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8 hrs ago | O-R Online

Kathie Warco's "Remember When" feature

Road trips: Remembering Sunday drives By Kathie O. Warco, Staff writer, kwarco@observer-reporter.com This article has been read 41 times.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Meat, Chicken, Waynesburg, PA, Claysville, PA, Bloomsburg, PA, Columbia County, PA

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Historical items saved from auction block

A years-old controversy pitting a municipal council and local foundation against a nonprofit group over what to do with a Greene County borough's historic treasures has been resolved.

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Related Topix: Non-Profit, Greensboro, PA

Thu Jul 02, 2009

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Files prompt grand jury to look at DeWeese again

A state grand jury is poring over the contents of a recently discovered box of files from a Capitol office, a find that has triggered renewed prosecutorial interest in longtime state Rep.

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Related Topix: Philadelphia, PA, Harrisburg Metro, Harrisburg, PA, Waynesburg, PA

Tue Jun 30, 2009

PittsburghLIVE.com

3 juveniles on bikes struck in Cumberland Township; DUI suspected

A Greene County man is accused of driving under the influence after running his sport utility vehicle into three juveniles riding bikes on a Cumberland Township street Saturday afternoon, then fleeing the scene of the accident, state police at Waynesburg said.

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Related Topix: Waynesburg, PA, Carmichaels, PA, Nemacolin, PA

Sun Jun 28, 2009

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

3 youths hurt, driver arrested in Greene County crash

A Carmichaels man was arrested yesterday after state police said he struck and injured three youngsters on two bicycles at the intersection of Browns Ferry Road and Liberty Street in Cumberland, Greene County.

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Related Topix: Carmichaels, PA

Sat Jun 27, 2009

WPXI

Children Hit By Car In Greene County, Driver Arrested

At least two children were hit by a car on Browns Ferry Road in Carmichaels Saturday afternoon.

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Related Topix: Carmichaels, PA, Waynesburg, PA

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Table this: Deficit or not, the state needs no new gambling

Pennsylvania is trying to erase a $3.2 billion deficit, but even if the shortfall were $30.2 billion, it's premature for the state to legalize table games like poker, blackjack and roulette.

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Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Games, Poker, Blackjack, Harrisburg Metro, Harrisburg, PA

Thu Jun 25, 2009

York Dispatch

Table games: Pa. should be all in

Once the state Legislature gave its blessing to slots five years ago, most recognized it was just a matter of time before the casinos were allowed to offer the full gambling experience -- slots, blackjack, craps, poker, roulette ... More precisely, it was just a matter of timing.

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Related Topix: Games, Blackjack, Poker

WTRF-TV Wheeling

Fatal Accident Reported at Consol Mine

Debate Cancelled>>> A proposed debate between NASA Climate Scientist Dr. James Hansen and Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship that was to take place this evening and air on West Media Stations around the state has been canceled.

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Related Topix: Massey Energy, Mining

Wed Jun 24, 2009

Times Leader

Legalization of casino table games eyed in Pa.

Table games are on the table in the Pennsylvania Legislature. With state lawmakers facing the biggest deficit they've ever seen, many who previously discounted the notion of legalizing table games this soon are now looking to poker and craps as a source of cash to help plug the state's massive shortfall.

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Related Topix: Games, Poker, Ed Rendell, US Governors, Pittsburgh Metro, Philadelphia, PA

WVNS-TV

Possible Accident Reported at Consol Mine

Authorities are investigating a possible death in Greene County, Pennsylvania, near Cameron, WV at the Crab Apple Portal of Consol's Bailey Mine.

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Tue Jun 23, 2009

The Citizens' Voice

Table games not worth the gamble

Supporters of expanded legalized gambling want to take advantage of the crucial budget debate in Harrisburg to convince the General Assembly to take an impulsive gamble on adding table games to Pennsylvania's casinos.

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Related Topix: Harrisburg Metro, Harrisburg, PA, Pennsylvania, Games, Blackjack, Luzerne, PA

Sun Jun 21, 2009

WPVI-TV Philadelphia

Grants showered unevenly across Pa.

On his campaign Web site last fall, then-state House Majority Leader Bill DeWeese boasted about his reliability in bringing home the legislative pork.

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Related Topix: Bedford County, PA

O-R Online

Greene County looking back

This article has been read 150 times. A look back at some of the headlines gracing the pages of the Observer-Reporter and the Waynesburg Republican this week in Greene County history: June 20-26, 2004 Man faces new animal cruelty charges A Cameron, W.Va., man found guilty of cruelty to animals for failing to provide care to six horses that ...

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Related Topix: Waynesburg, PA, Animal Rights, Pittsburgh, PA, Pennsylvania

Sat Jun 20, 2009

The York Daily Record

New light shed on lawmakers' secretive grants

Tens of millions of tax dollars that support Pennsylvania lawmakers' favored causes are directed by legislative leaders through a secretive process that appears to benefit some leaders' constituents the most, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.

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Related Topix: Pennsylvania, US News

Thu Jun 18, 2009

Easton Express-Times

Study says table games at casinos would create jobs, revenue for Pennsylvania

Legalizing table games such as blackjack and poker in Pennsylvania's casinos would create more than 10,000 jobs and generate more than $164 million in annual gaming taxes, according to a study by a group that conducts research on behalf of casinos.

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Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Games, Blackjack, Poker, Harrisburg Metro, Harrisburg, PA

Tue Jun 16, 2009

O-R Online

Looking back: Bryan's Dairy

Not everyone longs for the "good, old days," but it's a pretty good bet that if you ask some Greene County locals to recall their happy days of the 1950s and 1960s many would say it would be eating a double-dip ice cream cone at Bryan's Dairy.

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Related Topix: Life, Dessert, Food, Ice Cream, Waynesburg, PA, Mount Morris, PA, Carmichaels, PA, Rices Landing, PA

Sun Jun 14, 2009

O-R Online

Here's your opportunity.

Have you met John Gusic? This article has been read 39 times. The tall, distinguished gentleman with the red vest delivers mail and helps patients one Wednesday a month at Southwest Regional Medical Center.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, Waynesburg, PA, Graysville, PA

Mon Jun 08, 2009

ThePittsburghChannel

Carmichaels Family Gets Bear Visit During Pens-Red Wings Game

ThePittsburghChannel.Com updated June 1, 2009 CARMICHAELS, Pa. - THE PITTSBURGH CHANNEL.com A Greene County family was watching the Penguins-Red Wings game Sunday night when they spotted an unwelcomed guest crashing the party.

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Related Topix: Carmichaels, PA, Pittsburgh Metro

Sat Jun 06, 2009

O-R Online

State cuts cause for senior center closure

Community Action Southwest, reacting to anticipated funding reductions from the state for the upcoming fiscal year, announced some significant changes in senior services in Greene County, including the closing of one senior center.

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Related Topix: Carmichaels, PA, Waynesburg, PA, Mount Morris, PA, Bobtown, PA

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