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St. Clair Township teen missing since May 9 found, charges filed
A teen from Columbiana County who has been missing since last week has been found Thursday afternoon. St. Clair Township Police Chief Brian McKenzie confirmed with 21 News that 15-year-old Ericka Heaton, who was last seen on May 9, 2024 was found in Beaver County, Pennsylvania Thursday. Chief McKenzie tells...
Shooting suspect, 15, still at large, considered armed and dangerous
COAL TOWNSHIP, NORTHUMBERLAND CO. (WOLF) — The Coal Township Police Department is still searching for the teen suspect in a Shamokin shooting that injured a 15-year-old. Aiden J. Scott, 15, is wanted by police on charges of aggravated assault, prohibited possession of a firearm and reckless endangerment. On Tuesday,...
PSP: Driver drunk in crash
Bloomsburg, Pa. — A driver who crashed along Route 339 in Mainville was drunk, police say. Troopers were called to Mountain Road in Main Township on April 29 for reports of a single-vehicle crash. After arriving on scene, Trp. Ryan Golla determined the driver, 54-year-old Tresa Andino of Bloomsburg, was under the influence of alcohol, reports say. Andino was taken to the Columbia County DUI Booking Center for a chemical test, Golla said.
Used car salesman allegedly bails on sheriff's sale
Berwick, Pa. — A used car salesman arrested for allegedly scamming customers out of thousands of dollars skipped out on a sheriff’s sale too, police say. Jeremy Paul Talanca, 47, former Berwick police officer and officer-in-charge in Girardville, is facing numerous charges after state police audited his used car business in Berwick, Keystone Auto Exchange, following customer complaints earlier this year. Other customers filed civil suits against Talanca, with the...
PSP: Wellsboro woman kidnapped and released
TIOGA COUNTY, PA (WENY) -- A 56-year-old man faces a slew of charges after police say he kidnapped and assaulted a 75-year-old woman from Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. Charles Bower of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania faces a slew of charges, including burglary, kidnapping, theft by unlawful taking, unlawful restraint, multiple assault charges and more.
DNA links man to unsolved beating and stabbing death of Pa. widow in 1989: DA
A 65-year-old Ohio man who formerly lived in Northumberland County has been charged with felony homicide in a decades-old Lehigh County cold case, authorities announced Thursday. Michael J. Breisch was arrested this week in Ohio and extradited back to Pennsylvania after new DNA technology connected him to the 1989 crime,...
DA tells jurors in Pa. homicide trial: ‘You can’t respond to non-deadly force with deadly force’
SUNBURY—”You can’t respond to non-deadly force with deadly force,” the Northumberland County district attorney told jurors at the start of the trial for a man charged in a 2022 fatal shooting inside a Sunbury convenience store. A short time later Wednesday, jurors saw videos that captured...
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