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LH teacher sentenced to probation for recording student

A Uniontown woman who illegally recorded a student while working as a teacher in the Laurel Highlands School District was sentenced to two years of probation. In February 2023, an investigation led by state police found that Ashley Thurby-Kolesar, 34, had sent a video she recorded of a ...

Family of Grindstone man shot by police starts GoFundMe

A Grindstone man who was fatally shot by police during a welfare check on Tuesday had been struggling with his mental health, his sister wrote in a GoFundMe post. Christopher Hackney, 27, was shot by Redstone Township police at his home on Lyndale Road around 9 p.m. Tuesday. According to a ...

Two charged in Greene road rage incident

Cumberland Township police charged two men Wednesday after they were accused of assaulting a motorist who honked at them to move through an intersection. Scott Michael Cottrell, 39, of Point Marion, and Tyler K. Spacht, 44, of Mather, face felony charges of burglary and rioting, as well as ...

Father accused of caging 6-year-old daughter pleads guilty

Jacob William Weight Sr. did not hesitate when President Judge Steven P. Leskinen asked him why he had his 6-year-old-daughter hogtied naked in a cage. “Mainly because she was doing stuff she wasn’t supposed to…She’d get up, get in the fridge and run through the house and keeping ...

Former Uniontown treasurer appeals theft conviction, contests restitution

The attorney for the former Uniontown treasurer who stole more than $100,000 in cash tax payments asked a judge to set aside her conviction, arguing no one actually caught her “with her hand in the cookie jar.” “ItĢƵ purely on inference that any money left the office improperly,” ...

Dunbar man charged with assault, burglary

State police allege a Dunbar man used a pickaxe to attack a man in his vehicle before later breaking into the manĢƵ home. According to the criminal complaint, police responded to a call at the BFS gas station in Dunbar around 1:30 a.m. Saturday where Phillip Nicklow reported that he and his ...