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 MIFFLIN COUNTY ADDED 14 NEW MEASLES CASES LATE LAST WEEK, RAISING ITS LOCAL TOTAL TO 167 AS PENNSYLVANIA'S STATEWIDE COUNT REACHED 1,136.  HEALTH DEPARTMENT DATA SHOWS MIFFLIN COUNTY TRAILING ONLY LANCASTER COUNTY IN TOTAL INFECTIONS. STATE HEALTH OFFICIALS CONTINUE TO REPORT ACTIVE COMMUNITY TRANSMISSION ACROSS 12 COUNTIES, URGING RESIDENTS TO ENSURE THEY ARE UP TO DATE ON THEIR 2-DOSE MMR...

A 72-YEAR-OLD JOHNSTOWN-AREA MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIST IS FACING CHARGES AFTER POLICE SAY HE STALKED A UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT JOHNSTOWN STUDENT. ANTHONY SANSONE JR. WAS CHARGED WITH STALKING AND CRIMINAL TRESPASS AFTER OFFICERS SPOTTED HIM ON CAMPUS IN APRIL DESPITE A NO-TRESPASS ORDER. SANSONE POSTED 10% OF 15,000 DOLLARS BAIL AND HAS PLEADED NOT GUILTY AHEAD OF HIS OCTOBER 21ST PRELIMINARY HE...

 A FEDERAL JUDGE HAS REJECTED THE LATEST APPEAL FROM AN ALTOONA MAN CONVICTED IN A BRUTAL 1988 MURDER. JAMES RODGERS WAS 17 WHEN HE STABBED 72-YEAR-OLD PASQUALE LASCOLI OVER 70 TIMES DURING A HOME INVASION. ORIGINALLY SENTENCED TO LIFE, RODGERS' TERM WAS ADJUSTED TO 40 YEARS TO LIFE FOLLOWING A SUPREME COURT RULING ON JUVENILE OFFENDERS. THE 55-YEAR-OLD REMAINS IN STATE PRISON AND WILL REACH...

MULTIPLE PEOPLE FACE CHARGES FOLLOWING A DRUG BUST MONDAY IN SIMPSON COUNTY. THE SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY DRUG TASK FORCE SEIZED ROUGHLY 76 GRAMS OF CRYSTAL METHAMPHETAMINE DURING TARGETED TRAFFIC STOPS IN FRANKLIN. TWO RESIDENTS, 41-YEAR-OLD DUSTIN KINSER AND 37-YEAR-OLD TERESA KINLAW, WERE ARRESTED AND BOOKED INTO THE SIMPSON COUNTY DETENTION CENTER ON DRUG TRAFFICKING AND EVIDENCE TAMPERING CHARG...

  Good morning. Here is your West Virginia State Roundup. The Mountain State is mourning the loss of legendary sports broadcaster Frank Giardina, who passed away Sunday at the age of seventy-two. A West Virginia native, Giardina served as the voice of Marshall University athletics starting in 1977 before spending decades as a college athletic administrator. A celebration of his life is planned for...

Good morning. The Children’s Home Society of West Virginia held its eleventh annual Parkersburg SleepOut fundraiser at Jackson Park in Vienna. The community event featured cardboard housing designs, local music, and testimonies from youth who escaped homelessness, raising match funding for transitional living programs that protect young adults across the Mid-Ohio Valley. Local veterans organizatio...

Good morning. Here is your New York State Roundup. The legal team representing the man shot and wounded by federal immigration enforcement agents in Upper Manhattan last week is speaking out. Defense attorneys say thirty-three-year-old Oscar Belgal remains detained in Brooklyn with a bullet lodged in his neck following the shooting, which occurred while a five-year-old child was inside the vehicle...

Good morning. State Senator George Borrello is partnering with the V-A Western New York Healthcare System to host a free Veterans Outreach and Enrollment Event this Wednesday in Hinsdale. Representatives will be at the Hinsdale American Legion Post from ten a.m. to two p.m. to assist military veterans and their families with health care enrollment, benefits questions, and service compensation. A n...

Good morning. An Elmira woman faces fifteen to thirty years in federal prison after pleading guilty in a multi-jurisdictional child exploitation conspiracy. Federal prosecutors say thirty-four-year-old Grace Balthazor, along with three co-defendants, admitted to participating in a multi-state network involving the abuse of children and the creation and distribution of illegal material following an...

Good morning. The Erie County Coroner has identified the nine victims and suspected gunman following Friday's mass shooting on Perry Street in East Erie. Authorities say forty-five-year-old Matthew Stone Senior killed eight family members and a family friend—including his eight-month-pregnant daughter, a five-year-old boy, and a one-year-old girl—before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound...

Good morning. Pennsylvania State Police in Punxsutawney are asking for the public's help in locating missing fifty-two-year-old Matthew Carl Carte of Perry Township. Carte was last seen Saturday evening riding a black Huffy bicycle along Monroe Street wearing a brown hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, and a helmet. Police note Carte has several health conditions, and anyone with information is ur...

Good morning. Emergency medical service leaders from four counties gathered in East Brady to address mounting funding and staffing shortages threatening rural ambulance providers. Regional EMS representatives warned that rising operational costs and low reimbursement rates are forcing local volunteer and municipal services to struggle, urging state lawmakers to assist with training grants, fee adj...

Good morning. Police in Sharon are searching for twenty-nine-year-old Mandashia Young of Campbell, Ohio, after authorities say she shot at her ex-boyfriend’s current girlfriend during a Sunday dispute on Mesabi Street. Investigators say Young pulled a pink pistol from her trunk and fired a shot before fleeing with two children in her vehicle. Young faces charges of attempted homicide and aggravate...

A TWELVE-HOUR STANDOFF IN WILLIAMSPORT'S NEWBERRY NEIGHBORHOOD ENDED PEACEFULLY MONDAY AFTER A STATE POLICE TACTICAL TEAM USED TEAR GAS TO ARREST AN ARMED SUSPECT. AUTHORITIES SURROUNDED THE HOME EARLY MONDAY AFTER 28-YEAR-OLD DOMINIC REYNOLDS ALLEGEDLY THREATENED TO KILL HIS FIANCéE, WHO ESCAPED UNHARMED. THE WOMAN SAFELY EXITED THE HOUSE ON HER OWN, AND FOLLOWING HOURS OF FAILED NEGOTIATION...

TWO MEN SAFELY ESCAPED A VEHICLE FIRE MONDAY AFTERNOON AFTER THEIR PLUMBING VAN LOST ITS BRAKES ON A RURAL ROAD NEAR BENTON. A WITNESS SAYS THE DRIVER STEERED INTO A DITCH ON KARNS ROAD AROUND 3:15 P.M., WHERE THE VAN QUICKLY BURST INTO FLAMES. THE DRIVER, WHO JUST BOUGHT THE VAN OVER THE WEEKEND, SUSPECTS A BROKEN BRAKE LINE SPARKED THE BLAZE.           THE TOWN PARK IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION IN BL...

A 33-YEAR-OLD BERKS COUNTY MAN FACES DOZENS OF FELONY CHARGES AFTER POLICE SAY HE MAILED USED CONDOMS TO SEVERAL MONROE COUNTY JUDGES. INVESTIGATORS SAY ETHAN RUNDLE SENT 24 ENVELOPES CONTAINING HIS OWN SEMINAL FLUID TO MULTIPLE DISTRICT COURTS AND A LOCAL MEDICAL OFFICE THROUGHOUT AUGUST. RUNDLE ALLEGEDLY CONFESSED TO THE MAILINGS, TELLING POLICE THEY WERE "HITS" AGAINST THE JUSTICE SYS...

THE LOUISVILLE METRO HOUSING AUTHORITY HAS STARTED DEMOLISHING A LONG-VACANT GROCERY STORE TO MAKE WAY FOR A NEW 127-UNIT AFFORDABLE SENIOR HOUSING COMPLEX. THE $2.1 MILLION DEMOLITION ON EAST LIBERTY STREET MARKS THE FIRST PHASE OF THE MASSIVE DOSKER MANOR REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT. OFFICIALS HOPE TO BEGIN MOVING SENIORS INTO THE NEW APARTMENTS BY 2028, AS THEY CONTINUE SECURING FUNDS TO TEAR DOWN TH...

AN OVERTURNED TRACTOR-TRAILER SHUT DOWN A STRETCH OF U.S. 22 EASTBOUND IN JUNIATA COUNTY EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING. EMERGENCY CREWS RESPONDED TO THE CRASH NEAR THE PORT ROYAL EXIT JUST BEFORE 6 A.M. EMERGENCY RESPONDERS, INCLUDING THE MIFFLINTOWN HOSE COMPANY, WORKED TO CLEAR THE SCENE BETWEEN THE PORT ROYAL AND THOMPSONTOWN EXITS.           A 24-YEAR-OLD MIFFLIN COUNTY WOMAN IS DEAD FOLLOWING A SIN...

 A 21-YEAR-OLD FORMER STUDENT ACCUSED OF SETTING FIRE TO THE BELLWOOD-ANTIS MIDDLE SCHOOL IN 2024 HAS BEEN FURLOUGHED FROM PRISON. A BLAIR COUNTY JUDGE ORDERED ELIAS ALLEY TO BE TEMPORARILY RELEASED INTO A COMMUNITY-BASED INTENSIVE TREATMENT PROGRAM. ALLEY HAD BEEN HELD ON $1 MILLION BAIL SINCE HIS ARREST FOR ALLEGEDLY BREAKING A WINDOW AND STARTING A FIRE IN THE SCHOOL'S WRESTLING ROOM. JURY...

DESPITE THE FEDERAL COLUMBUS DAY HOLIDAY, SCHOOL WAS IN SESSION YESTERDAY IN THE BELLEFONTE SCHOOL DISTRICT, AMID APPARENT SETTLED LABOR PEACE. NEGOTIATORS REACHED A TENTATIVE 4-YEAR DEAL SATURDAY, AVERTING A STRIKE BY 230 TEACHERS AND STAFF SET FOR MONDAY. TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT WERE NOT RELEASED, BUT UNION MEMBERS AND THE SCHOOL BOARD ARE EXPECTED TO HOLD RATIFICATION VOTES IN THE COMING DAYS.  ...

A 32-YEAR-OLD WORKER DIED SATURDAY AFTER FALLING INTO AN 8-FOOT TRENCH WHILE REPLACING STORM DRAIN LINES IN RICHLAND TOWNSHIP. CAMBRIA COUNTY CORONER JEFF LEES CONFIRMED MONDAY THAT NELSON TELLEZ DIED OF BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA FOLLOWING THE ACCIDENTAL FALL NEAR GALLERIA DRIVE. COWORKERS CALLED 911 AROUND NOON SATURDAY, BUT TELLEZ WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AFTER BEING TRANSPORTED TO CONEMAUGH MEMORIAL MEDICA...