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radioNOVO News PA News Roundup for May 22, 2026

RNN BOWLING GREEN 05/22/26           A SIMPSON COUNTY JUDGE HAS FINALIZED THE COURT DATES FOR TWO HIGH-STAKES LAWSUITS SURROUNDING A CONTROVERSIAL $1.6 BILLION DATA CENTER PROJECT IN FRANKLIN. JUDGE MARK THURMOND SET JULY 20TH AS THE DATE TO HEAR ORAL ARGUMENTS IN A LAWSUIT BROUGHT BY A LOCAL CITIZENS GROUP ATTEMPTING TO OVERTURN THE PROJECT'S PRELIMINARY APPROVAL.            THE JUDGE WILL T...

RNN STATE COLLEGE 05/22/26           A 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL RIDING A PENNS VALLEY SCHOOL BUS WAS AMONG 3 PEOPLE INJURED THURSDAY AFTERNOON IN A FOUR-CAR PILEUP IN POTTER TOWNSHIP. STATE POLICE SAY A 17-YEAR-OLD DRIVER TRIGGERED THE CRASH ON ROUTE 45 AFTER REAR-ENDING A JEEP, WHICH WAS PUSHED DIRECTLY INTO THE SCHOOL BUS CARRYING 5 CHILDREN. THE TEENAGE DRIVER, THE JEEP'S OPERATOR, AND THE YOUNG G...

RNN ALTOONA 05/22/26           A TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WAS SENTENCED TO 5 TO 10 YEARS IN STATE PRISON WEDNESDAY FOR HER ROLE IN A 2023 FATAL OVERDOSE. TYLO BREON SCHILLING PLEADED GUILTY TO FELONY DRUG DELIVERY RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF THIRTY-YEAR-OLD ZACHARY ZEMBOWER. IN AN EMOTIONAL HEARING, THE VICTIM'S MOTHER HUGGED SCHILLING'S PARENTS AND OFFERED FORGIVENESS. PRESIDENT JUDGE W...

radioNOVO News for Frankfort: May 22, 2026

RNN SELINSGROVE 05/22/26           SNYDER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WILL HOLD A SPECIAL MEETING TUESDAY TO ADDRESS A 34,500 DOLLAR REPAIR BILL FOR A MOBILE COMMAND CENTER THAT HAS NEVER BEEN USED. THE 46-FOOT EMERGENCY VEHICLE WAS PURCHASED OVER 2 YEARS AGO FOR 155-THOUSAND USING DONATED FUNDS. BUT OFFICIALS RECENTLY DISCOVERED THAT SITTING IDLE THROUGH THE SEASONS CAUSED SEVERE CONDENSATION, COMPLETEL...

RNN WILLIAMSPORT 05/22/26           MORE COURTROOM DRAMA OVER A LAND CONSOLIDATION PLAN INVOLVING THE FORMER LYCOMING MALL PROPERTY.              MUNCY TOWNSHIP BOARD CHAIR TERRI LAUCHLE HAS BEEN HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT............ ORDERED TO PERSONALLY PAY 500-DOLLARS A DAY BY PRESIDENT JUDGE ERIC LINHARDT.......... UNTIL SHE SIGNS A SUBDIVISION PLAN THAT WOULD ALLOW BASS PRO SHOP TO BUILD ON A...

RNN JOHNSTOWN 05/22/26           TWO PEOPLE FACE FELONY CHARGES FOLLOWING A TUESDAY NIGHT DRIVE-BY SHOOTING IN JOHNSTOWN’S MOXHAM NEIGHBORHOOD. POLICE SAY 21-YEAR-OLD TAMIR BRANHAM ALLEGEDLY FIRED SHOTS AT AN ACQUAINTANCE ON HIGHLAND AVENUE FROM A WHITE B-M-W DRIVEN BY 20-YEAR-OLD MAKAYLA PORCHER.            INVESTIGATORS HAVE LINKED BOTH SUSPECTS TO A SEPARATE SHOOTING ON MAY 19TH.  BRANHAM IS JA...

RNN LEWISTOWN 05/22/26                                A 20-YEAR-OLD MIFFLIN COUNTY WOMAN IS BEING HELD IN THE MIFFLIN COUNTY PRISON, WITHOUT BAIL............ FACING A FIRST-DEGREE HOMICIDE CHARGE AFTER STATE POLICE ALLEGE SHE ABANDONED HER NEWBORN BABY IN A FIELD OUTSIDE HER MCVEYTOWN HOME.                     STATE POLICE ARRESTED JORDYN LYNN KAUFFMAN FOLLOWING AN INVESTIGATION THAT BEGAN LAST FR...

RNN STROUDSBURG 05/22/26           IF YOU'VE GOT FAMILY LOOKING TO VISIT THE POCONOS THIS SUMMER, TAKE NOTE:           WITH MEMORIAL DAY APPROACHING, LOCAL REALTORS ARE WARNING VACATIONERS ABOUT A SURGE IN SUMMER RENTAL SCAMS. FRAUDSTERS ARE STEALING AUTHENTIC PROPERTY PHOTOS TO CREATE FAKE SOCIAL MEDIA LISTINGS, OFTEN ADVERTISING THEM FOR $500 TO $700 BELOW MARKET VALUE. THE POCONO MOUNTAINS...

radioNOVO News for Lebanon: May 22, 2026

Good morning,  We begin with a look at holiday travel. Despite high prices at the pump, Triple A is predicting record-high congestion across Pennsylvania for Memorial Day weekend, with statewide gas prices averaging four dollars and sixty-four cents a gallon. That is about a dollar-fifty higher per gallon than this time last year. Traffic is expected to peak starting this afternoon after two p-m....

Good morning,  We begin with a look at holiday travel. Despite high prices at the pump, Triple A is predicting record-high congestion across Pennsylvania for Memorial Day weekend, with statewide gas prices averaging four dollars and sixty-four cents a gallon. That is about a dollar-fifty higher per gallon than this time last year. Traffic is expected to peak starting this afternoon after two p-m....

Good morning,  We begin with your holiday weekend traffic outlook. Triple A is predicting record-breaking congestion across Western Pennsylvania for Memorial Day weekend, with over thirty-nine million Americans driving to their destinations. Travelers in New Castle should brace for heavy delays and high prices at the pump, with local gas averaging four dollars and eighty cents a gallon. Traffic an...

Good morning,  We begin in Albany, where a small glimmer of hope for a state budget deal has emerged. Lawlers passed the first of nine spending bills, locking in a baseline two-percent increase in school foundation aid and pushing back the state's controversial electric school bus mandate by five years. Southern Tier Republican State Senator Tom O’Mara heavily criticized the move, calling the...

Good morning,  We begin with your holiday weekend traffic outlook. Triple A is predicting record-breaking travel across New York State for Memorial Day weekend, with forty-five million Americans hitting the road. Local drivers should brace for the highest holiday pump prices in four years, with regular unleaded averaging four dollars and fifty-nine cents a gallon across Western New York. Triple A...

Good morning,  We begin with your holiday weekend traffic outlook. Triple A is predicting record-breaking travel across the region for Memorial Day weekend, with over thirty-nine million Americans driving to their destinations. Travelers should prepare for heavy congestion and steeper costs at the pump, with regular unleaded in West Virginia averaging four dollars and fifty-one cents a gallon. Tra...

Good morning,  We begin with high security and major traffic alerts as a sitting president visits the Hudson Valley today for the first time in fifty years. President Trump is scheduled to arrive at Rockland Community College in Suffern this afternoon to deliver an address on the economy alongside Congressman Mike Lawler. Local school districts are dismissing early today to mitigate a massive traf...

Good morning, I’m Codi Gaboff with your morning West Virginia State Roundup. We begin in Charleston, where a massive Capital City tradition makes its grand return tonight. Charleston's FestivALL arts festival is back for its twenty-second year, kicking off ten days of city-wide dance, theater, and music. Right down the street at the state Capitol Complex, a piece of heavy Mountain State histo...

RNN ALTOONA 05/21/26           A NEW JERSEY NATIVE FACING ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE AND MAJOR DRUG TRAFFICKING CHARGES WILL REPRESENT HIMSELF AT TRIAL FOLLOWING A RULING IN BLAIR COUNTY COURT TUESDAY.             MARQUIS HARRIS INSISTED ON REMOVING HIS DEFENSE ATTORNEY, DESPITE WARNINGS FROM JUDGE JACKIE ATHERTON BERNARD THAT DOING SO WAS A BAD IDEA. HARRIS IS ACCUSED OF A 2023 SHOOTING IN ALTOONA, AS WE...

RNN STROUDSBURG 05/21/26           POWERFUL SPRING THUNDERSTORMS LEFT THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS IN THE REGION IN THE DARK LAST NIGHT, AS SEVERE WEATHER SWEPT THROUGH EASTERN P-A.  LINE CREWS WORKED THROUGH THE NIGHT TO RESTORE ELECTRICITY ACROSS THE LEHIGH VALLEY, BERKS COUNTY, AND THE POCONOS.  HOWEVER, THERE ARE STILL NUMEROUS POCKETS OF OUTAGES.......... INCLUDING MORE THAN 200 CUSTOMERS IN NORTHA...

RNN FRANKFORT 05/21/26           FRANKLIN COUNTY POSTED IMPRESSIVE NUMBERS FOR TUESDAY'S PRIMARY ELECTION, WITH ROUGHLY ONE THIRD OF REGISTERED VOTERS.......... OR SOME 13-THOUSAND PEOPLE CASTING BALLOTS.  ELECTION OFFICIALS EXPECT THE COUNTY TO RANK IN THE TOP 10 STATEWIDE, EASILY OUTPACING KENTUCKY'S BROADER 25 PERCENT TURNOUT.            INCUMBENT REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN JAMES COMER HA...

RNN SELINSGROVE 05/21/26           A THREE-YEAR LEGAL BATTLE BETWEEN THE BLOOMSBURG FAIR ASSOCIATION AND THE TOWN HAS FINALLY ENDED. FAIR OFFICIALS ANNOUNCED THEY WILL NOT APPEAL A COURT RULING THAT STRUCK DOWN THE TOWN’S OUTSIDE RACING BAN BUT DENIED THE FAIR ONE MILLION DOLLARS IN DAMAGES. WHILE THE FAIR WON’T HOST ANY RACES THIS YEAR, A NEWLY REVISED TOWN ORDINANCE ALLOWS THEM—OR ANY LOCAL GROU...

RNN LEWISTOWN 05/21/26           THE MIFFLIN COUNTY REGIONAL POLICE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED TO 529 EMERGENCY CALLS DURING THE MONTH OF APRIL. NEWLY RELEASED DEPARTMENT STATISTICS SHOW OFFICERS INVESTIGATED 12 BURGLARIES OR THEFTS, SIX ASSAULTS, AND 17 TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS ACROSS BURNHAM BOROUGH, ALONGSIDE BROWN, DERRY, AND UNION TOWNSHIPS. THE MONTH'S ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS ALSO YIELDED NINE D-U-I ARR...

RNN WILLIAMSPORT 05/21/26           MUNCY TOWNSHIP REMAINS A HOTBED OF CONTROVERSY AND UNREST AS A TOXIC LEGAL BATTLE BREWS BETWEEN LOCAL SUPERVISORS AND THE PENNSDALE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OVER RAW SEWAGE. FIRE OFFICIALS SAY A MASSIVE BACKUP AT THE TOWNSHIP-OWNED FACILITY HAS LEFT HAZARDOUS FECAL MATTER AND MOLD ON THE FLOORS, CAUSING A 40-THOUSAND-DOLLAR CRISIS.            WHILE FIREFIGHTERS AR...