Testimony in a former SCI-Somerset inmate's criminal homicide trial opened Tuesday with jurors getting a graphic look at the ...

After years of sitting empty, SCI Greensburg, the old state prison in Hempfield Township, will soon be coming down.

The controversial plans to possibly close several state prison facilities, as a cost cutting move, continue to make headlines ...

Norman Bennett, who is 17 now, pleaded guilty to escape, attempted second-degree assault and five misdemeanors for a theft and three misdemeanor assaults on guards after he was recaptured.

A homicide trial against an inmate accused of attacking and killing a sergeant at SCI Somerset in 2018 began Tuesday after ...

Blair County residents are fighting back against the commissioners about a proposed location for the new county prison. The ...

A Mercer County woman received the maximum sentence for allowing a sex crime against a child. According to a press release, 34-year-old Amber Nicole Phillips, of ...

The owner of the Millers Mercer Livestock Auction is facing charges after an investigators uncovered malnourished and ...

MERCER – Common Pleas President Judge Daniel P. Wallace said a sentence of 13 to 35 years in prison for a man who pleaded ...

Reznor served four consecutive terms as a Mercer County Commissioner from 1978 to 1994 and was appointed Deputy Secretary of ...