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The woman accused of stealing Edna Hallock’s purse from her Main Street office last month has waived her preliminary hearing. Bridgette Housler is accused of taking the purse that contained $3,000 while she was in the office asking about renting an apartment. Court papers say Hallock noticed the purse was missing shortly after Housler left the office. That day, Housler said she didn’t have enough money to rent an apartment. The next day she went back to Hallock’s office with $400 in cash for the rental. Court papers say Housler, her 3-year-old daughter and Corry Robinson then went to Erie and bought gas and 4 or 5 8-balls of crack cocaine (worth about $200). They also allegedly went to a couple of restaurants and rented a room at the Hampton Inn. Housler and Robinson are jailed on $30,000 bail each. Robinson’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 23.

She got away with it again. That’s how one Summer Street resident summed up the situation with landlord Edna Hallock moving new tenants into a house that had been infested with cockroaches last year. Steph Viola and several of her neighbors attended Tuesday’s Bradford City Council meeting to inform council that Hallock was moving people into the house. “We went through, literally, hell this summer,” Viola said. “To know that that house sits there tenant after tenant after tenant and it’s nothing but trash – It’s getting really bad. That’s it in a nutshell.” “I’m sick of living by this,” Viola continued. “It just broke my heart when I found out she got away with it again.” Bradford City Fire Chief Boo Coder left the council meeting to see if the property had a certificate of compliance, which would allow it to be rented out. After the meeting, Coder said Merle Silvis and Chris Angell had inspected it, so he could not keep the new tenants from moving in. At a Board of Health meeting in A...