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    PD: Suspect found with cocaine en route to jail
    Crime, Local News, News
    PD: Suspect found with cocaine en route to jail
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Mar 25, 2025
    SMETHPORT — The OYO Hotel resident arrested last week for allegedly selling cocaine in Bradford was arraigned Tuesday for trying to smuggle drugs into...
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    Olean woman jailed for alleged 2024 Eldred burglary
    Crime, Local News, News
    Olean woman jailed for alleged 2024 Eldred burglary
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Mar 25, 2025
    SMETHPORT — An Olean, N.Y., woman is in McKean County Jail for allegedly breaking into the old Ethan Allen facility last year and stealing items from ...
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    Treasury’s first Money Match checks sent out
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Treasury’s first Money Match checks sent out
    Mar 24, 2025
    HARRISBURG — Treasurer Stacy Garrity, Sen. Scott E. Hutchinson, R-21, and Rep. Ryan Bizzarro, D-3, announced the first Pennsylvania Money Match checks...
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    Bradford man jailed for theft of safes, wagon
    Crime, Local News, News
    Bradford man jailed for theft of safes, wagon
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Mar 21, 2025
    A Bradford man is in McKean County Jail for taking two safes, and a wagon to carry them in, from a High Street home earlier this week. Dakota Allen, 2...
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    Duke Center man jailed for theft of Pumpkin Fest funds
    Crime, Local News, News
    Duke Center man jailed for theft of Pumpkin Fest funds
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Mar 21, 2025
    A Duke Center man is in McKean County Jail, accused of stealing the proceeds of Bradford's Pumpkin Fest celebration. Justin Hartsel, 44, of 159 Oil Va...
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    Bradford woman convicted of rape
    Crime, Local News, News
    Bradford woman convicted of rape
    Mar 20, 2025
    SMETHPORT — A Bradford woman was convicted of sex crimes against an unconscious male, after a two-day jury trial at the McKean County Courthouse. Donn...
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    Court beat
    Crime, Local News, News
    Court beat
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Mar 20, 2025
    Kane man charged for alleged assault on troopers A Kane man who allegedly fought with two state troopers at UPMC Kane has a hearing scheduled next mon...
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    Barker arrested for alleged cocaine sales in Bradford
    Crime, Local News, News
    Barker arrested for alleged cocaine sales in Bradford
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Mar 20, 2025
    A weeks-long investigation into cocaine sales in the City of Bradford resulted in the arrest of a former Buffalo, N.Y., man Wednesday. Clarence Barker...
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    McGraw to serve 2 to 5 years in state prison for child porn
    Crime, Local News, News
    McGraw to serve 2 to 5 years in state prison for child porn
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Mar 19, 2025
    EMPORIUM — Former Cameron County school teacher and coach Larry McGraw was sentenced to serve 2 to 5 years in state prison for child pornography. McGr...
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    Q&A with the DA: When an offender seeks to override a jury’s verdict
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    Q&A with the DA: When an offender seeks to override a jury’s verdict
    STEPHANIE VETTENBURG-SHAFFER McKean County District Attorney 
    Mar 15, 2025
    (Editor’s note: The information in this special series is for educational purposes only and is not intended to address any particular case, nor should...
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    Luigi Mangione’s attorney files motions to dismiss evidence gathered during Pa. arrest
    Nation & World, News, PA State News
    Luigi Mangione’s attorney files motions to dismiss evidence gathered during Pa. arrest
    MADISON MONTAG pennlive.com 
    Mar 13, 2025
    (TNS)—A Blair County defense attorney recently filed several motions on behalf of Luigi Mangione, asking a judge to release him from custody and dismi...
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    Box truck thief extradited, jailed
    Crime, Headlines, Local News, ...
    Box truck thief extradited, jailed
    Sara Furlong s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
    Mar 12, 2025
    A Massachusetts man is in McKean County Jail, charged in the October theft of a Bradford Publishing Co. box truck. John A. McWhinnie, 46, of Shelburne...
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    Shaffer will not run for county judge seat; will remain in service as district attorney
    Local News, News
    Shaffer will not run for county judge seat; will remain in service as district attorney
    Mar 11, 2025
    SMETHPORT — District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer announced Tuesday that she will not run in the upcoming election to fill the vacancy for th...
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    Q&A with the DA — Sunshine Act: Meetings by governing bodies are public
    Local News, News, Newsletters, ...
    Q&A with the DA — Sunshine Act: Meetings by governing bodies are public
    STEPHANIE VETTENBURG-SHAFFER McKean County District Attorney 
    Mar 01, 2025
    ( Editor’s note: The information in this special series is for educational purposes only and is not intended to address any particular case, nor shoul...
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    Hawaii man freed after 30 years in prison visits mother’s grave and ponders ubiquitous cellphones
    Nation & World, News
    Hawaii man freed after 30 years in prison visits mother’s grave and ponders ubiquitous cellphones
    JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER, Associated Press 
    Mar 01, 2025
    HONOLULU (AP) — One of the first places Gordon Cordeiro visited when a judge ordered him released after spending 30 years in prison for a killing he a...
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    Inform ICE of immigrant arrests
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Inform ICE of immigrant arrests
    Feb 10, 2025
    It shouldn’t be controversial for law enforcement agencies to work together to protect the public. Yet, some people object to local police doing just ...
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    Fuller waives hearing in Ramos homicide
    Crime, Local News, News
    Fuller waives hearing in Ramos homicide
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Feb 07, 2025
    The fourth person charged in the 2020 murder of Joshua Ramos in Potter County has waived a preliminary hearing in his case. Varley Fuller, 65, of Mans...
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    Emporium man nabbed in meth bust
    Crime, Local News, News
    Emporium man nabbed in meth bust
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Feb 05, 2025
    EMPORIUM — An Emporium man is in McKean County Jail after an arrest by the Attorney General's North Central Drug Task Force in Cameron County on Tuesd...
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    Q&A with the DA: Jurisdiction and law enforcement
    Content, Daily Headlines, Local News, ...
    Q&A with the DA: Jurisdiction and law enforcement
    STEPHANIE VETTENBURG-SHAFFER McKean County District Attorney 
    Feb 01, 2025
    (Editor’s note: The information in this special series is for educational purposes only and is not intended to address any particular case, nor should...
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    Millerton man jailed for alleged assault of teens met on social media
    Crime, Local News, News
    Millerton man jailed for alleged assault of teens met on social media
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Jan 30, 2025
    A Millerton man is in Potter County Jail for the alleged sexual assault of two female teens in 2022 in West Branch Township. Michael Keith Wales, 41, ...
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    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    PA State News
    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    June 14, 2025
    PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
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    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    Local News, Nation & World
    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
    June 14, 2025
    Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
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    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    June 14, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
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    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Local Sports
    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
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    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Local Sports, Sports
    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    (TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
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    Allegheny -100 Hiking Challenge held with over 160 participants
    Local Sports
    Allegheny -100 Hiking Challenge held with over 160 participants
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    The annual Allegheny -100 Hiking Challenge (A-100) was held last weekend. It is an event where hikers can choose to hike 100, 75, 50 or 25 miles along...
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