Erie County News

Stefon D. Johnson, 18, was held for trial on charges including robbery, carrying a firearm without a license and terroristic threats after his preliminary hearing before Greene Township District Judge Susan Strohmeyer on Tuesday.

The group was protesting against Erie County Judge Stephanie Domitrovich, who has ethics complaints filed against her by a state panel that investigates allegations of judicial misconduct.

"We have a laboratory that is functioning up here on the second floor," Former FBI agent Dr. Jerry Clark says.

A multi-million dollar improvement project in Conneaut Lake Borough takes a big step forward.

Attack ads in the governor's race are already well underway. Ads launched in early July, and have grown more negative as the weeks passed.

The Summit Township family loves plucking berries off the bushes, even if some of them like eating blueberries more than others do.

Erie Police arrested a man Monday in connection with a bank robbery earlier that afternoon.

An Erie man was held for trial this afternoon in an October home invasion attempted robbery in which one suspect was fatally shot and a second suspect was wounded by an armed man inside a west Erie apartment.

A man wanted by the Erie County Sheriff's Office for failing to appear for trial on receiving stolen property charges was apprehended by Erie police on Saturday, deputies said today.

A Millcreek Township psychologist was sentenced this morning in Erie County Court to serve one to 23 months in the Erie County Prison for his no-contest plea to a charge that he touched a 10-year-old girl in an offensive manner at his house in 2013.

July 29, 2014- A water rescue is currently underway near North Creek road in Girard Township.

County Health Department Director Melissa Lyon is filling four positions that were either eliminated or left unfilled in 2013 due to budget cuts.

Sunday evening was the prime example of a lighting storm that could have seriously injured people in our region.

The choice of F. Brady Louis as the 2014 Tocqueville Award recipient by United Way of Erie County couldn't have been a more perfect illustration of the agency's 100-year commitment to improving lives and building a better community.

Police said a statement made by shooting victim Stevenson Jordan, along with gun powder residue on the clothing of Kenneth P. Ellis, linked Ellis to Jordan's fatal shooting.

I'll go ahead and be the one who expresses a feeling no one thought would come up back in January: I miss the winter.

More than a dozen people opened their mailboxes earlier this month to find postcards featuring a photo of the Erie County Courthouse on the front.

Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook and local police are trying to identify a teenage boy or young man found floating in Presque Isle Bay on Saturday.

Unified Erie, whose organizers include Erie County District Attorney Jack Daneri and Erie police Chief Randy Bowers, is working on a plan to give away 400 gun locks throughout Erie County.

City police and the coroner have a mystery on their hands after a young man's body was discovered Saturday morning in Cascade Creek.