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(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...

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...

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...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — When announcing the marijuana pardon project earlier this year, Gov.Tom Wolfsaid it had the potential to help thousands of Pennsylv...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvanians with minor, nonviolent marijuana criminal convictions could be pardoned beginning Thursday in a period until the end of th...

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...

MOSCOW (AP) — American basketball star Brittney Griner pleaded guilty Thursday to drug possession charges on the second day of her trial in a Russian ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — An unhinged politician. A room full of reporters and photographers. And a .357 Magnum tucked in a manila envelope. These three vola...

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...

MINNEAPOLIS — Relief, even if fleeting and momentary, is a feeling that Black Americans have rarely known in America: From slavery to Jim Crow segrega...

In considering the conviction of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for second- and third-degree murder and manslaughter in the May 25 ki...

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...

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...

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,...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Two candidates are seeking the Republican nomination for the office of McKean County district attorney, incumbent Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer and Phi...