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POLICE LOG
Local News, News
Dec 11, 2023
MINOR INJURIES, 4-VEHICLE ACCIDENT FRIDAY Foster Township Police report suspected minor injuries following a Friday evening four-vehicle accident on D...
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Breaking the seal of expulsion
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 10, 2023
George Santos, assuming that’s his real name, is a classic type, and in another era he’d be selling miracle elixirs out of a horse-drawn wagon or perh...
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Ramdin gets 4 to 8 years for fatal crash in July
Crime, Daily Headlines, Local News
Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Dec 08, 2023
SMETHPORT — Darian Ramdin was sentenced Thursday in McKean County Court to four to eight years in state prison for a July crash in Bradford that kille...
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Wilcox woman waives hearing on assault, threats
Crime, Local News, News
Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Dec 07, 2023
KANE — A Wilcox woman waived her preliminary hearing Thursday on allegations including threatening to shoot state troopers in an April incident at She...
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Hvizdzak case continued until March
Crime, Daily Headlines, Local News
Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Dec 07, 2023
An 11th continuance has been granted in the federal criminal case against the Hvizdzak brothers in the 65-count indictment alleging a $30+ million hed...
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Former trooper’s troubles with law continue
Crime, Local News, News
Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Dec 06, 2023
The former state trooper arrested for DUI while on the job in Mount Jewett in 2022 has had two more run-ins with the law. Austin J. Burney, 30, of Coo...
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Bottorf found not guilty in Uni-Mart robbery
Crime, Local News, News
Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Dec 05, 2023
SMETHPORT — At a trial in McKean County Court in November, Eldred man Timothy Bottorf was acquitted of charges alleging he robbed the Uni-Mart in Brad...
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Duke Center man convicted of rape of a child
Crime, Local News, News
Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Dec 05, 2023
SMETHPORT — A Duke Center man was convicted following a two-day trial in McKean County Court of raping a child between 2019 and 2021. Sebastian Vancam...
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What Congress can learn from George Santos
Opinion, Сolumns
JONATHAN BERNSTEIN Bloomberg Opinion/TNS 
Dec 05, 2023
The George Santos fiasco is finally at an end, at least in Congress, with the U.S. House of Representatives — including 105 of his Republican colleagu...
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