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SHARON – Drivers who use East State Street in Sharon will have to negotiate another traffic change beginning Thursday as repair work on the city’s majo r thoroughfare continues.

NEW CASTLE, PA – A 35-year-old man, formerly of Detroit, is in custody facing 23 charges in Pennsylvania after being on the run for 2 1/2 years. According to New Castle News, Ernest Chapman was arrested by New Castle police on January 31st, 2019. 2 1/2 years ago Chapan was involved in a police pursu

SHARON, Pa. (WKBN) - The length of the traffic pattern shift for westbound traffic on E. State Street in Sharon will be extended, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) -- It's tax season and scam artists are making a return. Now, Pennsylvania's attorney general is out with a consumer alert. That's the warning from Attorney General Josh Shapiro. He says last year his office received more than 500 complaints about IRS scams and it's begi

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - A man was arrested Saturday night after Youngstown police say he led police on a chase with a child in the car. Police say the suspect took off when they tried to pull him over, leading them on a short pursuit.

The Mercer County Park Commission is looking for public input on a project that would develop a passive recreation park with a focus on lake and water activities. Dam Site 21 is a 370-acre tract that covers parts of Hamilton, West Windsor and Robbinsville townships.

SHARON, Pa. - A portion of Sharon's East State Street will remain closed several months longer than originally planned. Westbound traffic in the East State Street work zone area between the intersection at Forker Boulevard and the intersection at Stambaugh Avenue has been shut down since early Janua

NEW WILMINGTON — New Life Baptist Church pastoral counselor Tim Fair understands grief — and what it takes to manage it. So when he heard about the deaths of Hickory High School students Alexis Myers and Danielle Nelson in crash that also sent two other girls to the hospital, he knew that there woul

Municipalities that currently rely on state police for full-time coverage would need to pay the state a per-resident fee for those services -- as much as $166 for the largest communities -- under Gov. Tom Wolf's 2019 budget proposal.

GRANTVILLE, Pa. (WHTM) - More than 360 vehicles, either seized by police or formerly used by state agencies, will go on sale by auction next week. The state's first vehicle auction of the year will be held Tuesday at Manheim Keystone Pennsylvania, at 488 Firehouse Road in Grantville, beginning at 10

Today’s 11th annual Snowball Crawl, an event that mixes fun with charity fund-raising, is now under new direction. Mike Erme of Erme Distributing, Hermitage, now heads the event, which has been operated by The Primary Health Network Charitable Foundation for the past 10 years.

AUSTINTOWN TWP., Ohio - Austintown Police are trying to find a male and female who were allegedly caught shoplifting in the Austintown Walmart on Monday, Feb. 18. An associate confronted the shoplifters as they exited the building which led them to flee to their red four-door vehicle and fled the sc

JACKSON CENTER, Pennsylvania - PennDOT says one northbound lane is open after a tractor-trailer rolled over onInterstate 79 in Mercer County. Callers to 911 told dispatchers that the truck crashed between the Interstate 80 and Route 62 interchanges at around 8:40 am Thursday in Jackson Township.

BALTIMORE, Md. — Baltimore Police are investigating reports of five men shot near the area of Pennsylvania Avenue and Bloom Street. According to police, around 6:15 p.m. Thursday, patrol officers heard gunshots coming from the area of Pennsylvania Avenue and responded to the scene.

To settle two federal lawsuits, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections will stop intercepting and copying inmates’ legal mail as part of its drug surveillance and security plans.

The results are in from Sharon’s city-wide GIS mapping initiative. In September, 134 volunteers banded together to survey approximately 5,400 properties throughout the city, and to rank their condition on a scale of “good” to “apparently abandoned.”

The Sharon and Sharpsville boys basketball teams advanced to next week’s District 10 Class 3A semifinals with wins on Friday night, while Farrell, Lakeview, West Middlesex and Wilmington all advanced in 2A.

HUBBARD, Ohio - The driver of a tractor-trailer escaped serious injury after a steel coil rolled over the cab of his truck. The coil rolled from a tractor-trailer and over the cab before striking a trailer being hauled by a pickup truck about a half mile east of Belmont Avenue at 9 am Thursday.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) - U.S. Marshals picked up an Alliance man accused of raping a young girl for years in Mahoning County. Thursday, a grand jury indicted Travis Messenheimer on four counts of rape and two counts of gross sexual imposition charges.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - The FirstEnergy Corporation says that it is prepared to deal with powerful gusts that are expected to affect Ohio, Pennsylvania, and four other states this weekend.