Sharon News

Canonsburg Borough has a preliminary contract for a building in town that is planned to be the future home of America's Pop Music Hall of Fame.

Judge Thomas Dobson of Mercer County Common Pleas Court sentenced Shannon Clarke to six to 18 months in jail on Friday for burning, beating, and starving his hound dog mix named Roscoe.

MERCER, Pa. - William H. "Bill" Richter, 92, a resident of Countryside Nursing Home, Mercer, Pa., and formerly of 910 10th Ave., Sharon, Pa., has passed on from lung cancer at the home at 2:05 p.m. Friday, April 27, 2012, and has laid his head to rest peacefully in the loving arms of Jesus.

Steven Porter said he does not expect to win the 3rd Congressional District seat he's seeking for a fourth time since 2006.

Police say a western Pennsylvania man's cell phone contained video of a boy, about 2, who is being taught how to break up marijuana buds for sale by rubbing them in his hands.