Archive for May, 2009
Accident on Everson Valley Road
The Herald Standard Reports:
Bullskin VFD and Everson VFD along Fayette EMS and Mutual Aid respond to an accident involving a car and a motorcycle on Everson Valley Road in Bullskin Township Saturday afternoon around 3:30.
Acme man charged following long police chase
The Herald Standard Reports:
SALTLICK TWP. — An Acme man is facing numerous charges after he led police on a 25-mile chase early today.
Trooper Christopher T. Cole said Steven Paul Anderson, 36, of 157 Kathleen Circle was charged before Magisterial District Judge Michael Defino with aggravated assault on a police officer, two counts of resisting arrest, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, fleeing and eluding police, recklessly endangering another person, driving under the influence of a controlled substance and a dozen traffic violations.
According to Cole, the incident began shortly after midnight in Saltlick Township when Anderson refused to stop for police trying to pull him over.
For more details, see Josh Krysak’s article in Friday’s Herald-Standard.
Active Schools Grant Program announced
The Herald Standard Reports:
Against a backdrop of students, Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Everette James makes an announcement establishing the Active Schools Grant Program Tuesday during a visit to Albert Gallatin South Middle School near New Geneva as Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Dr. Gerald Zahorchak (in T-shirt) looks on with Ralph Garcia, AG South Middle School Principal. (Ed Cope/Herald-Standard)
Adah man wants to revisit preliminary hearing in homicide
The Herald Standard Reports:
By Jennifer Harr
Herald-Standard
Although one of the two people accused in the death of a newborn baby has backed out of a tentative plea deal, Fayette County District Attorney Nancy D. Vernon said his alleged co-conspirator will testify against him.
Vernon said Thursday that William Bircher, who initially agreed to plead guilty to third-degree murder in the death of the infant who became known as “Baby Mary,” indicated he no longer wished to do so.
With that, his attorney, Jack W. Connor, filed a motion to remand the case to the preliminary hearing stage. Bircher, 34, of Adah had waived that hearing last month when he agreed to the plea.
Vernon said she won’t oppose having a preliminary hearing if it does not count against the time prosecutors have to bring Bircher to trial.
A preliminary hearing determines if there is enough evidence to bind the case over to court.
He and the baby’s mother, Sarah Sue Hawk, 25, of Uniontown were charged with killing the baby between May 27 and June 4, 2000. State police alleged that the two put the newborn into a backpack, put it into a plastic bag, and placed it into Cove Run Creek in North Union Township.
Two men who were fishing in the area found it.
For more information, read tomorrow’s Herald-Standard.
Allison man pleads guilty to reduced charge in son’s slaying
The Herald Standard Reports:
An Allison 1 man accused in the November shooting death of his 12-year-old son pleaded guilty to a reduced charge in Fayette County Court this morning.
Michael Alvin Muha Jr., 39, of 74 Broadway St. was charged Nov. 24 with criminal homicide, aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person in the shooting death of his son, Michael Muha III, known as Mikey. An additional felony weapons charge was also filed against Michael Muha Jr. earlier this year.
Michael Muha Jr. entered a general plea today of guilty to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter and also pleaded guilty to simple assault, illegally possessing a firearm, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person before President Judge Conrad B. Capuzzi.
See Josh Krysak’s story in Sunday’s Herald-Standard for more details.
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