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Crime Stoppers of Fayette County has upgraded its website to better serve the community thanks to a grant. For years, the organization that pays up to $1,000 for tips leading to an arrest of unsolved crimes in the area had a free, basic website that limited the amount of information the nonprofit was able to share with the citizens. They also maintained an active Facebook page seeking tips about community crimes. “Our biggest strength was our Facebook page,” said Fayette County Sheriff James Custer, a board member with the organization. Whatever information law enforcement sent had ...

Fayette County will be part of a new initiative that provides Narcan at no cost to county jails across the state. During a Wednesday meeting of the Fayette County Prison Board, Sheriff James Custer said the Pennsylvania Sheriffs Association partnered with the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) and Vital Strategies to increase Narcan access for those returning to communities after incarceration. The sheriffs’ association, under a grant received from Bloomberg Philanthropies and Vital Strategies, will provide outreach, assistance and training to individuals working and...

The start of a multi-year construction plan was marked Thursday with the groundbreaking for a new Fayette County Prison. Representatives from municipal, county, state and federal government as well as project team members were on hand at the former Army Reserve Training Center on McClellandtown Road in Uniontown, the site for the new Fayette County Prison. “Our leadership right now is laser focused on this goal,” said Muriel Nuttall, executive director of the Fayette County Chamber of Commerce. Nuttall said the site that was once of importance for national security will be a place o...

Share and speak up for justice, law & order... A sheriff in Pennsylvania told “Fox & Friends” on Monday that he changed his political affiliation to Republican because of the “shift in ideals of the Democratic Party at the national level,” including a “socialist agenda.” Fayette County Sheriff James Custer said that he considered the move for several months and that the restrictions put into place during the COVID-19 pandemic helped influence his decision. “It probably started back when the pandemic started and the mandates coming down by the Democratic governors,” ...

stance — against Joe Biden’s bunch. He’s also sick of the shutdown, which he finds at odds with our founding document: “This is something that I had been considering for several months. It probably started back when the pandemic started. And the mandates coming down by the Democratic governors, and, of which we have one here, Pennsylvania, that I fear are unconstitutional. And as the sheriff, it is my duty as a constitutional sheriff to protect and serve, uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States and these unconstitutional mandates being brought down on our citizens. And...