome man held for Somerset County Court on a charge of criminal homicide in the shooting death last month of his wife.

A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for a Jerome man charged with criminal homicide in the shooting death earlier this month of his wife.

A former Ellwood City woman was fatally shot last week and her husband has been charged with killing her.

A Jerome man was arraigned late Friday night on a charge that he fatally shot his wife at her home earlier in the day.

Police are investigating the "suspicious death" of a 73-year-old woman this morning in Conemaugh Township, Somerset County.

Westminster College music majors are participating in a number of off-campus activities as part of the Youth Choirs class taught by Kathryn Miller , Westminster College organist and adjunct faculty member.

A man faces charges after he allegedly sat on railroad tracks and forced a train to stop.

Improving fire protection is moving up the priority list in Conemaugh Township, Somerset County.

The Christmas message is being delivered year-round by members of the Johnstown/Somerset Central Labor Council.