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radioNOVO News KY News Roundup for June 10, 2026

RNN SELINSGROVE 06/10/26           A SUNBURY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT APPOINTMENT HAS BEEN REVERSED LESS THAN 24 HOURS AFTER CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS APPROVED IT.           DERRICK BACKER WAS NAMED ASSISTANT DIRECTOR MONDAY NIGHT.  BUT DESPITE BRINGING 19 YEARS OF EMERGENCY EXPERIENCE TO THE JOB, THE CITY SOLICITOR DETERMINED TUESDAY THAT LOCAL ORDINANCES DISQUALIFY HIM FROM EMPLOYMENT BECAUSE HE IS NOT A...

RNN BOWLING GREEN 06/10/26           A BARREN COUNTY DEVELOPER IS SUING CAVE CITY OVER A RECENTLY APPROVED 12-MONTH DATA CENTER MORATORIUM.           KENTUCKY INDUSTRIAL ALLIANCE FILED THE LAWSUIT MONDAY... CLAIMING THE YEAR-LONG PAUSE ON APPLICATIONS VIOLATES STATE LAW AND DUE PROCESS. THE DEVELOPER RECENTLY SPENT $2 MILLION TO ACQUIRE 456 ACRES OF LAND AND REPORTEDLY SUBMITTED A SITE PLAN APPLIC...

RNN WILLIAMSPORT 06/10/26           WILL THERE OR WON'T THERE BE A DATA CENTER IN MUNCY TOWNSHIP?  DESPITE A MORATORIUM PLACED ON DATA CENTER DEVELOPMENT BY TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORS IN APRIL....... THE LYCOMING COUNTY WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY HAS WON AN APPEAL FOR PUBLIC RECORDS CONCERNING THE TOWNSHIP.           EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CHRISTINE WEIGLE SAYS DESPITE THE MORATORIUM, EARLY ADVANCE PLAN...

RNN ALTOONA 06/10/26           AN ALTOONA MAN ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING A TEENAGE COWORKER HAS UNTIL JULY 20TH TO CONSIDER A PLEA DEAL.           28-YEAR OLD JUSTIN TYLER NUNAMAKER IS FACING FELONY ASSAULT CHARGES AFTER HIS ARREST AT A LOCAL RESTAURANT IN DECEMBER, 2025. THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE OFFERED A PLEA OF 7 TO 20 YEARS... BUT NUNAMAKER INSISTED IN COURT ON MONDAY THAT HE WA...

RNN FRANKFORT 06/10/26           LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING AFTER A 15-YEAR-OLD BOY WAS FOUND DEAD IN THE PARK DUVALLE NEIGHBORHOOD YESTERDAY.           OFFICERS DISCOVERED THE TEEN WITH AN APPARENT GUNSHOT WOUND IN A FIELD NEAR CARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AROUND 4:30 P.M.  HIS IDENTITY HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED AND NO SUSPECTS HAVE BEEN NAMED.  ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS ASKED TO CONTACT...

RNN STATE COLLEGE 06/10/26           CENTRE COUNTY HOMEOWNERS CAN EXPECT HIGHER SCHOOL TAXES IN MOST DISTRICTS THIS YEAR. PROPOSED 2026-27 BUDGETS IN STATE COLLEGE, BELLEFONTE, BALD EAGLE AREA AND PHILIPSBURG-OSCEOLA ALL INCLUDE REAL ESTATE TAX INCREASES AS DISTRICTS FACE RISING HEALTHCARE COSTS, STAFFING NEEDS AND FUNDING SHORTFALLS. STATE COLLEGE APPROVED A 3.5 PERCENT HIKE, WHILE PHILIPSBURG-OS...

RNN JOHNSTOWN 06/10/26           CONVICTED MURDERER BRIAN GILES WAS BACK IN COURT TUESDAY AS PREPARATIONS CONTINUE FOR HIS SECOND HOMICIDE TRIAL.           GILES IS CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL HOMICIDE IN THE DEATH OF HIS FORMER GIRLFRIEND, JILLY TODARO, WHOSE REMAINS WERE FOUND IN THE BASEMENT OF HIS JOHNSTOWN APARTMENT IN JUNE 2024. GILES IS ALREADY SERVING A LIFE SENTENCE FOR THE 2018 MURDER OF HIS W...

RNN STROUDSBURG 06/10/26           IF YOU'RE HEADING TO THE POCONO RACEWAY THIS SUNDAY FOR THE GREAT AMERICAN GETAWAY 400........... EXPECT SHIFTING TRAFFIC PATTERNS ON ROUTE 115.              STATE POLICE WILL CONVERT ROUTE 115 TO ONE-WAY SOUTHBOUND STARTING AT 11 A.M. BEFORE THE RACE.  IT FLIPS TO ONE-WAY NORTHBOUND TOWARD I-80 ONCE THE RACE GETS DOWN TO THE FINAL 25 LAPS.             EXIT...

RNN LEWISTOWN 06/10/26           A 45-YEAR-OLD LEWISTOWN MAN IS BEHIND BARS TODAY... FACING NEARLY 30 FELONY CHARGES.           AN INVESTIGATION BY THE STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHILD PREDATOR AND INTERNET CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN TASK FORCE DISCOVERED ONLINE ACCOUNTS LINKED TO DAVID CURTIS DOMAIN JUNIOR, WITH AT LEAST 25 FILES OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MATERIAL.           DOMAIN IS CURRENTLY HELD...

Good Morning, A massive, multi-million-dollar federal investment is heading to northern West Virginia to revolutionize access to locally grown food. United States Representative Riley Moore has successfully secured nearly six-million-dollars in federal Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development funding to completely overhaul and expand the Oglebay Grow Center in Wheeling. Moore says the major...

Good morning. A tragic case of extreme neglect out of Saratoga County will send a mother to state prison. A judge has sentenced thirty-three-year-old Samantha Dylewski to serve up to four years behind bars for her role in the death of her three-year-old daughter. Prosecutors proved Dylewski and her husband kept the toddler in deplorable conditions inside a Corinth home before her death. As part of...

Good morning. A citizens' group has taken the City of Parkersburg to court over a controversial new trash contract. The committee filed a motion in Wood County Circuit Court after the city clerk threw out their referendum petition, despite the group gathering over three-thousand valid signatures to force a public vote. A circuit judge will now decide the matter. In state judicial news, parole...

Good morning. A domestic dispute in Allegany County has led to attempted murder charges. State police arrested forty-year-old Michael Myskiewicz following an incident on Mill Street in Caneadea where he allegedly choked a sixty-one-year-old victim and struck them in the head with a rock. Myskiewicz is being held without bail. The countdown is officially on for the arrival of the world’s largest st...

Good morning. An investigation is underway at the Elmira Animal Shelter after a dog died inside a hot animal control vehicle. City Manager Michael Collins confirmed the probe after a worker reportedly admitted they forgot the dog inside the vehicle as outdoor temperatures soared. In business news, Holy Grounds Coffee Shop is opening a second location on the first floor of downtown Elmira's Ma...

Good morning. A devastating house fire in Mercer County has claimed the lives of a mother and her two children. Authorities report thirty-eight-year-old Sarah Anne Jacobson, fourteen-year-old Kevin, and ten-year-old Izabella all succumbed to their injuries at Akron Children's Hospital following a heavy blaze on Sherman Avenue in Sharon. A fourth victim is stable as local police and federal in...

Good morning. A terrifying vehicle explosion inside the Allegheny Mountain Tunnel forced the chaotic evacuation of one-hundred-fifty stranded motorists on the Penn Turnpike. Shanksville fire crews battled thick smoke and toxic carbon monoxide to extinguish the commercial truck, while the driver was airlifted following an unrelated medical emergency. No fatalities were reported. In local business n...

Good morning. Taxpayers in DuBois are demanding their money back following a major break in a federal public corruption case. At the latest city council meeting, residents demanded officials recoup over three-hundred-thousand dollars in legal fees paid to former city manager John "Herm" Suplizio, after his former assistant pleaded guilty to helping him divert one-point-five million dolla...

radioNOVO News for Lebanon: June 9, 2026

RNN ALTOONA 06/09/26           FRUSTRATED NEIGHBORS ARE DEMANDING ACTION AFTER A LOCAL PARK TURNED INTO A HAVEN FOR YOUTH VIOLENCE AND PROPERTY DAMAGE.           A DELEGATION FROM THE IUZZOLINO PARK NEIGHBORHOOD TOLD CITY COUNCIL THAT LARGE GROUPS OF TEENAGERS ARE RUNNING AN ORGANIZED "FIGHT CLUB," ASSAULTING CHILDREN, AND THREATENING NEARBY RESIDENTS.           POLICE CHIEF DEREK SWOPE...

RNN FRANKFORT 06/09/26           A FRANKFORT MAN IS FACING MULTIPLE CHARGES AFTER A SATURDAY NIGHT CRASH ON OLD LAWRENCEBURG ROAD. POLICE SAY 28-YEAR-OLD ERIK CEDILLO, WHO WAS ALLEGEDLY DRIVING WITHOUT A LICENSE OR INSURANCE, STRUCK A FORD EXPLORER, CAUSING MAJOR DAMAGE. THE EXPLORER’S DRIVER WAS TAKEN TO FRANKFORT REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER. CEDILLO WAS ARRESTED ON DUI AND FELONY WANTON ENDANGERMENT...

RNN STROUDSBURG 06/09/26          CONSTRUCTION ON A NEW WAWA IN BARTONSVILLE IS JUST ONE STEP AWAY FROM REALITY.           POCONO TOWNSHIP COMMISSIONERS HAVE GRANTED DEVELOPERS A SIXTY-DAY DEADLINE EXTENSION TO SECURE A FINAL LETTER OF CREDIT FROM THE CONVENIENCE STORE GIANT.             OFFICIALS SAY SITE WORK IS ALREADY MOSTLY COMPLETE AT THE ROUTE 611 LOCATION, WHICH PREVIOUSLY HOUSED THE ERTLE...

RNN STATE COLLEGE 06/09/26           MORE TROUBLE COMING FOR THE FAMILY OF THE LATE JOE PATERNO.............. HIS SON-IN-LAW IS FACING NEW CHARGES AFTER A HIGH-SPEED MOTORCYCLE CRASH LAST MONTH.           FERGUSON TOWNSHIP POLICE SAY 58-YEAR-OLD CHRISTOPHER HORT HAD A BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL TWO-AND-A-HALF TIMES THE LEGAL LIMIT WHEN HE CRASHED HIS 2002 KAWASAKI AROUND 9:25 P.M. MAY 7TH,  ON THE 2000 B...

RNN WILLIAMSPORT 06/09/26           A NEWLY UNCOVERED ZONING PERMIT REVEALS A MASSIVE DATA CENTER COMPLEX WAS PROPOSED FOR MUNCY TOWNSHIP IN MID-APRIL—DIRECTLY CONTRADICTING PUBLIC ASSURANCES FROM LOCAL OFFICIALS.           ACCORDING TO A REPORT IN THE STAR GAZETTE, CHAIRMAN SUPERVISOR TERRI LAUCHLE TOLD RESIDENTS AT AN APRIL 28TH  MEETING THAT NO SUCH APPLICATION HAD BEEN SUBMITTED, JUST BEFORE T...

RNN SELINSGROVE 06/09/26           A THIRD MASSIVE DATA CENTER CAMPUS COULD BE COMING TO LUZERNE COUNTY'S SALEM TOWNSHIP.           SOME HOMEOWNERS IN EAST BERWICK REPORT THEY HAVE SIGNED LETTERS OF INTENT TO SELL THEIR PROPERTIES TO DEVELOPERS FOR UP TO ONE MILLION DOLLARS EACH PLUS 250-THOUSAND DOLLARS AN ACRE.             HOWEVER, LOCAL ZONING OFFICIALS SAY THE MULTI-MILLION-DOLLAR BUYOUTS...