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Morgantown vet team saves baby eagle that swallowed fishhook

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – An eagle chick from the Mon Valley is resting and recuperating at the Cheat Lake-based Avian Conservation Center of Appalachia after an emergency weekend surgery to extract a fishhook from its stomach. The bird – known as USS11 – is part of a family of eagles – ...

Commissioners poised to restore funding to Washington Co. Food Bank

The Washington County commissioners are poised to move their federal- and state-allocated funding back to the locally-based food bank more than five years after county officials began directing that money to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank to help fight food insecurity here. The ...

Summit Legal Aid holding ‘clean slate’ legal clinic

Summit Legal Aid is holding a “Free Clean Slate Legal Clinic” next week in partnership with the Washington County Bar Association, county Department of Human Service and state Sen. Camera Bartolotta. The clinic, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 24 on the second floor of the ...

Tourism agency touts economic boom in Washington County

The Washington County Tourism Promotion Agency is touting the booming economic impact from tourism last year, calling the county a “premier regional destination” for visitors. The agency’s annual report compiled by the state indicated that tourism to Washington County generated $1.3 ...

Uniontown man charged for DUI with child in back seat

Monongahela police charged a man Friday for driving under the influence with his 4-year-old child in the vehicle. Christopher Aaron Fisher, 35, of Uniontown, faces a felony charge of endangering the welfare of children, and misdemeanors of reckless endangerment and DUI. According to the ...