Former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald Castille died Wednesday at age 82, court officials said. Castille served as district attorney in Philadelphia before being elected to the state’s top court in 1993. Castille retired in 2014 when he reached the mandatory retirement age ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — The city man arrested for transporting cocaine from Philadelphia to Blair County in his shoe was sentenced to 27 months to five years’ incarceration in a state correctional institution after pleading guilty to several felony counts across two cases. Kendall Michael ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — The city man involved in a local burglary ring targeting skill game machines and auction houses was sentenced Thursday afternoon to 3.5 to 10 years’ incarceration in a state correctional institution after pleading guilty to all charges against him. Steven Eugene Aman, 54, ...
Expect a surge of gun sales, but also gun control legislation, after Tuesday’s dominance by Democrats in the U.S. Congress and in various states where the power is shifting to liberal politicians. That’s according to Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Chairman Alan ...
TALLINN, Estonia — A Roman Catholic priest, who has opposed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and helped Ukrainian refugees, has been sentenced to three years in prison in Belarus, the latest move in the authorities’ crackdown on critical voices, a rights group said Thursday. A court in Belarus convicted Anatoly Parakhnevich, 66, on charges of “insulting the authorities” and “extremism” during a closed-door trial last month, said the Viasna Human Rights Center, which designated him as a political prisoner. It said Parakhnevich rejected the charges and would appeal the ...
Sister June Carpenter, one of the last members of the only remaining community of the Shaker religious movement, died Tuesday. Carpenter had been struggling with health problems and limited mobility, according to an announcement from the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in Maine. She was 88. Carpenter was one of two longtime members of the Sabbathday Lake community of Shakers in New Gloucester, Maine, along with Brother Arnold Hadd. A third member joined the community last year, Sister April Baxter. A novice, Mac Imes, joined earlier this year, according to Sabbathday ...
