57-YEAR-OLD ELIZABETH ROUDYBUSH IS FACING CHARGES AFTER SHE ALLEGEDLY STALKED AND ILLEGALLY TRACKED A MAN IN DUBOIS.  THE FORMER SANDY TOWNSHIP TAX COLLECTOR WAS FOUND WITH SEVERAL GPS DEVICES, METHAMPHETAMINE AND MARIJUANA.  SHE TOLD CITY OF DUBOIS POLICE OFFICERS ON OCTOBER 13^TH THAT SHE WAS IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH A MAN WHO LIVED AT ST. MICHAEL’S TERRACE AND WAS THERE TO SEE HIM.  DURING THE INVESTIGATION THEY LEARNED THAT SHE WAS STALKING AND TRACKING HIM.  ROUDYBUSH DID HAVE A RELATONSHIP WITH THE MAN THAT ENDED IN OCTOBER OF 2025.  SHE WAS ARRESTED AND RELEASED ON $35,000 BAIL.

STATE POLICE REPORT THAT 41-YEAR-OLD MARK AHARRAH OF BROOKVILLE IS FACING ASSAULT CHARGES AFTER HE THREW A CELLPHONE DURING AN ARGUMENT AND STRUCK A 12-YEAR-OLD BOY IN THE FACE.  HE INCIDENT HAPPENED ON NOVEMBER 7^TH AT A RESIDENCE IN WARSAW TOWNSHIP AT JUST AFTER 10:30AM.  THE BOY SUFFERED TWO CHIPPED FRONT TEETH AND A BLOODY NOSE AND WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT.  AHARRAH WAS ARRESTED AND BAIL WAS SET AT $20,000.  HIS PRELIMINARY HEARING IS SCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER 16^TH.

THE HOMICIDE CONVICTION OF A CLEARFIELD COUNTY WOMAN HAS BEEN OVERTURNED.  THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPERIOR COURT ISSUED THE RULING LAST WEEK, VACATING THE CONVICTION OF DANIELLE PARKS.  PARKS HAD BEEN FOUND GUILTY IN 2025 OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER IN THE DEATH OF HER EX-HUSBAND IN FEBRUARY, 2024.  ON APPEAL, HER DEFENSE ARGUED THAT THE JURY WAS NOT ABLE TO CONSIDER A POSSIBLE “JUSTIFIBALE USE OF FORCE” IN THE CASE.  AN ORDER FOR A NEW TRIAL WAS ISSUED. 

STATE POLICE HAVE FILED CHARGES AGAINST 41-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL TROUP OF BIG RUN AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY CHOKED AND PUNCHED A WOMAN DURING A DOMESTIC DISPUTE.  THE INCIDENT HAPPENED ON NOVEMBER 3^RD AT A RESIDENCE ON WEST MAIN STREET IN THE BOROUGH.  PRIOR TO ARRIVING AT THE SCENE, TROOPERS WERE INFORMED THAT THE VICTIM HAD ESCAPED THE HOME AND WAS SAFE AT A NEIGHBOR’S HOUSE.  THE VICTIM TOLD THEM THAT TROUP ASSAULTED HER BECAUSE HE THOUGHT SHE WAS UNFAITHFUL.  HE IS IN THE JEFFERSON COUNTY JAIL ON $20,000 BAIL.

GAS PRICES HAVE TAKEN A BIG FALL THIS WEEK.  TRIPLE A REPORTS A 9-CENT DROP IN THE PRICE OF REGULAR UNLEADED TO SIT AT 4.53 A GALLON.  THE NATIONAL AVERAGE IS DOWN AS WELL THIS WEEK.  16 CENTS A GALLON TO REST AT A FLAT 4.00.  THE LOWEST PRICE IN OUR AREA COMES IN CLARION THIS WEEK, WHERE IT AVERAGES 4.25 A GALLON.

COMING UP THURSDAY, IT’S A TRIBUTE TO AN AMERICAN HERO AS FUNERAL SERVICES FOR CORPORAL HENRY HUBER TAKE PLACE.  THE VIEWING AND SERVICE HAPPEN AT THE HALLTON CHURCH OF CHRIST'S BIBLE TRAINING CENTER, EVERGREEN DRIVE, RIDGWAY.  WE’LL CARRY THE SERVICE ON RADIO AND VIDEO STREAMING.  A LINK TO THE SERVICE WILL BE POSTED ON OUR WEBSITE AND FACEBOOK PAGE. 

ACCORDING TO WARREN CITY MANAGER MIKE HOLTZ, A TRUCK THAT WAS PICKING UP OIL FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS GARAGE, YESTERDAY MORNING, LEFT A VALVE OPEN SPILLING A COUPLE OF BARRELS OF MATERIAL INTO A CATCH BASIN.  THE BASIN FEEDS INTO THE ALLEGHENY RIVER IN FRONT OF PAWS ALONG THE RIVER HUMANE SOCIETY.  HOLTZ ADDED THAT CREWS FROM WARREN COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, THE DEP, THE PENNSYLVANIA FISH AHD BOAT COMMISSION, WARREN FIRE DEPARTMENT AND UNITED REFINING WORKED TO CLEAN UP THE AREA TO KEEP THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT TO A MINIMUM.

THE CAUSE OF A WILDFIRE IN THE ALLEGHENY NATIONAL FOREST’S BRADFORD RANGER DISTRICT REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION TODAY.  ACCORDING TO THE US FOREST SERVICE, THE FIRE WAS REPORTED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE FOREST NEAR TRACY RUN.  THE FIRE IS SAID TO BE IN EXCESS OF 35 ACRES.  NO INJURIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED AS OF NOW. 

AN ELK COUNTY WAR HERO IS SET TO RETURN HOME THURSDAY NIGHT.  ACCOMPANIED BY PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE, THE AMERICAN LEGION RIDERS, KRISE FUNERAL HOME, AND MANY LOCAL RESIDENTS, HENRY HUBER’S REMAINS ARE EXPECTED TO PROCEED FROM THE PITTSBURGH AIRPORT TO RIDGWAY.  HUBER PAID THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE WHILE DEFENDING HIS COUNTRY IN THE KOREAN WAR 73 YEARS AGO.  THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO WITNESS HIS PROCESSION.  A VISITATION AND FUNERAL SERVICE IS SCHEDULED FOR NEXT THURSDAY. 

54-YEAR-OLD CHRISTOPHER EUARD OF DUBOIS WAS FOUND GUILTY OF CRIMINAL HOMICIDE AFTER A THREE-DAY TRIAL IN CLARION.  THE JURY OF 8 WOMEN AND 4 MEN ALSO FOUND HIM GUILTY OF AGGRIVATED ASSAULT AND RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT AND NOT GUILTY OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER.  EUARD SHOT AND KILLED 47-YEAR-OLD TIMOTHY PIRRAGLIA AT THEIR RESIDENCE IN TREASURE LAKE AFTER AN ARGUMENT ON THE NIGHT OF JUNE 6^TH, 2025.  HE’S LOOKING AT A MINUMUM SENTENCE OF 6 TO 20 YEARS - AND A MAXIMUM OF 40 YEARS IN STATE PRISON. EUARD WILL BE SENTENCED IN JANUARY.

A CHAUTUAQUA COUNTY, NEW YORK MAN IS FACING CHARGES STEMMING FROM A ROAD RAGE INCIDENT IN WARREN COUNTY LAST THURSDAY.  ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE, 67-YEAR-OLD TIMOTHY PRINCE, OF FREWSBURG, ALLEGEDLY POINTED A GUN AT A VEHICLE DURING AN INCIDENT WHERE PRINCE, WHO WAS DRIVING A MOTORCYCLE, PASSED A VEHICLE ON ROUTE 6 IN SHEFFIELD TOWNSHIP.  PRINCE SAID HE WAS ALLEGEDLY ACTING IN SELF-DEFENSE DUE TO THE INCIDENT.  HE’S FREE ON BAIL TODAY.  

THE REPUBLICAN FALLOUT FROM TUESDAY’S ELECTION CONTINUES TO BE THE TOPIC OF DISCUSSION.  NOT ONLY DID THE US HOUSE AND SENATE TURN BLUE, BUT PENNSYLVANIA’S LEGISLATURE IS NOW ALL DEMOCRATIC AFTER SEVERAL REPUBLICAN SENATE SEATS WERE FLIPPED.  THAT GIVES THE DEMOCRATS THE MAJORITY IN THE PA HOUSE, SENATE, AND THE GOVERNOR’S SEAT WITH JOSH SHAPIRO RE-ELECTED. 

IT WAS A CLEAN SWEEP FOR THE AREA INCUMBENTS IN THE 2026 GENERAL ELECTION YESTERDAY.  STATE REPRESENTATIVES MIKE ARMANINI, MARTY CAUSER, BRIAN SMITH, AND KATHY RAPP ALL WON RE-ELECTION TO THE PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE.  MEANWHILE, IT’S ANOTHER TERM FOR US REPRESENTATIVE GLENN GT THOMPSON AS HE DEFEATED RAY BILGER.  AND, THE EARLIEST CALL LAST NIGHT WAS GOVERNOR JOSH SHAPIRO DEFEATING STACY GARRITY IN THE GUBERNATORIAL RACE.

AFTER 7 DECADES, A LOCAL HERO IS FINALLY HEADED HOME.  IN 1953, RIDGWAY NATIVE, HENRY HUBER, MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE WHILE SERVING DURING THE KOREAN WAR.  AFTER 73 YEARS, HUBER’S REMAINS WERE FINALLY IDENTIFIED BY ADVANCED DNA TECHNOLOGY.  HUBER WILL BE RETURNED TO RIDGWAY THIS THURSDAY, AND THEN NEXT THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12^TH, A VISITATION AND FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD AT THE BIBLE TRAINING CENTER, EVERGREEN DRIVE IN RIDGWAY BEGINNING WITH VISITATION AT 10AM. 

35-YEAR-OLD JOHNATHAN CRADDOCK WAS CHARGED YESTERDAY FOR SHOOTING A MAN IN THE FOOT ON SUNDAY.  DUBOIS CITY POLICE WERE DISPATCHED TO 247 WEST LONG AVENUE FOR A REPORT OF A SHOOTING.  THE VICTIM TOLD THEM THAT HE WAS SITTING ON HIS COUCH WHEN CRADDOCK ENTERED THE ROOM AND ASKED FOR MONEY, SHOT HIM AND LEFT THE RESIDENCE.  OFFICERS WERE ABLE TO RECOVER A SINGLE 9MM SHELL CASING AND BULLET FRAGMENTS FROM THE SCENE.  CRADDOCK WAS LOCATED AND TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AT AROUND 6:45PM ON SUNDAY AND IS IN THE CLEARFIELD COUNTY JAIL ON $500,000 BAIL.

STATE POLICE REPORT THAT 41-YEAR-OLD CHARLES GOODMAN OF RIMERSBURG WAS KILLED ON SUNDAY MORNING ON STATE ROUTE 28 IN ARMSTRONG COUNTY.  THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED AT JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT WHEN 59-YEAR-OLD HEATHER MANN OF NEW BETHLEHEM WAS DRIVING NORTH AND STRUCK GOODMAN WALKING IN THE ROADWAY.  GOODMAN SUFFERED FATAL INJURIES AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE.  MANN WAS NOT INJURED AND WAS NOT TRANSPORTED FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT.

THE CASE AGAINST A DUBOIS MOTHER, ACCUSED OF CAUSING HER CHILD’S DEATH, IS HEADED FOR TRIAL.  JUDGE DAVID MEHOLICK RULED LAST FRIDAY THAT THERE WAS ENOUGH EVIDENCE IN THE CASE AGAINST SARAH BRUBAKER TO GO FORWARD.  BRUBAKER IS ACCUSED OF NOT CARING PROPERLY FOR HER CHILD, WHICH, ACCORDING TO THE CHILD’S AUTOPSY, CAUSED A BACTERIAL INFECTION IN THE COLON, WHICH CAUSED THE DEATH LAST DECEMBER.  BRUBAKER REMAINS BEHIND BARS ON ONE MILLION DOLLARS BAIL. 

CRUDE PRICES ARE DOWN UNDER 100 DOLLARS A BARREL NOW.  GAS PRICES HAVE DROPPED AS WELL.  HERE IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, WE’RE DOWN 5 CENTS TO REST AT 4.62 A GALLON.  THE LOWEST PRICE IN OUR AREA COMES IN BROOKVILLE, WHERE IT’S 4.39.

A BUSINESS OWNER AND TWO EMPLOYEES FROM FUEL ON STORES IN ELK AND CAMERON COUNTIES ARE FACING DRUG CHARGES.  READ MORE HERE FROM PENNSYLVANIA ATTORNEY GENERAL, DAVE SUNDAY. 

A SHOOTER IS IN CUSTODY AFTER A SUNDAY INCIDENT IN THE CITY OF DUBOIS.  READ MORE HERE FROM WTAJ-TV.