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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A proposed constitutional amendment is moving ahead to direct Pennsylvania lawmakers to develop a means of removing elected municipal officials for just cause, including...

MONESSEN, Pa. (AP) — Under the fluorescent lights of the Monessen Fire Department Social Hall, Jason Zubovic's bright orange shawl and high, curly wig rivet the eye.

MARIANNA, Pa. (AP) — Marianna Borough sits quietly, unobtrusively in southeastern Washington County, a small town dozens of miles from an appreciable population base. But it is one with a burning...

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MONESSEN, Pa. (AP) — Police in western Pennsylvania say a man faces forgery charges for allegedly trying to pay off court fines with counterfeit money.

MONESSEN, Pa. (AP) — A high school football game in western Pennsylvania was canceled after one of the school districts said it received word of a possible threat against players.

Monessen officials said the Charleroi Area School District contacted them Friday about "a threat directed towards our student athletes." Monessen was to host the season-opening game of the WPIAL rivals.

MONESSESEN, Pa. (AP) — Police say a Pennsylvania mother gave her 16-month-old daughter a fatal dose of allergy medicine.

Police in Monessen say 30-year-old Ashley Gallatin has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the December death of one of her twin daughters.

CLAIRTON, Pa. (AP) — A dozen adults and juveniles have been charged in a brawl earlier this month at a high school boys' basketball game in western Pennsylvania.

Clairton police filed charges Friday against six adults and six juveniles with counts of disorderly conduct in the Feb. 6 melee at the Clairton-Monessen game.

Video on social media showed dozens of fans spilling onto the court in an all-out brawl after a fourth-quarter fight between two players.

MONESSEN, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania school district is appealing penalties imposed on it and another district following a brawl involving players and fans at a boys' basketball game.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — An athletic league has placed the sports programs of the Clairton and Monessen school district on five years' probation among other penalties following a fight involving players and fans at a high school boys' basketball game last week.

CLAIRTON, Pa. (AP) — An athletic league official says a fight involving players and fans at a Pennsylvania high school boys' basketball game was "totally unacceptable."

A fight broke out between two players in the fourth quarter of Tuesday night's Monessen-Clairton game, and a video on social media shows dozens of fans spilling onto the court in an all-out brawl.

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MONESSEN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities have charged a woman in the arson of a neighbor's house in Pennsylvania that led to three injuries to firefighters.

Forty-eight-year-old Laurel Lee Womack is charged with arson, aggravated assault and causing a catastrophe in Tuesday's blaze in Monessen.

Police said surveillance video showed her entering the home. They allege she told investigators that a man who had stolen a television asked her to "blaze" the house. No one else has been charged.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to the maximum possible term of 20 to 40 years in prison for the stabbing death of his girlfriend on a Pittsburgh street.

Allegheny County Judge Anthony Mariani on Thursday sentenced 27-year-old Dejuan Windom, of Monessen. The same judge convicted Windom of third-degree murder in May for the Nov. 28, 2015, slaying of Margaret Recasens.

The 28-year-old woman, also from Monessen, was found lying on the sidewalk and bleeding.

MONESSEN, Pa. (AP) — Police have been searching for a Pennsylvania man who so badly burned a toddler's hands the boy couldn't use them for weeks.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (http://bit.ly/2vg1vRH ) says Westmoreland County detectives on Tuesday announced charges against 23-year-old Fred Bacon Jr., of Monessen.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pennsylvania man has been convicted of third-degree murder in the stabbing death of his girlfriend on a Pittsburgh street.

An Allegheny County judge on Monday convicted 26-year-old Dejuan Windom, of Monessen, in the Nov. 28, 2015, slaying of Margaret Recasens.

The 28-year-old woman, also from Monessen, was found lying on the sidewalk and bleeding.

GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Two men have been sentenced to serve 10 to 20 years each in prison in a shooting death during a botched robbery more than four years ago.

Twenty-three-year-old Antoine Hairston and 23-year-old Joshua Stepoli were sentenced Friday in Westmoreland County in the December 2012 killing of 36-year-old Chris Fincik in Monessen.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The bright blue cupolas atop SS. Cyril & Methodius Orthodox Church are an unmistakable landmark in Jeannette — symbols of a parish once home to more than 50 Russian families.

In Monessen, families used to fill folding chairs beside packed church pews during Sunday services at St. Michael Antiochian Orthodox Church.

Not so today. Not at St. Michael, not at SS. Cyril & Methodius and not at many other Orthodox churches in southwestern Pennsylvania.

GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania housing agency has been found negligent for the carbon monoxide poisoning death of an elderly woman who used her open oven to dry clothing in 2013.

A family lawsuit claimed 77-year-old Sandra Troilo, of Monessen, died from carbon monoxide poisoning as a result of poor ventilation in her apartment.