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THURSDAY,
OCT. 8,
2015
OUR 208TH YEAR, WASHINGTON, PA

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Trial next for teen suspects

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Canonsburg home invasion victim testifies of masked intruders

By Kathie O. Warco
Staff writer
kwarco@observer-reporter.com

A Canonsburg woman testified Wednesday she was

scared out of her mind when
three masked men broke into
her home last month and one
held a gun to her head.
Malik Brown, 17, of 29 E.
Pitt St., Canonsburg, was ordered held for court following a preliminary hearing
Wednesday before District
Judge James Ellis on numer-

ous charges including robbery, burglary, aggravated

assault with a deadly weapon
and reckless endangerment.
A second teen, Robert Austin
Jr., 18, whose last known address was on Findlay Street
in Canton Township, waived
his preliminary hearing. Police also have an outstanding
arrest warrant for Nathaniel
Sele, 20, of 101 Valley View
Terrace, Canonsburg.
Dawn Brock testified she
Please see Trial, Page A2

Robert Austin Jr.

Malik Brown

Nathaniel Sele

Out of reach

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House
rejects
Wolfs
plan
By Mark Scolforo
Associated Press

Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press

Pirates first baseman Pedro Alvarez dives for a foul ball in the photographers pit during the fifth inning of the National League Wild Card Game against
Chicago Wednesday in Pittsburgh. Alvarez was unable to make the catch. See Page C1 and www.observer-reporter.com for game details.

College clears
corner blight
By Natalie Reid Miller
Staff writer

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A ramshackle structure at 90
E. Chestnut St. in Washington
was on its way down Wednesday as an excavator tore
through sections of crumbling
roof and walls. Two adjacent
dwellings face the same fate.
The buildings at 98-90 E.
Chestnut are coming down,
stated Karen Oosterhous,
Washington & Jefferson Col-

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lege representative, in an email.

Neighborhood retailers and
office spaces are gone, but
the private liberal arts institution continues to expand. The
college-owned East Chestnut
buildings are just one illustration of development.
A groundbreaking ceremoNatalie Reid Miller/Observer-Reporter
ny planned for today kicks off Heavy equipment is used Wednesday to raze a building owned by Washington & Jefferson
Please see College, Page A2 College at 90 E. Chestnut St.

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HARRISBURG Gov.
Tom Wolfs hopes of ending
Pennsylvanias 99-day-old
state budget impasse were
dashed Wednesday when
nine of his fellow Democrats
joined all House Republicans to vote against his revised plan to raise billions in
income and gas drilling taxes.
The House voted 127-73
againstWolfsplantoincrease
the states personal income
tax rate by a half percentage
pointandcreateanewextraction tax on Marcellus Shale
natural gas production.
Democrats needed more
than a dozen Republican
votes, but were unable to
keep on board some moderate members of their own
caucus from western Pennsylvania. Wolf told reporters he was encouraged that
so many Democrats voted
yes.
There is a bipartisan recognition that we have a big
problem in Pennsylvania,
Wolf said.
Wolf had proposed the
tax package Tuesday after Republican leaders
who currently control both
chambers of the Legislature offered him a floor vote
to demonstrate whether
there was support for his
approach.
It is time to get about the
business of getting this done,
said Majority Leader Dave
Reed, R-Indiana, at the close

Please see House, Page A2

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