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    Charges from two-state high-speed chase bound to court
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    Charges from two-state high-speed chase bound to court
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Feb 28, 2024
    All 95 counts against an Ellicottville, N.Y., man for a two-state, high-speed chase in January were bound to McKean County Court at a hearing Wednesda...
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    ST. MARYS: Hundreds attend candlelight remembrance vigil for 9-year-old Hannah Pistner
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    ST. MARYS: Hundreds attend candlelight remembrance vigil for 9-year-old Hannah Pistner
    MARILYN SECCO and BRIANNE FLEMING newsroom@thecourierexpress.com 
    Feb 28, 2024
    ST. MARYS — The St. Marys community showed up by the hundreds Tuesday to hold a candlelight service in memory and celebration of 9-year-old Hannah Pis...
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    State launches program to reimburse EMS training
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    State launches program to reimburse EMS training
    Sara Furlong s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
    Feb 27, 2024
    Emergency medical services professionals have a very particular set of skills. It’s a skill set in demand high enough to constitute what many have cal...
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    SUNY JCC’s prison education program sees success, growth
    Local News, News
    SUNY JCC’s prison education program sees success, growth
    Feb 26, 2024
    JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — The spring semester at SUNY Jamestown Community College is underway on the college’s physical campuses, and at Collins Correctional ...
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    Three University of Wyoming swimmers killed in highway crash in Colorado
    College Sports, Sports
    Three University of Wyoming swimmers killed in highway crash in Colorado
    MEAD GRUVER Associated Press 
    Feb 24, 2024
    CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Three members of the University of Wyoming swimming and diving team were killed and two others injured when their sport utility ...
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    Police say Pa. man stole more than $10K from American Legion
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    Police say Pa. man stole more than $10K from American Legion
    Feb 22, 2024
    (TNS) — A Punxsutawney man has been arrested after police say he stole over $10,000 from an American Legion in Jefferson County. Ryan Kyser, 36, was c...
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    Bradford man to face hearing next week on assault allegations
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    Bradford man to face hearing next week on assault allegations
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Feb 22, 2024
    A preliminary hearing for a Bradford man charged last week with aggravated assault on a woman has been scheduled for Wednesday. William McKinney Jr., ...
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    Service over their own safety
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    Service over their own safety
    Feb 21, 2024
    Law enforcement officers, firefighters and other first responders started this work week with heavy hearts. Their loved ones no doubt are again reflec...
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    Saying the obvious about Hamas
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    Saying the obvious about Hamas
    Feb 21, 2024
    Egypt’s top diplomat delivered a blunt assessment last week of the turmoil in the Middle East. Deluded apologists protesting in the United States and ...
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    Navalny’s killing a stark warning to the West
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    Navalny’s killing a stark warning to the West
    TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
    Feb 20, 2024
    PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Vladimir Putin killed him. The Russian leader is as responsible for Friday’s death of Alexei Navalny — that country’s most fearle...
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    McKean County to update hazard mitigation plan
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    McKean County to update hazard mitigation plan
    Feb 20, 2024
    SMETHPORT — The McKean County Department of Emergency Services is in the process of updating the McKean County Hazard Mitigation Plan. Public meetings...
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    Pa. courts say no ransom was paid in cyberattack, and attackers never sent a demand
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    Pa. courts say no ransom was paid in cyberattack, and attackers never sent a demand
    MARC LEVY Associated Press 
    Feb 17, 2024
    HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s state courts agency said Thursday that it never received a ransom demand as part of a cyberattack that briefly shut d...
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    Pa. should rethink policy of scanning prisoners’ mail
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Pa. should rethink policy of scanning prisoners’ mail
    Feb 16, 2024
    Pennsylvanians know our state is influential. Some of us know we’re the center of the universe. People around the nation and the world care about what...
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    Cyberattacks on hospitals are likely to increase, putting lives at risk, experts warn
    Nation & World, News
    Cyberattacks on hospitals are likely to increase, putting lives at risk, experts warn
    AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press 
    Feb 15, 2024
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Cybersecurity experts are warning that hospitals around the country are at risk for attacks like the one that is crippling operation...
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    Israel gets direct on hostages
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    Israel gets direct on hostages
    Feb 15, 2024
    Negotiations designed to secure the release of hostages taken during the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel “were productive and serious,” CNN repor...
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    Hearing set for June in homicide case against Moore
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    Hearing set for June in homicide case against Moore
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Feb 14, 2024
    A hearing has been scheduled for June in Potter County Court on the 2021 pretrial motion of Kyle Moore, accused with two others of torturing and murde...
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    Court beat
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    Court beat
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Feb 12, 2024
    Elkland woman charged for allegedly offering cops bribe An Elkland woman is in McKean County Jail for allegedly offering state troopers sexual favors ...
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    Rollover on Minard Run
    Local News, News
    Rollover on Minard Run
    Feb 08, 2024
    Bradford Township Volunteer Fire Department and Bradford City Fire Department ambulance were dispatched at 5:50 a.m. Thursday to a one-vehicle rollove...
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    Georgia man jailed after Bradford Twp. traffic stop
    Crime, Local News, News
    Georgia man jailed after Bradford Twp. traffic stop
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Feb 06, 2024
    SMETHPORT — A Georgia man is in McKean County Jail following a traffic stop Monday night where he was allegedly found to be in possession of drugs. Er...
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    Blair County men jailed after traffic stop
    Crime, Local News, News
    Blair County men jailed after traffic stop
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Feb 06, 2024
    SMETHPORT — Two Blair County men were jailed Tuesday following a traffic stop in Sergeant Township where more than 2 pounds of marijuana was found in ...
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    Isolated Torrey pine populations yield insights into genetic diversity
    Nation & World, PA State News
    Isolated Torrey pine populations yield insights into genetic diversity
    June 15, 2025
    UNIVERSITY PARK — Entire regions of trees are disappearing because of invasive pests, disease and a changing climate. The key to their ability to adap...
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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
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    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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