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July 29th, 2010
LOCK HAVEN - A prison sentence is handed down today to a Clinton County man for his role in the boating death of a Centre County girl last year. 52-year old John E. Englert II of Mill Hall was sentenced today in Clinton County Court to five to eleven and a half years in state prison for the boating death of a Hublersburg girl last summer. Englert was sentenced to the term after impassioned pleas by the District Attorney and Valerie Heidt's mother. Heidt, a Bellefonte Middle School student, was in a boat that was hit by another boat driven by Englert, who was drunk, on the Susquehanna River in Lock Haven on July 10th last year. The Express reports, Englert's attorney pleaded for leniency, saying Englert lives with remorse every day of his life for causing the tragic death of the 12-year old girl.
John Callahan (WGRC)
July 28th, 2010
DANVILLE - Traffic tie ups at a busy Montour County intersection. Danville Police Chief Eric Gill tells the Daily Item, fire police and police were forced to direct traffic at the busy intersection of Routes 54 and 11 after a contractor accidentally cut the main line to the traffic signals. According to a PennDOT spokesman in Montoursville, an estimated 18,000 vehicles travel through that intersection daily. Gill said the contractor that severed the main line to the signals was cutting through asphalt and cement at the time. The incident occurred at about 2 a.m. The line controlling the lights has since been repaired and the lights are again working normally at the Routes 11 and 54 intersection in Danville.
John Callahan (WGRC)
July 27th, 2010
COLEVILLE - Fire crews from Centre, Clinton and Mifflin Counties were called in to fight a raging house fire this morning in Centre COunty the fire was reported right around 5:30 this morning to 307 Lower Coleville Road in the village of Coleville near Bellefonte. Logan Fire Company Chief Fred Bruno says the two-and-a-half story wood frame home was fully engulfed in flames when his crews arrived. The man who lived in the home got out safely but, Bruno says the house along with his belongings are a total loss. Crews had trouble getting water on the blaze as fire hydrants in the area did not have enough water pressure so water had to be trucked to the scene. There were no injuries. A State Police Fire Marshal was at the scene trying to determine a cause. The chief says he doesn't feel that the fire is anything suspicious.
Jim Diehl (WGRC)
July 26th, 2010
FLEMINGTON - Three 18-year-olds from Clinton County are facing charges including theft from a motor vehicle and offense against the United States Flag following an incident early Thursday morning. Police say Justin Bower of Mill Hall, Jordan Rich of Flemington and Rocky Muthler of Lock Haven were caught stelaing the items form vehcile belonging to three residents in the Hillview Area of Flemington. They also were charged with breaking a flag pole and removing the American Flag from one home and throwing it on the ground. The three are also charged with resisting arrest and underage drinking.
Jim Diehl (WGRC)
July 23rd, 2010
STATE COLLEGE -- In Centre County, police say they have identified suspects believed to have broken into nearly a dozen cars earlier this week. State College Police tell the Centre Daily Times that most of the stolen items have been recovered. Police say charges are pending. The vehicles were parked along Irvin Avenue, Old Boalsburg Road, Stratford Drive and Southgate Drive. According to the report, police are still working to determine if the suspects were also involved in a handful of car break-ins on Wednesday.
(WGRC)
PORT CARBON - A Schuylkill County man charged with an armed robbery at the Red&White Market in North Manheim Township on June 30th waived his right to a preliminary hearing yesterday morning.
July 22nd, 2010
POTTSVILLE - Schuylkill County District Attorney James Goodman said today he will seek the death penalty against the Berks County man charged with fatally shooting a Shenandoah man in March. Goodman tells the Republican Herald, he will seek the law's ultimate sanction against 30-year old Julius Enoe of Reading, whom state police at Frackville allege killed 24-year old Bruce Forker on March 16th in the victim's home. 29-year old Damon Ennett of Freeland, and 19-year old Jahmal Ollivirre of Reading, also are charged in connection with Forker's death.
John Callahan (WGRC)
July 21st, 2010
STATE COLLEGE -- Another person has been charged for involvement in a Centre County assault. Police say 18-year old Andy Rodriguez, of State College, was part of the group that attacked a Penn State student last month. The 23-year old victim was treated at the hospital. Police say the group unsuccessfully tried to take the student's backpack, but Rodriguez did steal an ipod. The Centre Daily Times reports that 3 others have already been charged including Jamar and Bernard Smack. They are former State College standout athletes. Jamar now plays basketball at Bloomsburg, while his brother is a member of the Shippensburg football team.
(WGRC)
July 20th, 2010
WATSONTOWN - New details in the death of a Northumberland County man over the weekend. A body covered by a rug, a broken clothing rack and what appeared to be drag marks in carpeting are among the pieces of evidence investigators are reviewing in the death of 81-year old William H. Hill. The Daily Item reports, Hill was found just after 8 Saturday evening on the second floor of his residence at 5 Vincent Avenue in Watsontown. An autopsy was conducted on Monday, but investigators have released few details. Watsontown Police continue to investigate and ask anyone with information to contact them.
John Callahan (WGRC)
July 19th, 2010
WATSONTOWN - A helicopter pilot, flying for a private company, crashed this morning after his chopper struck some power lines across the Susquehanna River in Northumberland County. 68-year old Gerald Racey of Virginia walked away uninjured from the mangled mess after he had to ditch the copter on the river's edge near Watsontown. The Company, Helicopter Applicator Incorporated of Gettysburg was on the way to the scene, along with F-A-A investigators shortly after the crash was reported around 8 this morning. Racey's company had been contracted by D-E-P to spray for black flies in the area.
John Callahan (WGRC w/WRAK)
July 16th, 2010
MIDDLEBURG - A Middleburg man was taken to the hospital Thursday evening following a two-car crash. That happened right around five p.m. on ROute 204 in Snyder County's Jackson Township. Police say 83-year-old Ralph Conrad hit the rear of a truck parked along the roadway. Conrad was taken to Evangelical Community Hospital with what police called moderate injuries. The driver of the truck 26-year-old Eric Donnelly of Selinsgrove wasn't hurt.
Jim Diehl (WGRC)
SELINSGROVE - A Selinsgrove man is jailed on $100-thousand dollars bail charged with child sexual assault charges in Snyder County. Police say over the last two years 21-year-old David Miller Jr. sexually assaulted a nine, ten and eleven year-old girls. He is also being investigated for the sexual assault of two girls ages ten and eleven in Schuylkill County.
Jim Diehl (WGRC)
BEAVERTOWN - A State Police Fire Marshal says a fire yesterday in Snyder County was accidental.