criminal law

One suspect in a firearms straw purchasing scheme at a Smethport business has waived her preliminary hearing, and a federal agent explained some gun l...

MINOR INJURIES IN 2 VEHICLE ACCIDENT LEWIS RUN — Reports from the Lewis Run barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police indicate that police were dispat...

What’s up with all the jail escapes? Pennsylvania has seen a number of high-profile incidents in 2023 when someone in custody has gotten free and gone...

POTTSTOWN, Pa. — Escaped murderer Danelo Souza Cavalcante was captured Wednesday after eluding hundreds of searchers for two weeks, a conclusion that ...

The woman accused of making straw purchases of 20 guns from a Smethport business for two felons is in McKean County Jail. Christina Marie Baker, 38, f...

ST. MARYS — The Agape Assembly of God church, 1004 Earth Road, will host the Asservo Project at 6 p.m. Sept. 24. The Asservo Project combats global hu...

Escaped murderer Danelo Souza Cavalcante stole a rifle from a garage and fled a homeowner’s gunfire, authorities said Tuesday as police closed roads i...

A Gaines man wanted in the attempted murder of a Fillmore, N.Y., man on Sunday allegedly shot himself on Monday. Robert M. Wildey, 59, of 808 Hanky Pa...

Criminals are increasingly targeting residential mailboxes and U.S. Postal Service blue collection boxes looking for bank checks and valuables, accord...

PATRIOT DAY. The attack happened 22 years ago today. American flags, from sea to shining sea, are lowered today. A moment of silence, first at 8:46 a....

PHOENIXVILLE (AP) — Authorities say an escaped murderer who has eluded capture since breaking out of a southeastern Pennsylvania prison a week and a h...

SMETHPORT — A Kane woman was sentenced Thursday in McKean County Court to serve time in state prison for numerous firearm violations. Marily Woodford ...

A second person has been arraigned for the alleged straw purchase of 20 guns from McKean County E-Sales in Smethport. Rodney D. Doran, 34, of Bradford...

WEST CHESTER (AP) — A prison tower guard has been fired after letting a murderer slip out on his watch in a brazen daytime escape last week, county of...

Allegations of faking a kidnapping in an effort to get drugs and money have landed a Bradford woman in McKean County Jail. Tuesday Hale, 57, of 20 Mai...

Bradford man jailed for alleged sexual assault Charges including statutory sexual assault have landed a Bradford man in McKean County Jail. Timothy Ki...

SMETHPORT — Charges involving the alleged straw purchase of 20 firearms from McKean County E-Sales have been filed against a Bolivar, N.Y., man and ar...

FAWN (TNS) —State police shot and killed a man Monday in Fawn, authorities said. State police released few details, noting only that troopers from the...

WEST CHESTER (AP) — A murderer who made a brazen escape from a suburban Philadelphia jail yard was still on the lam Thursday as the search entered its...

A new Wall Street Journal national poll over the Labor Day weekend has shaken some observers’ views of the 2024 Republican presidential campaign. The ...