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Reading Eagle A farewell recital for the church's 1915 Austin organ will be held on Sunday at 2 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, Sixth and Washington streets.

WASHINGTON, Pa. Police in southwestern Pennsylvania say thieves are stealing dead batteries in bulk from Sam's Club and Walmart stores, apparently because they're worth as much as $12 each when sold HEMET, Calif.

A western Pennsylvania man has waived his right to a preliminary hearing on charges he drove a school bus while drunk and then did the same thing in his own vehicle two days later.

It seems like there is a special day for just about everything these days and the donut is no exception.

Police in one southwestern Pennsylvania township say thieves are stealing dead batteries in bulk from Sam's Club and Walmart stores, apparently because they're worth as much as $12 each when sold for scrap.

A former school bus driver accused of driving students to school while intoxicated waived two cases of driving under the influence of alcohol to court Wednesday.

A western Pennsylvania woman has been jailed on charges she hit a man with her car three times during an argument.

A vacant garage in the 1100 block of Arch Street in Washington was damaged by an early morning fire.

Sewickley police were dispatched to the Sewickley Bridge May 24 for a report of a suspicious man playing a guitar Police were notified that the man was strummingthe guitar while walking across the bridge from the Moon Township side.

It is hard for me to admit that I have been here at Angel Ridge for so long that I cannot remember my life before I came here.

Two men are in the Washington County jail on state parole violations after allegedly lying to state police about their identities during a traffic stop on West Chestnut Street in Washington early Sunday.

We received more than 50 responses to last Monday's Mystery Photo, some from readers who were "100 percent sure" of the location of the old buildings in a photograph taken before telephone, telegraph and electric lines crisscrossed the sky.

Rickey A. Gatts, 43, of 262 West Hallam Ave., Apt. 1, Washington; failure to register as a sex offender under Megan's Law; charged for not reporting from October through January; sentence - 1 to 2 years in prison.

"He did just whatever a kid wanted to do," recalled his mother, May Brock of Washington.

Sometime in the next two years, ethane recovered from natural gas liquids in the shale fields of Western Pennsylvania, Northern West Virginia and Eastern Ohio will be on its way to the Gulf Coast via Enterprises's 1,230-mile Appalachia-to-Texas Express Pipeline.

Mt. Pleasant Township police are looking for the driver of a tractor-trailer that forced a Burgettstown man off Henderson Avenue near Chapman Road about 1 p.m. Friday.

Members of the Washington County DUI Task Force took six suspected drunk drivers into custody during the what is believed to be first sobriety checkpoint in Washington.

Washington city officials are pointing fingers all over the place in the wake of news that Councilman Matt Staniszewski is under investigation by the county district attorney's office.

The move, Second Mile interim CEO Dave Woodle acknowledged in an interview with The Patriot-News, is a direct result of the taint the charity suffered when its founder and longtime public face, former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, was charged with serial child molestation last year .

A man who only recently moved to Washington from the Bronx, N.Y., was shot and killed early Thursday in the 700 block of Ewing Street.