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This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on Aug. 20, 2017 Officers said they also found suspected crack cocaine when the man was caught after crashing the car Saturday morning. Erie police have charged a city man with having a stolen car, fleeing from officers and possessing suspected crack cocaine following a pursuit on […]

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on Aug, 17, 2017 MEADVILLE — City police and the Crawford County Coroner’s Office are investigating the discovery of a male’s body in French Creek early Thursday afternoon. Authorities were notified at about 1:25 p.m. Thursday after the body was discovered at the railroad trestle near Hope Street in Vernon

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on August 17, 2017 An Erie man accused of fraudulently using a woman’s debit card earlier this year, and of breaking into vehicles in the city earlier this month, waived the criminal charges filed against him in both cases to court on Thursday. Stephen T. Freebourn, 38, waived to court

This article was originally published on Erie News Now by Brittany Lauffer on Aug 14, 2017  First-time DUI offenders will soon have a new punishment if convicted. Last year, Governor Tom Wolf signed the Pennsylvania Ignition Interlock Law, that will allow offenders to keep their driver’s license instead of facing the usual suspension. “If you are a

This article was originally published on GoErie.com on August 15, 2017  SAEGERTOWN — The Pennsylvania State Police and the Crawford County Coroner’s Office are investigating the death of a man who was found next to his motorcycle in an alley in the borough early Tuesday morning. The 70-year-old man, whose name has not been released, was found

This article was originally published on goerie.com on August 14, 2017.  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A man accused of ramming his car into a crowd of counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia was denied bond Monday after the public defender’s office said it couldn’t represent him and the judge was forced to find a local attorney

TITUSVILLE — A West Mead Township man accused of fatally shooting an Erie man at an outdoor party in eastern Crawford County in early June, told investigators he pulled out a gun and fired it as a group of “black guys” came running toward him, a Pennsylvania State Police trooper testified on Thursday morning. The

This article was originally published by Madeleine O’Neill on goerie.com on Aug 10, 2017  A 24-year-old Erie man will soon be eligible for parole after his sentencing Thursday for his role in a November robbery. The defendant, Richard O. Ricks, received nine months to two years, less a day, from Erie County Judge John Garhart. The sentence

This article was originally published on goerie.com on August 8, 2017 by Tim Hahn.  City police accused her of choking and striking a woman with cerebral palsy in July. Erie police charge that a city woman responsible for the care of a woman with cerebral palsy strangled the woman and struck her repeatedly at a westside apartment

This article was originally published on abcnews.go.com on August 7, 2017. The Ohio rape suspect who overpowered a sheriff’s deputy and escaped police custody last week committed suicide on Monday as police attempted to recapture him, officials said. Branden Lee Powell, 32, fatally shot himself late Monday evening as authorities attempted to lure him from a crawl space