Ellwood City News

Rose Mary Sabo will lay a wreath at the Vietnam War Memorial this weekend. Her husband, Leslie Sabo, died in that war 42 years ago, just a few months after she married the boy she met at a high school football game in Ellwood City, Pa., in 1967.

Nearly 300 students earned diplomas during the 158th annual Westminster College commencement ceremonies Saturday.

I mention Ellwood City, Pa., in columns, noting the seasons and weather events that represented those seasons.

A 17-year-old Gibsonia resident ran into the back of a 2007 Cadillac about 10:45 p.m. May 12 at the intersection of Babcock Boulevard and Warrendale Road, police report.

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Forty-two years after 22-year-old rifleman Leslie H. Sabo Jr. lost his life saving his comrades in an ambush in Cambodia, single-handedly charging enemy positions and tossing a grenade into their bunker, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in a White House ceremony Wednesday.

An Army soldier with ties to Ohio will receive the highest honor a military serviceman can receive; Sergeant Leslie Halasz Sabor, Jr was killed in action on May 10, 1970, in Vietnam.

Brown will accept the Medal of Honor on behalf of her late husband, Spc. Leslie H. Sabo Jr., four decades after he was killed while protecting his comrades from an ambush in Cambodia during the Vietnam War.

According to police, officers pulled over Christian Winterbottom, 26, who had outstanding warrants for her arrest for retail theft along Line and North avenues around 1 a.m. Officers said Winterbottom drove off and after a brief, two-mile chase she crashed into a pole on Woodside Avenue.

ELLWOOD CITY - A woman is facing charges following an overnight police pursuit that ended in a crash in Lawrence County.

A western Pennsylvania woman is charged with heroin possession because police say she repeatedly passed out in a restaurant booth - where she was sitting with her two young children.