Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 31, 2024
(Editor’s note: This commentary by the late George P. Evans of Bradford originally appeared in The Era on Nov. 11, 2020. His family requested that the...
Crime, News
Jan 14, 2023
SMETHPORT — A Kane man convicted of failing to provide required sex offender information has been sentenced to at least six years in state prison. Alb...
Crime, News
Dec 08, 2022
SMETHPORT — A former Kane man was convicted at trial in McKean County Court for failing to provide sex offender information to state police as require...
News, PA State News
Dec 02, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — When announcing the marijuana pardon project earlier this year, Gov.Tom Wolfsaid it had the potential to help thousands of Pennsylv...
News
Sep 01, 2022
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvanians with minor, nonviolent marijuana criminal convictions could be pardoned beginning Thursday in a period until the end of th...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 20, 2022
The long, hard fight to diminish driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs has taken some wrong turns of its own over the years — especially wi...
National Sports, Pro
Jul 08, 2022
MOSCOW (AP) — American basketball star Brittney Griner pleaded guilty Thursday to drug possession charges on the second day of her trial in a Russian ...
News, PA State News
Jan 22, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — An unhinged politician. A room full of reporters and photographers. And a .357 Magnum tucked in a manila envelope. These three vola...
Crime, News
Oct 20, 2021
Former Emporium K-9 officer Volker Kiefer was sentenced Tuesday to 3-10 years, to be served in a state correctional institution, for a conviction rela...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 22, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS — Relief, even if fleeting and momentary, is a feeling that Black Americans have rarely known in America: From slavery to Jim Crow segrega...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 22, 2021
In considering the conviction of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for second- and third-degree murder and manslaughter in the May 25 ki...
Bradford, Crime, Local News, ...
Apr 09, 2021
A former Smethport man has pleaded guilty in McKean County Court to charges from a 2013 rape case. John F. Brown Jr., 41, was first convicted in the c...
Bradford, Crime, Local News, ...
Jan 29, 2021
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has upheld the conviction of a former Smethport man who a jury found guilty of sexually assaulting a small child. A ju...
Сolumns
Jan 12, 2021
Among the amazing scenes in our Capitol during the failed insurrection of Jan. 6, few were more remarkable than a brief speech by Sen. Kelly Loeffler,...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 11, 2020
“We the People. …” That phrase has endured for 244 years as the pillar of the U.S. Constitution, which has stood as America’s triumphant experiment in...
Local News
Jul 29, 2020
A Bradford Township man’s conviction for allegedly shooting across U.S. Route 219 has been overturned by the state Superior Court. Last month, a three...
Crime, Local News
Dec 20, 2019
SMETHPORT — A Bradford man pleaded guilty Thursday in McKean County Court for making threats to put a bomb in Bradford’s Veterans Square. Keven W. Cur...
Crime, Local News
Sep 23, 2019
LITTLE VALLEY, N.Y. — A 74-year-old Jamestown woman faces 2 to 6 years in state prison for manslaughter stemming from an April 2018 hit-and-run incide...
Crime, Local News
Aug 16, 2019
A Ridgway man is in jail for allegedly shooting from his vehicle and then fleeing the scene, leading police on a brief chase. Adam Jones, 40, is charg...
Bradford, Local News
May 20, 2019
Two candidates are seeking the Republican nomination for the office of McKean County district attorney, incumbent Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer and Phi...
PA State News
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...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
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...
Local Sports
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...
Local Sports, Sports
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...
Local Sports
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...
