New Castle News

A school bus carrying one student collided with a truck this morning around 7:30 a.m. on Route 18 in North Beaver, Lawrence County.

Three people are jailed on charges including the illegal possession and disposal of dangerous chemicals used to manufacture the power stimulant methamphetamine at two suspected labs uncovered at separate homes in one western Pennsylvania city.

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Police, federal agents and hazardous materials crews have been at a New Castle home suspected of housing a methamphetamine lab since Monday night.

Police, federal agents and hazardous materials crews have been at a western Pennsylvania home suspected of housing a methamphetamine lab.

He was cited for failure to control. - Frederic B. Fessler, 64, New Castle, Pa., was southbound on state Route 165 in Unity Township at 4:10 p.m. Thursday and his vehicle was struck by debris from a northbound vehicle.

A western Pennsylvania man is jailed on charges he beat his ex-girlfriend who uses a wheelchair since her leg was amputated and also suffers from spina bifida.

A western Pennsylvania city has added two canines that died last year to a memorial roll call listing the names of police officers who have died in and around the city.

The mother of an 8-year-old western Pennsylvania boy has been charged with endangering him for allegedly letting him play in a vehicle that slipped out of park and crashed.

A 14-year-old Pennsylvania boy accused of killing his father's pregnant fiancee and her unborn child will be sent to an undisclosed juvenile facility where he could remain in state custody until his 21st birthday.

Jack Houk, father of Kenzie Houk, talks to the media after the sentencing of Jordan Brown at the Lawrence County Courthouse in New Castle.

NEW CASTLE - A Lawrence County boy was sentenced today in connection with the shooting death of his father's pregnant fiancA©e in 2009.

In a May 10, 2012 file photo Rose Mary Sabo-Brown holds a photo of her husband Army Specialist Leslie H. Sabo, Jr., in her home in New Castle, Pa.

Westminster College's STEM departments hosted 16 high school girls for a visit May 3 .A The event was coordinated through Westminster's Sustainability in Motion Program .

In a Thursday May 10, 2012 photo Rose Mary Sabo-Brown looks at the medals awarded her husband, Specialist Leslie H. Sabo, Jr., at her home in New Castle, Pa.

NEW CASTLE - A Lawrence county mom says her son is recovering at home after he got behind the wheel of their minivan and rolled down the street crashing into another car.

An 8-year-old boy said he was playing in a minivan when he knocked it out of gear and it began to roll backward, according to the New Castle Fire Department.

While he doesn't have much coaching experience, 26-year-old Craig Hannon has been successful in his four years coaching basketball.

A worker was saved from serious injury by his safety harness after the bucket truck he was in was struck by a semi Thursday morning in Lawrence County and he fell out.

Westminster College's Drinko Center for Experiential Learning sponsored "Transformers: Mentoring through Robotics" for seven eighth-grade students at Laurel High School in New Castle .