Somerset County News

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.

A borough policeman testified Monday that Bruce Emerick confessed - just minutes after his fiancee was shot to death on Dec.

A neighbor of Jeanine Downing testified Tuesday that she heard her screaming "help," and the murder defendant yelling "I'll shoot you" just minutes before Downing was shot and killed.

May Wrap Up - Witnesses Take The Stand 10/29/2009 Several witnesses in a deadly shooting Somerset County take the stand.

For years, leaders in this Somerset County community have considered using wind power to boost their electrical system.

After years of fundraising and acquiring land, plans are in place for groundbreaking for the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville.

Students at Meyersdale Area High School's Elective History class are getting their hands dirty - and loving it.

A Beaver County man serving a long sentence for drug crimes that once included a murder-for-hire plot has died in a western Pennsylvania prison.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - For the past five years, only two passenger trains have stopped at Johnstown's station each day.

Separate ATV and automobile crashes Sunday evening claimed the lives of two area residents.

Pennsylvania Highlands Community College is on the move. Beginning in January, the college will offer general studies and business management programs to the residents of Somerset County at its new Somerset Education Center on Main Street.

A former Somerset County high school teacher was acquitted Tuesday of raping an eighth-grade student in 2001 but the jury of 10 women and two men found Stephen W. Shaffer, 57, of Grove City, guilty of two counts of indecent assault and one count each of endangering the welfare of a child and corruption of minors.

Angie Svonavec is seeking a fourth term as Somerset County's prothonotary. Svonavec, a Democrat, has been prothonotary since 1998.

A retired western Pennsylvania teacher has been convicted on charges he sexually assaulted a former student, but was acquitted on a rape count, the most serious charge he faced.

A Windber woman killed her boyfriend and then herself early Friday, police in the borough said.