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Coroner seeks information

The Washington County Coroner's Office is seeking information on Donald Jerome, who was born March 29, 1952, and died May 12 in Donnell House, Washington. He was from the Washington area. Information should be directed to the coroner's office at 724-228-6785.

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Election Day meals The Center Township VFD Auxiliary will have food for sale on Election Day from 8 a.m to 7 p.m. Breakfast will include sausage and biscuits. Lunch will be sloppy joe, hot dogs, ham, cabbage and sausage. Dinner will be lasagna, salad, garlic bread and desserts. Invasive plant walk Join Dr. Mark Mamros and Dean Rossini of the PA Forest Stewards Program to discover the many unwanted invasive plants growing in Washington County. The invasive plant walk will be May 19 at 7 p.m. The group will meet at Shelter 2 in Mingo Creek County Park. A limited number of handouts will be available. Dress for light hiking and the weather. Preregistration is preferred but not ...

State police: $91K in gambling funds seized from Washington club

More than $91,000 in cash was seized from an unlicensed, private gambling club in Washington, Pennsylvania State Police announced Monday, describing it as one of the largest seizures the liquor control enforcement unit has seen in years. According to PSP Liquor Control Enforcement Officer ...

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Kirby, Washington weather storm for win

Quiz time: How do you clear 3,211 school kids and teachers out of the seats in EQT Park in less than a minute? Answer: Try an unexpected rainstorm that leaves everybody scurrying and waterlogged within seconds. That’s what happened Tuesday morning during the fourth inning of the Wild ...

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Walk-off homer in the 10th lifts Cardinals past Pirates

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Iván Herrera hit a three-run, walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th inning — one of four homers by St. Louis — as the Cardinals rallied to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night. Herrera's 410-foot shot off of Mason Montgomery (1-1) was his first career ...

Wild Things’ Herbert picked up by Orioles

Wild Things manager Tom Vaeth said he wanted to use a six-man pitching rotation this season. That plan has suddenly gone awry for multiple reasons. One of those reasons is a good one. Righthander Andrew Herbert had his contract purchased Tuesday by the Baltimore Orioles organization, pending a ...

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Opinion

A second chance for Blue Skies

Periodically, a news story comes across my iPad that I just can’t stop thinking about. This story started like this: “On February 21 police officers were dispatched to a bar.” That opening line drew me in almost as fast as “A Florida man ..." “The caller was the bartender,” and ...

Living

Celebrate burger season

Grills are firing up all across the country and the savory aroma of smoky foods are wafting through neighborhoods far and wide. Burgers a staple of grilling season, and grillmasters have a lot of leeway when it comes to what goes into their creations. Even though beef is often the meat of ...

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