The teenager charged with second-degree murder in connection with a shooting last year in New Kensington is now facing additional criminal offenses related to an attack against a shelter worker and his disappearance from an unsecured facility this month. Assistant District Attorney Jackie Knupp said Thursday those new charges warrant
When a 16-year-old charged with second-degree murder fled from house arrest in November, Westmoreland County authorities scrambled to find a place to house him. The county’s juvenile detention center had closed temporarily in June amid staffing shortages. Calls to numerous private and publicly owned facilities throughout Pennsylvania that house children
State police say Robert Cogdell and Braedon Dickinson, both from Connellsville, escaped the Westmoreland County Juvenile Detention Center in Hempfield Township.