A former York resident who was convicted of a Huntingdon County murder that occurred nearly 24 years ago has failed to convince a state appeals court that he is innocent and that he is entitled to a new trial. Allen Branthafer, 46, is presently incarcerated in the State Correctional Institution Greene County, where is serving […]
The conviction of an Altoona man for the stabbing deaths of an elderly Spruce Avenue couple almost 22 years ago has been upheld by the Pennsylvania Superior Court in a decision handed down earlier this week. William Darwin Thompson, now 42, was sentenced to consecutive life terms in 2007 by Blair County Judge Hiram A. […]
The Pennsylvania Superior Court on Friday upheld a Blair County judge’s decision to sentence a Williamsburg man to probation for alleged drug offenses that occurred in 2021 despite complaints by the prosecution that the sentence was “excessively lenient” and that it “unreasonably deviated” from Pennsylvania’s sentencing guidelines. Scott Andrew Baker Jr., 29, was originally sentenced […]
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has agreed with a decision by a Bedford County judge who ruled the mother of a young child should retain custody of the child even though the grandmother raised him for the first six years of his life. The ruling was issued Friday by a Superior Court panel of judges that […]
If and when Ryan James Hardwick of Martinsburg is paroled for his part in the 2015 murder of a Roaring Spring woman, he will not have to pay a fine imposed by Bedford County Judge Travis W. Livengood. The Pennsylvania Superior Court in an opinion last week ruled the prosecution in the case has still […]