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Mechanics’ reptile skills pay off

Car dealers probably don’t normally ask prospective employees about their experience with reptiles.But that didn’t stop two mechanics at Washington’s Budd Baer Inc. from putting their longtime love of snakes and other-cold-blooded creatures to good use on Thursday when a driver asked for ...

Resurrection Power to hold Breakfast Banquet event

A local addiction-recovery ministry will hold its yearly Breakfast Banquet on Saturday.Nonprofit Resurrection Power’s benefit event will be held at Elks Lodge 158, located at 138 E. Maiden St. in Washington. It will take place from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.The speaker will be Pastor Jerrel Gilliam, ...

Court okays ‘tag team’ approach to circulating nominating petitions

What attorney Lane Turturice called the “tag team” approach of circulating a single nominating petition was valid, Washington County President Judge Katherine Emery ruled Thursday afternoon.Mark Kennison Sr. and his son, Washington Republican mayoral candidate Mark Kennison Jr., worked ...

Judge: Clerk of Courts’ amendment to ethics form permissible under law

Washington County President Judge Katherine B. Emery ruled Tuesday afternoon that Democratic incumbent Clerk of Courts Frank Scandale can remain on the May 21 primary ballot.Scandale, 51, filed an ethics form as an office holder within a timely manner and was, according to the judge, permitted ...

Charges held in fatal overdose case

Amara Czech said she injected heroin and fell out of consciousness and later regained it to find her boyfriend, Justin Platt, dead or dying of an overdose in the bedroom of his Washington apartment last month.“He was black and blue,” Czech recalled Friday. “I ran up to him and he had puke ...

Jurors decide against death sentence for Washington man

Jurors chose not to return a death sentence against a former Washington man for a homicide he was found guilty of committing six years ago in the city’s West End.The Washington County jury of six men and six women deliberated for about three hours Tuesday before they instead sentenced Brandon ...