Republican Shawn White was overwhelmingly elected Venango County’s district attorney on Tuesday. White garnered 79.6 percent of the vote to win in a landslide over Democrat Jim Carbone, a former assistant district attorney. Other county races saw Susan Hannon take 76.2 percent of the vote in the register-recorder race to defeat Alexandre Motzer, while incumbent…
The Venango County District Attorney’s office has ruled there will be no prosecution in the shooting death of an Oil City woman by a city police officer in July, and the Pennsylvania State Police have pronounced their investigation complete. A State Police statement issued Tuesday afternoon indicates that District Attorney Marie Veon has determined that…
The directors of Pennsylvania’s Game Commission and Fish and Boat Commission will be joined by lawmakers, environmentalists and outdoorsmen at a news conference in Harrisburg on Thursday morning (10:00 AM) to discuss their opposition to a bill in the state House of Representatives regarding the decision-making process concerning endangered species in Pennsylvania. Joining the Game…
Voters go to the polls Tuesday (Nov. 5) in the 2013 municipal elections in Pennsylvania. Locally, most contested races are on the township and borough levels. There is a race for District Attorney in Venango County, although the Democratic candidate has little been heard from since the May primaries. James Carbone, a former assistant D.A., ran…
The body of a Mercer County man who had been missing since his canoe capsized last Wednesday has been found by a group of friends who continued looking for the man after an official search had been ended. The body of 47 year-old Eric Metz, from Transfer, was discovered in about eight feet of water…
PennDOT says the new Enterprise Road Bridge has opened to traffic in Oil Creek Township in southern Crawford County. The new span replaces a 73 year-old bridge over Pine Creek that had been declared structurally deficient. Crews had been working on the project since August 5. Meanwhile, PennDOT reminds truckers that the new weight restrictions posted for…
A Franklin man has been sentenced to seven months to two years in the Venango County Jail and one year probation for an incident in April in which he was involved in a police chase in a stolen vehicle. 22 year-old Sean Reed had entered guilty pleas to charges of driving under the influence of…
Franklin City Council on Monday unanimously passed a preliminary draft of a 2014 city budget that would contain no real estate tax hike. The general fund budget is initially set at $5.01 million, with the sewer fund budget at nearly $2.5 million. Council will need to deal with an anticipated $692,000 in additional expenditures. Council…
A Franklin man has been sentenced to four months to two years in the Venango County Jail, two years probation and fifty hours of community service in an incident involving a stolen truck, a police chase, and a crash into an historic building in downtown Franklin. 18 year-old Colin Agin must also pay over $14,000…
NFL Results – Week 9 Thursday, October 31: Miami 22, Cincinnati 20 (OT) Sunday, November 3: New England 55, Pittsburgh 31 Cleveland 24, Baltimore 18 Kansas City 23, Buffalo 13 Philadelphia 49, Oakland 20 Dallas 27, Minnesota 23 NY Jets 26, New Orleans 20 Washington 30, San Diego 24 Tennessee 28, St. Louis…
VENANGO COUNTY DAILY NEWS IS A SERVICE OF WKQW AM & FM, 806 GRANDVIEW ROAD, SUITE C, OIL CITY, PA 16301 • PHONE (814) 676-8254
FAX (814) 677-4272 • EMAIL• COPYRIGHT © 2007-2012 WKQW/VENANGO COUNTY DAILY NEWS • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT & MAINTENANCE BY WORLD WIDE WEB WORX
PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE BUYING A NEWSPAPER
