Jefferson County News

Convicted murderer Terrell Yarbrough on Thursday broke down sobbing as he addressed the families of his victims and apologized for his role in the May 31, 1999, murders of Aaron Land and Brian Muha.

State Police in Jefferson County are searching for a man they're calling "armed and dangerous". The man took off from police Thursday morning after a traffic stop on I-80. Police have been searching ever since.

New details in a death investigation in Jefferson County. Three months ago, 48-year-old Stephen Obbish was found dead in a Punxsutawney police cruiser after he was arrested for public drunkenness.

Today is election day, and though it lacks the excitement of last year's presidential election, the ballot is full of many local and county races.

Two men are behind bars in Jefferson County. Police say they are responsible for a string of break-ins over the past couple of months.

Craig Gray, a quality control inspector for Community Action Inc, is seen here with Trisha Skarbek, Community Action Inc., community service supervisor, utilizing a blower door, which is a diagnostic tool designed to measure the air tightness of buildings.

On hand Thursday for the Republican banquet in Reynoldsville were Tonya Geist, prothonotary; John Serian, state committeeman; Tony Harper, party chairman; Sam Smith, state representative; James VanSteenberg, treasurer; Bernard Snyder, coroner; David Inzana, magisterial judge; Joe Scarnati, state senator and lieutenant governor; and Pete Winkler, ...

In his opening statement Monday in Judge John DiSalle's courtroom, Defense Attorney Kenneth Haber said his client Terrell Yarbrough wasn't the one who shot and killed two Franciscan University of Steubenville students in May 1999, and that it was his companion, Nathan "Boo" Herring.

Amid the rise of suspected and confirmed H1N1 cases in Jefferson County, Punxsutawney Area Hospital has implemented visitor restrictions.

Jury selection continues for the murder trial of Terrell Yarbrough, 28, of Pittsburgh, who is charged with the May 1999 shooting deaths of two Franciscan University of Steubenville students in Washington County Common Pleas Court.

President Obama today will honor 86 Vietnam veterans, including two Western Pennsylvania men, with the Presidential Unit Citation for their actions in rescuing 100 comrades in a desperate battle near the Cambodian border nearly 40 years ago.

During a surprise check of trash trucks at the Keystone Landfill in Lackawanna County in June, an inspector came across a sobering find: a rig with violations and a driver whose only identification was a Costa Rican driver's license.

Pennsylvania has, according to its official water resource document, 64,345 streams totaling 86,000 miles of flowing water in Pennsylvania.

Commissioners reported Wednesday that state money has begun to flow to Jefferson County a week after the state legislature's passing of its annual budget.

A Brookville, Jefferson County, church will have more money to provide services to homeless people after reaching an agreement for the borough to pay $100,000 for improperly trying to shut down the shelter program last year.

A Greenville man who pleaded guilty to stealing more than a dozen flash-bang grenades from his former employer was given 3 years' probation Friday for the crime.

Learning Center hosts special program The Crooked Creek Environmental Learning Center hosts "Petroglyphs of the Middle Allegheny Valley." Ken Burkett, executive director of the Jefferson County History Center, will present a program of his recent work on American Indian petroglyph sites in northwest Pennsylvania at 2 p.m. Oct.

As the state budget impasse enters its 100th day today, Jefferson County continues playing a major role in the process.

The Franklin County Day Reporting Center has produced award-winning results for rehabilitating criminal offenders and now other counties in the Tri-State are looking to replicate those outcomes.

Tests indicate that a man found unresponsive in the back of a Punxsutawney Borough Police car in August died of combined drug and alcohol toxicity, police said Friday.