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HARRISBURG (AP) — Republican state lawmakers are pushing Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration to do more to investigate the deaths of older adults who a...

(TNS) — A shootout between a gunman and a police officer last week at a busy Harrisburg intersection in the middle of the day raised questions regardi...

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball has opened a formal investigation into illegal gambling and theft allegations involving Los Angeles Dodgers star...

Irish American Heritage Month follows African American History Month on the American history calendar. African American history celebrated in February...

SMETHPORT — A Shinglehouse man was convicted Thursday at a one-day bench trial in McKean County Court on charges that he threatened to shoot a neighbo...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — With the state House and Senate back in action simultaneously this week for the first time in months, there is considerable talk bu...

A Bradford woman was arraigned Thursday on fraud allegations for allegedly submitting false claims about caring for her mother. Kasandra Jerman, 49, o...

SMETHPORT — Former Bradford man Timothy Bottorf was convicted earlier this week on charges beginning when he failed to show up for trial in April 2023...

(TNS) — Four people pinched $400K from a gambling machine collection van in an armed heist in broad daylight Monday, according to state police. State ...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania as a whole have always behind the times. It’s one of the things I love about my hometown. Fashi...

Gov. Josh Shapiro won’t send the Pennsylvania National Guard to the Mexican border. In response to legislation approved in the state Senate on Tuesday...

McKean County’s top prosecutor got some welcome news from the state Superior Court on Monday — a cell phone seized at the site of a 2022 murder is bac...

A Bradford woman is facing charges for allegedly trying to buy a gun by falsifying paperwork. Kayleigh Wyant, 33, of 189 High St., is charged with mak...

SMETHPORT — A Bradford man was sent to McKean County Jail on Saturday for allegedly threatening to blow up Beacon Light. Nathan Gustafson, 48, of Clar...

SMETHPORT — An Eldred man is in McKean County Jail for allegedly trashing a commercial garage in January, and setting fires inside it. James Funicello...

SMETHPORT — A Bradford woman who was sleeping in her car in the parking lot of Bradford Area Public Library early Saturday morning is in McKean County...

Bradford woman jailed for alleged police assault A Bradford woman was sent to McKean County Jail for allegedly assaulting a police officer who was try...

WASHINGTON — Days after Maui’s wildfires killed scores of people and destroyed thousands of homes last August, a shocking claim spread with alarming s...

LEVITTOWN (AP) — A man faces murder charges in Pennsylvania and carjacking and weapons charges in New Jersey after allegedly killing three family memb...

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