Ernest News

The nine judges of the Erie County Court unanimously elected their next president judge Tuesday.

Remle Anna Elmer and David Michael Moyak were united in marriage on June 26, 2009.

When Robert and Catherine Shirley received a phone call at the end of September, it was as if Christmas had arrived early.

By Liz Zemba , For The Valley Independent Thursday, December 3, 2009 Last updated: 12:39 pm Some 150 Brownsville area properties owned by an Allegheny County real estate speculator will go up for tax sale in the spring, barring another judge's order prohibiting it.

Teamsters Local 250 argued Monday that it has jumped through enough hoops to resume collecting partial dues from seven Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission employees who left the union in 2004.

When David Mengel lifts his trumpet and starts belting out notes as he marches Thursday morning in New York, it will be unlike any performance he's ever given.

Two top executives of the former Schuylkill Products Inc., Cressona, face federal charges after being indicted Thursday by a grand jury on 32 counts stemming from what prosecutors say was one of the largest frauds in U.S. Department of Transportation history.

Cambria County prosecutors want the testimony of their star witness from convicted murderer Ernest Simmons' first trial in 1993 to be heard at his retrial even though she's now deceased and questions have been raised about whether she recanted what she said.

It is the trial everyone in our area has been talking about. Two former Luzerne County judges will face a federal judge on dozens of corruption charges.

Voters in two western Pennsylvania counties have apparently elected their first female Common Pleas judges.

A drunken man who police said harassed trick-or-treaters and their parents in Indiana on Halloween night allegedly became belligerent, threatening and disruptive at an Indiana County hospital, police said.

Police have identified a man slain in West Philadelphia Tuesday night as Ernest Howard, 18, of Master Street near 52nd.

Leaders who celebrated the new beginning of the Klein JCC and Stiffel Senior Center included : Steve Klein, Lyn Ross, Andre Krug and Ande Adelman; while Manya Perel talks about the Klein and Stiffel as an independent agency.

An 18-year-old was gunned down last night about a half-mile from his home in West Philadelphia, according to police.

Dressed in period clothing of the Revolutionary War era, Gary Ent and his wife, Virginia, of Columbia County, taught attendees the flint-against-metal fire-starting process.

It was, as reunions go, an informal exercise -- a relaxing and poignant afternoon of sharing memories for Rostraver classmates.

One day after a federal grand jury indicted two former Luzerne County judges in the on-going corruption scandal there is lots of speculation as to what could happen to them now.

Emma Stossel doesn't let her diabetes knock her off her feet. In fact, the 9-year-old will use her feet to help raise money for funding and awareness of the disease, taking the Step Out Walk to Fight Diabetes motto to heart: "Together, we can stop diabetes, one step at a time." "I want to help find a way to cure diabetes," the Indiana youngster ...

The case of a man accused of killing his wife in Carbon County may be headed to trial.

An eastern Pennsylvania man has been ordered to stand trial on homicide charges in the 2007 disappearance of his wife.