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    McKean County Jail enhances security with new full-body scanner
    Local News, News
    McKean County Jail enhances security with new full-body scanner
    Mar 28, 2025
    SMETHPORT — The McKean County Jail has officially installed a state-of-the-art full-body scanner, thanks to a combination of Congressional Community P...
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    Bradford man jailed for theft of safes, wagon
    Crime, Local News, News
    Bradford man jailed for theft of safes, wagon
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Mar 21, 2025
    A Bradford man is in McKean County Jail for taking two safes, and a wagon to carry them in, from a High Street home earlier this week. Dakota Allen, 2...
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    Bradford woman convicted of rape
    Crime, Local News, News
    Bradford woman convicted of rape
    Mar 20, 2025
    SMETHPORT — A Bradford woman was convicted of sex crimes against an unconscious male, after a two-day jury trial at the McKean County Courthouse. Donn...
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    Barker arrested for alleged cocaine sales in Bradford
    Crime, Local News, News
    Barker arrested for alleged cocaine sales in Bradford
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Mar 20, 2025
    A weeks-long investigation into cocaine sales in the City of Bradford resulted in the arrest of a former Buffalo, N.Y., man Wednesday. Clarence Barker...
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    Unemployment support for domestic violence victims clears House
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Unemployment support for domestic violence victims clears House
    CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
    Mar 20, 2025
    HARRISBURG — A bipartisan bill providing unemployment benefits for domestic violence survivors has cleared the House. The legislation would allow peop...
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    Sunshine Week calls attention to darkening skies over Pa. universities
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Sunshine Week calls attention to darkening skies over Pa. universities
    AMY KRISTIN SANDERS 
    Mar 18, 2025
    University employees engaged in sexual misconduct. Administrators misappropriating public funds. Scientists paid by industry groups to obtain desirabl...
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    Pa. ranks high in number of people, providers committing Medicaid fraud
    Nation & World, News, PA State News
    Pa. ranks high in number of people, providers committing Medicaid fraud
    Mar 17, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS)—Pennsylvania last year outpaced all other states in the number of people it charged with Medicaid fraud and ranked third overall in c...
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    Q&A with the DA: When an offender seeks to override a jury’s verdict
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    Q&A with the DA: When an offender seeks to override a jury’s verdict
    STEPHANIE VETTENBURG-SHAFFER McKean County District Attorney 
    Mar 15, 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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    Luigi Mangione’s attorney files motions to dismiss evidence gathered during Pa. arrest
    Nation & World, News, PA State News
    Luigi Mangione’s attorney files motions to dismiss evidence gathered during Pa. arrest
    MADISON MONTAG pennlive.com 
    Mar 13, 2025
    (TNS)—A Blair County defense attorney recently filed several motions on behalf of Luigi Mangione, asking a judge to release him from custody and dismi...
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    McKean Co. awarded $3 million to establish Emergency Behavioral Health Crisis Walk-In Center
    Local News, News
    McKean Co. awarded $3 million to establish Emergency Behavioral Health Crisis Walk-In Center
    Mar 12, 2025
    SMETHPORT — Commissioners announced McKean County is one of five recipients statewide to receive a $3 million grant to establish an Emergency Behavior...
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    Shaffer will not run for county judge seat; will remain in service as district attorney
    Local News, News
    Shaffer will not run for county judge seat; will remain in service as district attorney
    Mar 11, 2025
    SMETHPORT — District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer announced Tuesday that she will not run in the upcoming election to fill the vacancy for th...
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    BASD teacher cited for alleged slap to 10-year-old
    Local News, News
    BASD teacher cited for alleged slap to 10-year-old
    Mar 07, 2025
    An art teacher at School Street Elementary School has been cited by Punxsutawney-based state police for allegedly slapping a 10-year-old student. Rebe...
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    Q&A with the DA — Sunshine Act: Meetings by governing bodies are public
    Local News, News, Newsletters, ...
    Q&A with the DA — Sunshine Act: Meetings by governing bodies are public
    STEPHANIE VETTENBURG-SHAFFER McKean County District Attorney 
    Mar 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 shoul...
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    Violence in health care — a renewed call for support
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Violence in health care — a renewed call for support
    Feb 27, 2025
    Editor's note: The following is a letter from the Western Pennsylvania Regional Chief Medical Officers Consortium in reaction to a shooting incident a...
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    Priest to face charges in two cases in McKean Co. court
    Crime, Local News, News
    Priest to face charges in two cases in McKean Co. court
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Feb 27, 2025
    A Bradford man will face charges in McKean County Court for assault and for allegedly calling 911 on the police who were at his residence. Adam Priest...
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    Bradford woman waives hearing in alleged hatchet assault
    Crime, Local News, News
    Bradford woman waives hearing in alleged hatchet assault
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Feb 26, 2025
    A Bradford woman remains incarcerated in McKean County Jail for allegedly hitting another woman in the face with a hatchet. Tanya Graves, 35, of 1 Mai...
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    Other Voices: Ethnic cleansing of Gaza
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Other Voices: Ethnic cleansing of Gaza
    Feb 18, 2025
    Ethnic cleansing refers to the deliberate and systematic forced removal, displacement or persecution of a particular ethnic, religious or cultural gro...
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    COUDERSPORT: Chocolate Lovers Extravaganza
    Local News, News
    COUDERSPORT: Chocolate Lovers Extravaganza
    Feb 14, 2025
    COUDERSPORT — A Way Out will host its Chocolate Lovers Extravaganza fundraiser 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at American Legion Post 192, 2 Buffalo St. Ther...
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    Bradford man pleads guilty in McKean County Court
    Crime, Local News, News
    Bradford man pleads guilty in McKean County Court
    Feb 14, 2025
    SMETHPORT — A Bradford man pleaded guilty Thursday in McKean County Court to charges involving the rape of a child. Andrew Wegemer-Silsby, 36, formerl...
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    Inform ICE of immigrant arrests
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Inform ICE of immigrant arrests
    Feb 10, 2025
    It shouldn’t be controversial for law enforcement agencies to work together to protect the public. Yet, some people object to local police doing just ...
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    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    PA State News
    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    June 14, 2025
    PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
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    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    Local News, Nation & World
    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
    June 14, 2025
    Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
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    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    June 14, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
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    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Local Sports
    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
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    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Local Sports, Sports
    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    (TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
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    Allegheny -100 Hiking Challenge held with over 160 participants
    Local Sports
    Allegheny -100 Hiking Challenge held with over 160 participants
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    The annual Allegheny -100 Hiking Challenge (A-100) was held last weekend. It is an event where hikers can choose to hike 100, 75, 50 or 25 miles along...
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