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GMS on hook for $2.4 million judgment

A Maryland-based contractor for Consol owes a $2.4 million judgment to underground mine workers who brought a class-action lawsuit over unpaid wages, a Washington County judge ruled.Common Pleas Judge Michael J. Lucas ordered a judgment in that amount against GMS Mine Repair & ...

DA seeks injunction on plans to move office

The Washington County district attorney is seeking a court order allowing his office to delay a move planned for later this month unless there are additional security measures in its new building.The civil complaint filed by District Attorney Gene Vittone and Assistant District Attorney John ...

Appeal withdrawn in 2014 shooting death of 10-year-old

A man who was sentenced to decades in state prison for the shooting death of 10-year-old Ta’Niyah Thomas during a 2014 burglary at a Washington house withdrew his appeal Wednesday.Douglas Cochran Jr., 23, notified the court of his decision through his attorney, Joe Francis, during a brief ...

Charges held against two more in Charleroi beating

Zackary Yagnich testified that Brian Keruskin told him to leave right before the beating in a Charleroi social club that sent a former member of the Pagan Motorcycle Club to the hospital for weeks.The account Yagnich gave of conversations he had with Keruskin, 57, of North Charleroi shortly ...