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Fire destroyed a two-story garage at 10 Hall Road in Foster Township on Thursday afternoon. About 40 firefighters from across Pennsylvania and New Yor...

LEWIS RUN ––A woman has been temporarily displaced following a fire at a trailer in Lewis Run Thursday. Lewis Run Volunteer Fire Department was dispat...

GOOD READ: We’ve been talking about the Great Smog of London that descended on the city on Dec. 5, 1952. Just two or three weeks prior to our column w...

SMETHPORT — An inmate at the McKean County Jail is facing additional charges for allegedly attacking a guard at the jail on Wednesday. Cherokee Rubrec...

The people who respond to 911 emergencies in the City of Bradford are banding together to prevent a different kind of emergency — a Christmas without ...

SMETHPORT (EC) — A fire that heavily damaged a house on Rosehill Avenue in Smethport Tuesday morning is still under investigation by the state police ...

RIDGWAY ––Fire damaged a home at 100 Harrison Ave. in Johnsonburg on Friday. According to Ridgway-based state police, at 12:10 a.m. the Johnsonburg Bo...

RIDGWAY — One person was injured in a fire Wednesday in Spring Creek Township. According to state police fire marshal Cpl. Greg Agosti, the fire happe...

“Father into Thy hands I commend my spirit.” Those were the final words that Ralph Crossmire uttered before being jerked into eternal rest by 240 poun...

SMETHPORT (EC) — The Smethport Fire Department responded to a reported land rescue Tuesday afternoon at Emerald Isle just off East Water Street. The i...

Kids from the community can enjoy a spooky haunted house and haunted hayrides while ‘scaring’ up some funds for the Derrick City Volunteer Fire Depart...

Arby’s in Bradford was temporarily closed following a minor fire early Thursday morning. City police discovered smoke and flames coming from the back ...

Area residents ––including college students ––will band together on Saturday to help reduce the number of potential home fire-related deaths and injur...

On Sunday night, gunshots rained from a Las Vegas hotel window into a crowd of concert-goers. The deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history has n...

RIDGWAY — A Kersey man escaped a fire at his home without injury Thursday night. Ridgway-based state police Fire Marshal Cpl. Greg Agosti said at 9:34...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — Local firefighters and university students will be working together on Monday to raise funds for victims of hurricanes Harvey and Irm...

COUDERSPORT — A Genesee man died Saturday in Allegany Township when the tractor he was operating rolled over on him. Wallace Jerome Copley, 77, of Gen...

A Bradford man is in McKean County Jail after allegedly overdosing while huffing canned air in an alley off Lincoln Avenue on Friday. Jeremiah Ashly S...

Foster Township Police Chief Tom Munn enjoys having interns, and it is a good thing, because he has had at least 20. Munn’s small department (five ful...

A Bradford man has been arrested on sexual abuse allegations in New York state. According to Bath, N.Y.-based state police, David Emerson, 61, of Brad...