Dunbar News

Mark Hofmann can be reached at mhofmann@tribweb.com or 724-626-3539. If you were watching fireworks from Connellsville last night, you saw a sky filled with bright wonderment.

Mark Hofmann can be reached at mhofmann@tribweb.com or 724-626-3539. Residents approached the Dunbar Township Supervisors Thursday night over Hollow Road in Dickerson Run.

Dunbar Township supervisors have closed a section of Hollow Road in Dickerson Run.

The Frazier High School Cross Country team wishes to recognize its senior runners.

A Fayette County man accused in the November shooting death of his 12-year-old son was sentenced Thursday to 6 1/4 to 12 1/2 years in prison.

A Fayette County man is accused of taking money from an area hockey team fundraiser through lottery tickets.

State police are investigating an individual accused of selling raffle tickets purportedly in support of a Fayette County recreational hockey team and pocketing the money.

Many historical societies have an array of local photographs, literature and memorabilia, but one local group is going one step further by attempting to re-create a part of its heritage and history.

A Fayette County judge Friday reduced the bond by $100,000 for a 40-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.

Mary Pickels can be reached via e-mail or at 724-836-5401. A Scottdale man convicted of traveling to Uniontown to have sex with a teenage girl he met online, only to discover she was an undercover police officer, will serve two to four years in a state prison.

A Fayette mother of two, who stood by while a convicted sex offender took sexually explicit photos of her children, pleaded guilty Tuesday to child endangerment.

Testimony will continue Wednesday at the Fayette County Public Service Building on Amerikohl Mining Inc.'s request for a special exception to mine 588 acres in Dunbar Township zoned agricultural.

A Scottdale man accused of traveling to Uniontown to have sex with a teenage girl he met online, only to discover the girl was an undercover police officer, has been convicted of sexual assault charges.

A four-hour standoff involving state police, federal agents and a 32-year-old man with an extensive criminal record ended peacefully early Tuesday morning in Fayette County.

Police in Fayette County have one man in custody, following a standoff in Dunbar Township.

Connellsville police were investigating a possible murder-suicide, a woman and a man having been found dead in separate locations in the city Monday.

After a four-hour standoff in a Dunbar residence, Chad Wolfe, 32, address unknown, was apprehended by the Pennsylvania State Police Special Operations Response Team.

Longtime South Connellsville Mayor Peter Casini won the Democratic nomination for that position.

A request to reconsider the eviction of a Dunbar Township couple's antique car business died for lack of a second during Tuesday's meeting of the Fayette County Airport Authority board.

There are several contested races in Fayette County townships in Tuesday's primary.