This article was originally published on GoErie.com on April 9, 2018 HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s highest court will decide whether a woman’s use of illegal drugs while pregnant qualifies as child abuse under state law. The Supreme Court recently took up the case of a woman who tested positive for suboxone and marijuana at the time she gave […]

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on April 3, 2018 A 34-year-old Erie man with a prior conviction for attempted homicide was sent back to state prison Tuesday for his involvement in an April gunfight that left one man injured. The defendant, Markcail Williams, received seven and a half to 20 years in state

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on March 28, 2018 The homicide trial for Christopher S. Leclair in his wife’s death on Lake Erie has been moved to October. Leclair, 48, had been set to face trial in early April on charges including homicide, abuse of a corpse, aggravated assault, tampering with evidence and possessing the

This article was originally published on GoEriie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on March 29, 2018  After months of delays leading up to her scheduled sentencing, a suspended Erie police officer extended her criminal case on Thursday by withdrawing her guilty plea to charges she caused an off-duty fatal crash while driving drunk in McKean Township in February 2017.

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on March 21, 2018 A Fairview Township man accused in a recent double homicide appeared in Erie County Court Wednesday to deal with less serious charges. Regis A. Brown, 58, who is in the Erie County Prison without bond in the homicide case, received six months in prison at his

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Ed Palattella on March 16, 2018 One of the three Erie County defendants accused in the hazing death of a now-closed Penn State fraternity is no longer facing the most serious charges that had been refiled against him, including felony aggravated assault and involuntary manslaughter. The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s

The Erie County District Attorney’s Office will seek to withdraw the homicide charge against a Lake City father accused of inflicting fatal injuries on his infant son in February 2016. The decision was based on “additional medical evidence and interviews with essential witnesses regarding the medical evidence,” District Attorney Jack Daneri said Monday. The defendant,

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on March 13, 2018 Pennsylvania State Police have charged a Fairview Township man with fatally stabbing his stepdaughter and bludgeoning his wife to death in their West Ridge Road residence on Friday. Their bodies were not found until Monday afternoon. Regis A. Brown, 58, the defendant, is also accused of

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on March 9, 2018 Even before police arrested a Millcreek Township man in an investigation into the shooting death of his wife, the man confessed to the killing — to a Roman Catholic priest he sought out in the rectory of St. Peter Cathedral in downtown Erie. The odd turn

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on March 8, 2018 An Erie woman was jailed Thursday after city police accused her of slashing her boyfriend in the head with a kitchen knife at an eastside residence on Wednesday evening. Angelic A. Parks, 24, is accused of using a kitchen knife to cut the male victim, causing