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Bradford Regional Medical Center submits closure notice; transitioning to outpatient care center

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Bradford Regional Medical Center submits closure notice; transitioning to outpatient care center

Transitioning to outpatient care center

By SARA FURLONG news@bradfordera.com

February 17, 2026

(Editor's note: This story has been updated with additional information available from hospital officials and state Rep. Martin Causer Tuesday afterno...

A New Jersey man is convicted of attempted murder in the stabbing of Salman Rushdie

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A New Jersey man is convicted of attempted murder in the stabbing of Salman Rushdie

CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press

Feb 21, 2025

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lectur...

Other Voices: Save Quehanna Boot Camp

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Other Voices: Save Quehanna Boot Camp

Feb 21, 2025

The Quehanna Boot Camp, located in Clearfield County, opened in 1992 as the first military-motivational boot camp in Pennsylvania for both men and wom...

NY senator: Bill would raise age limit for buying assault weapons

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NY senator: Bill would raise age limit for buying assault weapons

Feb 20, 2025

U.S. senator from New York is sponsoring legislation to raise the minimum age to purchase military-style semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity ammuni...

Woman sentenced to state prison for cocaine charge

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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...

Other Voices: Ethnic cleansing of Gaza

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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...

New York man sentenced to state prison

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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...

COUDERSPORT: Chocolate Lovers Extravaganza

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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...

Bradford man pleads guilty in McKean County Court

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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...

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 ...

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...

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....

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...

Inform ICE of immigrant arrests

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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 ...

Fuller waives hearing in Ramos homicide

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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...

Newly unsealed documents reveal more details of prosecutors’ evidence in 9/11 attacks

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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...

Emporium man nabbed in meth bust

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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...

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...

Millerton man jailed for alleged assault of teens met on social media

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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, ...

Facts matter now more than ever

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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 ...

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...