A heavily redacted Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS) report is offering a deeper look into Adams County Children and Youth Services (CYS).
The County’s District Attorney Brian Sinnett on Tuesday said Adams County CYS failed 15-month-old Iris Mummert, who was murdered by her mother in 2020.
After the death of a child that is in the care of CYS, the county must put together a report about the incident and make note of what can be done better next time.
JOHNSTOWN, PA - Bo Bassett was only six years old when he won his first world championship. Now at the age of 14, Bassett will be back on the world championship mats. Bassett, an upcoming eighth grader at Bishop McCort, will travel to Budapest, Hungary next week for the Cadet World Championships. Bassett will represent America on the World Team for USA Wrestling. Even though he has eight years of experience since his last world tournament, his mom and dad still had to sign a permission slip for Bo to go.
Jefferson Co., PA (WJAC) — Authorities with the Brookville Borough Police Department say a local student is facing charges after being accused of stabbing a fellow classmate last week.
Police say they began an investigation on Friday, Jan. 27th, after receiving a complaint from a parent of the victim, claiming that their child had been stabbed in the hand during the previous school day.
Upon further investigation, police determined that an 8th grade student had allegedly stabbed the victim, twice, in the hand with a colored pencil.
Cambria Co., PA (WJAC) — A local community is coming together for a mother and daughter in Cambria County who lost everything in a tragic house fire over the weekend.
"We're talking about years of memories in the house they lost. They lost clothes, they lost TVs, kitchenware, everything. Everything you could possibly think of. It was a total loss for them,” said South Fork Borough police chief Don Wyar.
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Model Janice Dickinson is telling a jury that Bill Cosby raped her after giving her a pill he claimed would help her with menstrual cramps.
Dickinson is the fourth accuser to take the witness stand at Cosby's sex assault retrial in suburban Philadelphia. She told jurors Thursday she was "rendered motionless" by the pill as Cosby got on top of her in his Lake Tahoe, California, hotel room.