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Building collapse tops local stories for 2017

The deadly opioid epidemic remained a major local story in our area in 2017, but it was the collapse of a large apartment building in Washington that led the list of newsworthy events here during the past year, according to a poll of the <em>Observer-Reporter</em> ...

As in other cities in our region and across the country, the condition of rental properties around the City of Washington varies greatly. Unfortunately, in some cases, the places people call home are ticking time bombs.That was illustrated in July when a building at 15 N. Main St. in Washington ...

More than four months after a downtown Washington apartment building collapsed, trapping a tenant for more than nine hours, the building owner has managed to resolve some of his ongoing legal problems with the city.Washington landlord Mark Russo appeared before District Judge Robert Redlinger ...

The president of Allegheny Crane Rental of Pittsburgh, who assisted first responders at the scene of a building collapse in downtown Washington in July, demanded payment from the city during a public meeting Thursday.“All of us put our lives at risk,” Kyrk Pyros said. “We had a great, ...

{child_flags:featured}Demolition costs disputed{child_byline}By Gideon BradshawStaff writergbradshaw@observer-reporter.com{/child_byline}The owners of a downtown Washington building that partially collapsed over the summer are disputing the more than $1.1 million bill the city claims it’s ...

The owners of Chicco Baccello are keeping the popular coffee shop and bakery on South Main in Washington at its original location, at least for now.Co-owners Nancy Ogburn and Lisa Aprea said last week that a previously planned move to 3 N. Main St. didn’t work out following the July 12 ...