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Good morning. State tax officials are fighting to join a massive federal lawsuit against U-S Senator Jim Justice. The West Virginia Tax Division wants to intervene because the state holds over four million dollars in active tax liens against Justice family properties. Officials say the family owes millions in unpaid consumer sales and income taxes. Local health departments are issuing an urgent wa...

Good morning. Traffic is finally moving again in downtown Hornell. Thousands of rail fans packed the city yesterday to see Union Pacific’s "Big Boy," the world's largest operating steam locomotive. Officials had to shut down Loder Street for hours to manage the heavy crowds during the historic whistle-stop. In local utility news, N-Y-S-E-G has finished a major power grid upgrade thr...

Good morning. A major drug bust in Elmira has two men facing up to life in prison. A violent crime task force pulled over a vehicle Tuesday on Euclid Avenue. Inside, officers found a half-pound of meth, suspected narcotics, an imitation pistol, and over seven thousand dollars in cash. James Johnson and Lee Dewart face top-level felony charges. An Elmira Heights man is back behind bars after a wild...

Good morning. A tragic motorcycle crash has taken the life of a well-known local businessman. The Lawrence County Coroner says sixty-year-old Bryan Todd Scheidemantle died Wednesday afternoon. His motorcycle collided with an S-U-V on Wilmington Road. Scheidemantle was the former owner of Scheidemantle Motors in Hermitage. The crash is under investigation. Meanwhile, high prices are hitting valley...

Good morning. A major leadership change is underway in Crawford County. Tomorrow is the final day for long-time jail Warden Jack Greenfield. He is retiring after a forty-year career in corrections. Deputy Warden Ben Fair steps in tomorrow morning to take over as interim warden. Meanwhile, World War Two history returns to the lakefront this summer. The annual D-Day Conneaut is officially a go for A...

Good morning.  An escaped Jefferson County jail inmate is back in custody this morning. Prison Warden Dustin Myers confirmed that thirty-five-year-old Eric Dwayne Bailes has been caught, following his escape from a work-release job in Reynoldsville on Monday afternoon. Further details on his capture have not yet been released. Meanwhile, tensions are running high in Clearfield County. A packed roo...

RNN BOWLING GREEN 06/11/26           THE BOWLING GREEN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HAS A NEW LEADER FOCUSED ON GROWTH AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.           JIM PAGE HAS BEEN NAMED THE CHAMBER’S NEXT PRESIDENT AND CEO, TAKING OVER ABOUT SIX MONTHS AFTER FORMER LEADER RON BUNCH STEPPED DOWN FOLLOWING A 15-YEAR TENURE.           PAGE MOST RECENTLY LED A REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NONPROFIT IN NORTHERN...

RNN ALTOONA 06/11/26           AN ELDORADO MAN IS FACING CHARGES AFTER AN EIGHT-HOUR ARMED STANDOFF IN ALTOONA.            21-YEAR-OLD PATRICK MCINTIRE ALLEGEDLY THREATENED TO KILL FAMILY MEMBERS WITH A SHOTGUN BEFORE BARRICADING HIMSELF INSIDE A HOME NEAR PLEASANT VALLEY BOULEVARD. ALTOONA POLICE USED A DRONE TO LOCATE MCINTIRE, WHO FIRED ONE SHOT BEFORE SURRENDERING WITHOUT INCIDENT. NO INJURIES...

RNN STATE COLLEGE 06/11/26           A STATE COLLEGE WOMAN IS DEAD AFTER A HIGH-SPEED ROLLOVER CRASH WEDNESDAY MORNING AT SOUTH ALLEN STREET AND EASTERLY PARKWAY.            POLICE SAY SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOWED HER VEHICLE SPEEDING THROUGH THE INTERSECTION BEFORE LEAVING THE ROADWAY, CROSSING A LAWN AND STRIKING A RETAINING WALL. THE VEHICLE WENT AIRBORNE AND LANDED ON ITS ROOF. THE WOMAN WAS PRON...

RNN JOHNSTOWN 06/11/26           AMID GROWING PUBLIC OUTCRY OVER A RASH OF RECENT GUN CRIME, JOHNSTOWN POLICE CHIEF MARK BRITTON SAYS HE PLANS TO ESTABLISH A NEW SUBSTATION IN THE MOXHAM NEIGHBORHOOD, WHICH HAS SEEN A RASH OF SHOOTINGS IN RECENT MONTHS.            THE ANNOUNCEMENT CAME AS NEARLY FIFTY FRUSTRATED RESIDENTS PACKED A CITY COUNCIL MEETING WEDNESDAY TO DEMAND IMMEDIATE ACTION.         ...

RNN FRANKFORT 06/11/26           A LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE NEWS CONFERENCE WEDNESDAY HIGHLIGHTED EARLY RESULTS THAT A NEW SUMMER TASK FORCE IS MAKING IN HIGH-TRAFFIC ENTERTAINMENT AREAS. IN THE PAST SIX WEEKS, OFFICERS MADE 78 ARRESTS AND ISSUED MORE THAN 100 CITATIONS, ALONG WITH CURFEW-RELATED ARRESTS INVOLVING MINORS. POLICE SAY THE GOAL IS COMPLIANCE AND SAFETY, NOT JUST ENFORCEMENT, WHILE ALS...

RNN POCONOS 06/11/26           THE POCONO MOUNTAIN REGIONAL POLICE DEPARTMENT IS CLOSER TO BECOMING ONE OF PENNSYLVANIA’S PREMIER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.  THE DEPARTMENT SECURED STATE ACCREDITATION FOR THE FIFTH TIME THIS SPRING.             OUT OF 14-HUNDRED POLICE AGENCIES ACROSS THE COMMONWEALTH, FEWER THAN FORTY COMPLY WITH THE 140 BEST PRACTICE STANDARDS REQUIRED TO ACHIEVE PREMIER STATUS....

RNN WILLIAMSPORT 06/11/26           A CITY MAN WILL NOT FACE CHARGES AFTER SHOOTING AND KILLING ONE OF TWO REPORTEDLY AGGRESSIVE PIT BULLS TUESDAY MORNING.           WILLIAMSPORT POLICE SAY THE MAN FIRED SOME FIVE SHOTS WITH AN A-R STYLE RIFLE AT THE DOGS IN THE 300-BLOCK OF CENTER STREET AFTER THEY ENTERED HIS PROPERTY AND POSED A THREAT.           THE SECOND PIT BULL WAS FOUND UNINJURED.       ...

RNN SELINSGROVE 06/11/26           AN 81-YEAR-OLD CATAWISSA MAN IS HEADED TO COLUMBIA COUNTY COURT ON 84 CHILD SEX ABUSE MATERIAL CHARGES. BRENT VOGELBACHER WAIVED HIS PRELIMINARY HEARING AFTER INVESTIGATORS TRACED CYBER-TIPS FROM AMAZON AND MICROSOFT TO HIS APARTMENT. POLICE SAY HE ADMITTED VIEWING THE IMAGES REGULARLY, AND HIS WIFE SAID THE BEHAVIOR HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A DECADE.  IF CONVICTED,...

  Good morning. In Crawford County, a million-dollar upgrade is coming to the Vernon Central Hose Company to battle a changing reality in local volunteerism. State and local officials have secured funding for a new one-point-two-million-dollar "wet rescue" truck set to arrive this summer. The multi-mission engine features a five-hundred-gallon tank and can fight fires and handle rescues...

Good morning. A Mercer County community is mourning after a mother and her two children tragically passed away from injuries sustained in a devastating house fire in Sharon. Thirty-eight-year-old Sarah Jacobson, ten-year-old Izabella, and fourteen-year-old Kevin all died at Akron Children’s Hospital following the Friday morning blaze on Sherman Avenue. Local police, the State Fire Marshal, and the...

Good morning. In DuBois, sixty-one-year-old Roberta Shaffer pleaded guilty in federal court for her role in helping a former city manager embezzle over one-point-five-million dollars in city funds. Shaffer faces up to twenty years in prison at her sentencing this September. In Clearfield County, Jennifer Dixon and Nicholas Rumsey face heavy felony drug trafficking and child endangerment charges fo...

Good morning. Union Pacific's historic "Big Boy" steam locomotive chugs directly through Chemung County this afternoon between three and four o'clock. County Executive Christopher Moss is urging spectators to stay at least twenty-five feet away from the tracks, warning the massive train moves much faster than people realize. In regional infrastructure news, the state comptrolle...

Good morning. History rolls through Steuben County today as the world’s largest operating steam locomotive arrives in Hornell. Union Pacific’s "Big Boy number forty-fourteen" will cross the Letchworth State Park bridge around noon before a public stop at the historic Erie Depot Museum at two o'clock. Onlookers are ordered to stay clear of active tracks. In crime news, state police o...

Good morning. A massive drug sweep by the Parkersburg Narcotics Task Force has landed an Ohio man behind bars. Authorities executing a high-risk traffic stop on Camden Avenue arrested twenty-seven-year-old Khalil Rashad Alexander after finding a stash of fentanyl and methamphetamine. Alexander is held on a six-hundred-thousand-dollar bond. At City Hall, residents packed Tuesday’s meeting to slam P...

Good morning. A severe financial crisis is building across West Virginia as local counties struggle to keep up with skyrocketing regional jail bills. Kanawha County Commissioner Lance Wheeler is issuing an urgent plea for immediate state-level intervention to prevent widespread local government bankruptcies. Wheeler reveals that Kanawha County’s regional jail costs have surged by a staggering fift...

Good morning. A high-stakes political showdown is mounting over the future of federal immigration enforcement across New York. Governor Kathy Hochul is firing back at threats from federal border czar Tom Homan to surge I-C-E agents into New York City. The clash follows legislation signed by Hochul that restricts immigration authorities from conducting standard arrests inside county jails. Homan wa...

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