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September 16, 2017 / Front Page

Commodores pay tribute to longtime band director with homecoming performance

By THE DAILY COURIER

Rodney Staggers retired from Frazier School District in 2012 after 35 years of bringing music to life in his students both on the stage and on the football field. More...

Connellsville police seek city man in stabbing

By CHRISTINE HAINES

A warrant has been issued for a Connellsville man on charges including attempted homicide following a stabbing at his residence last weekend. Matthew Oliver Nativio, 24, of Connellsville, is charged with two felonies – attempted homicide More...

News

GOP’s ‘Obamacare’ repeal all but dead

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. More...

California man gets life terms for killing 8 in hair salon

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‘Little Rock Nine’ members mark school’s 1957 desegregation

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. More...

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Arts and Entertainment

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Do Just One Thing

What if every time you bought a cup of coffee, a pair of shoes or a bag of groceries, you could round up your purchase to the nearest dollar to help a worthy charity? A new smartphone app called Drops lets you do that, and it’s a cinch to use. More...

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Lifestyles

Bible Digest

“For you, LORD, will bless the righteous; with favor will you compass him as with a shield.” (Psalms 5:12 AKJV) It is a blessing to be a child of God. More...

Church News

Albright events listed Albright United Methodist Church, South Connellsville, will hold a Premier Jewelry fundraiser at 1 p.m. today at the parsonage, 1526 Chestnut St. More...

Meaningful Work

By WILLIAM H. SCARLE JR.

During the period between the fall of Rome and the Reformation, the idea developed that there was a deep divide between the “spiritual estate” and the “temporal estate.” Those who worked within the framework of the church had More...

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Connellsville man sentenced to serve up to 17 years in prison

By BOB STILES

A Connellsville man was sentenced Friday to serve up to 17 years in state prison in connection with killing another man inside a Uniontown home. Bennie Fletcher Jr., 62, was sentenced to serve eight to 17 years by Fayette County Judge John F. More...

Girlfriend recalls night of Uniontown shooting

By BOB STILES

A woman testified Friday she saw Jamaal Fitzgerald shortly after she heard “three or four shots” outside their Uniontown apartment in June. “I opened the back door and Jamaal was standing there,” said Bobbi Jo Cumberland More...

Local artists to hold exhibit at Ye Olde Inn

By CHRISTINE HAINES

The works of 10 area artists will be on display and up for sale tonight at Ye Olde Inn. The bar and restaurant on Route 119 in Dunbar invited the artists to show their works. More...

Obituaries

Dolores E. Frazier

Dunbar

Dolores E. (Nicholson) Frazier, 88, of Dunbar, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017, at Scottdale Manor. She was born Oct. 13, 1928, in Connellsville, the daughter of the late George Nicholson and Mae (McFern) Nicholson Shandorf. More...

Debra E. Gearhart

Scottdale

Debra Ella Gearhart, 63, of Scottdale, died Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, at her home. She was born Aug. 31, 1954, in Mt. Pleasant, a daughter of the late Wayne and Lois Shaw Keefer. More...

Evelyn M. Key

Michigan

Evelyn Key, 69, passed away peacefully of Saturday, Sept. More...

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Opinion

Those student loan dollars at work

By KILEY FISCHER

I’ve never been the kind of person to toot my own horn – just ask my parents. My mom likes to remind me that at nearly 28 I “never tell her anything” and that I never really have. More...

Saving those who served

(AP) – Every day, nationwide, an average of 20 veterans die by suicide. Every year, our country loses about 400 more veterans to suicide than have died in combat since the war on terror began. More...