Community Remembers Young Victims Of Connellsville Crash
A Fayette County community came together Sunday evening as they try to cope with the loss of two teenage girls who died in an accident late last week.
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A Fayette County community came together Sunday evening as they try to cope with the loss of two teenage girls who died in an accident late last week.
The cause of death for the second victim in a fatal Fayette County crash has been determined.
A second young victim has died following a crash in Fayette County on Friday.
The Fayette county coroner identified a girl killed in a two-vehicle crash in Connellsville Township. The victim who died is 11-year-old Dawnielle Victor, of South Connellsville. She and her friend Victor were riding in car driven by Dawnielle's mother, Erica Victor.
Janice Pennington was greeted by firefighters when she arrived at her Dunbar Township home late Friday night. The fire started in the bedroom, where her husband was sleeping. "Max saved him," she said.
Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a Fayette County teenager who is accused of choking and attacking his pregnant girlfriend and two friends who tried to come to the young woman's aid over the weekend.
State police are looking for a Uniontown man after they say his pregnant girlfriend and two other women were assaulted overnight in Fayette County.
An elderly homeowner was hospitalized after being rescued from a fire overnight in Fayette County.
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Alberta Kelley told a Fayette County judge and jury a man she did not know approached her, gave her some seeds and told her if she planted them she would grow the prettiest flowers she has ever seen. Those seeds grew into seven four-foot tall marijuana plants.
An elderly woman died in a house fire in Fayette County. Steve Bowers was driving home with his nephew when they spotted the flames shooting from the house on Barton Hollow Road in Haydentown.
Authorities in Fayette County have cited a man for allegedly chaining himself inside a car while dressed as a woman. Just before 11:30 a.m. on New Year's Day, Fayette County 911 began getting weird calls from the Walgreens on West Main Street about a man sitting in his sedan.
Emergency officials are at the scene of a school bus crash in Fayette County.
A man is jailed on charges he was driving drunk when he struck and killed a southwestern Pennsylvania woman and injured her husband as the couple changed a tire.
Police continue to investigate today after a young woman was killed and her friend was critically injured when they were struck by a car while trying to change a flat tire in Fayette County.
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A local mother is scrambling to save Christmas after burglars stole presents from her Fayette County house. Burglars threw a brick through a window, hoisted themselves inside and ransacked the Herman Street home in Uniontown.
A man killed in an accident at a recycling plant in Fayette County has been identified. According to emergency dispatchers, a worker was crushed to death by a large bale of paper.
Police in Fayette County say they have arrested a woman who they say targeted a local man twice in recent weeks.
New charges have been filed against the mother of a small child who was died from injuries sustained in an alleged beating.
A young mother is in the hospital today recovering after she was struck in the face by a bullet when gunfire broke out overnight in Fayette County. The incident happened around 1 a.m. on Lenox Street in Uniontown.
A man bitten during a robbery last week has been robbed again and he told police the same woman may be involved in both cases.
Authorities who were on the scene of tractor-trailer accident in Fayette County that damaged two homes and sent one man to the hospital Monday say the stretch of road where it happened has been the site of numerous accidents.
Authorities are investigating following an overnight house fire in Fayette County.
A tractor-trailer went out of control and hit four cars and two houses in Fayette County Monday afternoon.
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