Crime, News
Nov 21, 2024
SMETHPORT — A Mount Jewett man will serve at least 12 years in state prison for the sexual assault of two children between 2016 and 2019. Kevin Brown,...
Crime, News
Jan 19, 2023
SMETHPORT — Former Bradford man Aaron Davis was convicted at trial in McKean County Court of 84 counts relating to sending explicit materials to a min...
Crime, News
Jan 17, 2023
SMETHPORT — A Bradford man will spend time in state prison for kidnapping and other crimes committed in December of 2021. District Attorney Stephanie ...
News
Jun 18, 2022
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has denied the appeal of convicted sexually violent predator Gage Ortiz-Rodriquez, saying the evidence presented in Mc...
Crime, News
Jun 03, 2022
Bradford resident James Nitsos will spend more than four years in state prison for convictions involving drug crimes and running from police for an in...
Crime, News
Mar 23, 2022
SMETHPORT — An Eldred man was convicted after a two-day jury trial in McKean County Court of charges relating to the assault of a woman in January of ...
Crime, News
Jan 29, 2022
District Attorney Stephanie L. Vettenburg-Shaffer reported Friday that, following a sentencing hearing at the McKean County Courthouse on Thursday, Ma...
News, Online Features
Dec 31, 2021
Bradford Regional Medical Center has stood in support of McKean County residents since 1887. Everything changed in 2021, with the consolidation of ser...
Crime, News
Oct 26, 2021
Last week’s Shinglehouse drug bust was the result of community members reporting suspicious activity to police, officials said Monday. Drugs, guns and...
News
Oct 14, 2021
SMETHPORT — A total of 106.9 pounds of unused medication were emptied and disposed of from medication drop boxes throughout the county, announced McKe...
Crime, News
Jul 23, 2021
SMETHPORT — A Bradford man was sentenced Thursday in McKean County Court for allegations that he sexually assaulted an underage victim while she was w...
Crime
Jul 23, 2021
SMETHPORT — A Bradford man was sentenced Thursday in McKean County Court for three separate cases in which he assaulted a woman twice and fashioned a ...
Crime
Jul 03, 2021
SMETHPORT — An unannounced search of the McKean County Jail on Friday turned up no narcotics, according to District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaf...
News
Jul 02, 2021
SMETHPORT — An Erie man who is accused of robbing someone during a methamphetamine deal pleaded guilty in McKean County Court on Thursday. Anthony D. ...
Crime, News
Jun 26, 2021
A Bradford man who is accused of stabbing a woman and fleeing from police in July was convicted Friday of several of the charges against him. A McKean...
News
Jun 21, 2021
District Attorney Stephanie L. Vettenburg-Shaffer reports that McKean County Drug Task Force K-9 handler Bob Rinfrette and his narcotic-detecting dog,...
Crime, News
Jun 12, 2021
A man who was shot during a reported domestic dispute in August will face simple assault charges. McKean County District Attorney Stephanie L. Vettenb...
Crime, News
Jun 03, 2021
SMETHPORT — An Olean, N.Y., woman who pleaded guilty in May to a motor vehicle accident in which a Portville, N.Y., man died was denied a different at...
Crime
May 19, 2021
A Mount Jewett man accused of sexually assaulting two children was convicted Tuesday in McKean County Court. A jury trial for Kevin S. Brown, 58, was ...
News
May 18, 2021
Bail for Anthony Fenton, a Bradford man who is accused of assaulting his live-in girlfriend, is now $600,000. When paramedics arrived at Fenton’s 117 ...
PA State News
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...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
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...
Local Sports
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...
Local Sports, Sports
June 14, 2025
(TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
The annual Allegheny -100 Hiking Challenge (A-100) was held last weekend. It is an event where hikers can choose to hike 100, 75, 50 or 25 miles along...
