This article was originally published on goerie.com on August 8, 2017 by Tim Hahn.  City police accused her of choking and striking a woman with cerebral palsy in July. Erie police charge that a city woman responsible for the care of a woman with cerebral palsy strangled the woman and struck her repeatedly at a westside apartment […]

This article was originally published on abcnews.go.com on August 7, 2017. The Ohio rape suspect who overpowered a sheriff’s deputy and escaped police custody last week committed suicide on Monday as police attempted to recapture him, officials said. Branden Lee Powell, 32, fatally shot himself late Monday evening as authorities attempted to lure him from a crawl space

This article was originally published on goerie.com on August 7, 2017 by Tim Hahn.  City police accuse her of setting up an attempted robbery that led to the wounding of a Millcreek man at an eastside residence Sunday. Erie police have charged a city woman with setting up an attempted robbery that led to the shooting of

This article was originally published on goerie.com on August 3, 2017 by Ed Palatella.  Danny R. Swift must also pay nearly $55,000 in restitution to cover the care for the injured pit bulls. He was convicted in June. A 42-year-old Erie man convicted of dog fighting was sentenced on Thursday to 10 to 20 months in the

This article was originally published on washingtonpost.com on August 2, 2017 by Travis M. Andrews. Prosecutors say an Ohio man stored his former girlfriend’s corpse in a freezer while his new girlfriend lived with him in the dead woman’s apartment, used her credit cards and phone, drove her car and even cared for her dog, according to the Associated

This article was originally published on abcnews.go.com on July 31, 2017 A dozen Alabama inmates cooked up a plot to hoodwink a new employee at the Walker County Jail, using peanut butter to trick the staffer into opening an alternate door over the weekend, Walker County Sheriff James Underwood said at a news conference Monday afternoon. Underwood

DENVER ― A broccoli-peddling drug dealer has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for opening fire on buyers who protested they’d been scammed. Sababu Colbert-Evans, 26, was sentenced to 16 years in prison, to be followed by five years on parole, for attempted first-degree murder with extreme indifference, distributing an imitation controlled substance and

This article was originally published on yourerie.com on July 26, 2017 The accident happened around 7:30 this morning on Route 20 between Manchester and Swanville Road.  A car traveling eastbound crossed the westbound lanes, taking out a utility pole, bringing down high tension wires. The driver was able to free himself from the wreckage.  Fire crews and

This article was originally published on goerie.com on July 26, 2017 HOLLIS, Maine — A man is accused of drunkenly strolling down a Maine road wearing a black-hooded sweatshirt and a clown mask and brandishing a machete taped to where his arm had been amputated. Maine State Police told WCSH-TV that 31-year-old Corey Berry, of Hollis, was

NORTH EAST — Police said Monday that there were “issues” between a North East Township woman and the man who shot and killed her and their neighbor Saturday. Teresa A. Maroglio, 54, and Christopher G. Feucht, 52, were sitting on Feucht’s patio when James L. Hemmis Jr., 53, got a handgun from the home he