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State prosecutors are dropping a rape charge against an elected district attorney in western Pennsylvania. But they're adding new felony charges of sexual assault and aggravated indecent assault. Somerset County District Attorney Jeffrey Lynn Thomas waived a preliminary hearing that had been scheduled for Tuesday.
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Lowell Friedline struck out on his own as a dairy farmer in 1988 when he started buying his farm in installments from his dad. By the time his father…
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In 1907, 240 coal miners went to work at the Darr Mine in Van Meter, and only one came home. Nearly one century later, nine miners went to work in the…
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A new sound installation is in progress at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County.The 93-foot-tall Tower of Voices is the final project for…
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The company behind a new coal mine in Somerset County intends to open another in the area, and some residents worry the new operation could hurt their…
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Courtney Bittner is mom to 3-year-old Bentley, and 3-week-old Nash.She was ecstatic about her first pregnancy, and immediately went to Somerset OB/GYN…
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Vice President Mike Pence and Gov. Tom Wolf were among those at the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville Monday to the people who died in the Sept. 11, 2001…
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Robert Pugh says he doesn't like coming back to the area of Pennsylvania that still gives him "goosebumps" 15 years after he and eight other miners were…
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Matt Owens stands at the bottom of a freshly dug hole, about the size of a football field, cut 120 feet deep into a hillside in Somerset County. The pit…
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Last year, when the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania held its annual conference, the focus was on the budget stalemate that, at the time,…