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Common Pleas Court judge assignments are being changed due to conflict of interest between criminal court defendants and newly elected Judge Maura Palumbi, a former assistant public defender. Presiden...

Maura Palumbi is running for a full 10-year term as a Butler County Common Pleas Court judge, a role she has filled since her appointment in July. After winning both party nominations in the May prima...

A Westmoreland County transgender woman who spent more than a decade in prison for the castration and overdose death of her husband in 2001 in Butler County and threatening court officials was found d...

Maura Palumbi was sworn in Friday as a Butler County Common Pleas Court judge during an inauguration ceremony in the county courthouse. A resident of Middlesex Township and Mars Area High School gradu...

Maura Palumbi doesn’t have to wait until the general election to get to start work as a judge in the Butler County Court of Common Pleas. The assistant public defender who is running for the Butler Co...

The state Superior Court on Friday, June 16, ordered a new trial for a Muddy Creek Township man who was convicted of homicide for shooting his friend in 2014. The appellate court ordered a new trial f...

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Get boosted too. >> thats where, you know, so many of us are echoing, go ahead and make sure that you get vaccinated, if you havent gotten your first or second dose, and getting your booster dose, thats really whats going to protect you right now. >> reporter: and now, the cdc has issued its highest warning yet for cruise ship travel, at least recently, basically saying even if you are vaccinated, cruise ships are simply not a safe place for you to be in terms of the current variant and the curr...

Getting the COVID19 vaccine out of the freezer and into people’s arms has been slow. And, even as people battle unsympathetic websites to find slots for a shot, there still are many unanswered questions. Will people who have been vaccinated still be asymptomatic and carriers who could infect others? Will non-vaccinated people still need to wear PPE when interacting with them? Will the vaccine protect against two new contagious strains of the virus? What will the Biden administration do differ...

Dec 11, 2020 Monday 9:11 a.m. – Fraud. Robin Rozzi of Logansport reported that someone had used her Social Security Number to obtain unemployment benefits. Logansport Police Department. 9:46 a.m. – Suspicious person/circumstances, 400 block of 14th Street. Report of suspicious circumstances in the area. LPD. 9:47 a.m. – Fraud. Wayne Erwin of Logansport reported that someone had used his Social Security Number to obtain unemployment benefits. LPD. 11:36 a.m. – Harassment, 180...