security and public safety

SMETHPORT — Today, Jan. 9, marks Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, a day set aside to recognize the difficult work of law enforcement. McKean County D...

SMETHPORT — A Port Allegany man is in McKean County Jail for an alleged drunk driving accident in Liberty Township on Monday, after which he allegedly...

LEO APPRECIATION, TUESDAY. Law Enforcement Officer, or LEO, appreciation day is Jan. 9. The day was created in 2015 as a way for communities to show a...

WARREN (AP) — A homicide suspect who escaped from the Warren County Jail last year and was on the run for more than a week before a pet dog led to his...

(TNS) — A state lawmaker wants to prevent Pennsylvania municipalities and counties from designating themselves as “sanctuary cities” for undocumented ...

The Bradford Township Board of Supervisors Mark Cline, chairman, and LareeSue Behan, vice-chair, welcomed newly elected Edward Hayden to the reorganiz...

MOUNT JEWETT — A call around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday of a fire at the Georgia Pacific MDF plant in Mount Jewett brought volunteer fire departments from thr...

SMETHPORT — A Bradford woman was sent to McKean County Jail after an arrest for allegedly shoplifting $137 worth of merchandise at The Dollar Tree. Do...

SMETHPORT — The McKean County commissioners in a special meeting Friday approved next year’s budget with no tax increase. “The commissioners worked ha...

A Pennsylvania man who was sentenced in secret for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot cooperated with authorities investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attac...

LITTLE VALLEY, N.Y. — A bike path stabbing suspect led police on a low-speed chase on an electric scooter tricycle through Allegany Tuesday before he ...

A Smethport man was sent to McKean County Jail Tuesday on allegations of threatening to burn a house down and abusing a dog. Ronald Thompson, 28, of C...

(TNS) — Pennsylvanians with a permit to carry a concealed gun can lose that privilege if they are convicted of crimes ranging from shoplifting and wri...

(TNS) — A York man is going back to jail after he robbed a Harrisburg bank six days after being released on parole for a near-identical bank robbery i...

SMETHPORT — In what may well be the longest sentence of incarceration ever imposed in McKean County, convicted child rapist Darvin Carpenter will spen...

Stephanie Scrivo has been volunteering in fire departments since she was a teenager. Recently, she was elected fire chief of the Derrick City Voluntee...

Police and firefighters join together at the Bradford City Fire Station Wednesday evening to sort donations to the 911 Toy Express drive held each yea...

Members of the Allentown, N.Y., Volunteer Fire Department came to Bradford Township Volunteer Fire Department to pick up Engine 151 on Saturday mornin...

Richard Scott Best Jr. is currently incarcerated at the McKean County Jail, in lieu of $30,000 bail, for allegedly strangling his girlfriend in the pa...

A Westfield man was sent to McKean County Jail for allegations including rape of an infant. Steven Paul Baker, 25, is charged with rape of a child, in...