Coal Center News

The 49th District includes parts of Washington and Fayette counties, including Allenport, California, Carroll Township, Charleroi, Coal Center, Donora, Dunlevy, Elco, Fallowfield Township, Long Branch, Monongahela, North Charleroi, Roscoe, Speers, Stockdale, Twilight and West Brownsville in Washington County and Brownsville, Redstone and Washington ... (more)

One hundred years ago, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic, killing 1,517 people.

The view from High Point Restaurant in Coal Center, Pennsylvania, at an elevation of 247 m above the winding Monongahela River.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fourth in a series of articles appearing this week remembering the RMS Titanic disaster, 100 years later.

A 57-year-old Coal Center man Wednesday turned down a plea offer from Washington County prosecutors who are seeking to have him executed for the murder of a 92-year-old woman last summer.