Farrell News

Info: 724-979-4629. * Mercer County Lupus Support Group meets from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Aug.

Two motorcyclists were injured in separate crashes Tuesday, one with severe chest trauma and the other with a compound leg fracture, Southwest Mercer County Regional police said.

Maiers said they were standing in front of Liam's Place on North Washington Street when Don Farrell allegedly shot Christopher Krisanda at about 1:25 a.m. June 2. Maiers, 32, ran to his vehicle.

The owner of a West Middlesex truck repair and towing shop charged with buying a truck he knew had been stolen will face the charges in court.

Russell Penn of Second Baptist Church, Spearman Avenue, Farrell. * Mercer County Amateur Radio Club will be demonstrating amateur radio at the Corps of Engineer's public boat launch grounds at Clark, today and Sunday.

The Tribune-Review can be reached online or at 412-321-6460. The district attorney in Mercer County is dropping drug charges against a passenger of a car because he says the vehicle was illegally searched when police stopped it for having an air freshener hanging from the rear view mirror.

Wearing a dark suit and sporting a Kangol hat that resembles the kind English bobbies wear, Wilbert L. Shannon Sr., is an icon of the Shenango Valley, driving around town each day in the Cadillac with the WLS SR license plates.

I have written about the importance of fatherhood - serving as a loving and caring parent and role model for your children - many times in this column.

The Mercer County district attorney is dropping drug charges against a passenger of a car because he says the vehicle was illegally searched after police stopped it for having an air freshener hanging from the rear view mirror.

In a trend that the leader of the Shenango Valley Ministerial Association is calling disgraceful, three more churches were broken into between Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

Police in the Shenango Valley say their string of apparently related church break-ins has now reached an even-dozen. We're told churches were burglarized in Farrell, West Middlesex and Sharpsville in recent days.

A Cleveland man is headed to court on charges that he shot two women May 2 in Sharon after he allegedly shot at them in Farrell and chased them into Sharon.

A man accused of having child pornography on his home computer will face charges in court.

The offenses the girls committed are typical of tweens and early teens, including stealing, lying, wetting the bed and coming home late.

A Mercer County inmate Wednesday used the jail's phone to contact the victim of a shooting, trying to deter her from testifying against his "boy" the following day, sheriff's deputies say.

Some of the blighted areas of the Shenango Valley got a face-lift Saturday as teams of people took to the streets of Farrell and Sharon to clean up.

A monument, eight Japanese cherry trees, and signs re-naming the street within Farrell Area School District "Julius McCoy Drive" were dedicated at the ceremony.

A New Castle woman pleaded guilty this week to reckless endangerment, fleeing police, and accidents involving injury for driving into a police car after a shooting last June at Big E's Social Club in Farrell.

Club Pet Adoption will have many dogs and cats available for adoption plus vendors, a Chinese auction and refreshments.

For the second consecutive month, Sharon finds itself No.1 in an unhappy category.