criminal law

SMETHPORT — Former Bradford music store owner Edward Wright is appealing his legal designation as a sexually violent predator. Wright, 69, of Bradford...

The symbolism of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize goes far beyond its tribute to Maria Ressa and Dimitry Muratov, independent journalists fighting for freed...

SMETHPORT — A Bradford couple was sentenced last week in McKean County Court to serve terms of probation and community service for charges of endanger...

SMETHPORT — A Bradford man was sentenced recently in McKean County Court for allegedly setting ablaze a residence from which he was being evicted. Gor...

Mount Jewett man jailed for alleged threats A Mount Jewett man is in McKean County Jail for allegedly fighting with police and threatening to kill a s...

(TNS) — The husband of slain Instagram influencer Alexis Sharkey, a Warren County native, was found dead early Wednesday in Fort Myers, Florida, accor...

SMETHPORT — Bradford man Daniel Oaks II will be sentenced next month in McKean County Court on five counts of reckless endangerment from a fatal accid...

A Bradford pair will face burglary and related charges in McKean County Court. Charges were bound over to court against Kylie J. McLaughlin, 26, and c...

HARRISBURG — The governors of four northeastern states agreed Thursday to share information about firearms purchases to help detect and investigate st...

SOMERSET (AP) — Officials in a rural western Pennsylvania county say the elected prosecutor’s access to his office and the courthouse has been restric...

Before Gov. Tom Corbett appointed John Wetzel as secretary of the state Department of Corrections in 2011, the job primarily was about operations. But...

Bradford man jailed for sending explicit photos to juvenile SMETHPORT — A Bradford man is in McKean County Jail, charged with sending explicit picture...

Three men have been indicted in the torture and murder of a New York City man whose body was found in April along U.S. Route 6 in Potter County. WETM ...

HARRISBURG — Questions about the legality and practical effect of a victims’ rights amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution that has been in limbo ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — A Harrisburg man was in jail Thursday on six counts of aggravated assault, accused of trying to run over nonuniformed state troopers...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Syrian refugee accused of plotting to bomb a Christian church in Pittsburgh and who was inspired by the Islamic State group pleade...

COUDERSPORT — A Way Out, Potter County’s domestic violence and sexual assault services, is offering two free economic justice classes, one beginning i...

EMPORIUM — The Emporium Police Department’s K-9 officer, Novak, will not return to Emporium for duty. The K-9 was sent back to its training facility w...

A Bradford chiropractor has been charged with the alleged sexual assault of a juvenile under the age of 13 between 2018 and this past July. Jeffrey S....

SMETHPORT — The two newest program directors for the county were introduced Tuesday at the McKean County commissioners’ regularly scheduled meeting. C...