News, PA State News
Jan 24, 2022
HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania's state prisons announced Monday they will not allow in-person visits for the coming month because their staff has been...
News
Oct 08, 2021
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...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 01, 2021
Before Gov. Tom Corbett appointed John Wetzel as secretary of the state Department of Corrections in 2011, the job primarily was about operations. But...
News
Aug 24, 2021
HARRISBURG — Inmates in Pennsylvania state prisons will be counted in their home districts and not where their prisons are located after a divided vot...
Crime
Dec 11, 2020
SMETHPORT — A Mount Jewett man accused of asking for sexual images from two children over social media will serve time in state prison. Dustin T. Sher...
Crime
Dec 11, 2020
SMETHPORT — A Bradford man will serve time in state prison for allegations that he had indecent contact with a girl, then threatened to kill the girl’...
Crime
Sep 11, 2020
A Smethport man accused of having child pornography was sentenced Thursday in McKean County Court to a term in state prison. Chad M. Caldwell, 26, wil...
Crime
Jun 02, 2020
A Roulette woman will serve state prison time for allegations of drug delivery and child endangerment in McKean County. Kimberly A. Bisher, 29, was se...
Local News, News, Online Features
Dec 05, 2019
SMETHPORT — Larry Shroyer, 48, will serve 53 to 106 months in state prison for delivering a mix of butyryl fentanyl and heroin in 2015 to 25-year-old ...
Crime, Local News
Nov 22, 2019
SMETHPORT — A Port Allegany man who previously pleaded guilty in two cases — one a police standoff that had him dangerously hiding on a Bradford rooft...
Crime, Local News
Oct 25, 2019
SMETHPORT — A woman accused in a rooftop standoff in August will serve a term in state prison for two cases. Christina M. Lynn-Hamilton, 28, will serv...
Bradford, Crime, Local News, ...
Apr 26, 2019
A former Port Allegany woman will serve time in state prison for setting fire to a rental unit as she was moving out. Mindy L. Logue, 59, was sentence...
Crime, Local News, News
Mar 29, 2019
SMETHPORT — The last of four defendants charged in a 2018 McKean County methamphetamine ring was sentenced Thursday at the McKean County Courthouse to...
Crime, News
May 18, 2018
SMETHPORT — A Bradford man will serve time in state prison for allegations that he robbed a Bradford home, taking prescription medication. Patrick M. ...
Crime, News
Aug 11, 2017
SMETHPORT — A Bradford man was sentenced Thursday in McKean County Court to a term in state prison for charges stemming from two cases. Darryl M. Sher...
Crime, News
May 17, 2017
SMETHPORT — A Puerto Rican national was sentenced Tuesday in McKean County Court to a lengthy term in state prison for possessing drugs that were smug...
Crime, News
Apr 22, 2017
SMETHPORT — A McKean County man was resentenced Friday to at least five-and-a-half years in state prison on a 2011 charge involving the sexual assault...
Crime
Jan 13, 2017
SMETHPORT — A Bradford woman was sentenced Thursday in McKean County Court to a term in state prison for charges stemming from two drug delivery cases...
Local News, News
Nov 11, 2016
SMETHPORT — A Bradford man who pleaded guilty last month to allegations he started two fires in the Bradford area was sentenced Thursday in McKean Cou...
PA State News
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...
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...
