Esper, a Uniontown, Pennsylvania native, worked for the Associated Press for 42 years, much of the time as a foreign correspondent.

A 12-year-old Fayette County boy suffered minor injuries when he was hit by a truck while bicycling in Uniontown on Tuesday, but the driver did not stop to render aid, police reported.

Richard Rosendale's winning platter, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house, is on display at the 2012 Bocuse d'Or USA competition at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. Richard Rosendale's winning platter, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house, is on display at the 2012 Bocuse d'Or USA competition at the ... (more)

Mark Hofmann is a Daily Courier staff writer and can be reached at 724-626-3539 or via e-mail. A Uniontown woman has been charged with stealing $18,000 that was supposed to help support four people with disabilities in a community living facility.

Liz Zemba is a Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-601-2166 or via e-mail. An odor of raw marijuana tipped a Uniontown police officer to the presence of 48 pounds of the suspected substance in a van that was stopped for a traffic violation on Friday.

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A Pittsburgh man was charged with resisting arrest and illegal possession of firearms after he fled a traffic stop in Dunbar, Fayette County, early today, state police said.

The following is a list of the most- and least-profitable Wine & Spirits stores in Southwestern Pennsylvania .

Vandals knocked over 10 tombstones at a Fayette County cemetery over the past few days, cracking some and causing an undetermined amount of damage, state police at Uniontown said today.

Investigators say a morning traffic stop in Uniontown netted a garbage bag full of marijuana with a street value of $130,000. "These drugs would have been distributed to many different people throughout the city or the county, and then sold to how many people throughout the county, so it was a significant amount of drugs," said Det.