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Fire damages St. Ann Church in Waynesburg

Parishioners arrived at St. Ann Church in Waynesburg on Sunday morning expecting Mass, but were instead turned away by signs announcing all services and events were canceled after fire ripped through a childrenĢƵ area and caused smoke damage elsewhere in the building. Firefighters from ...

Union miners, steelworkers shifting political allegiances in the Trump era

Once solid bastions of Democratic supporters, the unions representing local miners and steelworkers have experienced a seismic shift toward Republicans over the last decade in the era of President Donald Trump. Greene County Commissioner Blair Zimmerman, who is a lifelong Democrat and was a ...

DA claims petition could ‘haphazardly’ alter death penalty cases in Pa.

Lawyers for Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh say the state Supreme Court should reject any attempts to restrict the prosecutorĢƵ ability to pursue capital murder cases because it would “haphazardly create an entirely new system for death penalty cases” in the county that ...

DA appeals dismissal of homicide case against co-defendant in Donora killing

District Attorney Jason Walsh, who is already facing a challenge to his pursuit of the death penalty against homicide defendants, is appealing the recent decision by a Washington County judge dismissing all charges against a co-defendant in a capital murder case. Walsh filed an appeal Aug. 8 ...