Fayette County News

The Ferry Boat Frederick is the last cable-run ferry crossing the Monongahela River.

Officials announced Thursday that the $60 million Lady Luck Casino outside Pittsburgh will open on July 1 at noon, pending regulatory approvals.

For 10 months, 22-year-old Jordan Johnston fought for life after a speeding drunken driver blew through a Harrisburg intersection and slammed into her car.

A family's two dogs suddenly became ill, and now a veterinarian says it's a case of antifreeze poisoning.

Authorities in the Fayette County city say the 20-year-old victim was found behind an apartment at about 3:30 a.m. Saturday.

KENNETH LEIGHTY'S ATTORNEY SAYS HE'S COOPERATING WITH AUTHORITIES AND HE IS PLANNING TO WAIVE HIS FORMAL ARRAIGNMENT AND PRELIMINARY HEARING ON murder CHARGES.

Twenty-five Pennsylvania residents pleaded guilty to welfare fraud and/or were sentenced for their crimes during April, the Office of Inspector General announced Thursday.

Local parents are upset after they say their children returned from a Penn State field trip with bed bug bites all over their body.

"I love United Way ," Lladel Lichty said. "It is such a quality organization. I'm amazed at what we do and how we're threaded throughout the community." Lichty has been working at United Way of the Laurel Highlands for just seven months, but she's already an enthusiastic spokeswoman for the programs it offers.

A woman walked into a Fayette County restaurant for a sandwich and walked out with a donation canister belonging to the March of Dimes.

Police have released surveillance photos of a woman accused of stealing a March of Dimes collection can from a Fayette County restaurant.

Gretchen Mundorff came home after a junior high school civics class and confidently announced to her family that she planned to become a trial lawyer.

State police said a man who kidnapped a boy Friday in Fayette County stopped in Somerset County before taking the boy to Westmoreland County to rape him.

A Trooper has previously stated that the boy was last seen outside of his home in at 206 Parnell Road in Henry Clay Township.

A neighbor who lives down the road from a 6-year-old boy who was the subject of an amber alert over the weekend, now faces charges including kidnapping and rape.

A western Pennsylvania man has been arrested after he allegedly abducted and raped a six-year-old boy over the weekend.

FRIENDS say the truck FLIPPED inTO the water and trapped the PASSENGERS AND DRIVER inside.

Pennsylvania State Police have issued an Amber Child Abduction Alert in the area of Uniontown, Fayette County.

A Fayette County woman who noticed a small dog near railroad tracks on Thursday afternoon figured someone was walking it to a nearby field to play - until a friend told her that the dog was tied to a rail car on the tracks.

Glenn Robert McClain, 82, of 217 Central Ave., Titusville, PA and formerly of Fagundas, PA, died Tuesday evening, April 30, 2013 at his residence after an extended illness.