Main entrance to Washington County Courthouse reopening to public
Federal, state, county and municipal offices will be closed Monday in observance of Memorial Day. There will be no mail delivery and financial markets will be closed. The Observer-Reporter will not publish a print edition.
State police said a man who appeared to have been attempting to take electrical wire was electrocuted in Fayette County Friday morning. The Fayette County coroner’s office was called to the scene near Laurel Hill Presbyterian Church on Laurel Hill Road in Dunbar Township shortly after 7 a.m. Aaron Cottrell, 32, of Scottdale, was pronounced dead from an accidental electrocution, according to a release from the coroner’s office. At the time of the incident, Cottrell had a pole saw and a backpack, and appeared to have been attempting to remove wire from active electrical lines, state police said in a release. The investigation is ongoing. The coroner’s office said Cottrell had ...
Before Washington County Coroner Timothy Warco could testify about his claims that District Attorney Jason Walsh coerced him into falsifying a death certificate in 2022, he was read his Miranda rights and informed by a prosecutor that he could face criminal charges, bringing the proceeding to a ...
Law Day contest winners and the recipient of the 2026 Liberty Bell Award will be celebrated at the Public Law Day Celebration to be held at 6 p.m. May 27 at the Washington County Courthouse. The event is free and open to the public and will feature a special prominent figure from America's history and a dessert reception. The contests are co-sponsored by the Observer-Reporter, and all winning entries will be featured in a special Law Day-themed feature in the May 23 edition of the newspaper. Winning billboard entries – as well as a select few entries from other entry categories – will be displayed on the billboard at the intersection of Racetrack Road and Route 19 through the end ...
Services will be held on Monday, unless otherwise noted. Bentleyville American Legion Post 165 9 a.m. Somerset Township, 615 Vanceville Road, Eighty Four 9:30 a.m. North Bethlehem / Scenery Hill, 2128 E. National Pike, Scenery Hill 10 a.m. Cokeburg, 41 Washington St., Cokeburg 10:30 a.m. ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Pato O'Ward smiles as he walks through Gasoline Alley, seeing the Arrow McLaren No. 5 shirts. Sure, he's popular, but O'Ward wants something more — to be called an Indianapolis 500 champion. After three near misses in his past four races on the Brickyard's iconic 2.5-mile ...
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association conference in Camp Hill. The conference is a yearly event that I look forward to. It is great to get together with old friends, and by old friends I mean that most of us are old. I am 60 and they call me ...
SHIPPENSBURG – Going into the final turn, Katie Froelich sensed Downingtown West’s Julia Kelly was making a move. Kelly drew alongside and briefly pulled ahead, but Froelich used her soccer instincts to fend her off. Instead of chasing a soccer ball down, she was hunting the finish ...
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 ...
U.S. Army Air Corps Staff Sgt. Donald W. Ross was a World War II war hero whose story got lost in a mix of family drama, estrangement, distance, and time. About 40 years ago, my grandfather, Vance Ross, mentioned that he hadn’t seen his younger brother since 1944. As he sat at his kitchen ...
