Tioga News

Review Photo/BRIAN BISHOP Jamie Gilliland, case manager of the HIV/AIDS support network at Guthrie, right, and Paul Ingersoll, director of the support network, at a Chili Cook-Off held Tuesday as part of World AIDS Day.

Pennsylvania's black bear population is estimated at 15,000 to 17,000 and rising while the harvest from the three-day statewide bear season has remained more or less consistent.

That was the word chosen by MaryAnn Warren, a county commissioner, to describe Marcellus Shale natural gas exploration in the county, situated in one of the busiest drilling areas in the state.

Blossburg, Tioga County- In southern Tioga County, the future of North Penn High School is in question.

A Mansfield man was arrested on Sept. 27 and charged with aggravated assault after Mansfield State Police said he beat up his former girlfriend and a man who was visiting at her residence.

Police are looking for clues why the remains of a 29 year-old Binghamton woman were found in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation has challenged the state's new expedited permitting process for Marcellus Shale gas wells that it says fails to police drilling and doesn't protect streams from erosion and sedimentation runoff.

N ORTH PHILADELPHIA has experienced an explosion of building activity that is changing the face of a section of the city once considered blighted and unsafe.

1 with driving under the influence after a traffic stop on State Route 607 in Keating Township.

A 13-year-old girl who police said was accidentally shot in the chest at a North Philadelphia house party yesterday morning was one of seven people injured by gunfire in the city this weekend.

The gaming machines are readied at Rivers Casino on Pittsburgh's North Shore. It opens today.

There are three community libraries near Athens, Pennsylvania. Local residents can visit these libraries and use the facilities during business hours.

Tioga Township Shots were fired early Tuesday in Tioga Township, but no one was injured, Pennsylvania State Police at Mansfield said.

The National Weather Service continues a Severe Thunderstorm Watch until 7pm for Tioga, PA and Potter.

Shots were fired early this morning in Tioga township, but no one was injured, Pennsylvania State Police at Mansfield said.

Man shot dead in Frankford Dewayne Johnson, 29, of Hollywood Street near Mifflin, South Philadelphia, was killed about 12:30 a.m. yesterday by a single bullet to the chest at Torresdale Avenue near Orthodox Street, in Frankford, police said.

Young cadet Cory Carpenter dangled helplessly near the top of a rock-climbing wall Wednesday while supervisors on the ground shouted encouragement.

State police are investigating a burglary at West Jackson Baptist Church in Tioga, Pa., that occurred between Tuesday and Wednesday last week.

The Tioga County Emergency Medical Services Council recently announced the nominees and winners of its 2009 awards: * Paramedic of the Year: Bob Gee.

The Department of Environmental Protection has fined B & L Portable Toilet Rental Inc.