Somerset County News

A 15-year-old girl who was committed to a Cambria County facility fled a dental appointment Thursday and stole four vehicles, crashing three of them in Somerset County before she was caught.

Sharon S. Clapper was named outstanding Person of the Year at the 69th Somerset County Chamber of commerce dinner held Wednesday at Seven Springs Mountain Resort.

Click small images above to enlarge. Turkey is, of course, a staple of Thanksgiving, and a group in Somerset County wants to make sure area families don't go hungry this holiday.

A Somerset County man was arraigned on drug charges stemming from a police chase in Croyle Township last month.

A former Laughlintown man was under the influence of alcohol on Route 30 March 28 when his pickup truck plowed into a carload of teenagers returning from a Britney Spears concert and killed a 15-year-old boy, police allege.

Firefighters had their hands full Friday afternoon after two brush fires broke out at separate locations in Westmoreland County.

State police have filed charges against three men who allegedly burglarized a Derry Township residence, taking nearly $8,000 in cash and jewelry.

Seven Springs Mountain Resort has signed a 10-year lease to operate a dormant state-owned ski area in southwestern Pennsylvania, though it won't reopen this year and possibly not next year either.

This ceremony was at the Jackson Township Senior Center. A Central Cambria High School Teacher who served in Iraq talked about his experience in the military.

Three women with a history of volunteerism were honored Friday during the 10th annual "Salute to Women" luncheon held at the Bakersville Volunteer Fire Department hall to benefit the Penn's Woods Council of the Boy Scouts.

A Somerset County man pleaded guiltyTuesday to drunken driving and involuntary manslaughter for a traffic accident that claimed the life of a friend a year ago.

A 50-year-old Somerset County man died Sunday afternoon after his motorcycle was struck by a deer on state Route 31.

A collision with a deer killed a motorcycle rider in Somerset County Sunday afternoon.

Anglers fishing Lower Twin Lake have been picking up a few trout on wax worms, maggots and paste baits.

A Somerset County man has been charged with repeatedly raping a mentally disabled woman at her apartment and later at a nursing home where she had lived for the past two years.

A Somerset County man has been charged with repeatedly raping a mentally disabled woman at her apartment and, later, the nursing home where she's lived since 2007.

Esther Heymann was overflowing with grief for her stepdaughter. Standing in a blustery snow, overlooking the empty field where Flight 93 had crashed a couple of years earlier, she couldn't stop crying.

A Somerset County man faces aggravated assault charges after he allegedly punched another man unconscious after an argument over a citizens band radio system while at work, state police said.

Two Fayette County men have admitted they were caught breaking into a rural home on a video camera, usually used to observe deer-feeding, according to state police at Uniontown.

With only a few hotly contested local races and some state judgeships at stake Tuesday, election officials and a political analyst are expecting a low voter turnout at the polls in Cambria and Somerset counties.