Lycoming County’s lawmakers in the General Assembly were divided over the compromise budget signed by Gov. Josh Shapiro Monday, with state Rep. Jamie Flick, R-South Williamsport, voting yes and state Rep. Joe Hamm, R-Hepburn Township, voting no. The budget passed the state House on a 167-35 ...
Just three months shy of five years to the day a 25-year-old mother of two was struck by a stray bullet in the second floor bedroom of her home in the 600 block of Maple Street, the trial for the alleged shooter began in the courtroom of Lycoming County President Judge Eric Linhardt. Apprehended in June 2024, Douglas Robinson Jr., 24, of Williamsport, faces aggravated assault-attempts to cause serious bodily injury or causes injury with extreme difference, discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure, firearms not to be carried without a license, possession of a weapon and ...
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced in a news release that a 62-mile section of U.S. 15 in Lycoming and Tioga counties will officially become Interstate 99 (I-99) between Williamsport and the New York state line on Thursday, July 30. The Federal Highway ...
The City of Williamsport provided an update on the West Fourth Street resurfacing. On Wednesday, the city’s contractor M&J Excavation of Bloomsburg will be milling Fourth Street starting at Mulberry Street and moving west to Hepburn Street. The milling will be conducted one block at a time ...
Bridging a deficit in part by delaying some payments and reclaiming money from what they called the “couch cushions” of state government, lawmakers on Sunday approved a $50.8 billion budget for 2026-27 that immediately got the signature of Gov. Josh Shapiro. The final product came ...
Ja’hsir Kahseem Legare, the gunman in the March 2, 2024 shooting at T.G.I. Friday in Loyalsock Township that claimed the life of 15-year-old Ahmeen Palmer, pleaded guilty Monday to the fatal shooting and illegally carrying a firearm, a sentence to be imposed Sept. 15 that could be no less than 7 ½ years and no more than 15 years. Legare, who was 18 at the time of the shooting, appeared with his attorney Robert Hoffa, before Judge William Carlucci and a relatively filled courtroom. Lycoming County District Attorney Tom Marino was prosecutor. The plea was for Count 1 Voluntary ...
