TWO PEOPLE, ONE AN OIL CITY RESIDENT ARE CHARGED WITH POSESSION WITH INTENT TO DELIVER AND ARE LODGES IN THE VENANGO COUNTY JAIL THIS DAY.
By: Mark Heim | Source: FRANKLIN STATE POLICE
April 19, 2007 8:57AM EST


TWO PEOPLE, ONE AN OIL CITY RESIDENT ARE CHARGED WITH POSESSION WITH INTENT TO DELIVER AND ARE LODGES IN THE VENANGO COUNTY JAIL THIS DAY.  PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE TROOPER SCOTT MOHKERN SAYS SHORTLY AFTERNOON YESTERDAY, HE STOPPED A 2005 GRAY JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE, PENNSYLVANIA REGISTRATION GBP-4425 FOR RUNNING A STOP SIGN AT THE INTERSECTION OF SEELEY AVENUE AND WASHINGTON STREET IN OIL CITY.  MOHNKERN IDENTIFIED THE OPERATOR OF THE VEHICLE (JENNIFER ANN SILVIS OF OIL CITY AND FRONT SEAT PASSENGER CLIFTON MCCLOUD, A BLACK MALEFROM BRADDOCK AND REAR SEAT PASSENGER, CARRIE RICE OF OIL CITY.  THE TROOPER ISSUED A WRITTEN WARNING FOR THE STOP SIGN VIOLATION, AND REQUESTED A DRUG DOG FROM FRANKLIN CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT.  OFFICER STEVE JOHNSON RESPONDED WITH OFFICER LAING THE SITE OF THE TRAFFIC STOP WHERE THE CANINE OFFICER HIT ON THE CAR.  ALL THREE OCCUPANTS WERE REMOVED FROM THE VEHICLE AND TAKEN TO THE FRANKLIN STATE POLICE STATION.  A SEARCH OF MCLOUD’S PERSON REVEALED 223 BAGS/STAMPS OF HEROIN.  THE SEARCH ALSO REVEALED OVER $4400 IN CASH ON HIS PERSON.  JENNIFER SILVIS STATED SHE HAD 20 HEROIN BAGS/STAMPS IN HER UNDERWEAR.  SHE REMOVED THE OFFENDING BAGS/STAMPS IN THE PRESENCE OF TROOPER MICHELLE MCGEE.  MCCLOUD IS IN THE VENANGO COUNTY JAIL ON A PAROLE DETAINER FROM ALLEGHENY COUNTY.  SILVIS WAS ARRAIGNED BEFORE DISTRICT JUDGE DOUGLAS DINBERG LODGED IN THE COUNTY JAIL ON $25,000 BOND.  THE JEEP CHEROKEE WAS IMPOUND AND WILL BE SEARCH BY WARRANT.  THE STATE POLICE WERE ASSISTED IN THE INCIDENT BY THE OIL CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT. 

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- IN ADDITION TO ALL THE TALK ABOUT FUNDING ARTS BASED REVITALIZATION, OIL CITY COUNCIL ALSO DISPATCH SEVERAL MAJOR PIECE OF BUSINESS DURING THEIR WEDNESDAY NIGHT MEETING.
- YOU MAY RECALL THE MINI BLITZ OF REACTION ON THE INTERNET AND IN THE LOCAL PAPER FROM THE ARTS AND REVITALIZATION EFFORTS IN OIL CITY TO LAST WEEKS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION.
- VENANGO COUNTY IS SHARING IN A $27 MILLION INVESTMENT BY GOVERNOR ED RENDELL TO PROTECT THE STATE’S NATURAL RESOURCES.
- VENANGO COUNTY IS SHARING IN A $27 MILLION INVESTMENT BY GOVERNOR ED RENDELL TO PROTECT THE STATE’S NATURAL RESOURCES.
- METHAMPHETAMINE, THE SCOURGE AND THE UNDERBELLY OF CRAWFORD, FOREST AND VENANGO COUNTIES OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS IS MAKING ITS WAY INTO ARMSTRONG COUNTY.
- PENNDOT’S CRAWFORD COUNTY MAINTENANCE EMPLOYEES ARE PARTNERING WITH THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES TO ADOPT A FORMER PENNDOT INTERN THIS HOLIDAY SEASON.
- THE SUIT AGAINST BEICHNER IS FRIVOLOUS ACCORDING TO OIL CITY ATTORNEY MICHAEL HADLEY, HANDLING BEICHNER’S CIVIL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE VENANGO PARKS AND NATURAL RESOURCES AUTHORITY.
- VENANGO COUNTY BUSINESSMAN RAY BEICHNER, NAMED AN OUTSTANDING CITIZEN IN 2004, IS A DEFENDANT IN A CIVIL SUIT FILED YESTERDAY IN VENANGO COUNTY
- CHRISTMAS PAST IN OIL CITY IS UPON US.
- THE WEST NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY, SERVING VENANGO AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES WILL GET A LITTLE OVER $85,000 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW RUNAROUND TRACK TO ALLOW THE RAILROAD TO IMPROVE RAIL SERVICE TO THE LORD CORPORATION AND ELIMINATE AN
- PURSUIT OF A STOLEN CAR KEPT THREE POLICE DEPARTMENTS OCCUPIED IN THE WEE HOURS OF THIS MORNING.
- VENANGO COUNTY STATE SENATOR MARY JO WHITE IS FEELING MORE HEAT OVER HER OPPOSITION TO RULES REDUCING TOXIC MERCURY POLLUTION FROM PENNSYLVANIA’S COAL FIRE POWER PLANTS.
- IF YOU ARE A NEWS JUNKIE, THIS IS GOING TO BE A GREAT WEEK.
- FRIDAY RAY BEICHNER WAS NAMED AS A DEFENDANT IN A CIVIL SUIT BY PRESIDENT TOWNSHIP RESIDENT JAMIE STREZESKI ALLEGING BEICHNER SEXUAL ABUSED HER BETWEEN 1976 AND 1979.
- JURY SELECTION TODAY IN VENANGO COUNTY COURT IS NOT ONLY FOR THE CIVIL CASE FILED BY BUSINESSMAN RAY BEICHNER AGAINST THE VENANGO PARKS AND NATURAL RESOURCES AUTHORITY.
- HOW TO GET A HANDLE ON WHO IS RENTING WHAT WHERE IN OIL CITY?
- ARTS OIL CITY ALLY LEE MEHLBERGER PITCHED CITY SUPPORT FOR ARTS BASED REVITALIZATION VIA A BUDGET LINE ITEM.
- THE 2007 PROPOSED $12.4 MILLION OIL CITY BUDGET IS INTACT AFTER HOURS W/ CITY COUNCIL YESTERDAY.
- RAY & JAN BEICHNER VS. VENANGO PARK AUTHORITY BEGINS MONDAY IN COUNTY COURT.
- FINALIZED PLANS FOR AN ASSOCIATED DEGREE IN THE INSURANCE FIELD ARE IN PLACE AT CLARION UNIVERSITY VENANGO CAMPUS IN OIL CITY.
- FINALIZED PLANS FOR AN ASSOCIATED DEGREE IN THE INSURANCE FIELD ARE IN PLACE AT CLARION UNIVERSITY VENANGO CAMPUS IN OIL CITY.
- UNDER A $1.2 MILLION INVESTMENT BY GOVERNOR ED RENDELL TO PROTECT PENNSYLVANIA’S WILD RESOURCES, THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY WILL GET $345,000 TO INITIATE NEW COUNTY INVENTORIES IN VENANGO, ARMSTRONG, CLARION AND CAMERON COUNTIES.
- THE WEATHER IS IN THE NEWS IN VENANGO COUNTY. WHETHER OR NOT TO GO OUT DRIVING TODAY.
- WALK IN FLU SHOTS THIS WEEK AT THE BUTLER VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER
- A PARKER MAN IS DEAD FOLLOWING A ONE VEHICLE CRASH YESTERDAY IN CLARION COUNTY.
- A TUESDAY 2 CAR CRASH IN ARMSTRONG COUNTY IS THE CAUSE OF DEATH FOR A PITTSBURGH MAN.
- PENNSYLVANIA’S SEASONALLY ADJUSTED CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE, THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WORKING OR LOOKING FOR WORK, ROSE BY 16,000 RESIDENTS IN OCTOBER TO 6.3 MILLION, THE HIGHEST COUNT SINCE APRIL.
- MANAGED CARE IS COMING TO VENANGO COUNTY FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CLIENTS.
- NICK CIRELL, CHAIR OF THE VENANGO PARKS & NATURAL RESOURCES AUTHORITY BOARD OF DIRECTORS, KNEW IN SEPTEMBER OF THE ALLEGATIONS BY A PRESIDENT TOWNSHIP RESIDENT SHE WAS SEXUALLY ABUSED BY VENANGO COUNTY BUSINESSMAN RAY BEICHNER IN 1976.
- SEEMS LIKE AGES SINCE THERE WAS ANYTHING REPORT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BIKE TRAIL BETWEEN OIL CREEK STATE PARK AND OIL CITY.
- HERE’S THE RUNDOWN ON THE 2007 VENANGO COUNTY BUDGET.
- THE 2007 VENANGO COUNTY BUDGET HAS THE BLESSING OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, RECEIVING UNANIMOUS SUPPORT YESTERDAY.
- A LAKE EFFECT SNOW ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM THIS MORNING UNTIL 7 AM TOMORROW MORNING ACROSS THE KQW LISTENING AREA.
- SPEAKING OF GUNS, LEADERS OF CHERRYTREE BORO IN SOUTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY, YESTERDAY REJECTED A PROPOSED ORDINANCE RECOMMENDING ALL HOUSEHOLDS KEEP WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION TO PREVENT CRIME.
- A LAKE EFFECT SNOW ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE KQW LISTENING AREA UNTIL 7 A.M. FRIDAY.
- COLD TEMPERATURES AND SLICK ROADS CAUSED TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS, SEVERAL OF THEM FATAL, ACROSS WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA YESTERDAY.
- MOST ROADS REMAIN UNTREATED EARLY THIS MORNING. ROAD CREWS ARE OUT PLOWING, SANDING AND TREATING THE ROADWAYS.
- AS TO CANCELLATIONS. ONLY THREE CANCELLATIONS AT THIS TIME. FOREST AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT, NORTH CLARION AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT AND ST. JOSEPH IN LUCINDA ARE ALL ON A TWO HOUR DELAY THIS MORNING.
- A LAKE EFFECT SNOW ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 THIS MORNING.
- THE LAKE EFFECT SNOW EVENT STRETCHING ACROSS THE KQW LISTENING AREA WILL SPUTTER INTO THIS AFTERNOON BEFORE CLEARING OUT BY TOMORROW MORNING.
- A MEADVILLE MAN IS DEAD FOLLOWING A VEHICLE VS. PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT THIS MORNING IN CRAWFORD COUNTY.
- A VENANGO COUNTY BUSINESSMAN NAMED IN A CIVIL COMPLAINT LAST WEEK ALLEGING SEXUAL ABUSE OF A FORMER FAMILY BABYSITTER IS PETITIONING VENANGO COUNTY COURT TO APPOINT A SPECIAL MASTER TO CONDUCT AN INVESTIGATION.
- THE PROPOSED AND YET TO BE BUILT TREE HOUSE LODGING FACILITY WILL POSE UNFAIR COMPETITION TO PRIVATE COMMERCIAL LODGING FACILITIES LIKE TURTLE BAY LODGE OWNED BY RAY AND JAN BEICHNER IN PRESIDENT TOWNSHIP.
- THE FINAL FORM OF THE PROPOSED 2007 OIL CITY BUDGET IS BEFORE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
- OIL CITY COUNCIL HELD A PUBLIC HEARING & NO ONE SHOWED UP.
- THE NEXT STEP IN THE RAY & JAN BEICHNER LAW SUIT AGAINST THE VENANGO PARKS & NATURAL RESOURCES AUTHORITY IS FOR THE 6 ADVISORY JURORS & 1 ALTERNATE TO VISIT THE FACILITIES NAMED IN THE SUIT.
- FORMER GOVERNOR RAYMOND SHAFER, A REPUBLICAN WHO OVERSAW TAX INCREASES TO FINANCE SOCIAL PROGRAMS AND LATER PUSHED FOR THE DECRIMINALIZATION OF MARIJUANA, DIED YESTERDAY.
- PRIVATE FIRST CLASS ROSS MCGINNIS OF KNOX WAS THE FIRST CLARION COUNTY RESIDENT KILLED IN THE IRAQ WAR.
- THE ADVISORY JURY IN RAY AND JAN BEICHNER VS. VENANGO PARKS AND NATURAL RESOURCES AUTHORITY AGREES WITH THE BEICHNERS THEY WILL LOSE CUSTOMERS DUE TO THE TREE HOUSES PLANNED TO BE AVAILABLE AT TWO MILE RUN COUNTY PARK.
- PET FOOD MAKER DAD’S PRODUCTS COMPANY INCORPORATED HAS PLANS TO MOVE INTO THE FORMER VANTAGE HEALTHCARE NETWORK BUILDING IN VERNON TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY.
- THE ERIE TIMES NEWS THIS WEEK FEATURES A SPECIAL ENVIRONMENTAL INSERT ON MERCURY.
- YOU MAY RECALL EARLIER THIS YEAR I TOLD YOU ABOUT AN OHIO MAN CHARGED WITH HOMICIDE BY VEHICLE WHILE DUI AFTER CRASH IN ROCKLAND TOWNSHIP LAST MAY.
- PARTING SHOTS IN THE LAW SUIT OF JAN AND RAY BEICHNER VS. THE VENANGO PARKS AND NATURAL RESOURCES AUTHORITY.
- RON SHOUP, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE VENANGO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MAY BE GETTING READY TO RETIRE FROM THE CHAMBER, BUT HAS NO PLANS TO RETIRE FROM COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER WORK.
- A TITUSVILLE MAN IS CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING AND INJURING A FOUR MONTH BABY.
- AN EX LAWRENCE COUNTY SCHOOLS SUPERINTENDENT WILL GET $84,000 FOR UNUSED VACATION TIME.
- FIREFIGHTERS WILL WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS STORY.
- SCRUBGRASS GENERATING COMPANY, HEADQUARTERED IN SOUTHERN VENANGO COUNTY, HAS A NEW FEATHER IN IT’S CORPORATE CAP.
- AN OIL SPILL IN FOREST COUNTY RESULTING IN A TEN MILE SLICK FROM KELLETVILLE TO TIONESTA LAKE HAS A LOT OF PEOPLE SCRATCHING THEIR HEADS ABOUT THE WHY’S AND WHENS.
- A car overtook and struck an Amish buggy, injuring a mother and baby, according to police in Center County.
- THE WHERE IS OIL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL. THE WHAT IS THE MALL IN THE HALL.
- THE OIL CITY HIGH SCHOOL MENTORING PROGRAM.
- THE NORTWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA REGIONAL WIDE AREA NETWORK CONSORTIUM IS PARTNERING WITH STING COMMUNICATIONS AS THE VENDOR FOR THEIR ONGOING BROADBAND PROJECT.
- YOU MAY RECALL DURING THE SUMMER OF 2005 THE VENANGO COUNTY COMMISSIONERS APPROVED A LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR THE CRAWFORD COUNTY FARM BUREAU ETHANOL COMMITTEE.
- AN 18 YEAR OLD MAN IS CHARGED WITH ESCAPE FROM VISION QUEST BOOT CAMP IN SANDY CREEK TOWNSHIP VENANGO COUNTY.
- A PEDESTRIAN VS. S.U.V. ACCIDENT THIS MORNING IN FRANKLIN.
- A Lawrence County woman who reached a plea deal with prosecutors last month for her role in the death of a Zelienople bicyclist more than two years ago, will be sentenced today in Butler County court.
- A FRANKLIN MAN IS CHARGED WITH 3 COUNTS OF VIOLATING THE GAME AND WILDLIFE CODE AFTER ATTEMPTING TO TAKE A BEAR IN A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD.
- TEN PEOPLE IN BUTLER COUNTY ARE IN CUSTODY AFTER A WEEKEND DRUG SWEEP IN THE CITY OF BUTLER AND SURROUNDING AREAS.
- POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR THE DRIVER OF A PICKUP TRUCK THAT DRAGGED A NEW BEDFORD MAN TO HIS DEATH YESTERDAY.
- BUCKY PHILLIPS WILL GO TO JAIL FOR LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE.
- THE NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE VENANGO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS SUE WILLIAMS.
- SPEAKING OF WINDMILLS, FIRST ENERGY, THE PARENT FIRM OF PENELEC IS NOW A PARTY TO A 23 YEAR AGREEMENT TO BUY 34.5 MILLION MEGAWATTS OF OUT PUT FROM THE CASSELMAN WIND POWER PROJECT BEING DEVELOPED IN SOMERSET COUNTY BY PPM ENERGY.
- A WINDMILL TECHNICIAN IS SUFFERING FROM SERIOUS INJURIES SUSTAINED DURING AN ACCIDENT AT THE GAMESA WIND FARM IN CAMBRIA COUNTY YESTERDAY.
- ROUTE 322 ON VAN HILL IN CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP IS CLEAR NOW. BUT AT ABOUT 9 THIS MORNING A LARGE MILK TRUCK ROLLED ONTO ITSIDE ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF THE INTERSECTION WITH ROUTE 257.
- ALSO IN CRAWFORD COUNTY, AN UNUSUAL BURGLARY AND THEFT.
- A FRANKLIN MAN IS LODGED IN VENANGO COUNTY JAIL ON TWO BENCH WARRANTS.
- AN OIL CITY MAN IS DEAD FOLLOWING A CRASH IN WHICH HE WAS THROWN FROM HIS CAR.
- GOOD NEWS, MAYBE EVEN AN EARLY CHRISTMAS GIFT OR 2 FOR VENANGO COUNTY CITIZENS!
- THE VENANGO COUNTY ASSESSMENT OFFICE CONTRACT IS OFFICIAL.
- A gas spill at a service garage is what caused a huge fire that destroyed 4 businesses on Warren’s east side on Tuesday.
- YOU MAY RECALL NEWS OF A RAIL TANK CAR SPILL IN MCKEAN COUNTY LAST SUMMER.
- AN OIL CITY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHER IS AMONG SEVEN HONORED BY THE VIRGINIA BASED AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS.
- SPEAKING OF THE ENVIRONMENT, TRINITY INDUSTRIES MUST CLEAN UP CONTAMINIATION AT ITS FORMER FACILITIES IN MERCER COUNTY.
- IT’S ALL ABOUT WHAT THE KIDS DO. THAT’S WHAT OIL CITY HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHER TIM SPUCK SAYS.
- PENNSYLVANIA RATES WELL WHEN COMPARED WITH ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS IN ALL 50 STATES.
- THREE PEOPLE ARE DEAD IN AN APPARENT MURDER SUICIDE IN THE CITY OF BUTLER.
- AN EXPANDING SINK HOLE NEAR HOUSERVILLE IN CENTER COUNTY MAY THREATEN AN UNDERGROUND WATER SOURCE SUPPLYING RESIDENTS OF COLLEGE TOWNSHIP AND PENN STATE.
- IN ALTOONA, THE SHEETZ CONVENIENCE STORE CHAIN HAS OFFERED TO DONATE MONEY TO THE CENTRAL BLAIR PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION IN ORDER TO KEEP CITY POOLS OPEN NEXT SUMMER.
- A MERCER COUNTY MAN BEING HELD ON FEDERAL DRUG CHARGES WANTS OUT OF JAIL UNTIL HIS CASE IS RESOLVED.
- A COYOTE CARCASS IS UNDERGOING TESTING FOR RABIES IN NORTHHAMPTON COUNTY.
- NEAR HOUSERVILLE IN CENTER COUNTY MAY THREATEN AN UNDERGROUND WATER SOURCE SUPPLYING RESIDENTS OF COLLEGE TOWNSHIP AND PENN STATE.
- A MOTHER AND SON STAND CHARGED IN A BRADFORD ARSON CASE.
- FIREWORKS ON THE HOUR FROM 6 P.M. NEW YEAR’S EVE IN NEW YORK CITY.
- CLEANUP CONTINUES TWO WEEKS AFTER AN OIL SPILL NORTH OF TIONESTA IN FOREST COUNTY.
- YOU MAY REMEMBER THE STORY OF A NINE MONTHS PREGNANT WOMAN WHOSE BODY WAS FOUND IN A SHALLOW MUDDY GRAVE IN ERIE COUNTY THIS PAST FALL.
- BUTLER CITY POLICE ARE CONTINUING THEIR INVESTIGATION INTO THE APPARENT DOUBLE MURDER=SUICIDE CARRIED OUT CHRISTMAS DAY.
- LT. GOV. KATHERINE BAKER KNOLL SAYS SHE IS DEEPLY SADDENED BY PRESIDENT FORD’S PASSING.
- CALLING GERALD FORD A REMARKABLE PRESIDENT, CONGRESSMAN JOHN PETERSON SAYS FORD WAS CALLED UPUON TO SERVE DURING ONE OF THE MOST TUMULTUOUS PERIODS IN OUR NATION’S HISTORY.
- BIDS FOR SWIMMING POOL RENOVATIONS OF THE HASSON=RAMAGE SWIMMING POOL ARE NOW BEING SOLICITED BY THE CITY OF OIL CITY.
- A MERCER COUNTY BOY IS DEAD FROM COMPLICATIONS OF E. COLI.
- FORMER PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR RICHARD THORNBURGH REMEMBERS PRESIDENT GERALD FORD. THORNBURGH WAS U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA WHEN FORD CHOSE HIM TO HEAD THE FEDERAL JUSTICE DEPARTMENTS CRIMINAL DIVISION FOLLOWING THE WATERGATE SCANDAL.
- THIS YEARS NEW YEARS CELEBRATION MARKS THE TENTH YEAR OF THE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL FIRST NIGHT CELEBRATION IN OIL CITY.
- EARLIER THIS WEEK I TOLD YOU ABOUT A COYOTE PUT DOWN IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY FOR FEAR IT HAD BITTEN 3 PEOPLE.
- THE INVESTIGATION BY OIL CITY POLICE INTO A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT EAST FIRST AND CENTRAL CONTINUES IN WHICH AN ELDERLY OIL CITY WOMAN WAS KILLED CONTINUES.
- A CHICORA MAN IS DEAD FOLLOWING A TWO VEHICLE ACCIDENT SATERDAY.
- A STATE POLICE FIRE MARSHALL IS INVESTIGATING A FATAL NEW YEAR’S DAY FIRE IN BUTLER COUNTY.
- TWO MONTHS AFTER THEIR SURPRISING PICKUP OF 8 SEATS IN THE STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DEMOCRATS GO INTO TUESDAYS VOTES FOR SPEAKER WITH A MAJORITY THAT MAY NOT GIVE THEM MUCH MORE INFLUENCE OVER THE CHAMBER THAN THEY HAD DURING 12 YEARS IN THE MIN
- A CLARION COUNTY MAN IS BEING TREATED AT UPMC PITTSBURGH FOR A GUN SHOT WOUND FOLLOWING AN ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
- AN INDIANA COUNTY MAN DIED AFTER HIS ALL TERRAIN VEHICLE FLIPPED OVER SATERDAY AFTERNOON NEAR BRUSHVALLEY, PENNSYLVANIA.
- TIONESTA POLICE SAY 16 YEAR OLD JUVENILE MALE IS CHARGED WITH DRUG POSSESSION.
- CLINTONVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTERS SPENT MOST OF SATERDAY AT THE SCENE OF TWO FIRES ALONG WITH TEN OTHER AREA FIRE COMPANIES IN THAT NECK OF THE WOODS.
- NOT CONTENT TO REST ON THE LAURELS OF SUMMER, VENICE LEWIS, THE PRESIDENT OF THE NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION NOTED SOME OF THE ITEMS THE GROUP HAS TACKLED WITH THE ON SET OF COLDER WEATHER.
- AS MENTIONED LAW ENFORCEMENT WITH REGARD TO DRUG TRAFFICKING IS A DELICATE AFFAIR AT TIME.
- OIL CITY IS A GOOD AND SAFE CITY IN WHICH TO LIVE AND WORK.
- AN OIL CITY WOMAN IS CHARGED WITH THREE FELONIES IN CONNECTION WITH A FATAL ACCIDENT ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN OIL CITY.
- FROM CAMERON COUNTY, OFFICIALS WILL MEET LATER THIS MONTH TO DO SOMETHING NO OTHER COUNTY IN THE COMMONWEALTH HAS EVER CONSIDERED.
- FRANKLIN STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A BURGLARY THAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN MONDAY AND TUESDAY.
- VENANGO COUNTY AUTHORITIES ARE INVESTIGATING A SCRAP METAL THEFT BELIEVED TO BE WORTH THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.
- WHILE AN OIL CITY WOMAN REMAINS LODGED IN VENANGO COUNTY JAIL ON $50,000 BOND CHARGED WITH VEHICULAR HOMICIDE IN CONNECTION WITH A FATAL ACCIDENT FRIDAY, WE ARE LEARNING SHE HAD SOMEWHAT OF A RECORD.
- AN EAU CLAIRE MAN IS CHARGED BY THE STATE POLICE WITH ALLEGEDLY CHOKING A WOMAN AT AN EAU CLAIRE RESIDENCE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
- PENNSYLVANIA, ARMED WITH NEARL $1.4 BILLION IN RECENTLY APPROVED FEDERAL FUNDING, WILL CLEAN UP ABANDONED COAL MINES BEGINNING WITH ONES WHERE INJURIES OR FATALITIES HAVE OCCURED OR ARE LIKELY TO OCCUR.
- THIS GROUP OF LAND LORDS IN OIL CITY HAS BEEN MEETING INFORMALLY FOR ABOUT FOUR MONTHS.
- THESE SAME LANDLORDS ARE READY TO SUPPORT THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE BY ATTENDING THE NEXT CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION ON THE AFTERNOON OF MONDAY JANUARY 22.
- AND KEEPING TRACK OF WHO IS COMING AND GOING AND GAINING ADDITIONAL REVENUE IS A CONCERN RAISED IN OIL CITY BY MANY ESPECIALLY IN CITY HALL.
- IN EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA, ALONG THE DELAWARE RIVER, A LANDLORD LICENSING LAW IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ADDING 2500 NEW RESIDENTS TO THE TAX ROLLS.
- .CONGRESSMAN JOHN PETERSON OF PLEASANTVILLE IS JOINING WITH OTHER RURAL COLLEAGUES IN INTRODUCING A FOREST COUNTY (WITH A SMALL F) PAYMENT BILL IN THE NEW 110TH CONGRESS.
- WE HEARD A LOT LAST YEAR ABOUT NEW CARS AND TRUCKS TO BE SOLD IN PENNSYLVANIA FOR THE 2008 MODEL YEAR HAVING TO COMPLY WITH CALIFORNIA STYLE AIR POLLUTION STANDARDS AND NOT THE LESS STRINGENT FEDERAL STANDARDS.
- VENANGO, FOREST, CLARION, CRAWFORD, ERIE AND WARREN COUNTIES ARE ALL INCLUDED IN GOVERNOR ED RENDELL’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF $5 MILLION FOR WORKFORCE TRAINING AND STRONGER PENNSYLVANIA BUSINESSES.
- WHEN IT COME TO ECONOMIC EARLY INTERVENTION, OIL CITY IS IN THE COMPANY SEVERAL OTHER WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA COMMUNITIES.
- A TOUCH OF WINTER RETURNS TO VENANGO COUNTY TODAY.
- AN ARMED ROBBERY IS UNDER INVESTIGATION IN SAEGERTOWN, CRAWFORD COUNTY.
- IN CLARION COUNTY ON FRIDAY NIGHT STATE TROOPERS REPORT EMILY REND OF PUNXATAWNEY WAS TRAVELING EAST ON BIGLEY ROAD IN PAINT TOWNSHIP.
- A COUPLE OF ROLL OVER ACCIDENTS TO TELL YOU ABOUT. THE FIRST IN CRAWFORD COUNTY AT THE INTERSECTION OF MOISERTOWN ROAD AND TOWNSHIP 371 IN HAYFIELD TOWNSHIP SATERDAY AFTERNOON.
- CRUELTY TO ANIMALS IS THE CRIME UNDER INVESTIGATION BY CLARION STATE TROOPERS IN RED BANK TOWNSHIP, CLARION COUNTY.
- THE WEATHER AND NEWS ARE "BEHIND" US. LETS HAVE A LITTLE FUN. THIS IS OFF THE POLICE REPORTS FROM CLARION AND MEADVILLE.
- VENANGO CO SEN MARY JO WHITE CHAIRS THE SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL & ENERGY RESOURCES COMMITTEE, LEADING A CONTROVERSY OVER TOUGHER STATE MERCURY EMISSIONS REDUCTION RULES FOR COAL FIRED POWER PLANTS.
- DEPENDING WHO’S WEATHER FORECAST YOU PAY ATTENTION TOO, THERE IS A FLOOD ADVISORY FOR VENANGO COUNTY.
- THE WEATHER IS THE NEWS THIS MORNING.
- A FUGITIVE WANTED ON VARIOUS CRIMES AND ESCAPE CHARGES IS IN CUSTODY IN MERCER COUNTY.
- A PLANE THAT CRASHED LAST MONTH, KILLING THE PILOT AND A NURSE, INTENTIONALLY MADE A HARD LANDING AS THE PILOT TRIED TO BANG ICE FROM ITS WINGS.
- THE SNOW IS PROOF POSITIVE OUR EXTENDED HIATUS WITH BALMY TEMPERATURES IS OVER.
- VENANGO COUNTY SENATOR MARY JO WHITE AND SUPPORTERS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA COAL INDUSTRY FAVOR WEAKER FEDERAL REGULATIONS REGARDING MERCURY EMISSIONS REDUCTION AT THE STATE’S COAL FIRED POWER PLANTS.
- EPANTHAMIE SEARRAY BARKER, CHARGED IN THE ALLEGED HOMICIDE BY VEHICLE DEATH OF AN ELDERLY OIL CITY WOMAN ON DECEMBER 29TH IS SCHEDULED TO APPEAR IN COURT TODAY AT A PRELIMINARY HEARING.
- A LAKE EFFECT SNOW ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THIS MORNING UNTIL 9 AM.
- AN ELLWOOD CITY MAN IS DEAD FOLLOWING AN EARLY MORNING CRASH NEAR PORTERSVILLE YESTERDAY.
- A BUTLER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT IS ENDORSING CREATION OF A TAX FREE ZONE SO WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY CAN EXPAND ITS NUCLEAR BUSINESS.
- VENANGO COUNTY’S CONGRESSMAN ARE DIFFERING IN THEIR RESPONSE TO THE ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT BUSH REGARDING IRAQ POLICY ON TELEVISION LAST NIGHT.
- CONGRESSMAN PHIL ENGLISH SAYS WHILE HE APPLAUDS THE PRESIDENTS REASSESSMENT OF U.S. IRAQ POLICY, HE DOES NOT SUPPORT AN EXPANSION IN AMERICAN TROOP STRENGTH ON THE GROUND.
- A CRAWFORD COUNTY MAN FACES AT LEAST FIVE YEARS IN JAIL AND FINES OF AT LEAST $50,000 FOR HIS CONVICTION OF MAKING OVER 95 GRAMS OF METH.
- A TOTAL OF $113,516 IS COMING TO THE VENANGO COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE AS PART OF A STATE WIDE $20 MILLION GRANT PROGRAM AWARDED TO COUNTIES TO AID VICTIMS OF CRIME.
- DRAKE WELL MUSEUM, LOCATED IN CHERRY TREE TOWNSHIP, VENANGO COUNTY, COLLECTS, PRESERVES AND INTERPRETS THE FOUNDING OF THE OIL INDUSTRY.
- THE ANDERSON BUILDING IN ROUSEVILLE BORO AT THE CORNER OF ROUTES 8 AND 227 DETERIORATING BY THE DAY.
- A PITTSBURGH COMPANY WILL BUILD A NEW PENNSYLVANIA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD READINESS CENTER IN CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS, CRAWFORD COUNTY.
- A MAN WHO WAS SEVERELY BURNED WHEN HIS HOUSE EXPLODED, DURING WHAT POLICE CALL A FAILED SUICIDE ATTEMPT, IS UNDER ARREST NOW JUST AFTER BEING RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL THIS WEEK.
- THE OWNERS OF 2 OIL & GAS DRILLING COMPANIES OPERATING IN FOREST COUNTY & IN & AROUND THE ALLEGHENY NATIONAL FOREST ARE TARGETED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT .
- THE ARTS OIL CITY ARTS REVITALIZATION MEETING IN OIL CITY RESEMBLED A BRAIN TRUST OF PLANNERS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS, ARTISTS, PRIVATE PERSONS AND PUBLIC OFFICIALS.
- TODAY IS A FEDERAL HOLIDAY, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY.
- THE ARTS OIL CITY ARTS REVITALIZATION MEETING IN OIL CITY RESEMBLED A BRAIN TRUST OF PLANNERS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS, ARTISTS, PRIVATE PERSONS AND PUBLIC OFFICIALS.
- MARK CONRAD IS THE NEW COORDINATOR OF CAREER SERVICES AT CLARION UNIVERSITY VENANGO CAMPUS.
- MANUFACTURING OIL PUMP JACKS IS AN ENDEAVOR ERIE RESIDENT DAN STUTZMAN SAYS FOUND HIM.
- REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN JOHN PETERSON SAYS HE PLANS A GIVE & TAKE RELATIONSHIP WITH CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS WHO NOW OWN THE MAJORITY.
- A GROVE CITY MAN IS RECOVERING FROM A SINGLE GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE STOMACH IN ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL.
- THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA HAS A LABOR AGREEMENT WITH ITS EMPLOYEES.
- SLIPPERY CONDITIONS FOR YOUR TRIP TO WORK OR SCHOOL THIS MORNING.
- A MERCER COUNTY WOMAN WILL SPEND UP TO SIX MONTHS IN JAIL FOR THE DUI ACCIDENT RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND A YEAR AGO NEW YEARS DAY.
- A LAWRENCE COUNTY MAN IS CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH HIS SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH A TEENAGED GIRL.
- A PLEASANTVILLE FAMILY IS HOMELESS THIS DAY FOLLOWING A SUNDAY NIGHT FIRE WHICH DESTROYED THEIR HOME.
- A TITUSVILLE MAN IS CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHOOTING OF WILLIAM GREER IN OIL CREEK TOWNSHIP EARLY SUNDAY.
- EARLIER THIS WEEK, DEMOCRAT JAN BEICHNER, A VENANGO COUNTY BUSINESSWOMAN, ANNOUNCED FOR A SEAT ON THE COMMISSIONERS BOARD.
- GARY HUTCHISON, INCUMBENT DEMOCRATIC VENANGO COUNTY COMMISSIONER SAYS HE’LL BE ON THE PRIMARY BALLOT IN MAY SEEKING PARTY ENDORSEMENT FOR A SECOND TERM.
- ICY ROADS POSSIBLE THIS MORNING...
- GOVERNOR ED RENDELL OUTLINED HIS AGENDA FOR PENNSYLVANIA OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS DURING HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS YESTERDAY.
- STUDENTS AT YOUNGSVILLE AND WARREN AREA HIGHSCHOOLS ARE BACK IN CLASS TODAY AFTER TWIN BOMB SCARES FORCED EVACUATIONS AT BOTH SCHOOLS YESTERDAY.
- ABRAXAS PERSONNEL WILL MEET WITH UNION OFFICIALS ON FRIDAY IN ONE LAST EFFORT TO AVERT A STRIKE.
- ANOTHER POSITIVE TANGIBLE STEP TOWARD A NEW SWIMMING POOL IN OIL CITY.
- THIS IS THE TIME OF YEAR MUNICIPALITIES ARE DISCUSSING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS.
- MARIE VEON, VENANGO COUNTY’S REPUBLICAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY, IN THE RUNNING FOR JUDGE OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
- THE SOLUTION TO PROVIDING DENTAL CARE TO THE UNDERSERVED OF VENANGO COUNTY, ESPECIALLY SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN, LIES IN PREVENTION, EDUCATION AND COLLABORATION.
- BE ALERT FOR ICY SPOTS THIS MORNING
- KRISTAL CLARK, OF FRANKLIN, IS FREE ON $10,000 BOND UNTIL MAY WHEN SHE WILL BE SENTENCED IN ERIE FEDERAL COURTH FOR EMBEZZLING OVER $3 MILLION FROM CLIENTS PARKER HUNTER IN OIL CITY FROM 1995 TO 2005.
- WINTER WEATHER RELATED ROAD ACCIDENTS ARE POPPING UP ALL OVER THE POLICE REPORTS THIS MORNING.
- THE ALLEGHENY NATIONAL FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN WILL BE ADOPTED THIS YEAR BY THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE.
- OIL CITY COUNCIL DISCUSSION YESTERDAY OF REMOVAL OF 2 OLD WATER PIPES SPANNING THE ALLEGHENY RIVER
- AS TALK ON COUNCIL CENTERED AROUND WHAT PLAN OR PROJECT TO PURSUE, COUNCILWOMAN SONYA HAWKINS ALSO EXPRESSED A DESIRE TO KEEP ON TALKING WITH INTEREST GROUPS SUPPORTING WHITE WATER DEVELOPMENT AND OTHER FORMS OF WATER BORNE RECREATION.
- WALKER WILL BE SENTENCED TOMORROW AFTERNOON IN VENANGO COUNTY COURT
- SWIFT REACTION TO THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT BUSH FROM CONGRESSMAN JOHN PETERSON OF PLEASANTVILLE.
- SPEAKING OF VENANGO COUNTY, IT IS THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE PENNSYLVANIA CLEANWAYS, A GROWING GRASSROOTS NETWORK.
- VENANGO COUNTY COMMISSIONERS SUE SMITH, LARRY HORN AND GARY HUTCHISON RECENTLY JOINED WITH THEIR COUNTERPARTS ACROSS THE COMMONWEALTH TO UNVEIL THE 2007 LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ASSOCIATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.
- EVERYDAY OIL CITY IS JUST A LITTLE CLOSER TO A NEW SWIMMING POOL.
- EPANTHAMIE BARKER, CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH AN ALLEGED DECEMBER FATAL HIT AND RUN REMAINS LODGED IN THE VENANGO COUNTY JAIL AFTER WAIVING HER RIGHT TO A PRELIMINARY HEARING YESTERDAY ACCORDING TO A PUBLISHED REPORT.
- ALONG WITH THE SNOW TODAY AND TOMORROW COMES A REMINDER FROM PENN DOT TO REMAIN ALERT TO SUDDEN SNOW SQALLS WHILE DRIVING.
- ALONG WITH THE SNOW TODAY AND TOMORROW COMES A REMINDER FROM PENN DOT TO REMAIN ALERT TO SUDDEN SNOW SQALLS WHILE DRIVING.
- Rep. Scott Hutchinson (R-Venango) has been named the Republican chair of the house environmental resources and energy committee.
- WHEN THE NICE OFFICER PULLS YOU OVER FOR SPEEDING, CHANCES ARE YOU WERE NAILED WITH A RADAR GUN OR A VARIANT THEREOF.
- BACK IN SEPTEMBER, SHAWN HARMON OF CRANBERRY PLEADED GUILTY TO CHARGES IN CONNECTION WITH THE HOMICIDE BY VEHICLE DEATH WHILE DUI OF A STATE POLICE DISPATCHER IN MARCH 2005.
- EMERGENCY RADIO TRANSMISSIONS EARLY THIS MORNING INDICATE A WORKING STRUCTURE FIRE JUST OUTSIDE OF HYDETOWN.
- A LAKE EFFECT SNOW ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT ACROSS THE KQW LISTENING AREA FROM 1 P.M. THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 A.M. WEDNESDAY MORNING UNTIL 11 A.M.
- IN MCKEAN COUNTY, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY IS CONSIDERING FILING NEGLIGENCE IN THE JUNE 30 NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILROAD TRAIN DERAILMENT.
- OVER $234,000 IS BEING AWARDED THIS YEAR TO STUDENTS ENROLLED IN NURSING PROGRAMS OFFERED BY THE VENANGO CAMPUS OF CLARION UNIVERSITY.
- DETAILS ARE SPARSE, BUT INFORMATION FROM BUTLER COUNTY INDICATES A LATE NIGHT SNOWMOBILE CRASH KILLED ONE PERSON.
- THE PUBLIC BUS ROUTES IN CRAWFORD COUNTY SERVING TITUSVILLE AND MEADVILLE MIGHT VERY WELL CHANGE IN A MATTER OF MONTHS.
- A 61 YEAR OLD BUTLER COUNTY WOMAN IS DEAD FOLLOWING A SNOWMOBILING ACCIDENT LAST NIGHT.
- THE IRS IS DECLARING TODAY EITC AWARENESS DAY.
- VENANGO COUNTY STATE SENATOR MARY JO WHITE OBJECTS TO THE ELEMENT OF GOVERNMENT INTRUSION IN THE REGULATION OF PERSONAL BEHAVIOR WHEN IT COMES TO DISCUSSING A POSSIBLE STATE WIDE SMOKING BAN IN PUBLIC PLACES.
- LAND VALUE TAXATION (ALSO KNOWN AS THE SPLIT RATE TAX OR TWO TIERED TAX ) IS A TYPE OF REAL PROPERTY TAXATION. IT’S THE TOPIC OF DISCUSSION ON A BLOG CALLED SAVE THE CITY, NEWS AND VIEWS ON LAND, CITIES AND TAXES, LAND VALUE TAXATION.
- A CLARION COUNTY MAN STANDS GUILTY OF THIRD DEGREE MURDER IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEATH OF A MAN FROM KENTUCKY NEARLY TWO YEARS AGO.
- OIL CITY POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT IN WHICH AN UNKNOWN MAN IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS A SERGEANT WITH AN UNKNOWN LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
- IN AN EFFORT TO DECREASE DRUNK DRIVING ON SUPERBOWL SUNDAY, PENNDOT IS WORKING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AROUND THE STATE TO STEP UP DUI ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS.
- TWO KNOX BORO RESIDENTS ARE LODGED IN THE CLARION COUNTY JAIL THIS MORNING ON $10,000 STRAIGHT BAIL IN CONNECTION WITH A SERIES OF THEFTS FROM MOTOR VEHICLES.
- OIL CITY POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A BURGLARY AT AUSTIN INK WHICH OCCURRED SOMETIME BETWEEN 10 SATERDAY NIGHT AND 1030 YESTERDAY MORNING.
- HERE ARE THE OFFICIAL WEATHER RELATED DELAYS REPORTED TO KQW THUS FAR THIS MORNING:
- THE NORTH SIDE ASSOCIATION OF OIL CITY WANTS TO BRING OIL CITY TOGETHER AT ITS MONTHLY MEETING TOMORROW NIGHT.
- IF THERE IS ANY REALLY GOOD NEWS TO REPORT IT IS THAT WHICH IS HAPPENING IN CONNECTION WITH THE VENANGO COUNTY DENTAL TASK FORCE.
- THE RATES FOR RENTING A PAVILLION AT OIL HASSON PARK ARE DOUBLING THIS SPRING.
- OIL CITY CODE OFFICER ED YARD SAYS THERE’S LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL IN DEALING W/ DERELICT HOUSING.
- HOW TO CHARACTERIZE PROGRESS ON THE BIDDING FOR THE NEW OIL CITY SWIMMING POOL: GOOD NEWS BAD NEWS OR 1 STEP FORWARD 2 STEPS BACK.
- THE FOLLOWING SCHOOLS ARE OPERATING ON A TWO HOUR DELAY THIS MORNING DUE TO THE COLD WEATHER:
- A WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT ACROSS THE KQW LISTEN AREA THIS MORNING UNTIL NOON TODAY.
- congressman phil english says in a statement regarding the presidents blueprint budget for 2008 that the pro growth policies enacted by congress have proven to be the lifeline of the american economy
- 2 lawrence county residents are dead following a four vehicle accident yesterday on route 422 near I 79.
- NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT VENICE LEWIS SPOKE LAST ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BUILDING UP OUR CHILDREN, OUR HOUSING AND DRIVING DRUGS OUT OF THE COMMUNITY.
- BRINGING OIL CITY TOGETHER AND GETTING THE MESSAGE OUT.
- VENANGO COUNTY STATE SENATOR MARY JO WHITE SAYS GOVERNOR ED RENDELL’S BUDGET WILL DRAMATICALLY IMPACT BOTH FAMILIES AND THE PENNSYLVANIA JOB MARKET.
- FEDERAL OFFICIALS QUESTION WHETHER A PROPOSAL FOR AN INTERSTATE 80 INTERCHANGE TO GIVE TRUCKS ACCESS TO A LANDFILL PROPOSED IN WESTERN CENTER COUNTY FITS WITH REGIONAL LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION PLANS.
- TAKE PRIDE WITH CARING HABITS WORKS HARD TO BE READILY VISIBLE AND AUDIBLE IN VENANGO COUNTY.
- A DELEWARE, OHIO MAN IS RECOVERING FROM MAJOR INJURIES THIS MORNING FOLLOWING A REAR ENDER WITH A TRACTOR TRAILER YESTERDAY AFTERNOON IN BARKEYVILLE.
- STANDING WITH ATTORNEY GENERAL CORBETT THIS AFTENOON WERE OIL CITY POLICE CHIEF ROBERT WENNER AND VENANGO COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY MARIE VEON
- attorney general tom corbett says in remarks delivered in oil city this afternoon at city hall operation raw deal is putting a dent in local drug trafficking.
- A GROUP OF CONCERNED OIL CITY LANDLORDS AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES MET AT THE GOOD HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH LAST NIGHT.
- attorney general tom corbett says in remarks delivered in oil city YESTERDAY at city hall operation raw deal is putting a dent in local drug trafficking.
- ARTS OIL CITY CONTINUES PRESSING AHEAD ON FUNDING SOURCES AND ALLOCATIONS PROMOTING THE ARTS IN OIL CITY.
- OIL CITY POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING THE PASSING OF COUNTERFEIT TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS AROUND OIL CITY BUSINESSES.
- AN OIL CITY MAN IS CHARGED WITH FALSE IDENTIFICATION TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, RESISTING ARREST, DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND PUBLIC INTOXICATION FOLLOWING A FOOT PURSUIT VERY EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.
- Jury selection got underway this morning in the trial of an Armstrong County woman accused of trying to cut the fetus out of the womb of her pregnant neighbor.
- DAN & JODY ROBERTS, FACILITATORS OF THE OIL CITY 2006 HALLOWEEN PARADE ASKED COUNCIL TO PARTNER W/ THEM ON SPONSORSHIP OF THE 2007 EVENT.
- LAST THURSDAY AT OIL CITY HALL IT WAS ALL GLITZ, LIGHTS AND TV CAMERAS AS THE PENNSYLVANIA ATTORNEY GENERAL ANNOUNCED THE ARREST OF OVER 16 PEOPLE , MOSTLY FROM OIL CITY, INVOLVED IN THE LOCAL DRUG TRADE AFTER A 10 MONTH INVESTIGATION.
- CITY COUNCIL SAYS WE HAVE TO START SOMEWHERE. SOME OIL CITY LANDLORDS SAY THERE MUST BE A BETTER WAY.
- OIL CITY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR JANET GATESMAN REVIEWED DURING A 3RD PUBLIC HEARING LAST NIGHT, THE SUGGESTED EXPENDITURE OF THE ANNUAL FEDERAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT.
- LAST THURSDAY AT OIL CITY HALL IT WAS ALL GLITZ, LIGHTS AND TV CAMERAS AS THE PENNSYLVANIA ATTORNEY GENERAL ANNOUNCED THE ARREST OF OVER 16 PEOPLE , MOSTLY FROM OIL CITY, INVOLVED IN THE LOCAL DRUG TRADE AFTER A 10 MONTH INVESTIGATION.
- DAN & JODY ROBERTS, FACILITATORS OF THE OIL CITY 2006 HALLOWEEN PARADE ASKED COUNCIL TO PARTNER W/ THEM ON SPONSORSHIP OF THE 2007 EVENT.
- CITY COUNCIL SAYS WE HAVE TO START SOMEWHERE.
- CITING THE DESIRE TO SPEND MORE TIME WITH FAMILY AND EXTENDED FAMILY, DEMOCRATIC VENANGO COUNTY COMMISSIONER GARY HUTCHISON IS BOWING OUT OF THE RACE FOR RE ELECTION.
- AN ARMSTRONG COUNTY JUDGE WILL NOW DETERMINE THE DEGREE OF GUILT FOR A WOMAN WHO PLEADED GUILTY YESTERDAY TO ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE, ASSAULT AND KIDNAPPING FOR TRYING TO CUT AN UNBORN CHILD FROM HER PREGNANT NEIGHBORS’WOMB
- THERE ARE ABOUT TWELVE INCHES OF SNOW ON THE GROUND THROUGHOUT THE KQW LISTENING AREA THIS MORNING.
- HERE ARE THE LATEST CANCELLATIONS, POSTPONEMENTS, CLOSINGS AND WEATHER RELATED DELAYS AS WE HAVE THEM AT THIS TIME.
- THE VENANGO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE GATHERS DURING ITS ANNUAL MEETING SET FOR THIS MORNING AT 8:30.
- IF FARMING IN THE KQW LISTENING AREA IS YOUR OCCUPATION, YOU MAY ESPECIALLY WANT TO HERE THIS.
- HERE ARE IS THE LIST OF WEATHER RELATED DELAYS, POSTPONEMENTS, AND OR CANCELLATIONS AS WE HAVE THEM AT THIS TIME.
- IF FARMING IN THE KQW LISTENING AREA IS YOUR OCCUPATION, YOU MAY ESPECIALLY WANT TO HERE THIS. THIS IS DR. JOHN MAY WITH THE NORTHEAST CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL HEALTH. I SPOKE WITH DR. MAY YESTERDAY.
- IF FARMING IN THE KQW LISTENING AREA IS YOUR OCCUPATION, YOU MAY ESPECIALLY WANT TO HERE THIS.
- THE VENANGO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE GATHERS DURING ITS ANNUAL MEETING SET FOR THIS MORNING AT 8:30.
- HERE ARE IS THE LIST OF WEATHER RELATED DELAYS, POSTPONEMENTS, AND OR CANCELLATIONS AS WE HAVE THEM AT THIS TIME.
- A woman gave birth to a boy outside a western Pennsylvania hospital, a delivery that happened so quickly that the infant wound up in the woman's pants.
- 3 STRATEGIC DRIVING STRATEGIES ARE POWERING THE VENANGO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO A POSITIVE SPIN ON THE COUNTY’S BUSINESS CLIMATE.
- DUE TO SNOW FROM THE VALENTINES DAY STORM, THE CITY OF TITUSVILLE IS REMINDING IT’S RESIDENTS OF THE FOLLOWING:
- PEGGY JO CONNER’S GUILTY PLEA STANDS IN HER WOMB ATTACK CASE. SHE WAS GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY YESTERDAY TO WITHDRAW HER GUILTY PLEA TO TRYING TO STEAL AN UNBORN CHILD BY CUTTING HER PREGNANT NEIGHBORS STOMACH, BUT CONNER DECLINED.
- A COCHRANTON MAN IS CHARGED WITH TERRORISTIC THREATS AGAINST THE UPMC NW REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH UNIT ACCORDING TO FRANKLIN STATE POLICE.
- A WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 THIS MORNING.
- GLENN O. HAWBAKER INC OF STATE COLLEGE IS THE APPARENT LOW BIDDER ON AN INTERSTATE 80 PAVING PROJECT IN CLARION COUNTY.
- WHILE I’M ON THE SUBJECT OF DUI’S, A FRANKLIN STATE TROOPER, WITH THE AID OF INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY A CITIZEN APPREHENDED A DRUNK DRIVER WHO WAS ALSO IN VIOLATION OF PROBATION.
- A COUPLE OF OIL CITY RESIDENTS ARE RECOVERING FROM INJURIES SUSTAINED IN ONE CAR CRASH SATERDAY AFTERNOON IN CRAWFORD COUNTY.
- SPEAKING OF FIRES, SEVERAL BUTLER COUNTY CHURCHES ARE OFFERING THEIR WORSHIP SPACES TO THE COMMUNITY OF THE mCKEE cHAPEL uNITED mETHODIST cHURCH.
- state police fire marshals are investigating a fatal fire in forest county.
- Unidentified skeletal remains found almost a half-century ago — nicknamed "Mr. Bones" by police — won't be buried anytime soon because Bedford County prosecutors still contend that they contain evidence of an unsolved crime.
- It took 46 hours of nonstop dancing, but students at Penn State raised $5.2 million over the weekend to help children with cancer.
- boats, classic cars , motorcycles and forklifts were destroyed in garage fire in clarion county
- THROUGHOUT 2006, OIL CITY COUNCIL CRAFTED A COMMUNITY ACTION PLAN. GOALS INCLUDED CREATING A VIBRANT ACTIVE BUSINESS DISTRICT IN OIL CITY.
- AS ARTS OIL CITY MOVES FORWARD WITH PLANS TO HOUSE RESIDENT ARTIST IN THE TRANSIT ANNEX, A NEED IS ARISING TO COVER INCIDENTAL COSTS SUCH AS NEW LOCKS AND DOORS AND EVEN A BUILDING DIRECTORY.
- SEVERAL PRESENT VOICED OPINIONS EXPRESSING THE NEED FOR JOBS TO PROVIDE PEOPLE WITH MONEY TO REJUVENATE THE LOCAL ECONOMY AND BRING ABOUT BETTER HOUSING THROUGH MARKET FORCES.
- MAYBE THE BEST ITEM FROM YESTERDAY’S OIL CITY COUNCIL WORK MEETING IN WHICH COUNCIL HEARD PROS & CONS OF A RENTAL LICENSING INITIATIVE BROUGHT BY A SMALL GROUP OF CONCERNED CITY LANDLORDS, WAS A DIALOGUE ON THE ISSUE W/ OPPOSING LANDLORDS.
- AS ARTS OIL CITY MOVES FORWARD WITH PLANS TO HOUSE RESIDENT ARTIST IN THE TRANSIT ANNEX, A NEED IS ARISING TO COVER INCIDENTAL COSTS SUCH AS NEW LOCKS AND DOORS AND EVEN A BUILDING DIRECTORY.
- AND WHILE SOME OF THE STUDENTS IN THE OIL CITY AREA SCHOOLS ARE GETTING THEIR TEETH ATTENDED TOO, THE REST OF THE STUDENTS AND STAFF WILL LOOK FORWARD TO NEW STATE OF THE ART BOILER SYSTEM AT THE HIGH SCHOOL MIDDLE SCHOOL COMPLEX.
- THE MOBILE DENTIST PROGRAM IN VENANGO COUNTY IS BEGINNING TO MAKE ITSELF KNOWN IN EVER WIDER CIRCLES.
- THROUGHOUT 2006, OIL CITY COUNCIL CRAFTED A COMMUNITY ACTION PLAN. GOALS INCLUDED CREATING A VIBRANT ACTIVE BUSINESS DISTRICT IN OIL CITY.
- THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE OF 2 MILE RUN COUNTY PARK IS UNKNOWN.
- A DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 THIS MORNING.
- A DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 THIS MORNING. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAYS SATURATED AIR MOVING ACROSS SNOW COVERED GROUND WILL CAUSE AREAS OF DENSE FOG INTO MID MORNING.
- A NEW YORK CITY MAN IS CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF DRUGS FOLLOWING A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT IN CLARION COUNTY YESTERDAY.
- JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT MONDAY MORNING IN FRANKLIN, CITY POLICE CHARGED ANOTHER FRANKLIN MAN WITH POSSESSION DRUG PARAPHERNALIA AND POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE.
- ABOUT AN HOUR AND HALF PREVIOUS TO THE BELLERIVE, KIMBALL INCIDENT, FRANKLIN CITY POLICE WERE AT THE SAME RESIDENCE ON THE UNDERAGE DRINKING REPORT.
- TWO FRANKLIN MEN ARE IN THE VENANGO COUNTY JAIL ON $25,000 STRAIGHT CASH BAIL CHARGED WITH A DRUG ACT VIOLATION.
- A REGULATION FORCING MAJOR MERCURY REDUCTIONS FROM PENNSYLVANIA’S COAL FIRED POWER PLANTS BECAME FINAL THIS LAST WEEKEND.
- VENANGO COUNTY STATE REPRESENTATIVE SCOTT HUTCHINSON WAS A PARTICIPANT IN WILLIAMSPORT YESTERDAY IN THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF HEARINGS PLANNED ACROSS THE STATE BY THE STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPUBLICAN POLICY COMMITTEE.
- MIKE KLAPEC. AN INFLUENTIAL FUNDRAISER FOR SUCH THINGS AS A NEW POOL IN OIL CITY AND A NEW ADDITION FOR THE SALVATION ARMY. A MAN WITH AN ADDICTION FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE.
- for the 57th consecutive year the chamber of commerce that is now the venango area chamber of commerce honored an outstanding citizen for the previous year.
- AS REPORTED EARLIER THIS WEEK THE OIL CITY HIGH SCHOOL MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMPUS WILL BE GETTING A NEW BOILER SYSTEM THIS SUMMER.
- THREE HOT TOPICS OF CONVERSATION AS OIL CITY AREA SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT DR. JOSEPH CARRICO VISITED THE KQW STUDIOS THIS MORNING.
- IN THE BACKGROUND AT A LOT OF PUBLIC MEETINGS THIS IS WHAT YOU’LL HEAR.
- DURING THE MEETING LAST NIGHT CHAIRED BY DAVE MAYER, HE TOOK SOME TIME TO VOICE THE SITUATION AS HE SEES IT AND THERE SEEMS TO BE ROOM FOR A UNITED FRONT AND ACTION WITH A POSSITIVE IMPACT.
- LANDLORDS MET ONCE AGAIN AT THE GOOD HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH TO DISCUSS A PROPOSED ORDINANCE THAT WOULD REQUIRE CITY INSPECTIONS OF RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES BEFORE THEYARE RENTED TO TENANTS.
- LAST NIGHT A GROUP OF OIL CITY LANDLORDS MET ONCE AGAIN AT THE GOOD HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH TO DISCUSS A PROPOSED ORDINANCE THAT WOULD REQUIRE CITY INSPECTIONS OF RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES BEFORE THEYARE RENTED TO TENANTS.
- A CLARION COUNTY MAN IS BEGINNING THE LONG ROAD TO RECOVERY AFTER TWO CAR CRASH ON ROUTE 66, REDBANK TOWNSHIP LATE LAST NIGHT.
- THIS WEEK CREWS AROUND THE KQW LISTENING AREA FINALLY WERE ABLE TO CLEAR MOST OF RECENT SNOW OFF THE PAVEMENTS. AND SOME DRIVERS BECAME JUST A LITTLE USED TO NEARLY NORMAL DRIVING AGAIN.
- CONGRESSMAN JOHN PETERSON IS REMINDING ALL TAX PAYING RESIDENTS TO CHECK ELIGIBILITY FOR THE EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT.
- TWO MALE JUVENILES ARE CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH ESCAPE FROM VISION QUEST SATERDAY.
- Clarion-based State Police detained five Mexican residents believed to be in the country illegally late Friday night.
- TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS & POWER FAILURES MADE LIFE A LITTLE DIFFICULT IN OIL CITY OVER THE WEEKEND.
- THE FOLLOWING SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE OPERATING ON A TWO HOUR DELAY THIS MORNING:
- A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT ACROSS THE KQW LISTENING AREA UNTIL 10 THIS MORNING.
- ERIE CITY OFFICIALS ARE GOING TO COURT TO GET APPROVAL TO SELL THE CITY GOLF COURSE.
- THE BODY OF A MARINE KILLED IN IRAQ EARLIER THIS MONTH LIES AT REST NOW.
- A WARREN COUNTY MEDAL OF HONOR WINNER , A SOLDIER FROM SHEFFIELD WHO SERVED IN VIETNAM WILL GET HIS RIGHTFUL RECOGNITION.
- Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield is at it again, this time with a 123 pound whopper of a burger.
- This next story is worth only a few bucks, but money is money, especially if you live in the Queen City, Titusville, in Crawford County.
- OIL CITY IS MOVING ON A JOINT COMPREHENSIVE MASTER PLAN.
- A BLUE PRINT FOR ASSISTING & IMPROVING OIL CITY’S ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT.
- FEELINGS APPARENTLY REMAIN HIGH IN REGARD TO A PAIR OF OIL CITY LANDLORD ISSUES.
- Two people are dead and two others injured following a two car crash yesterday..
- A MORNING THREE ALARM FIRE IN MERCER COUNTY IS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
- AN 18 YEAR OLD MAN IS DEAD AFTER AN OVER NIGHT CRASH IN BUTLER COUNTY.
- FEBRUARY IS NATIONAL PARENT LEADERSHIP MONTH. HERE IN VENANGO COUNTY.
- SOME YEARS AGO THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY, ED KOCH, WAS IN THE HABIT OF ASKING, HOW AM I DOING?
- THEN THERE WAS THE 1ST EVER CONGRESSMAN PETERSON COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD TO O R A CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD JACK CRAWFORD FOR HIS PATIENT & TIRELESS WORK IN HELPING TO ESTABLISH A STRONG ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION VENANGO COUNTY.
- SOME YEARS AGO THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY, ED KOCH, WAS IN THE HABIT OF ASKING, HOW AM I DOING? HE DIDN’T ASK HIS STAFF, HE ASKED EVERYDAY PEOPLE ON THE STREET.
- VENANGO COUNTY ELECTIONS CHIEF DENISE JONES SAYS ALL OF THE SCHOOL BOARDS IN VENANGO COUNTY HAVE UNTIL MARCH 16TH TO GET THOSE ACT 1 BALLOT QUESTIONS APPROVED AND BACK TO THE COURTHOUSE TO BE INCLUDED ON THE BALLOT.
- YOU MAY REMEMBER OPERATION RAW DEAL LAST MONTH IN WHICH 16 PEOPLE IN THE OIL CITY AREA WERE ARRESTED ON DRUG CHARGES.
- THEY’RE COMING IN DROVES FROM SMALL TOWNS AND CITIES IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND NEIGHBORING STATES, CLUTCHING WALLETS AND PURSES STUFFED WITH CASH AND NURSING A COMMON DREAM: HITTING THE JACKPOT.
- THE VENANGO COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE REPORTS THE FOLLOWING THREE PEOPLE WERE APPREHENDED BY DEPUTIES YESTERDAY:
- OIL CITY POLICE ARE ASKING FOR YOUR HELP IN SOLVING A BURGLARY.
- CONGRESSMAN JOHN E. PETERSON, REPUBLICAN 5TH DISTRICT OF PLEASANTVILLE, IS THE GUEST SPEAKER AT THE ANNUAL LINCOLN DAY DINNER OF THE VENANGO COUNTY REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE tomorrow NIGHT AT CROSS CREEK RESORT.
- A curator with the Holocaust Memorial Exhibit will speak at Slippery Rock University next week.
- A Mercer County woman, missing since Valentine Day, is dead.
- HOW TO INCREASE THE VALUE OF YOUR HOME IN OIL CITY.
- VENANGO COUNTY STATE SENATOR MARY JO WHITE SAYS GOVERNOR ED RENDELL’S PROPOSED 2% INCREASE IN STATE FUNDS TO PENN STATE FOR THE NEXT ACADEMIC YEAR IS NOT AN INSULT TO PENN STATE.
- THERE’S ANOTHER HAT IN THE RING FOR VENANGO COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
- A CAR CRASHED INTO A HOUSE IN CLARION COUNTY IN THE PREDAWN OF SATERDAY.
- A CAR CRASHED INTO A HOUSE IN CLARION COUNTY IN THE PREDAWN OF SATERDAY.
- NEARLY A MONTH AGO THE CITY OF OIL CITY AWARD THE FIRST OF THREE BIDS TO BEGIN WORK ON A NEW MUNICIPAL SWIMMING POOL.
- THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE FRANKLIN CITY COUNCIL TOOK PLACE ONCE AGAIN LAST NIGHT AT THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS OF FRANKLIN CITY HALL.
- with oil city council’s only democrat sandra montgomery, declining to run for another term in this years elections, city resident john bartlett is filing nominating petitions for the democratic ballot in the may primary elections.
- ON ANOTHER FRONT FILLED WITH CONTROVERSEY, OIL CITY MANAGER TOM ROCKOVICH SAY HE AND HIS STAFF ARE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THE FORM FOR LANDLORDS TO UTILIZE IN COMPLYING WITH CITY’S RECENTLY ENACTED RENTAL REGISTRATION ORDINANCE.
- IF THE SOON TO BE BUILD CITY POOL WERE BUILT W/ ALL THE ALTERNATE OPTIONS AT THE LOWEST BID, THE POOL WOULD BE ABOUT $165,000 OVER THE DEDICATED FUNDS
- CAN’T FIND ANYTHING? FORGOT SOMETHING? HOPE LINEMAN AT THE CONTINUING ED OFFICE AT CLARION UNIVERSITY’S VENANGO CAMPUS HAS SOME SUGGESTIONS.
- OIL CITY POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING THE CASE OF AN ALTERED PRESCRIPTION.
- CAMBRIA COUNTY PROSECUTORS ARE ACCUSING THE MAYOR OF THE TINY BORO OF LILLY WITH ILLEGALLY ISSUING 3 PARKING TICKETS.
- ALSO SPEAKING TO THE NORTH SIDE ASSOCIATION LAST NIGHT WAS JOANNE WOODARD OF VENANGO REAL ESTATE.
- THE FOLLOWING SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE OPERATING ON A TWO HOUR DELAY THIS MORNING:
- THERE IS A SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR THE KQW LISTENING AREA THIS MORNING.
- THE GOOD NEWS FOR OIL CITY IS REAL ESTATE IS STILL A GOOD INVESTMENT.
- A man pleaded guilty to strangling his roommate's dog with a belt but gave no indication why he killed the animal.
- THE VENANGO VISION LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE READIES TODAY’S EMERGING LEADERS FOR LEADERSHIP ROLES IN THE COMMUNITY TOMORROW.
- ONE PERSON IS RECOVERING FROM INJURIES SUSTAINED IN A 3 CAR PILE UP YESTERDAY ALONG ROUTE 8 NEAR THE INTERCHANGE WITH INTERSTATE 80.
- A BUTLER COUNTY MOTHER IS CHARGED IN THE AFTERMATH OF POLICE FINDING A NEWBORN’S BODY UNDER HER BED.
- ONE PERSON IS RECOVERING FROM INJURIES SUSTAINED IN A 2 CAR PILE UP YESTERDAY ALONG ROUTE 8 NEAR THE INTERCHANGE WITH INTERSTATE 80.
- LIFE IN PRISON FOR A MAN WHO KILLED HIS GIRLFRIEND BY HITTING HER IN THE HEAD WITH AN AX AND THEN STRANGLING HER.
- a hot mix asphalt plant in barkeyville? it’s clear after the second public gathering on the issue this week, feelings run high for and against.
- THE TRIAL OF TIMOTHY CALDWELL, THE BUTLER CITY MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED ROOMMATE LAST NOVEMBER WILL HAVE HIS TRIAL IN BUTLER COUNTY.
- THE OIL CITY ARTS REVITALIZATION COMMITTEE HELD THEIR MONTHLY MEETING ON FRIDAY.
- MEADVILLE STATE POLICE REPORT A TEENAGER IS CHARGED WITH STEALING A STATE POLICE CRUISER AS THE TROOPER OFFERED ASSISTANCE TO THE TEEN’S FRIENDS.
- IT’S NOT DEAD YET. THE PLAN FOR A PROPOSED CRAWFORD COUNTY ETHANOL PLANT THAT IS.
- YOU MAY RECALL LAST APRIL WHEN A WOODCHIPPER TOWED BY A TRUCK DRIVEN BY A BUTLER COUNTY MAN BROKE LOOSE AND SMASHED INTO A MINI VAN KILLING A FATHER AND TWO OF HIS THREE TRIPLET SONS.
- REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR OIL CITY COUNCIL DAN ROBERTSON IS RAISING THE POSSIBILITY OF A LAW SUIT TO FORCE THE REPEAL OF THE RECENTLY ENACTED CITY RENTAL REGISTRATION ORDINANCE.
- IN A RELATED MATTER IT IS APPARENT DURING THIS ELECTION YEAR, COUNCIL WILL DELAY SERIOUS DISCUSSION OF THE RENTAL AND HOUSING ISSUES UNTIL AFTER THE PRIMARY ELECTION IN MAY.
- corry state police are investigating the theft of two lap top computers from the titusville Wal- mart monday.
- TRAFFIC IS MOVING FREELY IN BOTH DIRECTIONS ON U.S. ROUTE 322 IN VAN THIS MORNING.
- A MEADVILLE MAN IS CHARGED WITH VEHICULAR HOMICIDE WHILE DRIVING DRUNK IN CRASH KILLING A TITUSVILLE AREA WOMAN LAST JULY.
- FORMER PRO FOOTBALLER JUDSON J R FLINT FROM MERCER COUNTY IS NOW THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE VENANGO COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY BOARD.
- THE VENANGO COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION IS PROCEEDING WITH IT 2007 FEDERAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT APPLICATION EVEN THOUGH AT THIS LATE DATE THE FEDS HAVE NOT REVEALED WHAT MUNCIPALITIES WILL RECEIVE.
- VENANGO COUNTY 911 IS GOING AHEAD WITH A PAIR OF CONTRACTS WORTH OVER $860,000 AS PART OF THE COUNTY’S PHASE 2 EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS WIRELESS UPGRADE.
- ABOUT A DOZEN PEOPLE ATTENDED THE MANDATED SEWAGE SYSTEM UPGRADE BID PROCESS YESTERDAY AT OIL CITY HALL TO OPEN BIDS ON MAJOR UPGRADE SET FOR LATER THIS YEAR YEAR.
- THE CITY OF TITUSVILLE FOUND OUT THIS WEEK IT WILL RECEIVED $200,000 FOR THE DICK KRAFFERT POOL REHABILITATION PARK REHABILITATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
- OIL CITY POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A CASE OF POSSIBLE FRAUD.
- TIONESTA STATE POLICE REPORT A COUPLE OF ONE CAR CRASHES IN THEIR PATROL AREA YESTERDAY.
- A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE KQW LISTENING AREA.
- VENANGO COUNTY STATE REPRESENTATIVE SCOTT HUTCHINSON SAYS THE NEW RULES GOVERNING THE PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ARE A GOOD FIRST STEP.
- When celebrating this St. Patrick’s Day, it’s important to drink responsibly and always use a designated driver.
- THE WEATHER IS THE NEWS THIS MORNING, AND THE WEATHER IS, WELL THE WEATHER IS JUST WEIRD.
- AT SHORTLY AFTER 2 P.M. FRIDAY THERE WAS A TWO CAR CRASH ON U.S. 62, 3 TENTHS OF A MILE NORTH OF HORSECREEK ROAD IN CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, VENANGO COUNTY.
- IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE OIL CITY AREA SCHOOL BOARD IS GOING TO DISCUSS AT ITS REGULAR MEETINGS, YOU HAVE TO ATTEND THE WORK MEETINGS IN BETWEEN.
- LAST WEDNESDAY WE TOLD YOU OIL CITY OPENED BIDS FOR THE WEST FRONT STREET SEWER PROJECT.
- MORE NEWS ON THE OIL CITY SWIMMING POOL PROJECT.
- THE RECENTLY ENACTED OIL CITY RENTAL REGISTRATION ORDINANCE
- VENANGO COUNTY SCHOOL DELAYS
- NINE ANTI WAR PROTESTERS ARE CHARGED WITH PETTY OFFENSES FOLLOWING A DEMONSTRATION AT THE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE YESTERDAY.
- A MAN CONVICTED OF KILLING A WOMAN AND SCATTERING HER REMAINS IN OHIO AND PARTS OF VENANGO AND BUTLER COUNTIES IN PENNSYLVANIA REMAINS AT OHIO’S DEATH HOUSE THIS AFTERNOON.
- AN IMMINENT DECISION IN THE LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST THE VENANGO PARKS & NATURAL RESOURCES AUTHORITY BY RAY & JAN BEICHNER
- VENANGO COUNTY STATE REPRESENTATIVE SCOTT HUTCHINSON IS ON THE HOUSE REPUBLICAN TASK FORCE ON WELFARE REFORM.
- A BUTLER COUNTY TEENAGER CHASING A BALL AT RECESS YESTERDAY BECAME TRAPPED UNDER A HEAVY CONCRETE SLAB BEFORE EMERGENCY CREWS WERE ABLE TO REMOVE IT AND RUSH HIM TO A WAITING MEDICAL HELICOPTER.
- A MAN CONDEMNED TO DEATH AND FAMILY OF HIS VICTIM WAITED OVER SIX HOURS PAST HIS SCHEDULED EXECUTION TIME TUESDAY FOR THE U.S. SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE WHETHER HIS SENTENCE SHOULD PROCEED, WITH THE COURT FINALLY DECIDING TO BLOCK IT.
- NEWS OF A FORTHCOMING AND LONG AWAITED DECISION IN THE LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST THE VENANGO PARKS AND NATURAL RESOURCES AUTHORITY BY RAY AND JAN BEICHNER OF PRESIDENT
- THE MARCH PUBLIC VENANGO PARKS & NATURAL REWOURCES AUTHORITY BOARD MEETING SET FOR YESTERDAY AT 2 MILE RUN COUNTY PARK WILL NOT BE RESCHEDULED.
- OIL CITY POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A CASE OF POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE AND PARAPHERNALIA.
- ACCIDENTAL FIRES. TWO CASES WHERE FIRE ROARED THROUGH MANUFACTURED HOMES CREATING A TOTAL LOSS IN THE TIONESTA STATE POLICE PATROL AREA YESTERDAY.
- JOBS IN THE MEDICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORIES INDUSTRIES REPORTED THE TOP WAGES IN VENANGO COUNTY LAST YEAR.
- NEW SERVICES, NEW DOCTORS AND THE ANNUAL APPEAL ARE TOPICS THAT WERE UPDATED AT THE UPMC NORTHWEST FOUNDATION CORPORATION ANNUAL MEETING YESTERDAY.
- CLARION UNIVERSITY IS HOSTING THE PENNSYLVANIA NORTHWEST REGIONAL SCIENCE OLYMPIAD TODAY.
- FOR SIX VENANGO COUNTY SCHOOL STUDENTS TOMORROW IS THE BIG DAY. NOT ONLY FOR THEM, BUT FOR THE VENANGO COUNTY DENTAL TASK FORCE.
- AN OIL CITY MAN IS CHARGED WITH A DRUG VIOLATION AFTER A ROUTINE TRAFFIC STOP LAST SATERDAY NIGHT.
- ACCORDING TO AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED THIS MORNINGS OIL CITY DERRICK, THE DIRECTOR OF FACILITIES AT POLK CENTER, STACEY GEIGER BOAL IS DISMISSED.
- FOR THE NOON TIME REPORT, I AM REPORTING TO YOU ON THE WAY TO THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH DENTAL SCHOOL WITH THREE STUDENTS FROM THE OIL CITY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR GIVE KIDS A SMILE DAY.
- A BUTLER MAN MADE A DEAL FOR HIS LIFE WITH PROSECUTORS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEATH OF JASON RITZERT.
- A FOURTEEN YEAR OLD BOY WHO WAS TRAPPED UNDER A CEMENT SLAB TUESDAY AFTERNOON WAS RELEASED FROM CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IN PITTSBURGH YESTERDAY.
- IN ANOTHER ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN, CRIMINAL CHARGES ARE PENDING AGAINST THE ENGINEER OF A SPEEDING FREIGHT TRAIN THAT DERAILED GOING DOWN A TREACHEROUS STRETCH OF TRACK OFF KEATING SUMMIT IN MCKEAN COUNTY LAST SUMMER.
- THE OIL REGION ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OBSERVATORY LOCATED IN TWO MILE RUN COUNTY PARK, VENANGO COUNTY IS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC.
- WHILE WORK IS PROGRESSING ON THE DEMOLITION OF THE OLD OIL CITY SWIMMING POOL IN HASSON HEIGHTS, COUNCIL LAST NIGHT AWARDED THE GENERAL CONTRACTING BID FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MAIN POOL TO AQUA POOL FOR JUST OVER A MILLION DOLLARS.
- THE OIL CITY AREA SCHOOL BOARD MET LAST NIGHT.
- ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER JANET GATESMAN IS PUTTING ON THE FINISHING TOUCHES OF OILCITY’S 2007 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT APPLICATION FOR SUBMISSION LATER THIS WEEK.
- AFTER 39 YEARS OF ADVISING THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF OIL CITY IN AREAS REQUIRING LEGAL EXPERTISE, CITY SOLICITOR WALT BLOOM WILL MOVE ON TO GREENER PASTURES AND CHERISHED TIME WITH CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN.
- AN OIL CITY MAN, A REGISTERED PENNSYLVANIA MEGAN’S LAW SEX OFFENDER STANDS CONVICTED IN TWO SEX ABUSE CASES EARLIER THIS MONTH
- ANOTHER CASE OF ANIMAL CRUELTY, THIS TIME REPORTED IN CRAWFORD COUNTY.
- ON THE OCCASION OF THE 2006 FISCAL REVIEW OF THE CITY OF TITUSVILLE BY CITY MANAGER MARY ANN NAU, TITUSVILLE MAYOR BRIAN SANFORD PAINTS A GENERAL POSITIVE AND UPBEAT PICTURE IN HIS ANNUAL LETTER THAT COULD BE TERMED THE STATE OF THE CITY.
- A STATE APPELLATE COURT AFFIRMS A LOWER COURT RULING ALLOWING ALLEGHENY COUNTY HOMEOWNERS TO APPEAL THEIR PROPERTY ASSESSMENTS BASED ON WHAT THEIR HOMES ARE WORTH NOW, RATHER THAN THE VALUE IN 2002.
- IN A PUBLISHED REPORT LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE VENANGO PARKS AND NATURAL RESOURCES AUTHORITY SAYS HE SEES NO REASON TO CLOSE THE OIL REGION ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OBSERVATORY AT TWO MILE RUN COUNTY PARK TO THE PUBLIC.
- THE VENANGO COUNTY ENGINEER AND THE COUNTY PROPERTY MANAGER ARE CONSIDERING A VARIETY OF BIDS INCLUDING THOSE ASSOCIATED WITH RENOVATION OF THE WORK RELEASE AREA OF THE VENANGO COUNTY JAIL.
- TITUSVILLE IS OFFICIALLY A TREE CITY USA COMMUNITY AS PROCLAIMED BY THE NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION.
- VENANGO COUNTY COURT SUPERVISION WILL SOON BE WORKING 0N A COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGIC PLAN IN SUPPORT OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE ADVISORY BOARD.
- THE VENANGO COUNTY COMMISSIONERS DISPATCHED A LOT OF BUSINESS YESTERDAY AT THEIR REGULAR MEETING UNDER THE AGENDA ITEMS OF COURT SUPERVISION, THE PRISON, HUMAN SERVICES & COUNTY ADMINISTRATION.
- the latest quinnipiac poll of presidential hopefuls in pennsylvania shows hillary rodham clinton expanding her lead, while rudi giuliani’s lead is narrowing.
- RECENT PRESS ACCOUNTS REPORT 3 CANDIDATES FOR VENANGO COUNTY COMMISSIONER CHANGING PARTIES FROM REPUBLICAN TO DEMOCRAT ON THE SAME DAY THEY OBTAINED PETITIONS TO RUN FOR OFFICE AS DEMOCRATS.
- A SAEGERTOWN MAN WILL SPEND UP TO 12 MONTHS IN JAIL FOR STEALING MONEY AND MATERIALS FROM HIS OLD EMPLOYER.
- AT A WORKSHOP IN ELK COUNTY THIS WEEK, THE ALLEGHENY NATIONAL FOREST, THE PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES AND FERMATA, INCORPORATED, PUT FORTH SIX SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE CLARION RIVER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
- A LITTLE LATER FRIDAY MORNING, CINDY WHITMER ASEL OF OIL CITY WAS TRAVELING WEST ON CENTER STREET IN OIL CITY WHEN SHE FAILED TO STOP FOR A STEADY RED SIGNAL AT ELM STREET.
- AN OIL CITY WOMAN IS CHARGED WITH DRUNK DRIVING AND POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE FOLLOWING A ONE CAR CRASH VERY EARLY FRIDAY MORNING IN OIL CITY.
- A NEW SCHOOL SYMBOLIZING A NEW BEGINNING, BUT WITH HEIGHTENED SECURITY, STANDS READY FOR AMISH STUDENTS WHO SURVIVED A SHOOTING THAT KILLED FIVE OF THEIR CLASSMATES EXACTLY SIX MONTHS AGO.
- A NEW SCHOOL SYMBOLIZING A NEW BEGINNING, BUT WITH HEIGHTENED SECURITY, STANDS READY FOR AMISH STUDENTS WHO SURVIVED A SHOOTING THAT KILLED FIVE OF THEIR CLASSMATES EXACTLY SIX MONTHS AGO.
- ONE OIL CITY RESIDENT SAYS THE CITY IS MOURNING THE LOSS OF A SON THIS MORNING.
- THINK WE DON’T HAVE GREAT KIDS IN OIL CITY?
- REDISCOVER YOUR OIL CITY…
- THERE’S A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION OF SORTS TONIGHT ON THE NORTH SIDE OF OIL CITY.
- THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE FRANKLIN CITY COUNCIL TOOK PLACE LAST NIGHT.
- WORK ON THE OIL CITY SWIMMING POOL IS RAPIDLY PROGRESSING.
- THE TOPIC OF A MASTER COMPREHENSIVE WATER WAYS DEVELOPMENT PLAN TO BE INCORPORATED WITH THE OIL CITY MASTER PLAN IS UNDER DISCUSSION BY MEMBERS OF OIL CITY COUNCIL.
- IF THE OIL CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDS TO A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT REQUIRING THE USE OF THE JAWS OF LIFE OR TO A HAZMAT SITUATION, SHOULD THE DEPARTMENT BE ABLE TO RECOVER THE COSTS?
- SOME EVANS CITY PARENTS SAY THEIR SCHOOL DISTRICT’S RESPONSE TO A CHILD’S FOOD ALLERGIES IS DEPRIVING THEIR CHILDREN OF A KINDERGARTEN STAPLE, THE MID AFTERNOON SNACK.
- THE NORTHSIDE ASSOCIATION OF OIL CITY CELEBRATED THEIR ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY LAST NIGHT WITH A MEETING AT CALVARY TEMPLE ON HARRIOTT AVENUE.
- THE SCRUBGRASS GENERATING PLANT LOCATED IN SOUTHERN VENANGO COUNTY HAS A LITTLE BIT OF A FEATHER ITS CAP NOW.
- IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE VENANGO COUNTY DIABETES TASK FORCE, THE OIL CITY SALVATION ARMY, LOCATED AT SPRING AND SYCAMORE STREETS IS KICKING OFF “TEACH ONE, REACH ONE” A PROGRAM FOR ADULTS TO COMBAT DIABETES AND RELATED HEALTH ISSUES.
- A NURSING SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM AT THE VENANGO CAMPUS OF CLARION UNIVERSITY IS NEWLY ENDOWED, THANKS TO A FRANKLIN BUSINESSMAN.
- FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION COMES NEWS THE RENDELL ADMINISTRATION IS COMMITTING OVER $64,000 TO FIGHTING WEST NILE VIRUS IN VENANGO COUNTY.
- NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. HOUSING ISSUES IN OIL CITY ARE TOUGH, COMPLICATED AND INTERTWINED WITH MANY OTHER CHALLENGES.
- THREE SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE KQW LISTENING AREA ARE AMONG 210 ACROSS PENNSYLVANIA ALLOWED BY THE STATE TO RAISE TAXES WITHOUT VOTES.
- SPEAKING OF SNOWY WEATHER, WHITE OUT CONDITIONS CAUSED NUMEROUS ACCIDENTS AND FORCED THE CLOSURE OF INTERSTATE 79 IN CRAWFORD AND ERIE COUNTIES FOR HOURS YESTERDAY.
- SNOW FOR EASTER BREAK. APRIL FOOLS! NO NOT REALLY. IF YOU LOOK OUT SIDE THIS MORNING YOU’LL FIND SEVERAL INCHES OF THE WHITE STUFF.
- SEVERAL EVENTS ON THE DAY PLANNER THIS MORNING.
- THE NORTHWEST COMMISSION IS EXPANDING ITS REGIONAL TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM WITH THE HIRING OF A NEW MANAGER.
- NO MATTER WHO IS ELECTED TO COMMON PLEASE COURT JUDGE THIS YEAR, THE CITIZENS WILL GET AN OUTSTANDING JUDGE
- OFF THE AIR THIS MORNING DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES.
- A RIMERSBURG MAN IS CHARGED WITH TERRORISTIC THREATS AND SIMPLE ASSAULT.
- A BUTLER COUNTY WOMAN IS IN PANAMANIAN CUSTODY CHARGED IN THE MURDER OF A WOMAN ORIGINALLY FROM PITTSBURGH.
- SPEAKING OF ALL THAT EXTRA SNOW AND RAIN, THIS SPRING NOR’EASTER IS CAUSING POWER OUTAGES AND DANGEROUS ROADS ACROSS THE COMMONWEALTH.
- THE OIL CITY AREA SCHOOL BOARD HELD A WORK SESSION LAST NIGHT.
- THE DISCUSSION AT YESTERDAYS OIL CITY COUNCIL WORK MEETING LEADING TO THE VOTE TO EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITY OF AN UP STREAM ALTERNATIVE IS JUST AS INTERESTING AS THE DECISION ITSELF.
- THE CONCEPT OF A WORLD CLASS WHITE WATER PLAY PARK MAKING OIL CITY A RECREATION MECCA IS ALIVE AND WELL.
- CRIMINAL MISCHIEF IN OIL CITY, IN AND AROUND THE NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAIL ROAD TRACKS AT EACH END OF THE RAIL BRIDGE ON NORTH SENECA STREET SOMETIME BETWEEN MID MARCH AND MID APRIL
- OIL CITY POLICE REPORT AN INDIVIDUAL TAKEN INTO CUSTODY YESTERDAY AFTERNOON IN CONNECTION WITH ILLEGAL DRUG ACTIVITY ON THE CITY’S NORTHSIDE.
- 2 MILE RUN COUNTY PARK WILL BE OPEN FOR THE SUMMER & NO RESERVATIONS WILL BE TAKEN AFTER THE TIME OF APPLEFEST IN OCTOBER.
- FROM MERCER COMES NEWS A MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS WIFE AND BURNING DOWN HER PARENTS’ HOME WILL BE TRIED IN MERCER COUNTY BY A LOCAL JURY.
- VENANGO COUNTY STATE SENATOR MARY JO WHITE IS DRAWING IRE AND FIRE FROM CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA FUTURE OR PENNFUTURE.
- ARE YOU PERHAPS THINKING OF PARTICIPATING IN THE GREAT PENNSYLVANIA CLEAN UP THIS WEEKEND?
- THE UNITED STATES IS OFFERING HELP TO PANAMA IN AN AMERICAN MURDER CASE INVOLVING BUTLER COUNTY RESIDENT DEBRA ANN RIDGLEY OF JACKSON TOWNSHIP.
- THERE IS AN AMBER CHILD ABDUCTION ALERT ISSUED BY THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE OUT OF THE EMBREEVILLE STATION, CHESTER COUNTY FOR A FOUR YEAR OLD PENNSYLVANIA GIRL.
- Take Pride in Oil City will host an Oil 150 planning forum on Saturday, April 21, from 10:00 a.m. until noon at the Venango Museum of Art, Science and Industry at 270 Seneca Street in Oil City.
- IN MANY PLACES AROUND THE KQW LISTENING AREA PEOPLE ARE LOWERING AMERICAN FLAGS TO HALF STAFF IN HONOR OF THOSE KILLED IN THE SHOOTING RAMPAGE AT VIRGINIA TECH UNIVERSITY IN BLACKSBURG THIS WEEK.
- CONGRESSMAN JOHN E. PETERSON, REPUBLICAN OF PLEASANTVILLE, VENANGO COUNTY IS AMONG 199 CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES WHO VOTED YESTERDAY AGAINST UPHOLDING LEGISLATION REQUIRING THE WITHDRAWAL OF U.S. COMBAT TROOPS BY SEPTEMBER 2008.
- SPEAKING OF PLANNING, ARTS OIL CITY IS HOLDING A BUSINESS ACTION PLAN SESSION THIS AFTERNOON FROM 1-4 IN THE NATIONAL TRANSIT BUILDING GREAT ROOM.
- A 17 YEAR OLD OIL CITY GIRL IS CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA, DRUG PARAPHERNALIA AND RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY.
- AN OIL CITY MAN & A VENUS WOMAN ARE LODGED IN THE VENANGO COUNTY JAIL ON $20,000 STRAIGHT BAIL EACH CHARGED IN CONNECTION W/ A BURGLARY AT A RESIDENCE ALONG BROCIUS LANE OFF ROUTE 38 IN RICHLAND TOWNSHIP, VENANGO COUNTY SATERDAY AFTERNOON.
- AN AMISH GIRL MISSING FOUR DAYS IS SAFE. AND HER FATHER IS LODGED IN THE CRAWFORD COUNTY JAIL ON $100,000 BOND.
- LAST THURSDAY I REPORTED TO YOU A HEROIN ARREST IN OIL CITY INVOLVING THREE PERSONS, ONE AN OIL CITY RESIDENT…TWO WHITE FEMALES AND ONE BLACK MALE FROM BRADDOCK, PENNSYLVANIA.
- DUTCH FEMINIST AUTHOR AYAAN HIRSI ALI WAS MET WITH HOSTILITY BY LOCAL ISLAMIC GROUPS LAST WEEK WHEN SHE APPEARED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT JOHNSTOWN.
- A woman wounded during last week's shooting rampage at Virginia Tech has been discharged from the hospital.
- CITY COUNCIL OF OIL CITY
- NEWCASTLE RESIDENTS ARE OBJECTING TO A PROPOSAL FOR A DOWN TOWN METHADONE CLINIC.
- ALSO IN LAWRENCE COUNTY, OFFICIALS THERE AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ARE WORKING WITH MUNICIPALITIES TO REDUCE FLOODING AND CURB THE AMOUNT OF POLLUTION WASHING DOWNSTREAM DURING A HEAVY RAIN.
- FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IS NEWS THE AGENCY IS SEEKING TO UPGRADE MERCER COUNTY’S AIR QUALITY OZONE DESIGNATION.
- THE OIL CITY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT HELD A MEETING LAST NIGHT IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE STING CORPORATION OF LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIA TO DISCUSS A FIBER OPTIC WIDE AREA NETWORK THAT WILL BE INSTALLED IN VENANGO COUNTY BY JULY 1ST OF THIS YEAR.
- THE OIL CITY AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT HELD A MEETING LAST NIGHT IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE STING CORPORATION OF LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIA TO DISCUSS A FIBER OPTIC WIDE AREA NETWORK THAT WILL BE INSTALLED IN VENANGO COUNTY BY JULY 1ST OF THIS YEAR.
- REGARDING BIDS FOR THE RENOVATION OF THE WORK RELEASE AREA OF THE VENANGO COUNTY JAIL, THE VENANGO COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ARE APPROVING TWO AND REJECTING TWO.
- THE FIRST PERSON IN VENANGO COUNTY TO QUALIFY FOR DOWN PAYMENT AND CLOSING COST ASSISTANCE UNDER A NEW COUNTY PROGRAM IS KAREN GRIOS.
- KQW HAS OBTAINED A COPY OF THE FINAL ADJUDICATION OF AN INVESTIGATION BY THE STATE ETHICS COMMISSION INTO THE CONDUCT OF VENANGO COUNTY SHERIFF GENE PRICE DURING HIS 2001 AND 2005 RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGNS.
- FOCUS ON OUR FUTURE IS A VENANGO COUNTY PROGRAM.
- THE VENANGO COUNTY STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN COALITION IS RECOGNIZING EIGHT LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.
- YOU MAY RECALL ALMOST TWO WEEKS AGO THE VENANGO COUNTY PARKS AND NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE MET AT ITS REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING DECIDING TO OPEN TWO MILE RUN PARK IN MAY AND TO CUT OFF RESERVATIONS AFTER APPLEFEST IN OCTOBER.
- FRIDAY AFTERNOON I REPORTED TO YOU THE RESPONSE OF THE CANDIDATES REGARDING THE TWO MILE RUN COUNTY PARK ISSUE.
- FRIDAY MORNING 10 OF ELEVEN CANDIDATES VYING FOR THE JOB OF VENANGO COUNTY COMMISSIONER DESCRIBED THEIR POSITIONS ON TWO MILE RUN COUNTY PARK, THE COUNTY’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OIL REGION ALLIANCE AND THEIR VISIONS FOR VENANGO COUNTY.
- TWO SONS OF A LAWRENCE COUNTY MAN WHO DIED LAST SUMMER WANT HIS BODY EXHUMED AND AUTOPSIED AS THEY CHALLENGE THEIR STEPMOTHER’S RIGHT TO INHERIT THE MAN’S MONEY.
- CONNEAUT LAKE PARK, THE FINANCIALLY STRAPPED 115 YEAR OLD AMUSEMENT PARK IN CRAWFORD COUNTY, MAY OPEN IN STAGES THIS SUMMER IF MONEY CAN NOT BE RAISED TO OPEN IT BEFORE MEMORIAL DAY.
- THE STATE’S BLACK FLY CONTROL PROGRAM WILL INCLUDE MORE AREAS IN VENANGO COUNTY AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES THIS YEAR.
- I REPORTED TO YOU THE REACTION OF THE TWO MILE RUN RESCUE COMMITTEE BY MEMBER RAY BEICHNER TO THE POSITIONS OF THE CANDIDATES ON TWO MILE RUN COUNTY PARK ISSUE.
- LAST FRIDAY THE COMBINED CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE OF THE FRANKLIN AREA AND VENANGO AREA SPONSORED A CANDIDATES FORUM FOR THOSE VYING FOR VENANGO COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
- WARREN COUNTY BASED UNITED REFINING SAYS IT INTENDS TO BEGIN A PRIVATE PLACEMENT OFFERING TO ELIGIBLE PURCHASERS OF AN ADDITIONAL $100 MILLION PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF ITS 10 ½% SENIIOR NOTES DUE IN 2012.
- THERE A WHOLE HOST OF PLACES IN OIL CITY LOOKING A WHOLE LOT CLEANER AND TIDIER THIS MORNING THAN THEY WERE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
- The Jefferson County district attorney said he will seek the death penalty against a man charged with killing two people during a dispute over drugs.
- SPEAKING OF MOTORCYCLES. LISTEN CAREFULLY. THIS NEXT STORY IS ABOUT THE HILLEL’S ANGELS…
- ONE PERSON IS HOSPITALIZED AFTER A MOTORCYCLE AND A CAR CRASHED YESTERDAY IN BUTLER COUNTY.
- WHILE WE ARE ON THE SUBJECT OF THEFT, CLARION STATE POLICE ARE CHARGING A 19 YEAR OLD ERIE WOMAN WITH RETAIL THEFT FROM CLARION WAL- MART.
- OIL CITY SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER DAVE RAGON SAYS CHARGES WILL BE FILED AGAINST A MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT ACCUSED IN SEVERAL SCHOOL THEFTS LAST MONTH.
- IN BRADFORD, A LOCAL BUSINESS GROUP IS ASSEMBLING WITH THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF LOOKING AT DOWNTOWN ISSUES THERE.
- CONGRESSMAN PHIL ENGLISH IS RESPONDING AFTER THE U.S. FAILED TO OVER RIDE THE PRESIDENTS VETO OF THE TROOP FUNDING BILL THIS WEEK.
- IN THE AFTERMATH OF TUESDAY NIGHT’S STORMS, WE ARE LEARNING VENANGO COUNTY ESCAPED RELATIVELY UNSCATHED.
- THE SALVATION ARMY IS PART AND PARCEL OF EVERY LITTLE TOWN ACROSS AMERICA IT WOULD SEEM. IN OIL CITY, MAJOR CINDI DRUMMOND HELPS OVERSEE SOME OF THE LOCAL SALVATION ARMY PROGRAMMING.
- A FRANKLIN WOMAN ACCUSED OF EMBEZZLING $3.1 MILLION WAS SCHEDULE FOR SENTENCING THIS MORNING IN FEDERAL COURT IN ERIE.
- The National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado touched down in Crawford County during the severe weather outbreak on Tuesday.
- AS USUAL, MONDAY’S ARE PRETTY BUSY IN THIS NECK OF THE WOODS. HERE’S WHAT’S ON THE DAY PLANNER FOR THIS MONDAY.
- YOU COULD NOT HAVE ASKED FOR A MORE PERFECT DAY TO HOLD THE VENANGO COUNTY HEART WALK SATERDAY.
- THE LOCAL EMERGENCY PLANNING COMMITTEE OF VENANGO COUNTY IS GOING INTO ITS 20TH YEAR. OF BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY COLLABORATING AND COOPERATING IN PLANNING FOR A DISASTER OR EMERGENCY EVENT IN VENANGO COUNTY.
- ONE OF THE LAWSUITS FILED AGAINST THE VENANGO PARKS AND NATURAL RESOURCES AUTHORITY BY MEMBERS OF THE TWO MILE RUN RESCUE COMMITTEE ALLEGES TWO MILE RUN COUNTY PARK IS BEING MISUSED AND MISMANAGED BY THE AUTHORITY AND IT’S PRIVATE MANAGERS
- THE OIL CITY AREA SCHOOL BOARD CONTINUES TO MAKE PLANS FOR THE UPCOMING 2007/2008 SCHOOL YEAR.
- THE OIL CITY AREA SCHOOL BOARD CONTINUES TO MAKE PLANS FOR THE UPCOMING 2007/2008 SCHOOL YEAR.
- THE LOCAL EMERGENCY PLANNING COMMITTEE OF VENANGO COUNTY IS GOING INTO ITS 20TH YEAR.
- ONE OF THE LAWSUITS FILED AGAINST THE VENANGO PARKS AND NATURAL RESOURCES AUTHORITY BY MEMBERS OF THE TWO MILE RUN RESCUE COMMITTEE ALLEGES TWO MILE RUN COUNTY PARK IS BEING MISUSED AND MISMANAGED BY THE AUTHORITY AND IT’S PRIVATE MANAGERS
- TWO MILE RUN COUNTY PARK WILL RETURN TO COUNTY OWNERSHIP
- THIS REPORTER SAID PARK MANAGERS ANN & MARTY RUDEGEAIRE HAD MOVED FROM THEIR FRANKLIN RESIDENCE TO LOUISIANA. THAT IS IN FACT NOT TRUE. THE RUDEGEAIRES HAVE NOT MOVED & REMAIN IN FRANKLIN.
- CHANGE IS IN THE AIR FOR THE CARRIER AT VENANGO REGIONAL AIRPORT.
- In a prepared statement reacting to this weeks news Two Mile Run County Park will revert to Venango County ownership, the county commissioners say…their hope is this may be resolved smoothly, promptly and prudently.
- THIS IS ALSO A GREAT WEEK END TO FIRE UP THAT ATV.
- SPEAKING OF ENFORCEMENT ISSUES, SEATBELT ENFORCEMENT WILL BE STRETCHING BORDER TO BORDER ACROSS PENNSYLVANIA AND NEIGHBORING STATES FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER BEGINNING TODAY.
- TODAY MARKS THE UNOFFICIAL BEGINNING OF SUMMER WITH THE BEGINNING OF THE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND.

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