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On Saturday evening, the Bradford Township Volunteer Fire Department (BTVFD) held its 40th Annual Awards Banquet at the Interstate Parkway Fire Hall w...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to imprison journalists who dare to report truthfully about Russia’s merciless invasion of Ukraine. Hi...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania's state prisons announced Monday they will not allow in-person visits for the coming month because their staff has been...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson said Tuesday that FEMA’s Fire Prevention and Safety Grant Program is accepting applications. The Fire Prevention...

ALTOONA (AP) — A jail guard was shot and killed at a Pennsylvania courthouse by what appears to be friendly fire during a struggle with an inmate who ...

After the destruction and havoc caused by a house fire on North Center Street in Bradford on Sunday morning, the heroic firefighters who extinguished ...

CYBERSECURITY ADVISORY: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and National Security Agen...

SMETHPORT — The McKean County American Legion Riders Post 976 will sponsor a Haunted Jail from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the McKean County Historical Soci...

Last week’s Shinglehouse drug bust was the result of community members reporting suspicious activity to police, officials said Monday. Drugs, guns and...

HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf announced that as of Oct. 1, the number of people incarcerated in state correctional facilities is 36,743 — the lowest tota...

Before Gov. Tom Corbett appointed John Wetzel as secretary of the state Department of Corrections in 2011, the job primarily was about operations. But...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. — Authorities in Chautauqua County are working with the FBI and the Mercyhurst University’s applied forensic services department to ide...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania Corrections Secretary John Wetzel will soon leave the job he’s held for more than a decade and be replaced by a top adm...

A Bradford man remains in McKean County Jail after allegedly making threatening phone calls to his girlfriend. James F. Wilcox, 34, of Scott Field Roa...

Pennsylvania has a prison problem, and it’s not the one most people think. Yes, like most states and like the federal government, the Keystone State h...

CLEARFIELD — The Clearfield Crime Unit of the Pennsylvania State Police is investigating a fire at an unoccupied camp on June 30. According to police ...

SMETHPORT — An unannounced search of the McKean County Jail on Friday turned up no narcotics, according to District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaf...

At 10:44 a.m. Thursday, Bradford City Fire Department was dispatched to a North Center Street residence for a structure fire with flames and smoke aro...

LEWIS RUN — Lewis Run-based state police still have not determined what started a fire that caused more than half a million dollars in damage to the b...

SMETHPORT — A state police fire marshal said early Tuesday evening that the cause of the fire that heavily damaged the Corner Bistro and Pizza Company...