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    Merrick pleads to possessing child porn
    Crime, Local News, News
    Merrick pleads to possessing child porn
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Jan 17, 2025
    Former Smethport pastor and musician Daniel Merrick entered guilty pleas Thursday in McKean County Court to possessing nearly 700 images of child porn...
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    Wilcox man pleads guilty in McKean Co.
    Crime, Local News, News
    Wilcox man pleads guilty in McKean Co.
    Sep 16, 2024
    SMETHPORT — District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer reported that the Wilcox man accused of having sexual contact with a 13-year-old girl in Mc...
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    Ex-‘Glee’ star Mark Salling accused of child-porn possession
    Entertainment, Lifestyles
    Ex-‘Glee’ star Mark Salling accused of child-porn possession
    Dec 29, 2015
    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say former "Glee" star Mark Salling has been arrested in Los Angeles for investigation of possessing child pornography....
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    Woman arraigned in deadly Vegas Strip crash; no plea entered
    Nation, News
    Woman arraigned in deadly Vegas Strip crash; no plea entered
    KEN RITTER 
    Dec 23, 2015
    LAS VEGAS (AP) — A woman accused of intentionally plowing a car with her child inside through crowds of pedestrians on a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk has ...
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    Pair tied to deaths of 2 children in California storage unit
    Nation, News
    Pair tied to deaths of 2 children in California storage unit
    KRISTIN J. BENDER and SCOTT SMITH 
    Dec 16, 2015
    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 39-year-old woman and a teenage boy are suspected in the deaths of two children whose bodies were found inside a storage unit i...
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    Ex-Fogle associate gets 27 years on child porn charges
    Nation, News
    Ex-Fogle associate gets 27 years on child porn charges
    RICK CALLAHAN 
    Dec 10, 2015
    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The former director of a foundation started by ex-Subway pitchman Jared Fogle was sentenced to 27 years in prison Thursday for pro...
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    Ex-Subway pitchman Fogle gets more than 15 years in prison
    Entertainment, Lifestyles
    Ex-Subway pitchman Fogle gets more than 15 years in prison
    The Associated Press 
    Nov 19, 2015
    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The latest on the sentencing of former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle for sex crimes (all times local): 1 p.m. A judge has sentenced...
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    Opaque military justice system shields child sex abuse cases
    Nation, News
    Opaque military justice system shields child sex abuse cases
    RICHARD LARDNER and EILEEN SULLIVAN 
    Nov 18, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Child sex offenders are the largest category of inmates in U.S. military prisons, yet a full accounting of their crimes and how much...
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    Old laws collide with digital reality in teen sexting cases
    Nation, News
    Old laws collide with digital reality in teen sexting cases
    P. SOLOMON BANDA and COLLEEN SLEVIN 
    Nov 14, 2015
    CANON CITY, Colo. (AP) — Educators in a small Colorado town say they had no choice but alert police when they discovered that many high-schoolers were...
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    Sexting arrest latest embarrassment for Secret Service
    Nation, News
    Sexting arrest latest embarrassment for Secret Service
    RANDALL CHASE 
    Nov 13, 2015
    DOVER, Del. (AP) — In a case marking the latest embarrassment for the agency that protects the president and his family, a uniformed Secret Service of...
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    The Latest on ex-Subway pitchman: Fogle victim speaks out
    Nation, News
    The Latest on ex-Subway pitchman: Fogle victim speaks out
    The Associated Press 
    Nov 12, 2015
    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The latest on the case against former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle (all times local): 5:30 p.m. One of the child-pornography victim...
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    NY agency to protect the disabled rarely brings charges
    Nation, News
    NY agency to protect the disabled rarely brings charges
    MICHAEL VIRTANEN 
    Oct 28, 2015
    SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) — In a video he made with his PlayStation, a 12-year-old developmentally disabled boy in a group home points to his swollen rig...
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    Albuquerque officials: Road rage killing shows broken system
    Nation, News
    Albuquerque officials: Road rage killing shows broken system
    MARY HUDETZ and RUSSELL CONTRERAS 
    Oct 24, 2015
    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The man charged in the freeway killing of a 4-year-old girl in New Mexico had been previously arrested on aggravated battery,...
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    Sexting case highlights quandary over child porn laws
    Nation, News
    Sexting case highlights quandary over child porn laws
    JONATHAN DREW and MITCH WEISS 
    Sep 24, 2015
    FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — When authorities discovered that a high school couple had sent each other nude selfies, the two 16-year-olds were plunged in...
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    Mom found with dead son in playground swing indicted
    Nation, News
    Mom found with dead son in playground swing indicted
    MATTHEW BARAKAT 
    Sep 15, 2015
    LA PLATA, Md. (AP) — The facts are hard to fathom: a mother alone with her 3-year-old son in a playground for two days straight, pushing him in a swin...
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    Congo warlord Bosco Ntaganda goes on trial at ICC
    News, World
    Congo warlord Bosco Ntaganda goes on trial at ICC
    MIKE CORDER 
    Sep 02, 2015
    THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Prosecutors on Wednesday accused a Congo militia leader known as "The Terminator" of overseeing brutal atrocities includ...
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    ‘Law & Order’ director arrested on child porn charges in NY
    Entertainment, Lifestyles
    ‘Law & Order’ director arrested on child porn charges in NY
    Jul 31, 2015
    NEW YORK (AP) — A television director with credits on "Law & Order" has been arrested in suburban New York on child pornography charges. Westchester C...
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    Future of Subway pitchman’s foundation unclear after raid
    Nation, News
    Future of Subway pitchman’s foundation unclear after raid
    RICK CALLAHAN 
    Jul 09, 2015
    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Suspended Subway pitchman Jared Fogle's foundation, which encourages children to avoid the same obesity he experienced in college,...
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    Judge says UK has been stunned by scale of child sex abuse
    News, World
    Judge says UK has been stunned by scale of child sex abuse
    JILL LAWLESS 
    Jul 09, 2015
    LONDON (AP) — Britain has been stunned by revelations about child sexual abuse, a judge said Thursday, warning that the true scale of the crime has be...
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    Federal, Indiana authorities raid home of Subway spokesman
    Nation, News
    Federal, Indiana authorities raid home of Subway spokesman
    TOM MURPHY 
    Jul 07, 2015
    ZIONSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — FBI agents and Indiana State Police raided the home of Subway restaurant spokesman Jared Fogle on Tuesday, removing electronic...
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    Registration open for statewide fall Coyote, Crow Hunt
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    Registration open for statewide fall Coyote, Crow Hunt
    July 31, 2025
    JOHNSONBURG — Jim Pennington Jr., president of Rolfe Beagle Club, announced that Rolfe Beagle Club will once again offer its popular Coyote and Crow H...
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    ‘Round the Square: Bunked
    Round the Square
    ‘Round the Square: Bunked
    July 31, 2025
    LIFE AT CAMP: Remember being a kid, going to camp during the summer with a church group or scouts? We found a letter from Natalie Fesenmeyer reporting...
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    Read up on the U.S. government
    Lifestyles
    Read up on the U.S. government
    July 31, 2025
    Dear Heloise: Government and politics aren't the same thing. All the "bickering" you hear and read is people spewing political opinions, some of which...
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    Son’s parents want nothing to do with his girlfriend
    Lifestyles
    Son’s parents want nothing to do with his girlfriend
    July 31, 2025
    DEAR ABBY: My son is 20 and a senior in college. He's a baseball player and is about to ask the girl he's been dating for a year and a half to marry h...
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    Pa. fish commissioners amend rules on stocking Class A trout waters
    Local News, News, Outdoors
    Pa. fish commissioners amend rules on stocking Class A trout waters
    July 30, 2025
    After tabling the issue in April, the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission voted earlier this week on changes that could allow stocking ...
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    Cosper wins Junior AAA singles, receives scholarship
    National Sports, Outdoors
    Cosper wins Junior AAA singles, receives scholarship
    July 30, 2025
    SPARTA, Ill. — After 3,100 miles, 80 hours in the truck, and 1,700 competitive targets Brayden Cosper finished participation in national shooting even...
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