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03/14/08 - Kanefest Cancelled for This Year
Kanefest has been cancelled for this year. The festival planning committee says that due to many unforeseen economic circumstances it's not financially feasible to go ahead with the festival. The committee also said that due to recent negative publicity, there have been several lost sponsorship opportunities, adding to the financial problems. The committee had decided that a beer tent could be set up at the festival, but local clergy opposed that idea. A public forum is scheduled for April 9 at 6:30 p.m. at the Kane Area Community Center to discuss new ideas for a community festival.
03/14/08 - Alleged Bank Robber Didn't Plan Well
A Tioga County man is accused of an attempted bank robbery — and if poor planning were a crime, he'd probably be charged with that, too. Police say a man arrived at the Citizens and Northern Bank in the borough of Liberty on Thursday and waited in his car for about 20 minutes. Shortly after noon, he tried to enter the bank wearing a ski mask and carrying a rifle. But the bank's Liberty branch closes at noon on Thursdays. The man fled the scene, but bank employees took note of his license plate number. A 28-year-old suspect is jailed in lieu of $50,000 bail.
03/14/08 - Minister Waives Hearing on Sex Charges
A Methodist minister accused of engaging in sexually explicit conversations over the Internet faces trial on four felony charges. 39-year-old Steven McGuigan of Conneautville, waived his preliminary hearing on charges that he had sexually explicit conversations in an Internet chat room with a person he thought was a 13-year-old girl. The person turned out to be an agent with the Attorney General's Child Predator Unit. United Methodist Church leaders removed McGuigan from his pastoral duties after his arrest. A church official says McGuigan's future with the church will be determined once the criminal investigation is completed and the church wraps up its own investigation. McGuigan is in the Crawford County Correctional Facility on 35 thousand dollars bond.
03/14/08 - Kartesz Business Partner Sentenced
Erie businessman Robert Dodsworth has been sentenced to six years and four months in federal prison for his role in a widespread mortgage-fraud scheme. Dodsworth pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges in November. He is among five people charged by the federal government in relation to the mortgage fraud case, which the FBI, Internal Revenue Service and other agencies have been investigating since 2004.
The government claims that Dodsworth and others, including former Bradford landlord Frank Kartesz, bought run-down houses in Erie and sold them at artificially inflated prices. The buyers were mostly low-income people who knew little about how to buy a home. Kartesz has not appeared in court yet.
03/14/08 - Cops: Man Stabs Mom, Reads Bible to Her
State police say a Clearfield County man beat and stabbed his mother over a stolen computer and read the Bible to her as he watched her die. Twenty-year-old Jesse James Campbell of Houtzdale is in the county jail without bond on criminal homicide and other charges. Police say relatives found the body of his mother, 48-year-old Cindy Jo Coleman, at her home on Thursday. After hitting his mother with a five-pound plastic weight, police say Campbell cut her throat with a steak knife then read the Bible to her as he listened to her choking on her own blood.
Kanefest has been cancelled for this year. The festival planning committee says that due to many unforeseen economic circumstances it's not financially feasible to go ahead with the festival. The committee also said that due to recent negative publicity, there have been several lost sponsorship opportunities, adding to the financial problems. The committee had decided that a beer tent could be set up at the festival, but local clergy opposed that idea. A public forum is scheduled for April 9 at 6:30 p.m. at the Kane Area Community Center to discuss new ideas for a community festival.
03/14/08 - Alleged Bank Robber Didn't Plan Well
A Tioga County man is accused of an attempted bank robbery — and if poor planning were a crime, he'd probably be charged with that, too. Police say a man arrived at the Citizens and Northern Bank in the borough of Liberty on Thursday and waited in his car for about 20 minutes. Shortly after noon, he tried to enter the bank wearing a ski mask and carrying a rifle. But the bank's Liberty branch closes at noon on Thursdays. The man fled the scene, but bank employees took note of his license plate number. A 28-year-old suspect is jailed in lieu of $50,000 bail.
03/14/08 - Minister Waives Hearing on Sex Charges
A Methodist minister accused of engaging in sexually explicit conversations over the Internet faces trial on four felony charges. 39-year-old Steven McGuigan of Conneautville, waived his preliminary hearing on charges that he had sexually explicit conversations in an Internet chat room with a person he thought was a 13-year-old girl. The person turned out to be an agent with the Attorney General's Child Predator Unit. United Methodist Church leaders removed McGuigan from his pastoral duties after his arrest. A church official says McGuigan's future with the church will be determined once the criminal investigation is completed and the church wraps up its own investigation. McGuigan is in the Crawford County Correctional Facility on 35 thousand dollars bond.
03/14/08 - Kartesz Business Partner Sentenced
Erie businessman Robert Dodsworth has been sentenced to six years and four months in federal prison for his role in a widespread mortgage-fraud scheme. Dodsworth pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges in November. He is among five people charged by the federal government in relation to the mortgage fraud case, which the FBI, Internal Revenue Service and other agencies have been investigating since 2004.
The government claims that Dodsworth and others, including former Bradford landlord Frank Kartesz, bought run-down houses in Erie and sold them at artificially inflated prices. The buyers were mostly low-income people who knew little about how to buy a home. Kartesz has not appeared in court yet.
03/14/08 - Cops: Man Stabs Mom, Reads Bible to Her
State police say a Clearfield County man beat and stabbed his mother over a stolen computer and read the Bible to her as he watched her die. Twenty-year-old Jesse James Campbell of Houtzdale is in the county jail without bond on criminal homicide and other charges. Police say relatives found the body of his mother, 48-year-old Cindy Jo Coleman, at her home on Thursday. After hitting his mother with a five-pound plastic weight, police say Campbell cut her throat with a steak knife then read the Bible to her as he listened to her choking on her own blood.
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