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Crews continued searching along the water in Monongahela Sunday for a man who has been missing since last week. Numerous local agencies were helping in the search for Shelby Rhodes. Boats equipped with side-scan sonar will be sweeping the Monongahela River, the Donora Fire Company said in a ...

A Fredericktown woman is seeking the Democratic nomination for state representative in the 50th Legislative District. Lois Bower-Bjornson owns and operates two micro-businesses and is the southwestern Pennsylvania field organizer with Clean Air Council, a nonprofit environmental organization ...

Turning pain into purpose

After her son was fatally shot in 2023, many people asked LaSha Gipson, “How are you doing?” Few of them actually wanted to sit down and hear about it, Gipson said. Trying to be strong for her family, she kept her feelings bottled up. She went to a therapist, but felt like she was ...

Sarah Mitchell of Burgettstown penned the story, aimed for young adults ages 13-18, in a notebook nearly 20 years ago and then put it away. Over the next two decades she would take the book out, as time allowed, and work on it. “There were years when I didn’t touch it, " said Mitchell. ...

St. John Paul II, Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005, once said “the Church must breathe with her two lungs.” Those two lungs, the Eastern Catholic Church and the Roman Catholic Church, both contribute to the health and vitality of the Catholic Church as a ...