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    Woman sentenced to state prison for cocaine charge
    Crime, Local News, News
    Woman sentenced to state prison for cocaine charge
    Feb 20, 2025
    SMETHPORT — A Shinglehouse woman was sentenced recently in McKean County Court to spend at least a year in state prison for conspiring to deliver coca...
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    Other Voices: Ethnic cleansing of Gaza
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Other Voices: Ethnic cleansing of Gaza
    Feb 18, 2025
    Ethnic cleansing refers to the deliberate and systematic forced removal, displacement or persecution of a particular ethnic, religious or cultural gro...
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    New York man sentenced to state prison
    Crime, Local News, News
    New York man sentenced to state prison
    Feb 17, 2025
    SMETHPORT — A New York man pleaded guilty to and was sentenced for a firearms violation, in McKean County Court on Jan. 30. Ronald Billingsley was sen...
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    COUDERSPORT: Chocolate Lovers Extravaganza
    Local News, News
    COUDERSPORT: Chocolate Lovers Extravaganza
    Feb 14, 2025
    COUDERSPORT — A Way Out will host its Chocolate Lovers Extravaganza fundraiser 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at American Legion Post 192, 2 Buffalo St. Ther...
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    Bradford man pleads guilty in McKean County Court
    Crime, Local News, News
    Bradford man pleads guilty in McKean County Court
    Feb 14, 2025
    SMETHPORT — A Bradford man pleaded guilty Thursday in McKean County Court to charges involving the rape of a child. Andrew Wegemer-Silsby, 36, formerl...
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    Officials confirm death at state park
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    Officials confirm death at state park
    Feb 13, 2025
    Pennsylvania State Police responded Wednesday to reports that an individual had jumped off Kinzua Bridge at the state park near Mount Jewett, finding ...
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    Bradford man jailed on threat allegation
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    Bradford man jailed on threat allegation
    Feb 12, 2025
    A Bradford man was sent to McKean County Jail following an arraignment Wednesday on allegations of threatening to kill someone with a baseball bat. Pa...
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    Portville woman jailed for alleged theft of $28K from Bradford business
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    Portville woman jailed for alleged theft of $28K from Bradford business
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Feb 11, 2025
    A Portville, N.Y., woman is in McKean County Jail on 84 felony counts related to the alleged theft of more than $28,000 from Allegheny Store Fixtures....
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    Prosecutor: Rushdie too stunned to react when man started to stab him
    Prosecutor: Rushdie too stunned to react when man started to stab him
    CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press 
    Feb 10, 2025
    MAYVILLE, N.Y. — Salman Rushdie was so stunned when a masked man started to stab him on a stage in western New York that the author didn't even try to...
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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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    Newly unsealed documents reveal more details of prosecutors’ evidence in 9/11 attacks
    Nation & World, News, World
    Newly unsealed documents reveal more details of prosecutors’ evidence in 9/11 attacks
    ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press 
    Feb 07, 2025
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly unsealed documents give one of the most detailed views yet of the evidence gathered on the accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shei...
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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
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    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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    Facts matter now more than ever
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Facts matter now more than ever
    Jan 28, 2025
    On Friday, topChicago Public Schoolsofficials announced that agents fromImmigration and Customs Enforcementhad arrived at a Southwest Side elementary ...
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    Bookworm
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    ?The Cold Case Foundation: How a Team of Experts Solves Murders and Missing Persons Cases? by Gregory M. Cooper and Thomas McHoes, foreword by John E. Douglas c.2024, Prometheus Books $28.95 227 pages 
    Jan 27, 2025
    And there you were, at a dead end. Your GPS sent you there, didn’t it? Or it looked like an interesting road, an adventure in the middle of an otherwi...
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    Bradford man convicted of indecent exposure
    Crime, Local News, News
    Bradford man convicted of indecent exposure
    Jan 23, 2025
    SMETHPORT — Following a one-day jury trial in McKean County Court, Bradford man Michael Winston was convicted of indecent exposure. District Attorney ...
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    Shaffer: More than 113 pounds of unused meds collected at drop boxes
    Local News, News
    Shaffer: More than 113 pounds of unused meds collected at drop boxes
    Jan 23, 2025
    SMETHPORT — More than 113 pounds of unused medication was disposed of in drop boxes around the county in the last quarter of 2024, McKean County's top...
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    Bradford man jailed for alleged October arson
    Crime, Local News, News
    Bradford man jailed for alleged October arson
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Jan 22, 2025
    A Bradford man has been jailed for the alleged arson of a Bradford Township residence in October. Karl J. Ginnery, 40, of 76 Holley Ave., is charged w...
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    Isolated Torrey pine populations yield insights into genetic diversity
    Nation & World, PA State News
    Isolated Torrey pine populations yield insights into genetic diversity
    June 15, 2025
    UNIVERSITY PARK — Entire regions of trees are disappearing because of invasive pests, disease and a changing climate. The key to their ability to adap...
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    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    PA State News
    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    By OLIVER MORRISON  pennlive.com 
    June 15, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
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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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