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State police are investigating a fatal accident that left a Knoxville, Pennsylvania man dead after being struck by a pickup truck. Authorities say a seventy-four-year-old driver collided with a bicyclist in his sixties along Route Forty-Nine. The cyclist died at the scene.

In community news, a massive wave of volunteerism hit the Southern Tier this weekend. The United Way’s annual Day of Action mobilized over four-hundred volunteers from Corning Credit Union and Chemung Canal Trust for thirty-six area projects, including structural repairs at the Corning Children’s Center.

And the fifty-three-year wait is over—the New York Knicks are NBA Champions. The Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs ninety-four to ninety in Game Five on Saturday night. Finals M-V-P Jalen Brunson scored forty-five points, and a victory parade is set for Manhattan this Thursday.

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Utility crews are working to restore power this morning after fierce storms knocked out electricity to over six-thousand valley customers yesterday. Lawrence County suffered over six-hundred outages, while a suspected tornado ripped through the Skyway Drive-In theater in Warren, forcing them to close for repairs.

In Butler County, state police are investigating a fatal multi-vehicle crash on Route Thirty-Eight. Investigators say a northern-bound driver suddenly veered into oncoming traffic Friday evening, striking two vehicles. The initial driver was pronounced dead at the scene.

And New Castle Police are seeking fresh leads on a decades-old cold case. Investigators are asking for tips regarding the 1973 murder of twenty-two-year-old Frank Iwanejko, who was killed during an attempted robbery near Covert’s Crossing.

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Emergency crews across Crawford County are assessing damage this morning after a suspected tornado battered Cambridge Springs yesterday afternoon. Public Safety Director Greg Beveridge reported structural damage, including a hit home near Saegertown. The severe weather cut power to over five-thousand area residents.

In court news, a North Carolina man faces consecutive jail terms for a high-tech heist in Titusville. Forty-two-year-old Antoni Garcia-Cordoba pleaded no contest to using an "ATM jackpotting" software scheme to steal nearly sixty-thousand dollars from Community Connect Federal Credit Union.

And local history will be honored this Friday for Juneteenth. A walking tour at Meadville's Greendale Cemetery will feature a headstone dedication for Civil War veteran Samuel Pratt, recently discovered to be the first Black person elected to Meadville City Council back in 1889.

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A DuBois woman is facing felony charges following an undercover drug sting. State police in Punxsutawney arrested fifty-five-year-old Donna Lee Hampshire at her West Long Avenue apartment. Investigators say Hampshire sold prescription Xanax and Adderall to an informant, and later offered to supply them with methamphetamine.

In local infrastructure, state officials awarded over six-hundred-thousand dollars to completely overhaul Brockway’s aging water system. The emergency project will replace lines leading to the main water tank to fix low water flow at area fire hydrants.

And drivers should brace for delays. A twenty-eight-million-dollar concrete rehabilitation project will restrict Interstate Eighty West to a single lane between DuBois and Jefferson County starting tomorrow morning.

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RNN LEWISTOWN 06/12/26

          A PACKED HOUSE OF ROUGHLY 300 RESIDENTS TURNED OUT IN GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP LAST NIGHT TO RAISE CONCERNS AND DISCUSS A STRICT NEW ORDINANCE REGULATING A PROPOSED DATA CENTER. THE DRAFT ORDINANCE INCLUDES EXCEPTIONALLY LOW NOISE CAPS TO ELIMINATE LOW-FREQUENCY HUMMING, PLUS RULES ON HIGH WATER AND ENERGY USE. TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS SAY THE STRICT RULES THEY'RE OUTLINING PROTECT THE COMMUNITY, AND OFFICIALS WARNED THAT TOO MANY ISSUES AND QUESTIONS RAISED BY THE PUBLIC COULD DELAY FINAL PASSAGE OF THE ORDINANCE.  

          A MAJOR DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT IS COMING TO DOWNTOWN LEWISTOWN. PROPERTIES AT 13 AND 15 EAST MARKET STREET WILL BE COMBINED INTO A NEW, LOCALLY-OWNED RESTAURANT OVERLOOKING THE HISTORIC SQUARE, WITH CONSTRUCTION EXPECTED TO WRAP UP BY THE END OF THE YEAR.  AN ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE NEW EATERY EXPECTED IN A FEW WEEKS.  

          WORLD-RENOWNED SILHOUETTE ARTIST LAUREN MUNEY IS BRINGING HER RARE, FREEHAND PAPER-CUTTING CRAFT TO THE JUNIATA COUNTY AMERICA250 EVENT TOMORROW.  RESIDENTS CAN HAVE THEIR OWN CUSTOM SILHOUETTE PORTRAIT MADE BY LAUREN BETWEEN 1 AND 5PM AT THE GROVE IN LOST CREEK PARK IN MCALISTERVILLE.        

RNN SELINSGROVE 06/12/26

          A COLUMBIA COUNTY AMISH POULTRY FARMER IS FEELING THE FLIP SIDE OF THE EGG MARKET. DURING THE AVIAN FLU OUTBREAK, SOARING EGG PRICES SPARKED A RUSH TO BUILD HENHOUSES. NOW, WITH PRICES PLUNGING AND EGGS FLOODING THE MARKET, GREENWOOD TOWNSHIP FARMER SAM SMOKER IS SELLING THOUSANDS OF LAYING HENS FOR JUST 50 CENTS EACH. SMOKER SAYS A LOST DISTRIBUTION CONTRACT LEFT HIM WITH 10,000 BIRDS AND NO BUYER FOR THE EGGS THEY PRODUCE DAILY.  IF THE HENS AREN'T SOLD BY NEXT WEEK, SMOKER SAYS HE'S BEEN CONTACTED BY A BUFFALO, NEW YORK COMPANY THAT WILL BUY THEM ALL FOR BUTCHERING.

          MAIN TOWNSHIP POLICE IS CONSIDERING JOINING ICE’S 287(G) PROGRAM. CHIEF PHIL SAVIDGE SAYS THE PARTNERSHIP WOULD GIVE OFFICERS IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY DURING ROUTINE STOPS AND COULD BRING IN MORE THAN 137-THOUSAND DOLLARS IN FEDERAL FUNDING. SEVERAL OTHER NEARBY DEPARTMENTS AND THE MONTOUR COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE ALREADY PARTICIPATE.

          A SUNBURY MAN FACES UP TO 25 YEARS IN STATE PRISON. ON THURSDAY, A NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY JURY CONVICTED 46-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL BISHOP OF MULTIPLE FELONIES FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND’S 11-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER IN 2019. BISHOP REMAINS FREE ON BAIL UNTIL HIS SEPTEMBER SENTENCING.

RNN WILLIAMSPORT 06/12/26

          THE LOYALSOCK TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT MUST PAY NEARLY THREE MILLION DOLLARS TO A WOMAN SEXUALLY ABUSED BY HER FORMER MIDDLE SCHOOL BASKETBALL COACH. A FEDERAL JURY FOUND THE DISTRICT LIABLE FOR IGNORING REPORTS ABOUT COACH KELLI VASSALLO, WHO SERVED PRISON TIME FOR THE ABUSE. THE DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT SAYS THEIR INSURANCE CARRIER WILL FULLY COVER THE TWO-POINT-EIGHT MILLION DOLLAR AWARD AND WILL DECIDE WHETHER TO APPEAL THE VERDICT.

          HUGHESVILLE BOROUGH COUNCIL HAS UNANIMOUSLY BANNED ELECTRIC SCOOTERS AND UNICYCLES FROM ALL LOCAL STREETS, ALLEYS, AND SIDEWALKS. EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, VIOLATORS COULD FACE FINES UP TO ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS OR HAVE THEIR SCOOTERS CONFISCATED IN LIEU OF FINES.  OFFICIALS SAY THE LOCAL ORDINANCE ACTUALLY PROTECTS RIDERS FROM STIFFER STATE PENALTIES, WHILE MAYOR RICHARD SMITH NOTED THE BAN IS A NECESSARY SAFEGUARD AGAINST RISING SCOOTER INJURIES.   
          THE ORDINANCE DOES NOT AFFECT E-BIKE RIDERS, SINCE THEY CAN BE OPERATED ON PUBLIC ROADWAYS BY DIVERS WHO ARE AT LEAST 16 YEARS OLD. 

RNN STROUDSBURG 06/12/26

          TWO MONROE COUNTY MEN PLED GUILTY IN CONNECTION WITH A PAIR OF MOLOTOV COCKTAIL ATTACKS IN 2023. 21-YEAR-OLD CHAPEL ILIEV AND 22-YEAR-OLD ISAIAH GARCIA ADMITTED TO FELONY CONSPIRACY CHARGES TIED TO AN ATTEMPTED HOUSE ARSON IN BARRETT TOWNSHIP AND A VEHICLE FIRE AT EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY. A THIRD DEFENDANT FAILED TO APPEAR IN COURT, AND A BENCH WARRANT HAS BEEN ISSUED. SENTENCING FOR ILIEV AND GARCIA IS SET FOR SEPTEMBER.

          POCONO RACEWAY WILL HONOR NASCAR STAR KYLE BUSCH DURING THIS WEEKEND’S RACE FESTIVITIES. BUSCH, A TWO-TIME CUP SERIES CHAMPION AND EIGHT-TIME POCONO WINNER, WILL BE INDUCTED INTO THE TRACK’S INFIELD WALK OF FAME. FANS CAN ALSO SIGN MEMORIAL CARDS FOR THE BUSCH FAMILY AND VISIT A SPECIAL TRIBUTE DISPLAY CELEBRATING HIS MANY SUCCESSES AT THE TRICKY TRIANGLE.

RNN FRANKFORT 06/12/26

          THE FRANKFORT INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS BOARD OF EDUCATION HAS UNANIMOUSLY AWARDED SUPERINTENDENT, DR. SHERI SATTERLY ITS HIGHEST POSSIBLE RATING. IN HER FOURTH YEAR LEADING THE DISTRICT, SATTERLY RECEIVED AN EXEMPLARY EVALUATION, WITH OFFICIALS PRAISING THEIR STRONG FINANCIAL STANDING AND EXPANDED DUAL-CREDIT PROGRAMS UNDER HER LEADERSHIP.

          LOUISVILLE OFFICIALS HAVE INTRODUCED PLANS FOR OVER 300-MILLION DOLLARS IN BONDS AND TAX INCENTIVES TO FUND A NEW ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT NEXT TO LOUISVILLE SLUGGER FIELD. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT FEATURES APARTMENTS, A HOTEL, AND RETAIL SPACE. THE CITY WOULD RETAIN OWNERSHIP OF THE LAND, KEEPING IT EXEMPT FROM PROPERTY TAXES FOR UP TO FORTY YEARS.

           LEXINGTON’S HISTORIC PATCHEN WILKES FARM IS SET TO BECOME A NEARLY THREE-HUNDRED-UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEX. THE URBAN COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION APPROVED THE DEVELOPMENT, WHICH FEATURES EIGHT BUILDINGS, A CLUBHOUSE, AND A POOL. THE COMPLEX WILL SIT RIGHT NEXT TO A NEW KROGER STORE UNDER CONSTRUCTION, ALONGSIDE A PLANNED SUBDIVISION OF FORTY-TWO SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES.