A convicted murderer will spend the rest of his life in prison, Lycoming County President Judge Eric Linhardt announced Friday morning. The sentencing comes after a jury of 10 women and six men found Benjamin Villanueva III, 35, guilty of criminal homicide, aggravated assault with a deadly ...
Williamsport City Council recently approved a resolution authorizing an agreement between the city and Barry Isett, a third-party codes and zoning service. Mayor Derek Slaughter said the resolution will be for a zoning enforcement officer while the city has that position advertised. The ...
The U.S. Forest Service is relocating its headquarters across the country, leading to the closure of four facilities in Pennsylvania, including Williamsport. According to reporting by WGAL-TV, a Lancaster-based television station, the Trump administration is moving the service’s headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City, Utah, and will transition to a more state-based organizational model. Research and development facilities in York, Irvine, Long Pond and Williamsport will close. “For an agency whose lands, partners, and operational challenges are overwhelmingly ...
HARRISBURG — A group of Pennsylvania counties has billed the federal government more than $21 million in recent years to detain immigrants in their jails, a first-of-its-kind review by Spotlight PA has found. While these agreements predate the second Trump administration by years or even decades, they are receiving new attention as the president executes a mass deportation campaign that relies heavily on local partners. They also highlight how counties in Pennsylvania already cooperate with ICE and other federal agencies to detain immigrants. Earlier this year, the Department of ...
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. Sign up for our free newsletters.) STATE COLLEGE — The state’s highest court ...
PENNSDALE — With only two Muncy Township supervisors in attendance, a vote on an agenda item calling for tenant commitment documentation for proposed developments was pretty much a done deal as the board chair, Terri Lauchle, and her vice-chair, Denise Artley have at past meetings voted ...
