Sharon News

Hermitage is not exactly the Wild West, but William E. Finzel was more lucky on the draw than Tim Ruffo in the showdown for a Hermitage commissioner seat.

Has Santa been eating the magic feed corn he gives to his reindeer to make them fly? No, his friends at the Sharon Fire Department gave him a lift from a fire boat to the State Street bridge Thursday for SharonA's Light Up Night festivities.

The last of seven men charged in the drug deal and robbery that led to the shooting death of a Sharon teen turned himself in Wednesday.

A fire at a vacant house on South Irvine Avenue Monday night was the 30th blaze in Sharon that was intentionally set in the last few years.

Volunteers, from left, Betty Beaulieu, Ray Baker, Dave Hall and Bonnie Dickson decorate a Christmas tree at First United Methodist Church, Sharon, as part of the churchA's Christmas Tree Extravaganza.

A family of five was displaced by a kitchen fire early Friday in the Sharon home they recently moved into.

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

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

A* The UPMC Horizon Oncology Patient Care Fund will host a fundraiser featuring items from Mia Bella Traveling Boutique and Apple City Scents from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday at the Womancare Center of UPMC Horizon, 875 N. Hermitage Road, Hermitage.

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.

A Sharon man was shot in the leg Thursday night after a man barged into his apartment, police said.

Three more men have been charged with robbery in connection with the shooting death of a Sharon teen Nov.

A former Farrell man entered a guilty plea Thursday, handing prosecutors their second conviction in the case against three people charged in the probe of a crack cocaine manufacturing operation.

Someone set a vacant house on fire Thursday afternoon in a Sharon neighborhood that's seen a few other arson fires in the past couple years.

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.

A Hermitage man charged with defrauding his insurance company and lying to police about an accident pleaded guilty a week ago to charges of attempted theft and accident involving damage to an attended vehicle.

World War II veteran Michael Messina, left, who served in the Navy and has the cap to show for it, listens to a Veterans Day program Tuesday at The Shenango Valley Senior Community Center in Hermitage.

The city of Sharon appears to be just one official step away from hiring its first professional city manager.

Mike Mataria said he hates guns, but a second apparent armed robbery at one of his convenience stores "forced" him to buy one.

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.