Washington, Greene and Fayette County school districts will receive more than $5.4 million in state grants to support safety measures and mental health services for students and staff, according to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Deliquency’s School Safety and Security Commission. The grants are part of $47 million approved by the committee “to improve […]
The death of a Uniontown man who jumped out of a window while in police custody has been ruled a suicide. The Office of the Allegheny County Medical Examiner reported that Bernard Geisel, 42, died of blunt-force trauma to the head on Dec. 29 in Connellsville. Geisel was handcuffed and being escorted by Connellsville police […]
Over the next five years, Connellsville hopes to improve the urban forest in the city with the assistance of a $500,000 grant from the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resource’s Department of Forestry. The first phase of the grant includes advertising for bids to conduct a “tree inventory” throughout the city, which council members […]
Hundreds of United Methodists will gather in Charlotte, N.C., in the next two weeks to make big decisions on the religious denomination’s policies, finances, inclusiveness and future. The international conference, referred to as the 2020 General Conference because the original event was postponed during the pandemic, comes after years of