criminal justice

COUDERSPORT — A coalition to help inmates transition from jail to life outside prison walls is gaining momentum and is now ready to develop a strategi...

SMETHPORT — A man staying at the Midtowne Motel in Port Allegany is in McKean County Jail for allegedly having a stolen gun, and shooting it several t...

KANE — Two men “play wrestling” in a yard at a Lafayette Township residence Sunday ended with a third man going to jail for allegedly shooting at them...

A Bradford woman is in McKean County Jail on allegations that she plied a juvenile male with alcohol, and sexually assaulted him when he passed out. D...

Parole has been denied for Paul Morrisroe, the Marshburg man convicted of homicide by vehicle for the June 2015 hit-and-run death of Dakota Heinaman i...

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A new set of criminal charges has been filed in Potter County against Oswayo Valley School District Superintendent Jed Hamberger. The charges allege t...

LITTLE VALLEY, N.Y. — County lawmakers have condemned the New York State Board of Parole, Gov. Kathy Hochul and other state officials for their role i...

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A Bradford contractor has been accused by the state police of bilking an Eldred customer out of $5,185.81. Christopher Kirk, 39, is charged with recei...

COUDERSPORT — A 10-day trial in October has been scheduled for two women charged in the 2020 torture and murder of Joshua Ramos, 19, in Potter County....

Did Shane Hvizdzak voluntarily speak to FBI agents at his residence on June 17, 2020, or was it an interrogation without him having been informed of h...

ERIE — A St. Marys resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie for violating federal firearms laws, U.S. Attorney Eric G. Olshan announ...

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Bradford police tased a New York man who led officers on a foot pursuit through the city Wednesday evening. According to the criminal complaint, a Bra...

In 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Miranda vs. Arizona that criminal defendants were entitled to say nothing so as to not incriminate themselves...

A star Penn State football player charged with assault after a scuffle with a tow truck driver — one that left the man with a rib fracture — was accep...

WARREN — Northern Pennsylvania Regional College criminal justice student, Shanda Kelsch, and Instructor of Criminal Justice, Dave Wilson, presented at...

EMPORIUM — Former Cameron County school teacher and coach Larry McGraw entered a guilty plea this week to charges of child pornography. McGraw, 74, of...

SMETHPORT — A Port Allegany man waived a preliminary hearing Thursday in McKean County Central Court on 75 felony counts relating to child pornography...