criminal law

ERIE — A Bradford man has been indicted on federal charge of embezzling and theft of labor union assets, Acting U.S. Attorney Soo C. Song announced Tu...

KANE — A South Carolina man has been jailed on allegations he threatened another man with a knife on Saturday afternoon in Crosby. Kane-based state po...

WASHINGTON — The technique has been called (by this columnist) "immunity through profusion." By keeping the molten lava of falsehoods flowing, the vol...

SMETHPORT — President Judge John Pavlock is asking for briefs from both the prosecution and defense on a motion to dismiss some charges faced by a wom...

LITTLE VALLEY, N.Y. — Cattaraugus County District Attorney Lori Rieman’s office is investigating the November 2012 death of an Erie County Holding Cen...

A Bradford man has been jailed for an alleged assault Tuesday morning at Country Fair, 8 W. Washington St. in Bradford. Jeffrey Michael Bartholomew, 4...

JOHNSONBURG — All but one of the 30 sex-assault related charges against a Johnsonburg man were bound to Elk County Court after a preliminary hearing b...

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., was among the lawmakers who voted on Wednesday to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions as Attorney General of the United States. In...

“Following a verdict of guilt, a defendant has no state or federal constitutional right to bail,” reads a statement from McKean County President Judge...

KANE — Two men were arraigned before the district judge on allegations they broke into Kane Area High School in January, causing damage and taking sev...

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford has received an “It’s on Us PA” grant for $28,642 from Gov. Tom Wolf’s office to further promote awareness an...

A Bradford woman has been charged with allegedly burglarizing a residence on Congress Street, an act caught on security cameras inside the person’s ho...

The Bradford woman accused of stealing more than $273,000 from Worth W. Smith Co. over a period of nearly nine years of working there is asking the co...

A transient who police say is from Smethport is in McKean County Jail, accused of a vehicle-theft spree with a 17-year-old co-defendant. Austin Jay Cr...

JOHNSONBURG — A Johnsonburg man has been charged in district court after allegedly hitting another person with his car during a confrontation. Joshua ...

Bradford City Police have been busy over the past several days — with drug busts Thursday and Friday, a spree of vehicle thefts, two assaults, a theft...

SALAMANCA, N.Y. — Twenty years in state prison await Leslie Finch, 26, of Kill Buck, who was convicted of manslaughter for her 1-year-old daughter Mil...

LITTLE VALLEY, N.Y. –– Cattaraugus County Sheriff's deputies are investigating the death of a 14-year-old Conewango, N.Y., boy involved a logging acci...

Dominic A. Cercone Jr. of Bradford, who has served as Bradford City’s magisterial district judge for nearly 12 years, will be seeking both the Republi...

WEST CLARKSVILLE, N.Y. — The state police investigation into the shooting death of West Clarksville resident Royce A. Chapman continued Thursday with ...