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An Oil City man is dead after a large tree fell on the cab of his tractor-trailer Monday afternoon on Route 27 in Pittsfield Township. Police say 57-year-old Lanny Ross was traveling west when the tree fell from the north edge of the road. Warren County Coroner Jeremiah Borden pronounced Ross dead at the scene. Borden says it’s unclear why the tree fell, but he believes recent rain may have softened the ground, causing the tree – including the roots – to fall onto the truck and the road. The news leader of the Twin Tiers ... since 1947

The two men found dead near the Kinzua Reservoir in the Allegheny National Forest on Thursday died of exposure-hypothermia, according to Warren County Coroner Jeremiah Borden. Borden ruled the deaths accidental and said no autopsies would be performed on 29-year-old Troy Johnson and 28-year-old Terry Sumrow. Johnson and Sumrow were found during a search by law enforcement and volunteer firefighters on Thursday afternoon that started after a US Forest Service law enforcement officer found a vehicle they were looking for in connection with a missing person investigation.