criminal law

SMETHPORT — The Bradford Era has named McKean County President Judge John Pavlock as the 2017 Newsmaker of the Year in recognition of his efforts to k...

A fugitive wanted in McKean County for the alleged sexual assault of a child has been apprehended in South Carolina. According to South Carolina media...

Not guilty. It was the end to a more-than-two-year legal saga — was the shooting of Melvin Bizzarro by his father-in-law Stephen Stidd murder, or was ...

SMETHPORT — A Smethport man was sentenced to a state prison term Thursday in McKean County Court for charges stemming from four criminal cases. Timoth...

A Bradford man was arrested Wednesday night on allegations that he stole a car from the parking lot of McDonald’s. James F. Hochstine, 45, of 29 Clare...

SMETHPORT — An East Smethport man is in McKean County Jail after allegedly lighting a woman’s blanket on fire and strangling her early Wednesday morni...

KANE — An Eldred man has been charged with giving false information on paperwork to purchase a handgun. Dustin Baldwin, 21, of 45 Lawrence Lane, is ch...

SMETHPORT — A Port Allegany woman accused of aiding a man who was wanted by police was sentenced Thursday in McKean County Court. Crystal M. Moore, 32...

SMETHPORT — The large courtroom at the McKean County Courthouse was still as Dennis Fuino described the violence he has experienced in his life. Fuino...

SMETHPORT — A Bradford man accused of the sexual assault of a 13-year-old was sentenced Thursday in McKean County Court to a term in state prison. Pau...

Charges against a Bradford woman accused of assaulting another woman, who is pregnant, were bound to McKean County Court Wednesday before District Jud...

“I died. I turned blue,” Rachel Reid, 28, of Bradford, told the crowd in District Judge Dominic Cercone’s courtroom on Wednesday. Reid talked about ho...

COUDERSPORT — A New Jersey man is facing charges of child endangerment and DUI after an alleged incident in November in Potter County. According to Co...

SMETHPORT — Two counts were withdrawn but the most serious charges remain in place for a Port Allegany man accused of walking into a home and punching...

KANE — Charges against a Bristol man accused in the morphine death of a Wetmore Township woman have been bound to McKean County Court. Edward Valeri, ...

SMETHPORT — A jury found a Bradford man guilty of indecent exposure allegations at a one-day trial on Wednesday in McKean County Court. Codi L.M. Veit...

SMETHPORT — A Bradford man pleaded guilty Thursday in McKean County Court to allegations from a robbery this fall at the Choice in Bradford City. Denn...

SMETHPORT — A Bradford man pleaded guilty Thursday in McKean County Court to allegations that he tried to file an insurance claim for a crash that hap...

A Bradford man is facing allegations that he assaulted an 8-year-old boy on Monday as a punishment. Clifford Carl Carpenter, 48, of 163 W. Corydon St....

A Bradford man has been charged with stealing bridge grates belonging to Bradford Township and selling them for scrap. Timothy A. Smith, 35, of 1095 S...