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    Police seeking alleged fugitive McKinney
    Crime, Local News, News
    Police seeking alleged fugitive McKinney
    May 02, 2025
    Bradford City Police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating Brandon James McKinney Sr., 38, wanted on two arrest warrants. A statement issued...
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    Q&A with the DA: Part 2 — The law, open to interpretation?
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    Q&A with the DA: Part 2 — The law, open to interpretation?
    STEPHANIE VETTENBURG-SHAFFER McKean County District Attorney 
    Apr 26, 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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    Bradford man convicted of strangulation
    Crime, Local News, News
    Bradford man convicted of strangulation
    Apr 25, 2025
    SMETHPORT — A Bradford man was convicted at jury trial Thursday in McKean County Court for assaulting his then girlfriend last year. Ozzy Strait, 27, ...
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    Baker sentenced to prison for rape of child
    Crime, Local News, News
    Baker sentenced to prison for rape of child
    Apr 24, 2025
    SMETHPORT — A Westfield man convicted of raping an infant was sentenced in McKean County Court to 15 to 30 years in state prison. Steven Paul Baker, 2...
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    Q&A with the DA: The law, open to interpretation?
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    Q&A with the DA: The law, open to interpretation?
    STEPHANIE VETTENBURG-SHAFFER McKean County District Attorney 
    Apr 12, 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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    PD: Suspect found with cocaine en route to jail
    Crime, Local News, News
    PD: Suspect found with cocaine en route to jail
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Mar 25, 2025
    SMETHPORT — The OYO Hotel resident arrested last week for allegedly selling cocaine in Bradford was arraigned Tuesday for trying to smuggle drugs into...
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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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    Hawaii man freed after 30 years in prison visits mother’s grave and ponders ubiquitous cellphones
    Nation & World, News
    Hawaii man freed after 30 years in prison visits mother’s grave and ponders ubiquitous cellphones
    JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER, Associated Press 
    Mar 01, 2025
    HONOLULU (AP) — One of the first places Gordon Cordeiro visited when a judge ordered him released after spending 30 years in prison for a killing he a...
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    Prosecutor: Rushdie too stunned to react when man started to stab him
    Prosecutor: Rushdie too stunned to react when man started to stab him
    CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press 
    Feb 10, 2025
    MAYVILLE, N.Y. — Salman Rushdie was so stunned when a masked man started to stab him on a stage in western New York that the author didn't even try to...
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    Fuller waives hearing in Ramos homicide
    Crime, Local News, News
    Fuller waives hearing in Ramos homicide
    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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    Newly unsealed documents reveal more details of prosecutors’ evidence in 9/11 attacks
    Nation & World, News, World
    Newly unsealed documents reveal more details of prosecutors’ evidence in 9/11 attacks
    ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press 
    Feb 07, 2025
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly unsealed documents give one of the most detailed views yet of the evidence gathered on the accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shei...
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    Q&A with the DA: Jurisdiction and law enforcement
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    Q&A with the DA: Jurisdiction and law enforcement
    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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    Bradford man convicted of indecent exposure
    Crime, Local News, News
    Bradford man convicted of indecent exposure
    Jan 23, 2025
    SMETHPORT — Following a one-day jury trial in McKean County Court, Bradford man Michael Winston was convicted of indecent exposure. District Attorney ...
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    Lawyers for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed press to let his guilty plea go forward
    Nation & World, News, World
    Lawyers for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed press to let his guilty plea go forward
    Jan 09, 2025
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are urging a federal appeals panel to let his scheduled guilty plea Frida...
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    Federal tax evasion case against Gustafson moving forward
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    Federal tax evasion case against Gustafson moving forward
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Jan 03, 2025
    After years of delays, the federal tax evasion case against Smethport's Brian Gustafson is moving forward. Through his attorney, D. Robert Marion, Gus...
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    Moore to serve at least 22 years in Ramos murder
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    Moore to serve at least 22 years in Ramos murder
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Dec 25, 2024
    The last of the three defendants charged in the 2020 murder of Joshua Ramos in Potter County has been sentenced to at least 22 years in state prison. ...
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    Woman convicted of recklessly endangering Kane man
    Crime, Local News, News
    Woman convicted of recklessly endangering Kane man
    Dec 17, 2024
    SMETHPORT — Tammy Robertson was convicted in McKean County Court of recklessly shooting a Kane man, resulting in his paralysis. McKean County District...
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    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    PA State News
    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    By OLIVER MORRISON  pennlive.com 
    June 15, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
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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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