This article was originally published on triblive.com on May 22, 2017 Amid a mounting budget deficit that has led to $232 million in proposed cuts to Pennsylvania’s corrections, courts, treatment and policing programs, the Legislature is considering a bill that would increase prison time for some offenders and drive up taxpayer costs by $85 million annually. But […]

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 A pedestrian hit by a stolen truck on West 26th Street in Erie on Monday afternoon is recovering at UPMC Hamot as the man accused of striking him remains in the Erie County Prison on a list of criminal charges. Erie police

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on May 19, 2017 Two people are facing drug charges after State Police raid an Erie car dealership and three east side homes. The State Police Vice Unit teamed up with Erie officers for the raid. They say they searched “Babylon Auto Sales” at 25th and East Avenue, along with

This article was originally published by staff report on goerie.com on April 18, 2017 Six people were arrested on drug charges after members of the Southern Tier Regional Drug Task Force and the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office served a search warrant at a residence at 12211 Alleghany Road in the town of Hanover, Chautauqua County,

This article was originally published by Steve Hoffer on huffingtonpost.com on April 17, 2017 A Massachusetts woman was arrested on Monday after she knocked over six mail boxes while driving drunk with a lizard in her bra, police said. Amy Rebello-McCarthy, 39, was slurring her words when authorities in Taunton caught up with her and her

This article originally appeared on Huffington Post by David Moye. A 14-year-old boy in Holiday, Florida, is lucky to be alive after being hit by a swerving SUV while he was on his bike. The incident happened Monday afternoon when a gold 1998 Ford Expedition SUV ran a stop sign and began to lose control, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

This article originally appeared on Huffington Post by Nina Golgowski. An Ohio police officer suffered a near-fatal drug overdose after he tried to brush what was believed to be powdered fentanyl off his shirt with his bare hand, authorities said. East Liverpool Officer Chris Green had just carried out a traffic arrest of two drug suspects on Friday

This article originally appeared on Huffington Post by Andy Campbell, Sebastian Murdock, and Willa Frej. A police chief who had been on the job for three weeks was among four people killed when a gunman opened fire at a nursing home near Columbus, Ohio. Kirkersville Police Chief Steven Eric Disario, was fatally shot at the scene after he was called to

This article originally appeared on NBC News by Andrew Blankstein on April 25, 2017. A New York City detective who investigated the disappearance of real-estate heir Robert Durst’s wife testified Tuesday that neighbors told him about a disturbing incident in which the missing woman claimed her husband “wanted to kill her.” Durst, the subject of the HBO

This article originally appeared on Huffington Post by David Moye. A Florida man accused of murdering his girlfriend wants to show his penis to the jury as evidence that he accidentally choked her to death during consensual oral sex.   Broward County Police arrested Richard Henry Patterson, 65, in November 2015, and charged him with second-degree murder in