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RNN WILLIAMSPORT 06/16/26           MUNCY TOWNSHIP CHAIRMAN SUPERVISOR TERRI LAUCHLE HAS PAID HER SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLAR CONTEMPT-OF-COURT FINE TIED TO THE BASS PRO SHOPS DEVELOPMENT. COURT RECORDS SHOW LAUCHLE PAID THE PENALTY AFTER PRESIDENT JUDGE ERIC LINHARDT SENT HER TO JAIL FOR REFUSING TO SIGN A PREVIOUSLY APPROVED LAND CONSOLIDATION PLAN. LAUCHLE  SPENT ONE NIGHT IN THE LYCOMING COUNTY PRIS...

RNN FRANKFORT 06/16/26           THE JEFFERSON COUNTY CORONER'S OFFICE HAS IDENTIFIED A 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL AS THE VICTIM OF A FATAL PEDESTRIAN CRASH IN SHIVELY LAST SATURDAY. POLICE SAY A VEHICLE STRUCK MULTIPLE PEOPLE ON DIXIE HIGHWAY, KILLING THE GIRL AT THE SCENE. TWO OTHER TEENAGE GIRLS WERE HOSPITALIZED WITH NON-LIFE-THREATENING INJURIES.                   A LOUISVILLE DEVELOPER IS SUING T...

RNN SELINSGROVE 06/16/26           ABOUT 100 PEOPLE ATTENDED A DEP HEARING IN DANVILLE MONDAY NIGHT ON A PROPOSED WASTE TRANSFER STATION IN COOPER TOWNSHIP. MORE THAN 30 RESIDENTS SPOKE, VOICING BOTH SUPPORT AND OPPOSITION TO THE PROJECT. CRITICS RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT WATER QUALITY, TRAFFIC, NOISE AND IMPACTS ON NEARBY NEIGHBORHOODS, WHILE SUPPORTERS SAID THE FACILITY WOULD PROVIDE A NEEDED, WELL-...

RNN JOHNSTOWN 06/16/26           A SOMERSET COUNTY JURY HAS BEGUN HEARING TESTIMONY IN THE TRIAL OF SHERIFF DUSTIN WEIR. PROSECUTORS ALLEGE WEIR MADE INAPPROPRIATE SEXUAL COMMENTS TO A 15-YEAR-OLD GIRL DURING A DECEMBER 2024 “SHOP WITH A COP” EVENT AT WALMART, INCLUDING QUESTIONS ABOUT HER SEX LIFE WHILE IN THE STORE’S CONDOM AISLE. DEFENSE ATTORNEYS DENY THE CLAIMS, ARGUING THE ACCUSATIONS ARE IN...

RNN ALTOONA 06/16/26           THE ALTOONA AREA SCHOOL BOARD PASSED A 135-MILLION DOLLAR BUDGET ON MONDAY IN A SPLIT FIVE-TO-FOUR VOTE. THE PLAN INCLUDES A THREE-PERCENT PROPERTY TAX INCREASE TO HELP BRIDGE A NEARLY SIX-MILLION-DOLLAR DEFICIT. BOARD MEMBERS VOICED FRUSTRATION, STATING THEY ARE "FLYING BLIND" BECAUSE THE STATE REQUIRES LOCAL BUDGET APPROVAL BEFORE STATE REVENUE FIGURES AR...

RNN STATE COLLEGE 06/16/26           CONVICTED CHILD ABUSER JERRY SANDUSKY WILL RETURN TO COURT FOR AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING ON SEPTEMBER 8TH. THE 82-YEAR-OLD IS EXPECTED TO ATTEND THE HEARING AT THE CENTRE COUNTY COURT ANNEX, WHICH WILL FOCUS ON CHANGING TESTIMONY FROM ONE OF HIS ACCUSERS, KNOWN AS VICTIM TEN.           AN OHIO WOMAN HAS DIED FOLLOWING A SINGLE-VEHICLE CRASH ON PINE GROVE MOUNTAIN....

RNN LEWISTOWN 06/16/26           A LEWISTOWN MAN FACES FELONY TRESPASSING CHARGES AFTER POLICE SAY HE FORCED HIS WAY INTO A LOCAL HOME WHILE INTOXICATED TO SUPPOSEDLY RETRIEVE HIS DOG.             LEWISTOWN POLICE SAY 49-YEAR-OLD MARTIN HEATH JUNIOR DAMAGED PROPERTY AND ALSO FORCED HIS WAY INTO A BEDROOM BEFORE OFFICERS SHOWED UP.  HEATH WAS ALSO FLAGGED BY POLICE FOR VIOLATING HIS PROBATION.    ...

RNN STROUDSBURG 06/16/26           A NEW JERSEY MAN HAS PLEADED GUILTY TO INDECENT ASSAULT IN MONROE COUNTY. PROSECUTORS SAY 24-YEAR-OLD JEREMY VERA ADMITTED TO HAVING SEX WITH A WOMAN WHO WAS HIGHLY INTOXICATED AT A DECEMBER 2024 PARTY IN MIDDLE SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP. MORE SERIOUS CHARGES, INCLUDING RAPE OF AN UNCONSCIOUS VICTIM, WERE DROPPED AS PART OF THE PLEA AGREEMENT. VERA IS SCHEDULED TO BE S...

Good morning. We begin in Monongalia County, where sheriff's deputies are investigating the discovery of a body found in the Monongahela River. Authorities say emergency crews were called out over the weekend to the Granville area after a boater spotted the body just north of the Granville boat ramp. Emergency personnel successfully recovered the body from the water. Detectives are working th...

Good morning. We begin in New York City, where celebrations are turning historic following the New York Knicks’ first NBA Championship victory since 1973. The Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs 94-to-90 in Game Five. City officials are now prepping for a massive ticker-tape parade up Broadway this Thursday morning, ending at City Hall where Mayor Zohran Mamdani will present the team with keys t...

Good morning. A massive twenty-five-point-seven-million-dollar infrastructure overhaul is officially coming to the Parkersburg water system. Governor Patrick Morrisey announced a two-million-dollar state economic enhancement grant to help the Parkersburg Utility Board upgrade its primary water treatment plant. Utility board officials say the millions will be used to significantly expand local trea...

Good morning. Olean's Lincoln Park took center stage in the race for New York governor as Republican candidate Bruce Blakeman brought his campaign to the Southern Tier. Flanked by regional lawmakers Senator George Borrello and Assemblyman Joe Sempolinski, Blakeman issued a fiery call to lift New York's ban on hydraulic fracturing to combat soaring energy costs. Blakeman sparked local deb...

Good morning. A massive two-point-eight-million-dollar transformation is coming to the Steuben County waterfront. Town officials announce that a total overhaul of the aging Champlin Beach Pier on Keuka Lake is scheduled to break ground immediately following the July Fourth holiday. The existing dock system will be completely torn down to make way for a fully ADA-compliant system, featuring a brand...

Good morning. The Butler County Coroner has officially identified the victims of two separate, unrelated fatal car crashes that occurred over the weekend. Authorities say twenty-eight-year-old Nickolas Patterson of Volant died early Friday from blunt force trauma following a violent two-vehicle wreck near an Interstate Seventy-Nine off-ramp in Jackson Township. Hours later, sixty-eight-year-old La...

Good morning. Cleanup and damage assessments are underway in Jefferson County this morning after a confirmed tornado ripped through the region. Emergency officials say the twister touched down Sunday evening near Anita and Knoxdale, causing widespread destruction just north of the Elk Run Volunteer Fire Station. Authorities are warning drivers and residents to stay alert for lingering debris and d...

Good morning. A federal grand jury in Erie has indicted an Ohio woman for allegedly stealing nearly half a million dollars from a local law firm. Authorities say forty-eight-year-old Yelena Andrews of Conneaut, Ohio, used her position as a paralegal to embezzle over four-hundred-sixty-two-thousand dollars over a ten-month span. Andrews faces five counts of wire fraud and theft, carrying a maximum...

radioNOVO News KY News Roundup for June 15, 2026

radioNOVO News PA News Roundup for June 15, 2026

Good morning.  Emergency crews across Crawford County are assessing damage this morning after a suspected tornado battered Cambridge Springs yesterday afternoon. Public Safety Director Greg Beveridge reported structural damage, including a hit home near Saegertown. The severe weather cut power to over five-thousand area residents. In court news, a North Carolina man faces consecutive jail terms fo...

Good morning.  Utility crews are working to restore power this morning after fierce storms knocked out electricity to over six-thousand valley customers yesterday. Lawrence County suffered over six-hundred outages, while a suspected tornado ripped through the Skyway Drive-In theater in Warren, forcing them to close for repairs. In Butler County, state police are investigating a fatal multi-vehicle...

Good morning.  State police are investigating a fatal accident that left a Knoxville, Pennsylvania man dead after being struck by a pickup truck. Authorities say a seventy-four-year-old driver collided with a bicyclist in his sixties along Route Forty-Nine. The cyclist died at the scene. In community news, a massive wave of volunteerism hit the Southern Tier this weekend. The United Way’s annual D...

Good morning.  A massive piece of American history brought thousands of spectators to Hornell this weekend. Union Pacific’s famous "Big Boy" steam locomotive made a historic stop at the Erie Depot Museum. A crowd of up to five-thousand people braved blistering heat to witness the nation's only operating Big Boy. Public swimming pools are causing a stir in our region. In Cohocton, to...

Good morning.  A former West Virginia police officer is back behind bars after pleading not guilty to the murder of Gretchen Fleming. Fifty-eight-year-old Preston Pierce entered the plea in Wood County Circuit Court following his extradition. Fleming disappeared in 2022, and her remains were recently identified via DNA matching. In local sports, the Gilmer County Titans fell just short of a state...

Good morning, A former West Virginia police officer remains behind bars this morning after pleading not guilty to the high-profile kidnapping and murder of missing Parkersburg resident Gretchen Fleming. Fifty-eight-year-old Preston Pierce entered the plea in Wood County Circuit Court following his extradition from North Carolina. Fleming first vanished in late 2022, and a massive breakthrough in t...

RNN STATE COLLEGE 06/15/26           MORE THAN 1,600 ATHLETES FROM 44 STATES AND 43 COUNTRIES COMPETED SUNDAY IN THE IRONMAN 70.3 PENNSYLVANIA HAPPY VALLEY NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP. COMPETITORS SWAM AT BALD EAGLE STATE PARK, BIKED THROUGH CENTRE COUNTY AND FINISHED WITH A HALF-MARATHON AT PENN STATE. TREVOR FOLEY WON THE MEN'S TITLE IN 3 HOURS, 42 MINUTES, WHILE PAULA FINDLAY CAPTURED THE...