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Jamie D. Smith Jr., 21, pleaded no contest to 3rd-degree murder, conspiracy to commit robbery in fatal shooting of friend Shannon Crosby, 30, in 2022.

Markese Lampley renounced the law when he represented self and was convicted of killing Alex Cavanah in 2020. Lampley is embracing law on appeal.

Closing arguments presented in trial of three codefendants accused of robbing and murdering drug dealers five years ago, when three were 16, 17, 18.

Prosecution's main witness in trial over twin killings testifies that, at 38, he helped guide three teens in deadly crime spree in summer of 2018.

Investigators said DNA evidence and advances in technology linked 55-year-old Texas man to his 77-year-old grandmothers death

City police said recovered weapon, ballistics and DNA evidence helped connect him to the July 2021 fatal shooting

An Upper Burrell man police said pointed a gun and pulled the trigger during a domestic dispute two years ago with his wheelchair-bound mother was paroled from prison Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. Matthew Best, 33, had been in jail after his arrest on Oct. 24,

With trial testimony to begin Monday, defendant in fatal shooting at Edinboro Wendys says he will not take part in case even as he represents self.

kstephens@altoonamirror.com HOLLIDAYSBURG — The bulk of the drug-trafficking offenses filed in October against an Altoona man were dismissed Friday in a preliminary hearing where a defense attorney said the evidence failed to connect his client with the drugs, money or a bullet-riddled vehicle seized during a police investigation. At the end of a two-hour hearing, Magisterial District Judge Daniel DeAntonio ruled that a single charge of possession with intent to deliver, filed against 33-year...