An Industry man was not acting aggressively or resisting commands seconds before an off-duty Center Township police officer sent the man crashing to the ground and striking his head on asphalt, leading to the man’s death, according to a...
During a celebration Thursday for the newest members of the Beaver County Court system - and two returning incumbents - those who took their oaths of office said that the sacrifices of a political campaign weigh heavy not only...
A Center Township police officer was “shocked and surprised” that the state Attorney General’s Office charged him Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter for a 2022 scuffle that ended with the death of a shooting witness.
“He was surprised that he was...
The reminders of the horrific discovery of a human head along Mason Road in Economy on Dec. 12, 2014, live daily with borough police Chief Mike O’Brien.
In O’Brien’s office, there are sculptures recreating the embalmed woman’s head as she...
It took more than a year for state police trooper Jonnie Schooley to return to active duty after a bullet fired by a Beaver County man tore through his leg during a 2022 altercation at an Aliquippa convenience store.
Wednesday,...
Update: Damian Bradford was convicted of all charges by a jury following trial in a Beaver County court.
About 45 percent of federal prisoners end up back in custody within three years of their release, according to statistics from prisoner...
For more than eight years, Economy police and Beaver County detectives have been unable to solve the mystery of a woman's embalmed head found along a wooded area of Mason Road in the borough in 2014.
Who placed her head...
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Bill Vidonic is a veteran cops & courts reporter whose award-winning journalism has been featured in major publications throughout the region.
