This article was originally published by GoErie.com on Sept. 29, 2016 by Staff report ERIE, Pa. — Prosecutors have dropped the most serious charge against an Erie man accused by city police of delivering suspected heroin in the city earlier this month. Raheem T. Farmer, 21, waived misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance […]

This article was originally published on The Washington Post on September 27, 2016 by Matt Bonesteel An NFL player getting nabbed for DUI is hardly newsworthy these days, and so normally we wouldn’t be writing about how Cleveland Browns starting right guard Alvin Bailey was arrested for that very charge early Monday morning. What’s so different about Bailey’s

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on September 27, 2016 by Tim Hahn Brian P. Kelly, of Cambridge Springs, leaves the court of McKeanDistrict Judge Denise Stuck-Lewis after waiving his preliminaryhearings Sept. 27 on robbery and related counts in a series of robberies in Erie County in early December. TIMHAHN/ERIE TIMES-NEWS A cambridge Springs man accused of

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on September 26, 2016 ERIE, Pa. — Jurors heard a graphic description of an Erie woman’s death Monday as the prosecution and defense gave opening statements in Marquice D. Evans’ homicide trial. Assistant Erie County District Attorney Paul Sellers said Sherry Lyons, 58, was “brutally murdered” in

This article was originally published on Sept. 20, 2016 on Vice.com by Harry Cheadle James Duane doesn’t think you should ever talk to the police. Not just, “Don’t talk to the police if you’re accused of a crime,” or, “Don’t talk to the police in an interrogation setting”—never talk to the cops, period. If you are found doing

This article was originally published on September 21, 2016 by David Lohr on Huffington Post  Photos of a man who appears to be dragging a little girl by the hair through a Texas shopping center are causing a firestorm on social media. “Somebody needs to pull him down the road by the hair,” one commenter

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on September 20, 2016 by Ed Palattella ERIE, Pa. — The U.S. attorney’s office said an Erie automobile fraud scheme was built around “straw purchases,” illegally inflated vehicle prices and a three-person conspiracy. Text messages and information from insiders helped investigators unravel the plot. Newly unsealed search warrants show that as

This article was originally published on The Huffington Post on July 17, 2013 by Meredith Bennett-Smith Well, that wasn’t supposed to happen! A pair of hapless burglary suspects in McAlester, Okla., found themselves in hot water last week after authorities say one of the men inadvertently butt-dialed police. “Never have I seen or heard of anything like this,” Pittsburg

If all burglars were like this guy, security companies would be out of business. Faced with a seemingly easy-to-solve problem — a door — this would-be robber at a bar in Chicago’s trendy Wicker Park neighborhood couldn’t quite figure it out. He pulled. And pulled. And pried with all of his might for seven straight minutes,

This article originally appeared on Huffington Post by Kate Abbey-Lambertz on July 21st, 2014. Here’s a volatile combination: nudity, guns, drugs and pizza. At least for Phillip Engle, the 27-year-old man who found himself in a not-so-happy situation at Happy’s Pizza in Muskegon Charter Township, Michigan, this weekend. Engle, who lives next door, allegedly showed up at the pizzeria