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Police: Impaired driver charged with recklessly endangering following crash

Karen Yessenia Still has admitted that before getting behind the wheel of her 2011 Jeep Liberty on the morning of Aug. 10, she took “an excessive amount of pills,” city police said in an affidavit. While traveling east in the 700 block of West Fourth Street, the 30-year-old city woman ...

Williamsport man jailed after alleged solicitation of children

Led to believe he was texting a 13-year-old girl, Daniel Ade requested that the two engage in various sexual acts, it was alleged in a Williamsport city police affidavit. Investigators said that beginning in October, Ade, 57, and "the teen" exchanged a series of text messages which implied ...

Convicted felon charged after allegedly appearing on social media with handgun

Although his arrest record prohibits him from carrying a firearm, that did not stop Jaziah Strickland from posting on his social media page a video and a photo of him with such a weapon, it was alleged in an affidavit filed by a detective assigned to the county’s Narcotics Enforcement Unit. ...

Firehouse honors former Nisbet Fire Chief Howard ‘Ted’ Knarr

A memorial wreath and black bunting hang on the front of the Nisbet firehouse following the death of former Nisbet Fire Chief Howard "Ted" Knarr, who died Friday at the age 87. “He was a true public servant. He served his country and his community. He was my mentor,” Nisbet Fire Chief ...

Williamsport man jailed for allegedly stabbing delivery person

When city police took Tristan Pequignot into custody late Friday night just minutes after a downtown stabbing, the 24-year-old man had on him "a black folding knife covered in blood," it was stated in a criminal complaint. On parole for burglary, Pequignot was nabbed in the first block of ...

Convicted felon incarcerated for failing to register his address

Convicted sex offender Georgio N. Rochon, 38, is back behind bars and faces three felony counts of failure to comply with registration requirements after he moved to “various residences” in the county without ever registering the addresses with the state police within the required time ...