A pediatrician who examined Mikel Fetterman just days after he was hospitalized with serious head injuries in March 2020 testified Friday the child was the victim of physical abuse and potentially a sexual assault. Dr. Jennifer Clarke works at a hospital in New York, but three years ago, she was
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A former New Kensington woman will serve up to 10 years in prison for her role in a sex trafficking and prostitution ring that utilized a 14-year-old girl to maximize their earnings.
Shannon Lynn Shannon, 46, formerly of Texas, pleaded guilty in November to felony counts of trafficking in minors, statutory sexual assault, promoting prostitution of a minor and conspiracy as well as one misdemeanor offense of prostitution.
In court on Monday, Westmoreland County Judge Scott Mears ordered Shannon to serve five to 10 years in prison.
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A death row inmate convicted of the 2010 torture and murder of a mentally disabled woman in Greensburg will stick with his court-appointed appeal attorney after previously attempting to fire him.
Ricky Smyrnes, 35, formerly of North Huntingdon, told Westmoreland County Judge Scott Mears he intends to keep Thomas Farrell on board.
“I cannot represent myself,” Smyrnes said Friday by video from SCI Phoenix in Montgomery County.
He was convicted in 2013 of first-degree murder and sentenced to death by lethal injection in connection with the fatal stabbing of 30-year-old Jennifer Daugherty in an apartment he shared with five others.
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Nicholas Haynes told a jury Friday afternoon he was only in Arnold three years ago to beat up a man and was surprised his companion pulled out a gun and fired three shots, seriously wounding the former friend.
“We wasn’t down there to kill Malcolm or shoot him. That wasn’t the plan. We were gonna fight him or burn him for his pills,” Haynes testified during the fourth day of his trial on attempted homicide charges.
Testimony in the case against Haynes, 24, formerly of New Kensington, concluded Friday. Westmoreland County Judge Scott Mears said closing arguments in the case would begin Monday morning.