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Death penalty vacated for man convicted of 2006 Greene County murder

A man convicted of killing and raping a 12-year-old Greene County girl 20 years ago is no longer facing the death penalty after the court determined he met the standards for intellectual disability. The sentence for Jeffrey Martin, 68, was amended to life in prison without parole in Greene ...

Dunbar women accused in 9-year-old's death appear in court

The two Dunbar defendants accuse in the death of a 9-year-old girl in Fayette County last year appeared in separate court hearings Thursday. Sarah Shipley, 36, was scheduled for an omnibus pretrial motion hearing Thursday afternoon while Kourtney Eutsey, 32, had a status conference in the ...

Potential building sale won't affect Redstone Candy, owner says

A Republic candy company says it will continue operating at its current home while the building is up for sale. Redstone Candy Co.’s building at 1736 New Salem Road was recently listed for sale for $825,000. The building is owned by Redstone Distributing, which was sold to a West Virginia ...

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American Legion reveals Region 6 tournament bracket

The American Legion Region 6 Baseball Tournament bracket has been released but the two qualifiers from the Fayette County league won't find out who and when they'll play until their seeding is determined this week. The three-day, four-team, double-elimination tournament, which is hosted by ...

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Pirates enter All-Star break on high note with sweep of Brewers

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Paul Skenes won his second straight start after going winless for nine in a row as the Pittsburgh Pirates scored 10 runs in the fourth inning to rout the Milwaukee Brewers 14-5 Sunday and head into the All-Star break with a three-game sweep. What was slated to be a ...

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Guzman returning to WVU baseball team

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The final take on West Virginia’s best baseball season in school history was the Mountaineers saw four of its top players drafted into the major leagues over the weekend. As for WVU’s future roster, utility man Armani Guzman announced Sunday he was coming back to ...

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OP-ED: Three strikes and a lifetime of splinters

At about 9 years old, I decided I wanted to build a treehouse. We had a sturdy black walnut tree in our backyard, and I had amassed a pile of old weathered fence slats with enough splinters to disable a battalion of enemy soldiers. I had a handful of nails I had painstakingly pulled from ...

Outdoors

Better days ahead

The heat dome that was forecast to visit our region arrived in Southwestern Pennsylvania on June 29 when we experienced our first 90 degree day of the summer season. This was quickly followed by five more consecutive days of 94, 95, 96, 97, and back to 96 on the fourth of July. Along with the ...

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