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Greene County home damaged in fire

A home at 591 Pettit Road, Morris Township, Greene County, was badly damaged by fire Monday morning. According to Waynesburg-Franklin Township Volunteer Fire Company, crews received the call at around 9:20 a.m., and the house was engulfed in flames when they arrived. The occupants of the ...

Wildlife crop damage a concern for farmers

As Rich Burd sat at the kitchen table the other night, he looked out the window and was taken aback at what he saw. “There were 14 deer eating soybeans,” said Burd, who grows corn and soybeans on his 1,100-acre Burd Farms in Fayette County. “They are a scourge. Crop damage from deer ...

Waynesburg teen named Miss Rain Day

Bryn Lahew, 17, of Waynesburg was crowned Miss Rain Day 2024 during the 46th scholarship pageant held on July 28 at Waynesburg Central High School. She was chosen from six contestants. She is the daughter of Michelle Shannon and Chay Lahew and will be a senior at Waynesburg Central this fall. ...

Homeless and displaced female veterans and their children will now have a place to call home. The Rendu House, a project of the nonprofit United Veterans Billeting of Fayette County, opened last week on Gallatin Avenue in Uniontown. “Right now, women hold the higher percentage of homeless ...

A bipartisan group of Congressional leaders from the region said they had hoped the international prisoner swap announced Thursday would include Oakmont native Marc Fogel, who has been detained in a Russian prison for three years. But as the names of the people who were being released from ...

One doesn’t have to suspend reality to recognize that PittsburghĢƵ new Museum of Illusions at 267 North Shore Drive is off to a great start. The attraction, which opened late last year, welcomed 2,000 visitors the first day. “We expected about half that, so we were excited at how ...