Mercer County News

People were lined up shoulder to shoulder and six or seven deep Saturday along East State Street in Hermitage.

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.

A Venango County man, injured in a one-vehicle crash in October in Mercer County, died this week in an Ohio Hospital, state police said.

While counties across Ohio continue providing Swine Flu vaccine for local school students..Pennsylvania's Health Department is scheduling community-wide clinics starting this weekend.

The driver of a flatbed tractor-trailer was killed Tuesday evening in a crash on Interstate 80 in Findley Township, Mercer County.

A New York trucker has been killed in a rollover crash on Interstate 80 in western Pennsylvania.

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.

Election officials in Mercer county have finished counting the write-in ballots from the November 3 general election.

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.

Hillcrest-Flynn Pet Funeral Home has launched the a huge pet food and supply drive in Shenango Valley's history.

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 one car accident in Mercer County last February, which left a Lakeview Schools teacher paralyzed, turns out to be a bizarre cover-up. And now, two people are charged in the crime.

A special mass was held Sunday morning at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Sharon. In the front row sat several dozen firefighters, policemen, and representatives from the Mercer County District Attorney's office and the Shenango Valley Ambulance Service.

By Matt Snyder MERCER - Fire consumed a Venango Street home on a quiet Mercer street early Thursday morning, leaving the balconied two-story structure a burnt out husk.

A* Mysteries And Paranormal Society Pennsylvania Paranormal/Ghost Hunting group will meet at 7 p.m. Saturday at Sharon City Building.

Brenda Wallace of the Pennsylvania Department of Health administers nasal vaccine for H1N1, commonly called the swine flu, to Greenville second-grader Makayla Upperman at Greenville High School.

In the days since the general election, Hermitage commissioner Tim Ruffo has asked himself repeatedly what he could have done differently.

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.

Mercer County District Attorney's Office has appealed a judge's decision that a Southwest Mercer County Regional policeman did not have authority to search a car in which he found drugs.