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In the Ben Franklin Junior High School fourth quarter honor roll, seventh-grader Andrew Kochis was omitted from the highest honors list. An article in Tuesday's edition on the Fayette 250 Kids Fest listed an incorrect contact phone number. Those seeking more information may call 724-550-4037.

Three charged with prostitution in Fayette

A Fayette county couple and another woman face charges of prostitution. Harry Guthrie, 59, and Emmalie Guthrie, 53, of East Millsboro, were charged Friday along with Kimberly Hoar, 28, of Bentleyville. Hoar told state police from the Belle Vernon barracks she had been in an on-and-off relationship with Harry Guthrie, most recently from the spring of 2025 until the winter of 2026, according to court documents. Harry Guthrie acknowledged the relationship to police, but denied accusations of prostitution, saying the money was just to “help her out,” the complaints said. Police executing a search warrant on Harry Guthrie's phone found screenshots of text messages from Hoar ...

Unite and celebrate

Celebrations in Fayette County will mark the day the Emancipation Proclamation reached its full promise. Juneteenth observances will take place in Connellsville and Uniontown over several days this week. The annual holiday celebrates the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when Maj. Gen. Gordon ...

Fayette man charged with aggravated assault

A Fayette County man is accused of firing at a vehicle during an unauthorized traffic stop in Bullskin Township Thursday afternoon. Daniel Swope, 25, of Acme, is accused of firing three rounds at the back of a car after several people had blocked its path east on Kreinbrook Hill Road, the complaint said. Troopers from the Pennsylvania State Police Uniontown barracks responded around 3:46 p.m. Thursday. The driver, Corey Keslar, told police another man had also thrown rocks at the vehicle. Keslar said he had been inside the car when the shots were fired, and subsequently fled the scene because he feared for his life, court paperwork stated. He described the gun as a black ...

Community mourns death of C-H grad, Waynesburg U. wrestler

Jessie Orbin, a standout wrestler at Waynesburg University and a PIAA Class AA state qualifier at Chartiers-Houston, died following a motorcycle accident Saturday night in North Strabane Township. Orbin, 20, was driving a motorcycle on Linden Road when he crashed at about 10:30 p.m. He ...

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Sports

Into the Hall: Shauntai Hall

When Shauntai Hall is inducted into the Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame on Friday it will mark a first for the organization. Hall will join her sister, Ellen Guillard, known as Loui Hall in her playing days, marking the first set of sisters to be enshrined. Both were legendary girls ...

Local Calendar

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL Pittsburgh at Athletics, 9:40 p.m. DISTRICT BASEBALL FAYETTE COUNTY LEAGUE Carmichaels at Mill Run, 6 p.m. FAYETTE AMERICAN LEGION Carmichaels at Uniontown, dh, 6 p.m. Brownsville at Thomas Jefferson, dh, 6 p.m. Belle Vernon at ...

Uniontown Legion shuts down Smithfield-Fairchance

Eahn Stevenson drove in four runs, which was more than enough offense for Nick Fleszar in Uniontown Post 51ĢƵ victory over Smithfield-Fairchance on Monday in Fayette County American Legion baseball play at Hutchinson Field in Hopwood. Fleszar didn’t allow a run on one hit over six ...

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Opinion

OP-ED: Changing the direction of U.S. labor

Memorial Day, a day set aside to honor fallen veterans, is a red letter day for American labor - literally. On Memorial Day 1937, union blood was spilled in Chicago, when 10 were killed and nearly a hundred protesters were injured during a steelworkers' strike rally. It was a tragic, ...

Outdoors

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Nature through art

This goes a long way back into the past, but itĢƵ the only way to introduce a story that grows timelier and more relevant today. ItĢƵ the story of the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art in Millersburg, Pennsylvania. Older readers who read Pennsylvania Game News magazine (official ...

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