criminal law

Fuller waives hearing in Ramos homicide
Crime, Local News, News
Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Feb 07, 2025
The fourth person charged in the 2020 murder of Joshua Ramos in Potter County has waived a preliminary hearing in his case. Varley Fuller, 65, of Mans...
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Emporium man nabbed in meth bust
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Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Feb 05, 2025
EMPORIUM — An Emporium man is in McKean County Jail after an arrest by the Attorney General's North Central Drug Task Force in Cameron County on Tuesd...
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Q&A with the DA: Jurisdiction and law enforcement
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STEPHANIE VETTENBURG-SHAFFER McKean County District Attorney 
Feb 01, 2025
(Editor’s note: The information in this special series is for educational purposes only and is not intended to address any particular case, nor should...
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Bookworm
Lifestyles
?The Cold Case Foundation: How a Team of Experts Solves Murders and Missing Persons Cases? by Gregory M. Cooper and Thomas McHoes, foreword by John E. Douglas c.2024, Prometheus Books $28.95 227 pages 
Jan 27, 2025
And there you were, at a dead end. Your GPS sent you there, didn’t it? Or it looked like an interesting road, an adventure in the middle of an otherwi...
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Bradford man jailed for alleged October arson
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Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Jan 22, 2025
A Bradford man has been jailed for the alleged arson of a Bradford Township residence in October. Karl J. Ginnery, 40, of 76 Holley Ave., is charged w...
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Other Voices: Selective values
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 22, 2025
To all my fellow citizens who are consoled by the fact they now have a president who reflects their values, please consider this: The events of Jan. 6...
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Q&A with the DA: Firemen and emergency medical services
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STEPHANIE VETTENBURG-SHAFFER McKean County District Attorney 
Jan 18, 2025
(Editor’s note: The information in this special series is for educational purposes only and is not intended to address any particular case, nor should...
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Merrick pleads to possessing child porn
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Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Jan 17, 2025
Former Smethport pastor and musician Daniel Merrick entered guilty pleas Thursday in McKean County Court to possessing nearly 700 images of child porn...
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Donald Trump and the courts
Opinion, Сolumns
SUSAN SHELLEY Los Angeles Daily News 
Dec 27, 2024
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — If you stacked up all of Donald Trump’s legal bills since his election in 2016, they’d reach Mars beforeElon Muskdoes. He’s paying...
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