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    Escaped Pennsylvania inmate stole gun, fled homeowner’s gunfire and remains at large, police say
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    Escaped Pennsylvania inmate stole gun, fled homeowner’s gunfire and remains at large, police say
    MARC LEVY and SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press 
    Sep 12, 2023
    Escaped murderer Danelo Souza Cavalcante stole a rifle from a garage and fled a homeowner’s gunfire, authorities said Tuesday as police closed roads i...
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    RTS Patriot Day
    Local News, News, Round the Square
    RTS Patriot Day
    Sep 11, 2023
    PATRIOT DAY. The attack happened 22 years ago today. American flags, from sea to shining sea, are lowered today. A moment of silence, first at 8:46 a....
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    Escaped murderer still at large slips out of search area, steals van, tries to contact ex-co-workers
    Daily Headlines, News, PA State News
    Escaped murderer still at large slips out of search area, steals van, tries to contact ex-co-workers
    Sep 10, 2023
    PHOENIXVILLE (AP) — Authorities say an escaped murderer who has eluded capture since breaking out of a southeastern Pennsylvania prison a week and a h...
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    Kane woman sent to state prison for firearms charges
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    Kane woman sent to state prison for firearms charges
    Sep 09, 2023
    SMETHPORT — A Kane woman was sentenced Thursday in McKean County Court to serve time in state prison for numerous firearm violations. Marily Woodford ...
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    Watchtower guard is fired as search for fugitive killer in Pennsylvania focuses on botanical garden
    Crime, News, PA State News
    Watchtower guard is fired as search for fugitive killer in Pennsylvania focuses on botanical garden
    Sep 09, 2023
    WEST CHESTER (AP) — A prison tower guard has been fired after letting a murderer slip out on his watch in a brazen daytime escape last week, county of...
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    Bradford woman jailed for allegedly faking kidnapping
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    Bradford woman jailed for allegedly faking kidnapping
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Sep 09, 2023
    Allegations of faking a kidnapping in an effort to get drugs and money have landed a Bradford woman in McKean County Jail. Tuesday Hale, 57, of 20 Mai...
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    Court beat
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    Court beat
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Sep 08, 2023
    Bradford man jailed for alleged sexual assault Charges including statutory sexual assault have landed a Bradford man in McKean County Jail. Timothy Ki...
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    3 charged in numerous alleged straw purchases of firearms
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    3 charged in numerous alleged straw purchases of firearms
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Sep 08, 2023
    SMETHPORT — Charges involving the alleged straw purchase of 20 firearms from McKean County E-Sales have been filed against a Bolivar, N.Y., man and ar...
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    Lit in remembrance, the Firemen’s Monument
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    Lit in remembrance, the Firemen’s Monument
    MANDY COLOSIMO m.colosimo@bradfordera.com 
    Sep 08, 2023
    On Monday, beginning at 7 p.m. and continuing for three hours and 43 minutes — precisely — the Firemen’s Monument in the Oak Hill Cemetery will be ill...
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    Search for escaped Pa. murderer enters 8th day
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Search for escaped Pa. murderer enters 8th day
    Sep 07, 2023
    WEST CHESTER (AP) — A murderer who made a brazen escape from a suburban Philadelphia jail yard was still on the lam Thursday as the search entered its...
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    Bradford man jailed on charges alleging indecent assault
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    Bradford man jailed on charges alleging indecent assault
    Sep 07, 2023
    A Bradford man is in McKean County Jail on charges alleging he had inappropriate sexual contact with a woman without her consent. Andrew Reap, 32, of ...
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    Authorities try to flush out escaped murderer in suburban Philadelphia manhunt
    Crime, News, PA State News
    Authorities try to flush out escaped murderer in suburban Philadelphia manhunt
    TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press 
    Sep 06, 2023
    WEST CHESTER (AP) — A murderer made a brazen escape from a suburban Philadelphia jail yard by scaling a wall, climbing over razor wire and jumping fro...
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    Authorities expand search area for killer who escaped Pa. prison
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    Authorities expand search area for killer who escaped Pa. prison
    Sep 05, 2023
    WEST CHESTER (AP) — Authorities have moved and expanded the search area for a convicted murderer who escaped from a suburban Philadelphia prison last ...
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    Smethport man jailed for alleged sexual assault of child
    Crime, Local News
    Smethport man jailed for alleged sexual assault of child
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Sep 05, 2023
    SMETHPORT — A Smethport man is in McKean County Jail for mutiple felony counts alleging the repeated sexual assault of a child. Robert Allen Tanner, 5...
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    Kane man convicted of sexual assault on a child
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    Kane man convicted of sexual assault on a child
    Aug 30, 2023
    SMETHPORT — A Kane man was found guilty at jury trial Monday in McKean County Court of raping a child over a six-month period in 2022. Brian A. Gausma...
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    Cities that cut police pay for security
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Cities that cut police pay for security
    ADAM ANDRZEJEWSKI 
    Aug 29, 2023
    Police departments in Los Angeles, Denver, Milwaukee and Minneapolis provide expensive security details for mayors and other city officials even as th...
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    Smethport man held without bail, allegedly threatened officer
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    Smethport man held without bail, allegedly threatened officer
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Aug 29, 2023
    SMETHPORT — A Smethport man is in McKean County Jail, held without bail, for allegedly threatening to shoot a police officer who stopped him for DUI e...
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    Bradford man jailed for warrant, running from police
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    Bradford man jailed for warrant, running from police
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Aug 29, 2023
    A Bradford man is in McKean County Jail for allegedly fleeing from police who tried to pick him up on an outstanding warrant. Kenneth R.F. Bell, 27, o...
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    Shroyer jailed on drug allegations
    Crime, Local News, News
    Shroyer jailed on drug allegations
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Aug 26, 2023
    A Bradford man is in McKean County Jail on drug charges after being stopped by a state parole agent on Main Street at 9:29 p.m. Thursday. Larry Shroye...
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    Kane man jailed on sex assault allegations
    Crime, Local News, News
    Kane man jailed on sex assault allegations
    Aug 25, 2023
    KANE — A Kane man is in McKean County Jail on allegations of sexual assault on a child. Mark Wilson, 65, of Poplar Street, is charged with three count...
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    ‘Project of a lifetime’: Pa. firm regularly inspects one of the world’s largest telescopes
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    ‘Project of a lifetime’: Pa. firm regularly inspects one of the world’s largest telescopes
    BY DANIEL URIE  pennlive.com 
    August 9, 2025
    (TNS) — Joshua Moore, an engineer and the technical and rope access program coordinator with Cumberland County-based Modjeski and Masters is used to i...
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    ‘Round the Square: Young America in the streets
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    August 9, 2025
    HIJINX: 'Twas such a harrowing and dangerous pastime taking place on the streets of Bradford in July 1886 that a notice was printed in The Era implori...
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    Q&A with the DA: Online citizen groups performing ‘sting’ operations
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    Q&A with the DA: Online citizen groups performing ‘sting’ operations
    By STEPHANIE VETTENBURG-SHAFFER  McKean County District Attorney  
    August 9, 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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    Closeted man tells gay friend to tone it down for relatives
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    Closeted man tells gay friend to tone it down for relatives
    August 9, 2025
    DEAR ABBY: I'm an older gay male with many gay friends, but I have never come out to family, although I'm confident most of them know or suspect my se...
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    Lightening up elbow skin
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    Lightening up elbow skin
    August 9, 2025
    Dear Heloise: My elbows are clean but dark. I hate it! What can I do to lighten them up? — Ruth, in Minnesota Ruth, first, use a loofah or a stiff bod...
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    Brady, Davis, Haas, Williams secure place in semis
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    Brady, Davis, Haas, Williams secure place in semis
    By J.P. BUTLER - Special to the Era 
    August 8, 2025
    OLEAN, N.Y. — Years ago, Scott Brady became something of a golfing mentor to an adolescent Michael Davis. “When he was younger, before he learned how ...
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