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Police Beat Oct. 30

Burglary: State police said an unknown person stole a pistol, binoculars and a flashlight from two unlocked vehicles parked in the 500 block of Lone Pine Road in Amwell Township just before 4 a.m. Oct. 8. Police said the person then stole a backpack with two gun holsters and ammunition from an ...

Tenant rights to be discussed

A program on landlord-tenant rights and responsibilities is planned for noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday in the fourth-floor conference room of Blueprints, formerly known as Community Action Southwest, at 150 West Beau St., Washington.Topics to be discussed include services available to secure and ...

Senior Citizens Calendar

<h3>Week of Oct. 30</h3><h3>Bentleyville</h3><em>208 Ab</em><em>romaitis St.</em><em>Phone: ...

Opioid epidemic weighs on emergency medical workers

Kerry McCans entered a career as a paramedic at a time when heroin and other opioid overdoses were reaching epidemic proportions.She’s 21 years old and, she said, treating overdose victims has been part of the routine at Washington Ambulance &amp; Chair the entire time she has worked ...

Mother becomes advocate after son dies from overdose

Sandy Kotwica doesn’t make it through a morning without thinking about her son, Carl “Chip” Kotwica.“I wake up, and it could be a beautiful day, and I’ll get out of bed, see the sunshine and think, ‘It’s going to be a beautiful day,’” said Kotwica, of Imperial. “And then it ...

Vacant house on city’s demo list burns down Saturday

A vacant house that has been on the city’s list for demolition “for several years” burned down Saturday night – almost taking a neighboring house on Ridge Avenue with it – in what the Washington fire chief called arson.Firefighters from Washington and other local departments responded ...