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Good morning. Parkersburg firefighters won a major legal victory after the West Virginia Supreme Court ruled the city illegally cut their pay. The court found the city violated state law when it reduced longevity and EMT certification pay back in 2017 without prior warning. The city argued it was fixing a past calculation error, but high court justices ruled four-to-one against them. The case now...

Good morning. Drivers in Steuben and Allegany counties should expect major traffic delays as summer infrastructure work begins. State officials say Route 36 in Canisteo will close tomorrow for a total culvert replacement lasting through September, with detours using Route 21. Also, the Hammer Creek Road bridge shuts down for eight weeks starting June eighth, and an eight-and-a-half-mile repaving p...

Good morning. A Bath man is jailed without bail following an armed residential break-in. Village of Bath police say twenty-six-year-old Trenton Storms allegedly forced his way into a home and stole clothing. Investigators say when the victim tried to call 911, Storms pulled a knife to threaten them. He faces a top charge of felony first-degree burglary. Meanwhile, a repeat offender is back in cust...

Good morning. A Sarver man is behind bars after allegedly using an excavator to destroy his own home with his family inside. State police say forty-eight-year-old Erik Pierwsza faces multiple charges, including risking a catastrophe. Investigators say Pierwsza returned home from drinking and argued with his wife. When she asked for a divorce, he allegedly climbed into the heavy machinery and tore...

Good morning. A multi-county crime spree has ended with a high-speed chase and an arrest. State police say thirty-nine-year-old Joseph Arciuolo is behind bars after allegedly stealing over five vehicles and burglarizing local buildings. The spree ended when a van stolen in Conneaut sparked a multi-department pursuit. Investigators ultimately tracked Arciuolo down using high-tech safety cameras. He...

Good morning. A DuBois woman faces a criminal homicide charge following a fatal 2024 drug overdose. City police arrested forty-year-old Stacey Lee Miller Ellis, alleging she supplied the lethal dose of fentanyl that killed her boyfriend, Bryan Cieleski. Investigators say toxicology reports, text messages, and DNA evidence on a stamp bag tied Ellis directly to the drugs. Police allege Ellis intenti...

RNN ALTOONA 06/02/26           THE FIRST OF SIX SPECIALLY PAINTED NORFOLK SOUTHERN LOCOMOTIVES ROLLED OUT OF ALTOONA’S JUNIATA LOCOMOTIVE SHOP AND PASSED OVER THE HORSESHOE CURVE YESTERDAY.  LOCOMOTIVE 1776, KNOWN AS “THE BELL,” FEATURES THE LIBERTY BELL AND IS HEADING TO CHICAGO, WHERE IT WILL MEET THE UNION PACIFIC BIG BOY 4014 ON JUNE 3RD AS PART OF THE AMERICA250 CELEBRATION. THE SERIES OF ENG...

RNN JOHNSTOWN 06/02/26           A 15-YEAR-OLD KERNVILLE BOY IS FACING ADULT CHARGES IN CONNECTION WITH THE FATAL SHOOTING OF A 38-YEAR-OLD MAN LAST MONTH. INVESTIGATORS SAY ANDRE BLACKWELL-SIMMS IS CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL HOMICIDE, AGGRAVATED ASSAULT AND WEAPONS VIOLATIONS IN THE MAY 14TH DEATH OF FREDERICK MYERS. POLICE SAY THE TEEN FLED ON FOOT DURING A MONDAY ARREST ATTEMPT BEFORE BEING CAPTURED...

RNN SELINSGROVE 06/02/26              A COLUMBIA COUNTY UNDERCOVER STING TARGETING CHILD EXPLOITATION HAS LED TO FELONY CHARGES AGAINST TWO MEN. STATE POLICE ARRESTED 74-YEAR-OLD SCOTT HUDELSON OF BERWICK AFTER AN ALLEGED ONLINE EXCHANGE WITH SOMEONE HE BELIEVED WAS A JUVENILE. AUTHORITIES ARE ALSO SEARCHING FOR 45-YEAR-OLD BOBBY LEE BOYER OF BEAVERTOWN, WHO ALLEGEDLY FLED OFFICERS AT SPEEDS OVER...

RNN LEWISTOWN 06/02/26           A LEWISTOWN MAN IS BEHIND BARS AFTER FAILING TO MEET HIS SUPERVISION REQUIREMENTS ON MAY 21. OFFICERS ASSISTING MIFFLIN COUNTY PROBATION WENT TO A HOME AT 10:51 A.M. AFTER SPOTTING A YOUNG CHILD LEFT ENTIRELY ALONE INSIDE. A WOMAN EVENTUALLY OPENED THE DOOR AND CONFIRMED 41-YEAR-OLD DUSTIN M. STAHL WAS HIDING INSIDE. STAHL WAS ARRESTED ON ACTIVE PROBATION VIOLATION...

RNN WILLIAMSPORT 06/02/26           MONTOURSVILLE POLICE HAVE SHUT DOWN A SECOND ALLEGED PROSTITUTION OPERATION THIS MONTH. OFFICERS RAIDED BIN’S ASIAN SPA ON BROAD STREET LAST WEDNESDAY AND ARRESTED TWO WOMEN, AGES 61 AND 66, ON CHARGES INCLUDING PROMOTING PROSTITUTION AND CONSPIRACY. INVESTIGATORS SAY CUSTOMERS PAID FOR SEXUAL FAVORS DISGUISED AS MASSAGE SERVICES. MORE THAN ONE-THOUSAND DOLLARS...

RNN STROUDSBURG 06/01/26           PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING OUTSIDE A WAWA IN MONROE COUNTY. TROOPERS SAY A VERBAL DISPUTE ESCALATED INTO A PHYSICAL BRAWL IN THE PARKING LOT ALONG ROUTE 209 IN CHESTNUTHILL TOWNSHIP JUST BEFORE 10PM LAST FRIDAY.  ONE PERSON WAS SHOT AND HOSPITALIZED WITH NON-LIFE-THREATENING INJURIES. STATE TROOPERS EMPHASIZE THAT THIS WAS AN ISOLATED...

RNN STATE COLLEGE 06/01/26           IN THE FIVE WEEKS SINCE THE HAPPY VALLEY CASINO OPENED, STATE COLLEGE POLICE HAVE RESPONDED TO JUST SIX CALLS AT THE SITE, MATCHING INITIAL INDUSTRY PROJECTIONS. AUTHORITIES REPORT NO CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED FOR ANY OF THE OUTDOOR INCIDENTS, WHICH INCLUDED A SHOVING MATCH IN THE PARKING LOT, AND THE DEATH OF AN ELDERLY WOMAN IN HER CAR FROM NATURAL CAUSES.     ...

RNN LEWISTOWN 06/01/26           WATER CUSTOMERS IN PARTS OF JUNIATA AND PERRY COUNTIES SHOULD PREPARE FOR CLOUDY TAP WATER AND LOWER WATER PRESSURE THIS WEEK. IN JUNIATA COUNTY, THE MIFFLINTOWN MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY IS CONDUCTING SYSTEMWIDE HYDRANT FLUSHING OVERNIGHT FROM 7 P.M. TO 3 A.M. THROUGH JUNE 10TH. MEANWHILE, IN PERRY COUNTY, VEOLIA WATER CREWS ARE EXECUTING DAYTIME MAINTENANCE THROUGHOUT...

RNN BOWLING GREEN 06/01/26           THE TASTE OF FREEDOM WAS SHORT-LIVED FOR AN ESCAPED WARREN COUNTY REGIONAL JAIL INMATE.             KENTUCKY STATE POLICE SAY 32-YEAR OLD JON MOSS............ WHO SCALED TWO FENCES WITH RAZOR WIRE TO ESCAPE THE RECREATION YARD ON SATURDAY, MAY 23RD........... WAS RE-CAPTURED THIS PAST SATURDAY ON OLIVER STREET IN BOWLING GREEN.  DETAILS OF THE ARREST WERE NOT D...

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RNN WILLIAMSPORT 06/01/26           WILLIAMSPORT CITY COUNCIL HAS APPROVED PAVING OVER TWO BRICK STREET SECTIONS AFTER A SECOND-READING VOTE. THE CHANGES WILL IMPACT FIRST STREET BETWEEN CAMPBELL AND WALNUT STREETS, AND WAYNE AVENUE BETWEEN WEST FOURTH STREET AND HILLSIDE AVENUE. CITY ENGINEER BILL SCOTT SAYS FULL RECONSTRUCTION WOULD HAVE COST NEARLY $500,000 FOR FIRST STREET, COMPARED TO ABOUT $...

RNN JOHNSTOWN 06/01/26           YESTERDAY MARKED THE 137TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD............  ONE OF THE WORST NATURAL DISASTERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.  AT THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD NATIONAL MEMORIAL, VISITORS HONORED THE 2,209 VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER CAUSED BY THE FAILURE OF THE SOUTH FORK DAM. A LUMINARIA CEREMONY FEATURING BAGS MARKED WITH VICTIMS’ NAMES, MANY PREPARED BY FOREST HILLS ELE...

RNN ALTOONA 06/01/26           THE ALTOONA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HAS NARROWED ITS MUSIC DIRECTOR SEARCH TO FOUR FINALISTS WHO WILL EACH CONDUCT AND PRESENT A PROGRAM DURING THE ORCHESTRA’S 98TH SEASON. TWO CANDIDATES WILL PERFORM IN THE FALL AND TWO IN THE SPRING, WITH A FINAL SELECTION EXPECTED AT SEASON’S END. THE SEARCH FOLLOWS LONGTIME MUSIC DIRECTOR NICK PALMER’S RETIREMENT AFTER 30 YEARS. OFFIC...

RNN FRANKFORT 06/01/26           ONE CHILD IS DEAD AND TWO OTHERS REMAIN IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER A CAR CRASHED INTO A HORSE AND BUGGY IN CARROLL COUNTY YESTERDAY.  STATE POLICE SAY A 44-YEAR-OLD CARROLLTON MAN REAR-ENDED THE BUGGY.  THE INJURED CHILDREN WERE TAKEN TO A NORTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IN LOUISVILLE, WHERE ONE LATER DIED. THE CRASH REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.           THE KENT...

RNN SELINSGROVE 06/01/26           THE FUTURE OF BLOOMSBURG’S NEW PICKLEBALL COURTS IS IN DOUBT. TOWN OFFICIALS SAY THE EIGHT-COURT COMPLEX, BUILT LAST YEAR, MAY NEVER OPEN BECAUSE OF ONGOING SURFACE BUBBLING AND GROUNDWATER ISSUES. A RECENT ENGINEERING REVIEW FOUND WATER JUST TWO FEET BELOW THE COURTS AND WARNED THAT DRAINAGE FIXES WOULD LIKELY FAIL. TOWN COUNCIL IS NOW CONSIDERING REMOVING THE P...

Good Morning,  A high-stakes clash over government efficiency and local representation is brewing at the State Capitol. Governor Patrick Morrisey officially launched the "America 250 Task Force" to spearhead upcoming celebrations and statewide bell-ringing initiatives for the nation's semiquincentennial anniversary. However, members of the pre-existing, legislature-backed Semiquince...

Financial relief is on the way for millions of upstate residents following the official signing of New York’s late two-hundred-and-sixty-eight-billion-dollar state budget. Heading the list of legislative priorities is a massive state energy affordability plan. More than eight million full-time New York residents will soon receive "POWER" rebate checks of up to two hundred dollars to help...