CHESTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — A police chief is injured and a woman is dead following an involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault incident early Sunday.
Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) say Chief Calvin Wilson of the Honey Brook Borough Police Department conducted a traffic stop around 1:07 a.m. on a tan 2003 Toyota Tacoma in the 3700 block of Horseshoe Pike.
The vehicle was being driven by 57-year-old John Lewis Knecht Jr.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WJAC) — Over 2,000 acres of land are being added to Cambria County state game lands, the Pennsylvania Game Commission announced Friday.
The game commission’s Southwest Region director, Thomas Fazi, says 2,166 acres of land will be added to State Game Lands 042 in Lower Yoder and Upper Yoder townships.
The newly acquired land, dominated by hardwood forests with small clearings left over from past logging activities, currently adjoins State Game Lands 042.
Johnstown, Pa — According to the Washington Post, there was more than 100,000 drug overdose deaths reported in the United States last year.
Since then, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new nasal spray – in an effort to help curb the opioid epidemic.
The new medicine is called Opvee – an official 6 News spoke with compared this new drug to Narcan.
“There is a new tool on our arsenal against the opioid overdose epidemic,” said Jerome Adams, the former U.
DUBOIS, Pa. (WJAC) — The Western Pennsylvania Police Athletic League (WPAL) in DuBois held its annual Winter Warrior Showdown weightlifting competition Saturday. The proceeds from the competition go toward the WPAL's youth programs.
"People like tend to think that like weight-lifting's kind of get hard into, but it's really easy," lifter Nathan Shaffer, 18, told 6 News. "You just go to a gym, you'll see if there's a competition or something, and then you lift up the big, heavy circles.
ALTOONA – Police have identified the man they said robbed a 73-year-old woman of her diabetic medication earlier this week.
Altoona police said they have a warrant for Scott Borgess. They said he’s the man seen in surveillance video at Thompson's Pharmacy before approaching the victim as she left the store.
Police said the woman, walking with a cane, picked up a prescription mid-afternoon from the pharmacy. She reported the man asked her several times about her disability and if she needed help.