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WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., joined Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., to introduce the Bureau of Prisons Security Check and Action against N...

EMPORIUM — Former Cameron County school teacher and coach Larry McGraw was sentenced to serve 2 to 5 years in state prison for child pornography. McGr...

The Quehanna Boot Camp, located in Clearfield County, opened in 1992 as the first military-motivational boot camp in Pennsylvania for both men and wom...

State lawmakers who represent Clearfield County implore Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration to reconsider the closure of Quehanna Boot Camp, an alterna...

SMETHPORT — A Wilcox man was sentenced recently in McKean County Court to at least 13 years in state prison for the sexual assault of a 13-year-old fe...

WASHINGTON(TNS) — PresidentJoe Bidenannounced Monday that he was commuting the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death-row inmates to life in prison w...

By commuting the sentences of 1,500 people who were released to home confinement during the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, President Joe Biden dr...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., introduced bipartisan legislation to give millions of Americans a “clean slate” by sea...

SMETHPORT — A Duke Center man found to be a sexually violent predator was sentenced Thursday in McKean County Court to 22 to 44 years in state prison ...

Parole has been denied for Paul Morrisroe, the Marshburg man convicted of homicide by vehicle for the June 2015 hit-and-run death of Dakota Heinaman i...

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SMETHPORT — An out-of-area resident, arrested on a warrant, was booked into McKean County Jail on May 25 while allegedly having methamphetamine in his...

SMETHPORT — Following a one-day trial Thursday in McKean County Court, a Bradford man was convicted of failing to follow sex offender registration req...