RSS | 
Twitter
| 
Be a fan!
Search Observer-Reporter
Search Archive
Last week's most-read stories
Victim identified in Cecil Twp. fatal accident
The driver of a vehicle that was involved in a fatal accident in Cecil Township Wednesday night has been identified. Shawna Lynn Pigford, 39, of Cecil, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.
Full story >>
From stage 4 diagnosis to cancer-free for Mascara
The rumors are true: Washington County Judge Mark Mascara is cancer-free.
Full story >>
Ex-officer nabbed in sex case
The former officer in charge of Fallowfield Township's police department was arrested Monday on charges including endangering the welfare of children for allegedly having unprotected sex with a 17-year-old runaway boy.
Full story >>
Cow deaths have couple questioning water quality
DAISYTOWN - In the spring of 2008 after a fourth calf was born blind and died soon after birth, Terry Greenwood took the unusual step of purchasing a deep freezer for the carcass.
Full story >>
Three gas stations robbed
Two gas stations on the same street in the Washington area were robbed within two hours Wednesday night. Early Thursday morning a third gas station was robbed in Waynesburg.
Full story >>
Hearing set on appeal by woman who starved daughter
For nine years, Michelle Tharp has been awaiting execution for the starvation death of her 7-year-old daughter in 1998.
Full story >>
Woman stabbed with steak knife
A Washington woman is being held on accusations she stabbed a woman with a steak knife early today in a Chartiers Township residence.
Full story >>
The driver of a vehicle that was involved in a fatal accident in Cecil Township Wednesday night has been identified. Shawna Lynn Pigford, 39, of Cecil, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.
Full story >>
From stage 4 diagnosis to cancer-free for Mascara
The rumors are true: Washington County Judge Mark Mascara is cancer-free.
Full story >>
Ex-officer nabbed in sex case
The former officer in charge of Fallowfield Township's police department was arrested Monday on charges including endangering the welfare of children for allegedly having unprotected sex with a 17-year-old runaway boy.
Full story >>
Cow deaths have couple questioning water quality
DAISYTOWN - In the spring of 2008 after a fourth calf was born blind and died soon after birth, Terry Greenwood took the unusual step of purchasing a deep freezer for the carcass.
Full story >>
Three gas stations robbed
Two gas stations on the same street in the Washington area were robbed within two hours Wednesday night. Early Thursday morning a third gas station was robbed in Waynesburg.
Full story >>
Hearing set on appeal by woman who starved daughter
For nine years, Michelle Tharp has been awaiting execution for the starvation death of her 7-year-old daughter in 1998.
Full story >>
Woman stabbed with steak knife
A Washington woman is being held on accusations she stabbed a woman with a steak knife early today in a Chartiers Township residence.
Full story >>
Washington County Judge Mark Mascara, shown in a 2004 photo, is cancer-free just a few months after being diagnosed with the disease.
Shots fired at quad riders
A Greene County man is accused of firing two shots from a handgun in the direction of four all-terrain vehicles whose riders he was chasing off his property Sunday.
Full story >>
Drillers: Fracturing rock poses no danger
As more drilling for natural gas occurs in the area, residents are voicing concerns about environmental effects, especially the viability of the water supply.
Full story >>
Agency facing $58M loss to monitor gas drilling
As the state Department of Environmental Protection works its way through a $58 million funding cut, its press secretary said last week that the agency will be able to maintain its oversight over natural gas well drilling activities in the state's Marcellus Shale play across Pennsylvania.
Full story >>
