The Canonsburg-Houston Joint Authority can raise the rates it charges customers less than it originally planned and will undergo an independent review of its books under a settlement reached with member municipalities in Washington County court.The agreement, which Common Pleas Judge Michael ...
Officials of the state-owned California University of Pennsylvania spent more than a year claiming in multiple legal venues they don’t have to provide the <em>Observer-Reporter</em> with records of donations from a contractor.Now – having reached the end of its ...
Washington City Councilman Matthew Staniszewski appeared in court Friday for a proceeding related to his drunken-driving arrest in August.Assistant District Attorney Cassidy Gerstner and defense attorney Sean Logue conferred briefly with District Judge Ethan Ward, who forwarded the DUI charge ...
A former Washington County district attorney is entangled in lawsuits by investors in an allegedly fraudulent business scheme who claim his former clients induced some two dozen people to part with their savings.The most recent case was filed Wednesday for Darren Burrow, a steel fabrication ...
A suspected national leader of the Pagan Motorcycle Club was sentenced to 4 to 8 years in state prison when he pleaded guilty Monday in a deal with Washington County prosecutors.Michael Thomas “Montana” Barringer, 50, of Morris Township, Washington County, entered the plea before Common ...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a last-ditch attempt by California University of Pennsylvania to avoid providing an <em>Observer-Reporter</em> staff writer with records pertaining to donations from a contractor the school is suing over the partial ...