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Good morning. Property owners in five Lawrence County school districts will see their taxes go up this year. Ellwood City, Laurel, Neshannock, Shenango, and Wilmington school boards have all officially approved millage rate increases in their newly adopted budgets to combat rising deficits. For Ellwood City taxpayers, it marks the fifth consecutive year of tax hikes. In regional business news, a B...

Good morning. An Elmira motorcyclist was killed this weekend in a multi-vehicle crash on the Clemens Center Parkway. Elmira police say twenty-six-year-old Hunter Squires was pronounced dead at the scene Saturday afternoon after his motorcycle collided with a car at the intersection of Division Street. The driver of the car was hospitalized and is cooperating with investigators. In local infrastruc...

Good morning. Olean police are searching for a driver following an overnight hit-and-run that left an e-bike rider seriously injured. Investigators say the crash happened around two-forty-five Saturday morning near the intersection of Delaware Avenue and Queen Street. The operator of the electric bike suffered severe injuries, and police are urging anyone with information or camera footage from th...

Good morning. A high-stakes political showdown over Parkersburg’s trash collection heads to City Council tomorrow night. Despite activists successfully gathering over three-thousand signatures to force a public referendum on a controversial fifteen-million-dollar Waste Management contract, the city clerk declared the petition invalid. The ACLU of West Virginia has filed an emergency motion asking...

Good morning. I’m Codi Gaboff with your New York State morning roundup. We begin with a victory for consumers as newly enacted state budget laws establish strict, inflation-indexed caps on utility rate hikes across New York. The legislation explicitly bans utility companies from passing corporate lobbying expenses down to ratepayers, and issues residential utility rebate checks to offset recent sp...

Good morning. I’m Codi Gaboff with your West Virginia State morning roundup. We begin in Mingo County, where a Varney woman faces severe felony charges following the tragic death of a child. The Mingo County Sheriff's Office arrested thirty-five-year-old Jonda Whitt over the weekend. She is officially charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and child neglect c...

RNN STATE COLLEGE 06/18/26           AROUND ONE HUNDRED TENANTS AT THREE STATE COLLEGE APARTMENT COMPLEXES WILL SHARE A 60-THOUSAND-DOLLAR SETTLEMENT FOLLOWING AN INVESTIGATION BY THE STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE INTO THE MANAGEMENT OF THOSE FACILITIES. THE AGREEMENT RESOLVES ALLEGATIONS THAT THE PROPERTY OWNERS PRESSURED RESIDENTS, MANY OF THEM PENN STATE STUDENTS, INTO GIVING UP VALID LE...

RNN JOHNSTOWN 06/18/26           SOMERSET COUNTY SHERIFF DUSTIN “DUSTY” WEIR HAS BEEN ACQUITTED OF A CORRUPTION OF MINORS CHARGE FOLLOWING A THREE-DAY TRIAL. THE JURY DELIBERATED FOR NEARLY FIVE HOURS, AND AT ONE POINT REPORTED THEY WERE DEADLOCKED, BEFORE RETURNING THE NOT GUILTY VERDICT.  WEIR WAS ACCUSED OF MAKING INAPPROPRIATE COMMENTS TO A 15-YEAR OLD GIRL DURING A SHOP WITH A COP EVENT IN DE...

RNN STROUDSBURG 06/18/26           A NEW YORK MAN IS FACING MULTIPLE FELONY CHARGES AFTER POLICE SAY HE SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AN UNCONSCIOUS WOMAN DURING A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION IN THE POCONOS.           29-YEAR-OLD LUIS RAMIREZ FIGUEROA OF BROOKLYN IS CHARGED WITH RAPE OF AN UNCONSCIOUS VICTIM, SEXUAL ASSAULT AND AGGRAVATED INDECENT ASSAULT FOR AN INCIDENT THAT ALLEGEDLY HAPPENED AT A SHORT-TERM RENT...

RNN ALTOONA 06/18/26           LAWYERS FOR LUIGI MANGIONE PLAN TO USE A PSYCHIATRIC DEFENSE AT HIS UPCOMING STATE TRIAL FOR THE KILLING OF UNITED HEALTHCARE C-E-O BRIAN THOMPSON. A JUDGE ANNOUNCED WEDNESDAY THAT MANGIONE WILL CLAIM HE SUFFERED FROM EXTREME EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCE.           IF A JURY ACCEPTS THE DEFENSE, IT WOULD REDUCE A POTENTIAL CONVICTION FROM MURDER TO MANSLAUGHTER, LOWERING HI...

RNN LEWISTOWN 06/18/26           A LONGTIME CHAMPION OF LEWISTOWN AND MIFFLIN COUNTY WILL BE HONORED TODAY ON WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HIS 81ST BIRTHDAY.           COMMUNITY MEMBERS WILL GATHER AT FOUNTAIN SQUARE PARK AT 11 A.M. TO DEDICATE THE DOWNTOWN LANDMARK IN MEMORY OF THE LATE JON ZIMMERMAN, A FOUNDING MEMBER AND FORMER PRESIDENT OF DOWNTOWN LEWISTOWN INCORPORATED.           ZIMMERMAN, WHO DIED...

RNN SELINSGROVE 06/18/26           THE LONG-CLOSED SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE IN BLOOMSBURG IS MOVING A STEP CLOSER TO REOPENING.           RENOVATIONS ARE NOW UNDERWAY AT THE MARKET STREET OFFICE, WITH UPGRADES TO ELECTRICAL, HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEMS, CEILINGS AND INTERIOR SPACES. THE 350-THOUSAND-DOLLAR PROJECT IS EXPECTED TO WRAP UP BY OCTOBER.           PROPERTY MANAGERS SAY THEY'RE UNSURE...

RNN WILLIAMSPORT 06/18/26           TENSIONS BOILED OVER AT THIS WEEK'S MUNCY TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORS MEETING, WHERE EMBATTLED CHAIRMAN SUPERVISOR TERRI LAUCHLE WAS BACK IN THE SADDLE, AFTER HER BRIEF STINT IN JAIL EARLIER THIS MONTH.            WHEN CONTROVERSY OVER THE REAPPOINTMENT OF FORMER TOWNSHIP SOLICITOR JOSEPH ORSO THE THIRD HAPPENED, HE STORMED OUT OF THE MEETING BEFORE HIS REAPPOINTM...

RNN BOWLING GREEN 06/18/26           FOUR CO-DEFENDANTS ACCUSED IN A FATAL FENTANYL TRAFFICKING CONSPIRACY ARE SCHEDULED FOR A JOINT JURY TRIAL IN WARREN COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT NEXT MONTH. 20-YEAR-OLD BRAYAN TORRES FACES UP TO SEVENTY YEARS IN PRISON FOR CHARGES INCLUDING MANSLAUGHTER CONNECTED TO AN 18-YEAR-OLD'S OVERDOSE DEATH. PROSECUTORS HAVE OFFERED TORRES A TWENTY-YEAR PLEA DEAL.   24-YEA...

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RNN FRANKFORT 06/18/26           EXTERIOR RENOVATIONS ARE ABOUT TO GET UNDERWAY AT KSU'S DR. WILLIAM H. EXUM CENTER.           BEGINNING NEXT WEEK, CONTRACTORS WILL SET UP A STAGING AREA NEAR THE BUILDING, AFFECTING SOME PARKING SPACES AND ACCESS POINTS. DURING CONSTRUCTION, ENTRANCE CANOPIES WILL BE REMOVED AND ACCESS WILL BE LIMITED TO DESIGNATED DOORS.           THE WORK IS PART OF A LONG-...

Good morning.  We lead with a developing federal case out of Washington, D-C, carrying profound implications for the state. An Afghan national accused of killing a West Virginia National Guard member has officially pleaded not guilty to new charges that make him eligible for the death penalty. Authorities say Rahmanullah Lakanwal is charged with a seventeen-count superseding indictment for shootin...

Good morning. Turning to the top headlines from across the Empire State on this Thursday morning. We lead with a massive regulatory freeze on high-tech developments across Western New York. The city of North Tonawanda has officially extended its moratorium on artificial intelligence data centers for another full year. The unanimous council vote effectively halts plans to convert a massive crypto-m...

Good morning. West Virginia lawmakers are squaring off over major utility and property rights issues following a series of legislative meetings. Republican lawmakers are heavily questioning two proposed high-voltage transmission line projects set to cut through parts of the state. Critics argue the lines are ratepayer subsidies forced on West Virginians to power data centers out in Virginia. Meanw...

Good morning. Around seventy local residents gathered at Olean’s Lincoln Park for a coordinated “No Kings” demonstration. Protesters lined East State Street carrying signs to voice concerns over constitutional protections and government accountability, while counter-protesters met the demonstration with bullhorns across the street. Heavy afternoon rain kept the crowds smaller than previous rallies...

Good morning. A six-hundred-and-thirty-four-thousand-dollar environmental cleanup is underway at the City of Corning Fire Department to tackle hazardous underground contamination. State officials have labeled the eight-acre site a significant threat to public health due to the presence of semi-volatile organic compounds and heavy metals, including lead and mercury. Fire Chief Brad Davies says the...

Good morning. Pennsylvania State Police have uncovered brand-new leads in a fifty-three-year-old cold case homicide and are asking for the public's help. Investigators are seeking two suspects in the nineteen-seventy-three death of twenty-two-year-old Frank Dewayne Iwanejko of New Castle. Authorities say Iwanejko was killed during an attempted robbery at a quarry off Covert Road after refusin...

Good morning. A DuBois woman is headed to trial for criminal homicide and drug delivery resulting in death following a fatal 2024 overdose. Charges were held to court this week against forty-year-old Stacey Lee Miller Ellis. Investigators say forty-seven-year-old Bryan Cieleski died from a lethal mix of fentanyl and methamphetamine. Authorities say Miller Ellis eventually admitted she prepared a w...