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For the first time since 2020, Acrisure Stadium (formerly Heinz Field), will host a playoff game when the Pittsburgh Steelers host the Houston Texans on Monday night to cap off the NFLĢƵ Wild Card weekend. And Pittsburgh Steelers fans are excited. “It was amazing to see them win,” ...

Charleroi council appoints mayor

Charleroi has a new mayor, but itĢƵ a person familiar to the position. Former Mayor Ed Bryner was elected to return to the post by council at its reorganization meeting Monday. Bryner served the borough as mayor from 2018-21. He also has been a member of Charleroi council. Bryner, 71, ...

State police arrested a Fayette County man accused of being at the center of a string of thefts involving sports trading cards. Ryan Michael Rates, 44, of South Union Township, faces felony charges of corrupt organizations, organized retail theft and receiving stolen property. According to ...

State police arrested a Richeyville man Wednesday on charges of possession of child sexual abuse material. Dustin Kenyan McMasters, 20, faces 20 felony charges of sexual abuse of children - possession of child sexual abuse material and disseminating photos/videos of child sex acts, and four ...

A Redstone Township man will stand trial on charges that allege he held a woman in his house for four days and assaulted her. Kevin Patrick Fields, 33, was charged by state police last month with felonies of aggravated assault and strangulation, and misdemeanors of unlawful restraint, ...

Somerset County man killed in Fayette crash

A Somerset County man was killed Wednesday evening in a two-vehicle crash on Route 40 in South Union Township. First responders were called to the scene about 6:28 p.m. The crash involving a minivan and a tractor trailer occurred in the eastbound lane of Route 40, near the Lick Hollow ...