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Washington School Board and its teachers union approved a three-year contract this week that will raise teacher salaries and make them pay more for health insurance.

This article has been read 1626 times. Earlier this month, a 26-year-old Greene County man died in Farmington, N.M., from the H1N1 virus.

Police charged a Bridgeville man with kicking his girlfriend's pit bull puppy to death Sunday because the dog wouldn't behave before the start of the Steelers game.

A coroner says he'll hold an inquest into the death of a man four days after police in western Pennsylvania subdued him with a stun gun.

JASON COHN McClatchy Newspapers Mackenzie Myers, 8, of York, Pa., wears a cap with Sarah Palin's au- tograph Saturday, as people line up at a Sam's Club to meet Palin.

This article has been read 147 times. Three Washington boys, ages, 12, 13 and 14, face felony charges of arson, institutional vandalism and criminal mischief for a fire that did more than $30,000 damage to playground equipment at John F. Kennedy Catholic School.

WASHINGTON, Pa. - When Sarah Palin made her first trip to western Pennsylvania as GOP presidential candidate John McCain's fresh-faced running mate, the Arizona senator warned locals that she "doesn't let anyone tell her to sit down." Palin returned to Washington, Pa.

This article has been read 340 times. The Washington man who was hit twice with a Taser by a Washington police officer was pronounced dead at Washington Hospital critical care unit just before 7 a.m. Saturday.

The Runners World photo was used by Newsweek despite a year-long embargo, stirring more controversy about the leggy depiction of Sarah Palin.

A less-motorized metropolis was the subject of City Council bills yesterday - one to allow human-powered taxis, another seeking strict regulation of the city's estimated 300,000 bicyclists that cycling advocates immediately denounced.

This article has been read 40 times. Washington police say an officer followed proper procedures when they twice used a Taser on a man Tuesday after he had a seizure on a city street.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania said Monday its board of directors has given it the go-ahead to invest $950,000 in five early-stage Pennsylvania companies.

This article has been read 132 times. A 2-month old Washington baby who died over the weekend became Washington Countya s first confirmed death as a result of the H1N1 virus.

The Library of Congress is awarding Paul McCartney its third Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

Share + Nov 14, 2009 10:16 am US/Eastern WASHINGTON, Pa. A western Pennsylvania judge has declined a defense request to step aside rather than hear a death row inmate's appeal in the starvation death of her 7-year-old daughter a decade ago.

This article has been read 5 times. Three Washington boys, ages, 12, 13 and 14, face felony charges of arson, institutional vandalism and criminal mischief for a fire that did more than $30,000 damage to playground equipment at John F. Kennedy Catholic School.

This article has been read 40 times. Bill Galvin might be retired from Trinity High School, but the seeds of musical interest he planted in many of his students continue to blossom.

This article has been read 399 times. Two men accused of robbing a Washington man at gunpoint inside his home last month were arraigned Thursday on charges of robbery and criminal conspiracy.

Share + Nov 12, 2009 8:42 am US/Eastern WASHINGTON, Pa. A western Pennsylvania woman awaiting the death penalty for starving her 7-year-old daughter in 1998 will have an appeal hearing next month.

A former Fallowfield Township police officer is charged with having sex with a juvenile boy.