security and public safety

RIDGWAY — The 2023 Ridgway Firemen’s Carnival will kick off on Monday, and also debut the new amphitheater stage. The carnival will take place Monday ...

The far Left has found a new ultimate villain: homeschooling moms. The Southern Poverty Law Center has added parental rights groups like Moms for Libe...

Is former President Donald Trump being treated unfairly by the special counsel? That’s the claim being made by many of his supporters following his in...

SMETHPORT — McKean County District Attorney Stephanie L. Vettenburg-Shaffer reported Tuesday that Walter Lee Dennis Jr. was convicted of crimes relate...

The cause of a fire that destroyed a vacant house at 246 South Ave. Sunday afternoon remains under investigation. At 3:09 p.m. Sunday, the Bradford Ci...

Crews from Bradford City Fire Department and the Bradford Township Volunteer Fire Department were called to the high side, in the 200 block, of South ...

ERIE — A Johnsonburg woman has been sentenced to 27 months incarceration for embezzling more than $760,000 from M&M Contractors in Elk County. Melissa...

A Bradford man was arraigned in two separate cases on Sunday for alleged theft and harassment in the City of Bradford. Ryan Neilly, 38, of 80 Boylston...

David Gallup was most recently featured in the film, “Crossing Paths,” by Smokey Bear Productions. He has been busy lately finishing filming Part Two ...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Thanks to support from the Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation’s Community Fund and the Bill & Cathy Fraser grant program at the Uni...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A state trooper shot and killed a man whose vehicle struck two troopers as law enforcement tried to get control of an illegal earl...

”Monopoly money” is a term for useless paper notes. Inflation was so bad in 1930s Weimar Germany, it took literal wheelbarrows of cash to buy grocerie...

LEBANON (AP) — Two young boys were playing with kittens in their backyard when shots rang out at a home in eastern Pennsylvania, killing both children...

The five-alarm fire that destroyed five structures on Pleasant and Pearl streets in Bradford late Monday night evicted nine people from their homes. A...

A McKean County restaurant owner who screamed death threats directed at then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi while storming the U.S. Capitol was sentenced ...

Five homes are now deemed uninhabitable following a devastating five-alarm fire that occurred Monday night. Shortly after 11 p.m., calls to the 911 Em...

SMETHPORT — A Smethport man was arraigned Friday on charges of making a hole in the fence around McKean County Jail and using it to escape. Braxton Re...

JAMES CITY — An Elk County man has been jailed on felony charges after he was allegedly found to be connected with a fatal drug overdose that occurred...

A Port Allegany man died Monday after being found unresponsive in his cell at State Correctional Institution at Huntington, where he was serving at le...

The grounds of Veterans Square were packed with police officers from various departments from throughout McKean County, troopers from the Pennsylvania...