criminal justice

A Massachusetts man is in McKean County Jail, charged in the October theft of a Bradford Publishing Co. box truck. John A. McWhinnie, 46, of Shelburne...

SMETHPORT — District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer announced Tuesday that she will not run in the upcoming election to fill the vacancy for th...

SMETHPORT — Brian Austin Kuchinka messaged a friend on SnapChat that he "did something stupid" and would be "going to jail for life" prior to his arre...

An art teacher at School Street Elementary School has been cited by Punxsutawney-based state police for allegedly slapping a 10-year-old student. Rebe...

PITTSBURGH — University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Joan Gabel has selected Dr. Tony Gaskew, professor of criminal justice at the university’s Bradford c...

HONOLULU (AP) — One of the first places Gordon Cordeiro visited when a judge ordered him released after spending 30 years in prison for a killing he a...

A Bradford man will face charges in McKean County Court for assault and for allegedly calling 911 on the police who were at his residence. Adam Priest...

A Bradford woman remains incarcerated in McKean County Jail for allegedly hitting another woman in the face with a hatchet. Tanya Graves, 35, of 1 Mai...

A Bradford man waived a hearing Wednesday before District Judge Rich Luther on assault allegations. Wayne Baker, 26, of 303 Derrick Road, upper, is ch...

A Bradford man is in jail for allegedly breaking into someone's apartment and lying on the floor, holding hedge clippers. August Whitford, 22, of 221 ...

SMETHPORT — Shackled and escorted by at least six members of law enforcement, Brian Austin Kuchinka was arraigned Monday afternoon for the shooting de...

SMETHPORT — McKean County District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer reported Sunday that homicide charges have been filed in the investigation of...

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...

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...

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...

SMETHPORT — A Bradford man pleaded guilty Thursday in McKean County Court to charges involving the rape of a child. Andrew Wegemer-Silsby, 36, formerl...

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 ...

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...

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 — 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...