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Judge weighs child sex case

Altoona Mirror HOLLIDAYSBURG — A Blair County judge is being asked to render verdicts on child rape, sexual assault, pornography and related charges in a case where the defendant’s cellphone video recordings were offered Thursday in court as evidence against him. Richard Scott Sensibaugh, 37, asked for the trial-by-judge on 59 counts of child sexual offenses filed in 2021 by state police at Hollidaysburg. While defense attorney Lyle Dresbold of Pittsburgh conceded to Judge Jackie Bernard that guilty verdicts would be appropriate for some offenses, Dresbold challenged other ...

PSP presents $200M in contracting opportunities

HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania Department of General Services (DGS) Acting Secretary Reggie McNeil and Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Christopher Paris announced contracting opportunities around plans to build the new Pennsylvania State Police Academy. Contractors are actively being solicited to provide their skills and experience to build this high-profile project. The opportunity to submit proposals will be available through Aug.1. The new PSP Academy replaces outdated, aging facilities with state-of-the-art, technologically advanced facilities that will meet the current ...

Pilot killed during WWII accounted for, authorities say

WILLIAMSPORT (AP) An Army Air Force pilot from Pennsylvania killed during World War II has been accounted for almost eight decades later, military authorities said. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said last week that 2nd Lt. James Litherland, 25, of South Williamsport was accounted for in March. In February 1944, Litherland was co-piloting a B-17F Flying Fortress that was struck by anti-aircraft fire after a bombing raid on a German V-2 rocket site in Bois-Coquerel, France. Three airmen parachuted to safety but Litherland and six other crew members were still on board when the ...

3 killed, 4th wounded in shooting; two in custody

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two teenagers have been charged with firearms and related offenses following the slaying of three people and the wounding of a fourth person at a northeast Philadelphia home, authorities said. Lt. John Stanford told reporters that officers called to the residence in the Lawncrest neighborhood shortly after 3:30 p.m. Friday found one person shot on the sidewalk, another on the porch and a third victim inside the home. All three were pronounced dead at the scene. Police said another 16-year-old male victim arrived in a car at Jefferson Frankford Hospital. Stanford ...

Woman indicted in $11,000 sale of stolen body parts to Pa. man

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas woman has pleaded not guilty to charges that she sold 20 boxes of stolen body parts from medical school cadavers to a Pennsylvania man for nearly $11,000. The April 5 indictment, unsealed Friday in federal court in Little Rock, accuses Candace Chapman Scott, 36, a former mortuary worker, of setting up the transactions with a man she met through a Facebook group about “oddities.” Scott, a Little Rock resident, pleaded not guilty to 12 counts, including conspiracy to commit mail fraud, mail fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, ...

Police: Armed man wounded in standoff

2 officers hit PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say an overnight standoff with an armed man barricaded in a Philadelphia home ended when he was shot and wounded by officers who had been fired upon and struck by bullets in their protective vests. First Deputy Commissioner John Stanford told WPVI-TV that officers were called to the Germantown home at about 4 p.m. Saturday after a report of an armed man and were given access to the property by a relative but were fired upon by the man. Officials say the barricade situation lasted overnight into Sunday, and SWAT negotiators tried to talk ...