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RNN WILLIAMSPORT 07/08/26           A THREE-ALARM FIRE DESTROYED THREE VACANT COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS IN RENOVO, CLINTON COUNTY ON THE FOURTH OF JULY. THE BLAZE BROKE OUT AROUND 3 A.M. SATURDAY ON ERIE AVENUE, BRINGING FIREFIGHTERS FROM ACROSS CENTRE AND LYCOMING COUNTIES TO THE SCENE FOR MUTUAL AID.  CREWS BATTLED THE FLAMES FOR MORE THAN 11 HOURS, USING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF GALLONS OF WATER. NO...

RNN BOWLING GREEN 07/08/26          A 21-YEAR-OLD BOWLING GREEN MAN HAS BEEN INDICTED ON MURDER AND DRIVING-UNDER-THE-INFLUENCE CHARGES FOLLOWING A FATAL TWO-CAR CRASH IN MAY. AUTHORITIES SAY DAJUAN SYKES WAS IMPAIRED WHEN HIS VEHICLE COLLIDED WITH NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD MAKYAH MACKEY ON CORVETTE DRIVE. MACKEY DIED AT AN AREA HOSPITAL FROM HER INJURIES. SYKES PLEADED NOT GUILTY DURING HIS ARRAIGNMENT. ...

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 Good morning. Turning to news from across the Mountain State.A Walker man is facing a life sentence this morning after being ordered to serve eighty years in state prison for a brutal double homicide. Wood County Circuit Judge J.D. Beane handed down consecutive forty-year maximum sentences to forty-three-year-old Bradley Cantwell following his felony Alford pleas to two counts of second-degree mu...

Good morning. Turning to news from across the Empire State.The commercial tour bus driver responsible for a catastrophic rollover crash on the New York State Thruway faces up to four years in state prison after officially entering a guilty plea. Prosecutors state fifty-six-year-old Bin Shao of Queens pleaded guilty in Genesee County Court to five felony counts of criminally negligent homicide. The...

Good morning.A Walker man is facing a life sentence this morning after being ordered to serve eighty years in prison for a brutal double homicide. Wood County Circuit Judge J.D. Beane handed down consecutive forty-year maximum sentences to forty-three-year-old Bradley Cantwell following his felony Alford pleas to two counts of second-degree murder. Investigators prove Cantwell fatally shot his fri...

Good morning.A Livingston County man faces up to sixty years in federal prison following his conviction by a federal jury. United States Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced that forty-nine-year-old Patrick Steinmetz of Springwater was found guilty on multiple felony counts of producing and possessing child pornography. Federal court documents reveal the convictions stem from a multi-agency operat...

Good morning.The Corning community is mourning the loss of a highly decorated Vietnam War veteran, prominent local small business owner, and father of Corning Police Chief Kenzie Spaulding. Eighty-one-year-old Lieutenant Colonel John French Spencer has passed away. Spencer was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Valor Device for heroically rescuing a wounded medic under heavy combat fire in the Cen...

Good morning.UPMC Jameson in New Castle is expanding advanced medical care close to home following a major health technology unveiling. Hospital administrators are now preparing to utilize their brand-new advanced cardiac C-T imaging and expanded M-R-I wing. Healthcare officials state the specialized facility upgrade drastically increases critical diagnostic access for regional breast, prostate, a...

Good morning.A Conneautville woman is adjusting to state prison this morning after being sentenced to serve six to fifteen years for a fatal, drug-fueled head-on collision in Hayfield Township. Crawford County Common Pleas Judge Francis Schultz handed down the sentence to forty-five-year-old Nicole Kelyman, who pleaded guilty to felony homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence. State p...

Good morning.Emergency services are assessing regional structural damages this morning after severe weather triggered over six hundred emergency calls across Jefferson County. Emergency Management Director Tracy Zents reports that a high-velocity microburst packing sixty-five-mile-per-hour straight-line winds severely impacted the Punxsutawney area, downing critical utility infrastructure. High ca...

RNN STROUDSBURG 07/08/26          THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER FOR MOST OF THE INHABITANTS OF MONROE COUNTY, IN TERMS OF HAVING THEIR ELECTRICAL SERVICE RESTORED AFTER THE WEEKEND'S STORMS.............. , BUT THERE'S STILL A WAYS TO GO FOR MANY CITIZENS OF SMITHFIELD AND MIDDLE SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIPS.............. WHERE A COMBINED 1230 CUSTOMERS OF MET ED ARE STILL WITHOUT ELECTRICITY.       ...

RNN FRANKFORT 07/08/26          ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPANY ANTHROPIC HAS SIGNED A 20-YEAR LEASE FOR A NEW DATA CENTER IN HANCOCK COUNTY.  THE AGREEMENT IS EXPECTED TO BRING 19-BILLION IN LEASE REVENUE TO PROJECT OWNER TERAWULF.           THE 4-BILLION DOLLAR FACILITY WILL DRAW 400 MEGAWATTS OF POWER BY EARLY 2028. WHILE TECH LEADERS PRAISE THE DEAL, A LOCAL PETITION TO PAUSE DEVELOPMENT HAS G...

RNN JOHNSTOWN 07/08/26          A STATE POLICE FIRE MARSHAL HAS RULED MONDAY’S HOUSE EXPLOSION IN UPPER YODER TOWNSHIP AS ACCIDENTAL. INVESTIGATORS SAY THE EARLY MORNING BLAST ON HARSHBERGER ROAD WAS CAUSED BY A RUPTURED INTERNAL GAS LINE, POSSIBLY LINKED TO AN OLD, DISCONNECTED HEATER. ONE PERSON WAS HOSPITALIZED WITH INJURIES, AND UTILITY CREWS HAVE FOUND NO LEAKS IN THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD...

RNN ALTOONA 07/08/26          THE BLAIR COUNTY PRISON BOARD IS RECOMMENDING ARMOR HEALTH TO TAKE OVER INMATE MEDICAL CARE UNDER A THREE-YEAR CONTRACT WITH A 3.7 MILLION DOLLAR PRICETAG IN ITS FIRST YEAR.            ALTHOUGH CURRENT PROVIDER PRIMECARE MEDICAL SUBMITTED TWO CONTRACT OPTIONS WITH LOWER FIRST YEAR RATES, THE PRISON WARDEN CITED ONGOING ISSUES, SUCH AS A NUMBER OF LAWSUITS FILED BY INM...

A Pulaski County family remains in shock after the tragic death of a young child in a fireworks mishap.  Four-year-old Rhett Luttrell died over the weekend after being struck by fireworks during a Fourth of July celebration.  Authorities say a tube of fireworks that had been lit fell over and hit the child in the torso.  The boy was celebrating the holiday with relatives when the incident happened...

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RNN BOWLING GREEN 07/07/26          BOWLING GREEN’S SKYPAC HAS BEEN NAMED ONE OF THE TOP-GROSSING THEATER VENUES IN THE WORLD BY THE INDUSTRY PUBLICATION POLLSTAR. SKYPAC RANKED NUMBER 115 WORLDWIDE IN TICKET REVENUE, GENERATING $2,497,747 IN GROSS SALES OVER A 6-MONTH PERIOD. THAT MAKES IT THE HIGHEST-RANKED THEATER IN KENTUCKY, OUTPERFORMING MAJOR VENUES IN CITIES LIKE LONDON, WASHINGTON, AND LA...

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RNN WILLIAMSPORT 07/07/26          WILLIAMSPORT POLICE HAVE ARRESTED THE ALLEGED GUNMAN ACCUSED OF A JUNE 29TH SHOOTING THAT KILLED AN 18-YEAR-OLD AND WOUNDED TWO OTHER TEENAGERS. A JUDGE HAS SEALED ALL COURT DOCUMENTS, WITHHOLDING THE SUSPECT’S IDENTITY AND SPECIFIC CHARGES. THE DECEASED VICTIM WAS IDENTIFIED AS NASIR KRAMER, WHILE THE 2 OTHER VICTIMS CONTINUE TO RECOVER.            LYCOMING COUN...

RNN SELINSGROVE 07/07/26          A COLLAPSED ROOF SECTION DISCOVERED YESTERDAY AT THE CONDEMNED DANVILLE SUITES HOTEL PROMPTED UTILITY CREWS TO CUT POWER TO THE BUILDING. A MONTOUR COUNTY SHERIFF DISCOVERED THE STRUCTURAL FAILURE AROUND 2:00 P.M. MONDAY AND REPORTED FINDING EVIDENCE OF PEOPLE STILL LIVING INSIDE THE BUILDING.  THE HOTEL WAS ORIGINALLY CONDEMNED IN MAY DUE TO WIDESPREAD BLACK MOLD...

RNN JOHNSTOWN 07/07/26          THREE CAMBRIA COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENTS BATTLED A HOUSE FIRE AT A MULTI-STORY HOME IN SOUTH FORK ON MONDAY NIGHT. FIRST RESPONDERS WERE DISPATCHED TO THE 500 BLOCK OF LAKE STREET JUST AFTER 8:00 P.M., WITH EMERGENCY CREWS REMAINING ON THE SCENE FOR SEVERAL HOURS TO CONTROL THE FLAMES.          A CAMBRIA COUNTY WOMAN HAS DIED FROM INJURIES SUSTAINED IN A JUNE 25TH VEHI...

RNN STATE COLLEGE 07/07/26          THE STATE COLLEGE BOROUGH COUNCIL HAS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED AN ORDINANCE THAT LEGALLY RESTRICTS MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES AND POLICE FROM COOPERATING WITH FEDERAL CIVIL IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT.  THE MEASURE BANS LOCAL OFFICIALS FROM RECORDING AN INDIVIDUAL'S CITIZENSHIP STATUS OR PROVIDING RESOURCES TO ICE WITHOUT A JUDICIAL WARRANT. COUNCIL MEMBERS AMENDED THE BI...

RNN ALTOONA 07/07/26          A FLASH FLOOD ON SUNDAY DUMPED 3 INCHES OF RAIN IN ONE HOUR, PROMPTING AN EMERGENCY DECLARATION IN TYRONE. MAYOR JOHN HARLOW REPORTS 1 DUPLEX IS UNINHABITABLE AFTER ITS FOUNDATION COLLAPSED, WITH 24 OTHER HOMES DAMAGED. THE STORM CAUSED UP TO $15,000 IN DAMAGE TO THE COMMUNITY POOL AND BRIEFLY SWEPT TWO 12-YEAR-OLD GIRLS INTO BALD EAGLE CREEK.  CLEANUP IS CONTINUING T...