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Pa. House votes for tougher gun rules in domestic violence cases

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on September 26, 2018 HARRISBURG — A proposal to force people in Pennsylvania convicted of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence or subject to protective orders to surrender their guns within 24 hours is closer to becoming law. The state House voted 131 to 62 on Wednesday for a bill that

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Waterford woman gets prison in child concealment case

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on September 24, 2018 An Erie County judge described a Waterford Township woman as a “manipulative con artist” Monday before sentencing her to state prison for driving a 14-year-old runaway to Florida and concealing the girl’s whereabouts in February. The defendant, Joanna J. Kelley, 32, also admitted

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Erie County, officers respond to Manus lawsuit

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on September 21, 2018 Erie County and two corrections officers are denying the claims raised in the federal civil rights lawsuit filed by the family of Felix L. Manus, a work-release inmate who died after suffering an asthma attack during a shift in May. Their responses, filed Thursday

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Judge reverses decision, pushes Grazioli trial to November

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on September 20, 2018 After first denying a request to delay John P. Grazioli’s October homicide trial in the death of his wife, an Erie County judge has decided to move the trial to early November. Grazioli, who had been scheduled to face trial in the shooting

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Cases advance against 2 charged in west Erie shootings

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on September 17, 2018. The Erie County District Attorney’s Office highlighted two shootings outside a west Erie tavern over the past two years in successfully pushing for the place to be shuttered temporarily as a nuisance establishment over the summer. The criminal cases against two men accused

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Erie County, ex-inmate settle civil rights case for $1.1 million

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Ed Palattella on September 14, 2018 Erie County has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle the federal lawsuit of Patrick J. Haight, a former Erie County Prison inmate who claimed corrections officers violated his civil rights in an assault in May 2017. The lawyers for Haight, Alec B. Wright and Timothy

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Erie man must pay $1.7 million in food stamp fraud case

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Madeleine O’Neill on September 12, 2018 An Erie man was sentenced to pay more than $1.7 million in restitution and to serve time in federal prison Monday for his involvement in a food stamp fraud scheme. Nureden Jibul, 34, received one year and nine months in prison at his sentencing

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DUI arrests down, crashes up for state police Troop E in 2017

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on September 9, 2018 The number of people arrested by Pennsylvania State Police troopers statewide for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs continued to grow in 2017, as did the number of DUI-related crashes investigated by troopers. But the number of DUI arrests by state police

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