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Roach asks for jury trials in criminal cases
News
RUTH BOGDAN r.bogdan@bradfordera.com 
May 27, 2021
Daniel Roach appears to be taking the criminal cases against him to trial. The 45-year-old Bradford man appeared Wednesday in McKean County Court by v...
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Power, potential of suffering
Opinion, Сolumns
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ 
Apr 28, 2021
We live in a time when lawn signs tell us that lives matter. The isolation and fear of these pandemic times has led to an increase in suicide. People ...
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Beware of police reforms that make things worse
Opinion, Сolumns
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Apr 27, 2021
Protesters in Minneapolis, and, for that matter, throughout the country and across the seas, signaled through shouting, jumping, carrying signs and in...
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Verdict gives hope, if only fleeting, to Black America
Opinion, Сolumns
AARON MORRISON and KAT STAFFORD Associated Press 
Apr 22, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS — Relief, even if fleeting and momentary, is a feeling that Black Americans have rarely known in America: From slavery to Jim Crow segrega...
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Cameras build trust in trial
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 05, 2021
The eyes of the world are on Minneapolis. On its citizens, as they react to the trial of Derek Chauvin, accused of murdering George Floyd last year in...
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Kaufman to serve as acting U.S. Attorney
Local News
Marcie 
Mar 02, 2021
PITTSBURGH — Stephen R. Kaufman, first assistant to former U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady, has been named Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District ...
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DA: Harrison Valley boy charged with shooting twin brother
Bradford, Crime News, Local News, ...
Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Feb 11, 2021
Charges have been filed against a 12-year-old Harrison Valley boy in the shooting death of his twin brother on Jan. 28. Coudersport-based state police...
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High school students prepare for virtual mock trial
Local News, Online Features
CHRISTINE HOLTZ erachristineh@gmail.com 
Feb 02, 2021
The Pennsylvania Bar Association Mock Trial will still be taking place despite the pandemic, although this year it will be done a bit differently. Thi...
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Pa. Superior Court upholds sexual assault conviction
Bradford, Crime News, Local News, ...
RUTH BOGDAN r.bogdan@bradfordera.com 
Jan 29, 2021
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has upheld the conviction of a former Smethport man who a jury found guilty of sexually assaulting a small child. A ju...
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New trial to be set in assault case
Local News
RUTH BOGDAN r.bogdan@bradfordera.com 
Jan 15, 2021
SMETHPORT — A new trial will be scheduled for a Smethport man accused of making threats with a machete and strangling someone in 2018. On Sept. 30, 20...
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RTS for Jan 14
Bradford, Local News, News, ...
Jan 14, 2021
PA’S MOST MISERABLE DAY OF THE YEAR: Ezvid Wiki, a video wiki, software and media company, polled 3,000 people to find out which month of the year we ...
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McKean Co. jury trials suspended until April
Local News
Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
Dec 17, 2020
Jury trials in McKean County have been suspended until April 15, according to an order issued Wednesday by President Judge John Pavlock. The order dec...
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Hazel Hurst man charged with threats, assault
Crime News
RUTH BOGDAN r.bogdan@bradfordera.com 
Nov 05, 2020
A Hazel Hurst man is in McKean County Jail following an alleged domestic incident on Halloween morning. Jeffrey P. Carney, 49, of 462 Main St., Hazel ...
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Pre-trial conference set in Ridgway murder case
Local News
RUTH BOGDAN r.bogdan@bradfordera.com 
Jul 14, 2020
A pre-trial conference has been set for a Ridgway couple accused in the 2016 death of their 5-year-old nephew. Scott J. Murphy, 29, and Kristy M. Murp...
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Mock trial competition begins in McKean County court
Bradford, Local News, News
DANIELLA GRIESBAUM Special to The Era 
Feb 01, 2020
Friday morning, a group of high school students from around the region got to experience arguing for a cause. For the sixth year in a row, Bradford at...
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Trial date for fatal Duke Center crash to be set soon
Crime News, Local News
RUTH BOGDAN r.bogdan@bradfordera.com 
Jan 25, 2020
SMETHPORT — The prosecution and defense are working to deal with loose ends so a trial for Daniel W. Oaks II, accused in a 2018 fatal crash, can be sc...
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Bradford woman found guilty of assault on child
Crime News, Local News
Marcie 
Dec 17, 2019
SMETHPORT — A Bradford woman was found guilty of allegations she whipped a 6-year-old with a belt. Contessa N. Haun, 32, appeared for a jury trial Dec...
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