ONE PERSON WAS KILLED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AFTER REAR-ENDING ANOTHER VEHICLE IN UNION TOWNSHIP.  THE CRASH HAPPENED AT AROUND 4:35PM NEAR MILE MARKER 74.4 ON INTERSTATE 80 EASTBOUND.  THE JEFFERSON COUNTY CORORNER REPORTS THAT 59-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL ROUGIER OF RIO RANCHO, NEW MEXICO WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE.  POLICE SAY THAT HE WAS DRIVING TOO FAST FOR CONDITIONS AND WAS DISTRACTED AT THE TIME OF THE CRASH.  THE OTHER OPERATOR INVOLVED IN THE CRASH WAS NOT INJURED AND REFUSED TREATMENT.  BOTH WERE DRIVING 18-WHEELERS.

67-YEAR-OLD PETER ZHENG OF REYNOLDSVILLE IS BEHAND BARS AFTER VIDEO FOOTAGE SHOWED HIM RAMMING HIS VAN INTO HIS NEIGHBOR’S TRUCK TWICE DURING AN ARGUMENT.  POLICE RESPONDED TO EAST MAIN STREET IN THE BOROUGH AT JUST BEFORE 4PM ON MONDAY FOR A REPORT OF A DISPUTE.  WHEN THEY ARRIVED, BOTH DRIVERS WERE INSIDE THEIR VEHICLES.  VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SHOWED ZHENG HONKING HIS HORN, ACCELERATING IN TO HIS NEIGBOR’S PARKED VEHICLE AND THEN RAMMING IT A SECOND TIME.  HE IS IN THE JEFFERSON COUNTY JAIL WITH BAIL SET AT $60,000.

AFTER OVER A YEAR, DNA ANALYSIS IS CONFIRMING THAT HUMAN REMAINS FOUND EARLIER THIS YEAR IN CLEARFIELD COUNTY ARE THOSE OF 73-YEAR-OLD GARY KELLER, OF DUBOIS.  KELLER WENT FISHING IN EARLY JULY OF 2025 AND NEVER RETURNED HOME.  HIS REMAINS WERE DISCOVERED MARCH 31^ST OF THIS YEAR.  STATE POLICE SAY THERE IS NO FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED IN HIS DEATH.

AN ELK COUNTY MAN CONTINUES TO RECEIVE CARE TODAY AFTER AN ACCIDENT AT CLARION SINTERED METALS EARLIER THIS WEEK.  ACCORDING TO REPORTS, IT HAPPENED WEDNESDAY MORNING WHEN THE WORKER BECAME TRAPPED UNDER A LARGE PALLET, WEIGHING OVER 1 THOUSAND POUNDS.  THE RIDGWAY FIRE DEPARTMENT HELPED TO FREE THE MAN, WHO WAS FLOWN TO PENN HIGHLANDS DUBOIS FOR TREATMENT OF SUSPECTED SERIOUS INJURIES. 

PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE REPORT THAT A SINGLE-VEHICLE COLLISION HAPPENED ON AUGUST 17^TH ON WATSON FARM ROAD IN FOREST COUNTY.  TROOPERS SAY THAT A 17-YEAR-OLD FEMALE FROM SHEFFIELD WAS DRIVING NORTHBOUND WHEN HER VEHICLE TRAVELLED OFF THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROADWAY, STRUCK A FENCE AND A MAILBOX AND HIT TWO TREES BEFORE ENDING UP BACK ON THE ROADWAY.  THE FEMALE SUFFERED MINOR INJURIES AND WAS TRASPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT.  SHE WAS CITED FOR DRIVING AT AN UNSAFE SPEED.

41-YEAR-OLD MISTY MIHALKO OF BRADFORD WAS SENTENCED TO 13 MONTHS TO 6 YEARS AND 4 MONTHS ON TWO CASES IN MCKEAN COUNTY COURT.  SHE WAS CHARGED FOR SELLING CRACK COCAINE, AND ON ANOTHER OCCASION SELLING THE DRUG WHILE UNDER SURVEILLANCE BY THE MCKEAN COUNTY DRUG TASK FORCE.  SHE WAS ALSO CHARGED WITH DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE AND POSSESSION.  IN ADDITION TO STATE PRISON, MIHALKO WAS ORDERED TO PAY RESTITUTION AND PARTICIPATE IN THE STATE DRUG TREATMENT PROGRAM OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS.

STATE POLICE REPORT THAT THEY SEIZED 1.4 POUNDS OF METHAMPHETAMINE DURING A TRAFFIC STOP ON INTERSTATE 80 ON APRIL 14^TH.  MULTIPLE DRUG CHARGES WERE FILED LAST WEEK AGAINST 50-YEAR-OLD MATTHEW SOLIDA OF DUBOIS.  HE WAS PULLED OVER AT AROUND 6PM WHILE DRIVING EASTBOUND AT MILE MARKER 88.4 IN WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP FOR DRIVING TOO CLOSELY AND FAILING TO SIGNAL.  TROOPERS FOUND THAT SOLIDA WAS DRIVING WITH A SUSPENDED LICENSE AND A POLICE K-9 DETECTED THE PRESENCE OF DRUGS.  HIS CAR WAS SEARCHED AND THEY FOUND THE METHAMPHETAMINE UNDER THE DRIVER’S SEAT.  A PRELIMINARY HEARING DATE HAS NOT BEEN SET.

GAS PRICES ARE LOWER THIS WEEK IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.  TRIPLE A REPORTS A 3-CENT DROP TO REST AT 4.16 A GALLON.  THE LOWEST PRICE IN OUR AREA COMES IN BROOKVILLE, WHERE IT AVERAGES 3.88. 

A POTTER COUNTY MAN IS DEAD AS THE RESULT OF A DROWNING ACCIDENT LAST WEEKEND IN ELK COUNTY.  ELK COUNTY CORONER, MICHELLE MUCCIO-KRISE, SAYS 43-YEAR-OLD DOMINIC PETRUZZI, OF COUDERSPORT, WAS FOUND NEAR A BOAT LAUNCH ON RIDGWAY-JOHNSONBURG ROAD SUNDAY MORNING.  PETRUZZI IS SAID TO HAVE HAD A SEIZURE, WHICH CAUSED HIS DROWNING. 

44-YEAR-OLD JEFFREY KLINE JUNIOR OF REYNOLDSVILLE IS FACING FELONY DRUG MANUFACTURING AND DELIVERY CHARGES AFTER POLICE SAY HE NEARLY CAUSED A COLLISION WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MARIJUANA.  STATE POLICE SAY THAT KLINE CROSSED THE CENTER LINE ON ROUTE 310 AT ABOUT 5:30PM ON JUNE 6^TH AND CAME CLOSE TO STRIKING ANOTHER VEHICLE THAT WAS DRIVING SOUTHBOUND.  DRUGS AND PARAPHERNALIA WERE FOUND IN HIS VEHICLE AND LAB RESULTS CONFIRMED THAT THERE WAS THC IN HIS BLOOD.  KLINE’S PRELIMINARY HEARING IS SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 8^TH.

GABRIEL COULL, 23, OF WARREN PLEAD GUILTY TO ASSAULTING TWO WORKERS AT WARREN STATE HOSPITAL IN AUGUST OF 2025. AFTER AN ARGUMENT OVER A TRAY OF FOOD THAT COULL WAS NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE, HE PUNCHED TWO EMPLOYEES IN THE FACE MULTIPLE TIMES CAUSING INJURY.  ONE EMPLOYEE REQUIRED XRAYS AND WAS CHECKED FOR A CONCUSSION.  THE OTHER WAS TREATED FOR MINOR INJURIES.  ANOTHER ASSAULT IN OCTOBER OF 2025 WAS NOT PROSECUTED.  COULL IS AWAITING SENTENCING.

STATE REPRESENTATIVE, MIKE ARMANINI, IS SET TO HOST A TOWN HALL TELEPHONE MEETING TUESDAY EVENING AT 6:30.  IF YOU WISH TO BE ON THE CALL, YOU CAN DIAL 877-229-8493 AND USE THE PIN 122265 TO PARTICIPATE.  FOR MORE, CONTACT ONE OF ARMANINI’S OFFICES. 

A CITY MAN IS DEAD AS THE RESULT OF AN E-BIKE ACCIDENT SATURDAY EVENING.  CITY POLICE SAY IT HAPPENED IN THE AREA OF EAST FIFTH AVENUE AND BUCHANAN STREET WHEN A VEHICLE AND THE BIKE COLLIDED.  A 61-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS TAKEN TO WARREN GENERAL HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD.  NO FURTHER INFORMATION WAS GIVEN BY POLICE. 

THE INVESTIGATION INTO A FATAL WARREN COUNTY FIRE CONTINUES TODAY.  ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE, IT HAPPENED SUNDAY EVENING AT THE PLEASANT VALLEY TRAILER PARK IN BROKENSTRAW TOWNSHIP.  TWO YOUNG CHILDREN, AGES 3 AND 1 WERE ENTRAPED IN THE HOME AND WERE FOUND DECEASED.  ANOTHER CHILD AND TWO ADULTS WERE ABLE TO ESCAPE WITHOUT HARM.  MULTIPLE FIRE DEPARTMENTS WERE ON SCENE TO BATTLE THE BLAZE. 

PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE REPORT THAT ONE PERSON DIED ON FRIDAY MORNING AFTER A SINGLE-VEHICLE CRASH ON ROUTE 36 JUST NORTH OF TIONESTA IN FOREST COUNTY.  DISPATCHERS WERE MADE AWARE OF THE COLLISSION AT AROUND 8:30AM.  EMERGENCY PERSONNEL CLEARED THE ROADWAY AT APPROXIMATELY 10:30AM.  WARREN COUNTY 911 CONFIRMED THAT ONE PERSON WAS KILLED AND COULD NOT RELEASE FURTHER DETAILS UNTIL THE FAMILY WAS NOTIFIED.

64-YEAR-OLD MARK AARON SENIOR OF BROOKVILLE IS FACING CHARGES AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY CHOKED A JUVENILE AND STRUCK HIM DURING AN ARGUMENT LAST TUESDAY.  TROOPER RESPORNDED TO A RESIDENCE IN ELDRED TOWNSHIP AT JUST BEFORE 6:30PM FOR A DOMESTIC DISPUTE THAT HAPPENED EARLIER IN THE DAY.  ALLEGEDLY AARON GRABBED THE JUVENILE BY THE THROAT WITH BOTH HANDS AND RESTRICTED HIS BREATHING. TROOPERS NOTICED REDNESS ON THE VICTIM’S NECK SEVERAL HOURS AFTER THE INCIDENT.  HE WAS ARRESTED AND RELEASED ON $20,000 UNSECURED BAIL.  AARON IS DUE IN COURT ON SEPTEMBER 3^RD.