Franklin News

Photo by Nicholas A. Hess - A three-car accident at about 1 p.m. Thursday on the 15th Street Hill in Franklin delayed traffic for much of the afternoon.

On this Fourth of July, we remember our country's birth that happened just two hours from here.

The first fireworks display of the holiday season will be tonight in Cranberry Township, near the mall.

Freda McClellan turned herself in following a search of her home. An Oil City woman was arrested Tuesday by Franklin police following a two-month investigation into area drug sales.

The DUI task force will be conducting roving patrols into the holiday period. Area police departments are ramping up DUI enforcement heading into the Fourth of July holiday period.

Photo by Jerry Sowden - Flight instructor Donald Cramer of Franklin gives David Perrett of Rouseville preflight instructions before the two took to the skies over Venango County during the first day of the ...

Events are scheduled through Monday, July 7. Fourth of July Festivities Week kicks off at 11 a.m. today in Franklin with Senior Appreciation Day in Bandstand Park.

The board also OKs a number of agreements for professional services. The Franklin Area School Board approved administrative salaries for the coming year at its meeting Monday night.

The charity focuses on reducing the number of child deaths due to malaria in Africa.

Superintendent Ronald Paranick gives a crash course on district demographics and more.

Photo by Jerry Sowden - Dr. William Fritz of Franklin flips through a slide show of his photos as he relives some adventures from the motorcycle ride he made along the Ho Chi Minh trail in Vietnam and Laos.

A crash on Interstate 95 slowed morning traffic on Tuesday morning. Initial reports indicated a car may have struck a barrier in southbound lanes south of Callowhill Street near the Ben Franklin Bridge .

A Franklin motorcyclist was injured in an accident at 1:20 p.m. Friday along Route 417 in Oakland Township, Venango County.

Medal of Honor recipient was once familiar face here By JUDITH O. ETZEL Photo by Jerry Sowden - Roland Davis of Franklin displays a picture of his five uncles, including Marine Jim Davis of Franklin.

The National Weather Service says it's checking out reports of a funnel cloud and downed trees in Venango County.

By Stephen West - Franklin High School seniors stroll through Fountain Park Sunday on their way to the graduation ceremony in Bandstand Park.

Plum police charged him March 24 with driving into Gabriel Kosechi's yard on Francis Road the day before and striking Kosechi and Kosechi's wife, Jennifer.

The 300 and 400 blocks of Penn Street in downtown Reading are now closed so that crews can prepare for tomorrow's Reading Classic.

Chad Stover must surrender his teaching and administrator licenses, and will not be admitted to A-C Valley or Cranberry school districts.

Numerous roads around York County will be closed or restricted to single lanes this week as crews with the York office of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation work on them.