North Carolina police officer killed while serving warrant honored at memorial service

 Posted on June 9, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  681 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (TND) — A community said goodbye to a North Carolina police officer who was shot and killed while serving a warrant earlier this week. The memorial service for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Joshua Eyer was held Friday morning at First Baptist Church in Uptown Charlotte, with officers across the nation in attendance. It's a heavy day in law enforcement. We want to support the families, friends, and the agency of these heroes that we've lost," [Read More]

Police shooting near Ligonier leads to man's death; investigation underway

 Posted on June 9, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  246 words  |  Christie Applegate

UPDATE | LIGONIER TWP., Pa. — Authorities have identified the person shot and killed by police Sunday afternoon in Ligonier Township. Cambria County Coroner Jeff Lees says an autopsy revealed 59-year-old Robbie Saunders died of blood loss from a single gunshot wound to the chest. He died just before 5 p.m. in the operating room of Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center. It's unclear what the initial call was for, but the Westmoreland County District Attorney's office says Ligonier Valley police officers were called to a home on Gravel Hill Road around 3:50 p. [Read More]

What the Lehecka? Exploring 3 different landmarks in region

 Posted on June 9, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  408 words  |  Delta Gatti

JOHNSTOWN – Today, we are exploring Gravity Hill in Bedford County, a series of concrete blocks in Blair County along Interstate 99 and what's known as the “rock men of Rockton” in Clearfield County. Down a few back roads in Bedford County lies a road that some say defies gravity. "There's all sorts of speculations as to why Gravity Hill works, from an optical illusion to warps in the Earth's gravity," [Read More]

Woman charged with vandalism of Lion Shrine

 Posted on June 9, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  472 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

University Park, Pa. (WJAC) – A New Jersey woman is charged with damaging the iconic Penn State statue in May, court documents said. University police charge 23-year-old Julia Cipparulo of Hillsborough, N.J. with felony counts of institutional vandalism, criminal mischief and other theft charges. Police said surveillance video from multiple cameras around campus showed a woman matching Cipparulo’s physical features moving and hiding in bushes. They said she was seen at Old Main doors at 4:50 a. [Read More]

Bellefonte police to help those in need of warm clothes this winter

 Posted on June 8, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  59 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

BELLEFONTE, Pa (WJAC) — If you need assistance with warm clothes as winter weather moves in, an area police department is here to help.

A warming tree has been set up at the Bellefonte Borough Police Department in Centre County.

The tree is decorated with hats, gloves, scarves, socks and more, that people can stop in and get.

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Bird-in-Hand Family Inn to reopen, host guests in Pool Building

 Posted on June 8, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  153 words  |  Delta Gatti

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — The Bird-in-Hand Family Inn will reopen on Tuesday after an explosion destroyed much of the property in December, the family-owned business announced Monday. READ MORE: "It was just this tremendous boom," Lancaster Co. community rallies after deadly inn explosion Guests can reserve suites in the Pool Building, which the business said was undamaged in the fire. The Inn offers standard or deluxe queen rooms, king rooms, junior suites and family suites inside the Pool Building. [Read More]

Cambria County officials react to five county employees receiving "very large yearend bonuses"

 Posted on June 8, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  424 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

Cambria County controller Ed Cernic Jr. said about $70,000 went to five county employees at the end of last year. The people are getting the stipends in large part because of the additional work they did after former chief clerk Michael Gelles died in April last year. The county is still without a chief clerk. Officials said the employees role in implementing a new software system. Cernic said he is the one that proposed the idea to the commissioners and when the salary board, made of the commissioners and the controller, voted on the stipends at the last commissioners meeting of 2023, the stipends passed with a 3-1 vote. [Read More]

Man on seeing Riley Strain on last known path

 Posted on June 8, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  669 words  |  Brenda Moya

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — As the search for missing University of Missouri student Riley Strain continues, Nashville's Office of Emergency Management used a dive team Saturday for the first time in their water searches for any trace of the 22-year-old. Nothing conclusive was located in the Cumberland River, according to a spokesperson for Nashville OEM. "Today’s search plan included taking each boat out along a specified area near the Riverfront where the missing student was last seen and running each search K9 on the boat individually," [Read More]

Suspected serial killer faces life in prison after being convicted of 2 murders by Delaware jury

 Posted on June 8, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  671 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

DOVER, Del. (AP) — A suspected serial killer accused in the deaths of six people in Delaware and Pennsylvania in 2021 was convicted of murder and other crimes by a Delaware jury on Tuesday. The jury deliberated for about six hours over two days before finding Keith Gibson of Philadelphia guilty of murder and robbery in the killings of Elsmere cellphone store clerk Leslie Ruiz-Basilio, 28, and Wilmington drug dealer Ronald Wright, 42. [Read More]