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This article was published on The Washington Post by Kristine Phillips on June 6, 2017 Sitting in his pickup truck one summer day in 2014, Conrad Roy III wavered about his plan to kill himself. He was scared, he texted his girlfriend. “Get back in,” she replied. Roy did. The 18-year-old who had long battled depression and suicidal thoughts succumbed to […]

This article was originally published on nytimes.com by Adam Liptak on June 5, 2017  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether the government needs a warrant to obtain information from cellphone companies showing their customers’ locations. The Supreme Court has limited the government’s ability to use GPS devices to track suspects’ movements, and it has

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on May 30, 2017 Erie police are hunting for additional witnesses and more surveillance video in an effort to find the vehicle that struck and seriously injured an 8-year-old boy on the Bayfront Connector late Sunday afternoon. Police still had not determined on Tuesday the make and

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on May 31, 2017 A tip involving an Edinboro-area man that made its way from a local police department to the Pennsylvania State Police to authorities in Washington, D.C., “averted a potential disaster here in our nation’s capital,” the chief of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington

This article was originally published on abcNews.com by Emily Shapiro on May 30, 2017 Tiger Woods was allegedly asleep at the wheel and allegedly changed his story of where he was coming from when he was arrested over the holiday weekend on suspicion of driving under the influence, according to police. According to a police report, an officer

This article was originally published on ABC News by Karma Allen on May 30, 2017  The family of the suspect in a deadly weekend shooting spree in Mississippi said he had been acting out in the days leading up to the massacre, which left a sheriff’s deputy and seven others dead. The suspect, Willie Godbolt, 35, was

This article was originally published by Blair Shiff on ABC News on April 26th A woman driving a Jeep told police she blacked out prior to hitting a curb, sending her SUV through the air and straight through a brick wall in Milwaukee early Thursday morning. The Jeep landed inches away from a man sleeping inside. “To

This article was originally published on abcnews.go.com by Emily Shapiro on May 25, 2017 A Wisconsin woman was pumping gas this week when a thief jumped into the driver’s seat of her car and she leapt onto the hood of the car to stop him, in a shocking moment caught on video. Melissa Smith, 28, of Milwaukee,

This article was originally published on triblive.com on May 22, 2017 Amid a mounting budget deficit that has led to $232 million in proposed cuts to Pennsylvania’s corrections, courts, treatment and policing programs, the Legislature is considering a bill that would increase prison time for some offenders and drive up taxpayer costs by $85 million annually. But

This article was originally published on GoErie.com by Tim Hahn on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 A pedestrian hit by a stolen truck on West 26th Street in Erie on Monday afternoon is recovering at UPMC Hamot as the man accused of striking him remains in the Erie County Prison on a list of criminal charges. Erie police