McKean County News

James Calhoun was a janitor at Penn State's Lasch Football Building during the 2000 season when he saw something that made him "very distraught" and upset to the point his fellow workers thought he might have a heart attack.

Prospective jurors for the Jerry Sandusky trial likely will be asked "sensitive questions" by attorneys for the prosecution and defense when they come to the Centre County Court on Tuesday for the selection process, according to a spokesman for the Administrative Office of the Pennsylvania Courts.

Producer James Gagliano from the television show "America's Most Wanted" was in Dunkirk Tuesday filming a segment of the popular crime show dealing with Jeannie Storey's identification of Joseph Chapman, who had escaped from McKean County Jail in Pennsylvania on July 30, 2007.

Jerry Sandusky, center leaves the Centre County Courthouse Annex in Bellefonte, Pa.

Before the marching bands and the Phillie Phanatic hit the streets for Warminster's annual Memorial Day parade, local veterans gathered to remember some who made the ultimate sacrifice in the war on terror.

Judge John M. Cleland enters the Centre County Courthouse, in Bellefonte, Pa., for a Jerry Sandusky hearing, Wednesday, May 9, 2012.

A Kane woman will spend a week in the McKean County Jail for stealing money from the Kane Day School while she was serving as the board treasurer.

A fugitive captured in New York on Sunday has been returned to the same northwestern Pennsylvania jail from which he escaped in 2007.

A New York State Police officer confirmed late Sunday night that Joshua Tompkins, who has lived on Center Road, Arkwright, has been positively identified as Joseph Chapman, one of "America's Most Wanted" and an escapee from McKean County Prison in Pennsylvania.

With just 12 more business days before jury selection is set to commence in the criminal trial of former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, both sides were still demanding information from each other this week.

Work to replace a structurally deficient bridge in Lewis Run will get underway next week.

A suspended Catholic priest has appealed his conviction on charges of concealing the whereabouts of a child and corruption of minors stemming from his relationship with a 15-year-old northwestern Pennsylvania boy whose mother had told the priest to stop contacting the teen.

The judge presiding over the criminal case of former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky today ruled in favor of Mr.

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A northwestern Pennsylvania man wanted on rape and incest charges has apparently shot himself as state police were closing in on his vehicle with an arrest warrant.