HARRISBURG–The state Department of Health on Saturday announced Clarion County reported 33 new cases of COVID-19 (19 confirmed and 14 probable), Venango County reported 27 additional cases (16 confirmed and 11 probable) and Forest County reported four new cases (two confirmed and two probable).
HARRISBURG‑The state Department of Health for the third consecutive day announced more than 5,000 additional cases of COVID-19-including a combined 33 from the tri-county area-were reported in a single day.
HARRISBURG–The state Department of Health on Saturday announced Venango County reported 17 new cases of COVID-19 (10 confirmed and seven probable) and Clarion County reported 16 new cases (six confirmed and 10 probable).
HARRISBURG–The state Department of Health over the weekend announced the tri-county area reported an increase of 29 cases of COVID-19.
All students of Smedley Street Elementary School in the Oil City School District will move to online learning Monday through Friday.
HARRISBURG–The state Department of Health on Saturday announced Venango County reported nine new cases of COVID-19 (seven confirmed and two probable) and Clarion County reported 10 new cases (four confirmed and six probable).
HARRISBURG — The state Department of Health over the weekend announced the tri-county area reported an increase of 22 COVID-19 cases, along with Clarion County's fourth overall virus-related death, which was reported Saturday.
HARRISBURG–The state Department of Health on Saturday announced Venango County reported eight new cases of COVID-19 (six confirmed and two probable) and Clarion County reported three new confirmed cases, as well as one additional death.
HARRISBURG -The state Department of Health on Saturday announced Venango County reported seven new cases of COVID-19 (five confirmed and two probable), Clarion County reported three additional cases (one confirmed and two probable) and Forest County reported one new confirmed case.
HARRISBURG–The state Department of Health on Saturday announced Clarion County reported four new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and Venango County reported three additional cases (two confirmed and one probable).
HARRISBURG–The state Department of Health on Saturday announced Clarion County reported one new probable case of COVID-19, giving the county 121 total cases.
HARRISBURG–The state Department of Health on Saturday announced there were two additional cases of COVID-19 reported in Clarion County, raising the total to 115 cases.
HARRISBURG–The state Department of Health on Saturday announced Clarion County reported three new cases of COVID-19 (two confirmed and one probable), bringing the county total to 110 cases (98 confirmed and 12 probable).
HARRISBURG–The state Department of Health announced Saturday there were no additional cases of COVID-19 in the tri-county area.
HARRISBURG - The state Department of Health announced Friday that Clarion County has two new cases of COVID-19, one confirmed and one probable, bringing the total to 100 cases (90 confirmed and 10 probable).
HARRISBURG–The state Department of Health on Saturday announced the tri-county area reported no new cases of COVID-19.
HARRISBURG–The state Department of Health on Saturday announced Venango County has reported its first coronavirus-related death.Â
The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association decided this afternoon to move forward with the fall sports season, rejecting Gov. Tom Wolf’s recommendation that all youth sports be postponed until 2021 to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.
HARRISBURG–The state Department of Health on Saturday announced Venango County reported one additional confirmed case of COVID-19 and Clarion County reported four additional cases, two confirmed and two probable.
HARRISBURG–The state Department of Health on Saturday announced Forest County reported one new COVID-19 case, giving the county 10 total cases (seven confirmed and three probable).
The state Department of Health on Saturday announced Clarion County reported a new confirmed case of COVID-19, giving the county 76 total cases (73 confirmed and three probable).
HARRISBURG–The state Department of Health announced no new cases of COVID-19 in the tri-county area on Monday.
HARRISBURG-The state Department of Health on Saturday announced Clarion County reported a new confirmed case of COVID-19, giving the county 72 cases (69 confirmed and three probable).
The Franklin Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and Applefest Core Committee has voted to cancel this year's Applefest.
HARRISBURG — For the first time since July 6, the state Department of Health announced no new cases of COVID-19 were reported from the tri-county area on Friday.
HARRISBURG - The state Department of Health on Saturday announced Clarion County reported an additional positive case of COVID-19, giving the county a total of 68 cases (65 confirmed and three probable).Â
HARRISBURG–The State Department of Health on Saturday announced two new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Venango County giving it a total of 35 cases (22 confirmed and 13 probable).
HARRISBURG–For the seventh consecutive day, the state Department of Health announced no new positive cases of COVID-19 from the tri-county area.
HARRISBURG - For the sixth consecutive day, the state Department of Health announced no new positive cases of COVID-19 were reported from the tri-county area.
The state Department of Health on Saturday reported no new cases of COVID-19 from Venango, Clarion or Forest counties.
HARRISBURG–The state Department of Health announced Saturday that Venango and Clarion counties each reported an additional COVID-19 case.
HARRISBURG - The state Department of Health announced a COVID-19 death in Armstrong County on Wednesday among the 113 new deaths reported statewide.
HARRISBURG — The state Department of Health announced Armstrong and Erie counties both reported new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday among the 451 new cases reported statewide.
Seventeen counties in rural northwest Pennsylvanua will move to Gov. Tom Wolf’s green phase next Friday, May 29.
A Tionesta man was fatally shot in Marienville this morning, and a Greensburg man has been charged with homicide.
HARRISBURG–The state Department of Health reported a sixth consecutive day of fewer than 1,000 additional COVID-19 cases Saturday, including eight in Mercer County.
An Oil City man wanted for attempted criminal homicide and other related charges was taken into custody Wednesday morning.Â
HARRISBURG — For the first time since Saturday, the state Department of Health reported more than 1,000 new positive cases of COVID-19.
HARRISBURG– The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) has released a plan for a phased reopening of state park and forest facilities.
Adams, 141 (4 deaths); Allegheny, 1,333 (102 deaths); Armstrong, 52 (2 deaths); Beaver, 435 (68 deaths); Bedford, 24 (1 death); Berks, 2,810 (118 deaths); Blair, 23; Bradford, 35 (2 deaths); Bucks, 3,182 (237 deaths); Butler, 180 (6 deaths); Cambria, 32 (1 death); Cameron, 1; Carbon, 182 (15…
HARRISBURG–The state Department of Health on Saturday reported an additional 1,334 positive COVID-19 cases, bringing the statewide total to 48,305.
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s new Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) website for self-employed, independent contractors, gig workers, and others not eligible for regular unemployment compensation (UC) is now accepting applications.
HARRISBURG — An additional 1,493 positive cases of the coronavirus were reported Sunday by the state Department of Health, which brings the statewide total to 11,510 in 65 of 67 counties.
An additional 1,597 positive cases of the coronavirus were reported by the state Department of Health as of noon Saturday, including one new case in Forest County, four new cases in Mercer County and nine new cases in Butler County.
The body of a missing Oil City woman was recovered from the Allegheny River Wednesday evening near Franklin.
As of noon Sunday, there are 3,394 cases statewide in 58 of Pennsylvania's 67 counties, according to the state Department of Health. There are now 38 deaths, including two in Butler County. The statistics provided by the state and those provided from area health systems could vary.
HARRISBURG — The state Department of Health on Saturday reported 533 additional cases of COVID-19, including 15 in Butler, two in Mercer and one in Crawford counties, and 12 more deaths from the virus, including one in Butler County.
As of noon Saturday, there are 2,751 cases statewide in 56 of Pennsylvania's 67 counties, according to the state Department of Health. There are now 34 deaths, including two in Butler County. The statistics provided by the state and those provided from area health systems could vary.
The Department of State announced Saturday it will suspend certain administrative requirements for nurses during the coronavirus emergency.Â
A block of East First Street between Central Avenue and State Street in Oil City is closed due to a waterline break.
Venango County commissioners are limiting access to the courthouse and other county buildings at noon tomorrow.
CLARION — Effective immediately, all procedures (surgery, cath lab, angiography endoscopy) scheduled at Clarion Hospital during the next two weeks are being evaluated with the physicians performing the procedure to determine if they are nonemergent and could be postponed.
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Sunday confirmed 16 additional positive cases of COVID-19 from this past weekend, which brings the total number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the state to 63.
Corry state police are searching for a man who went missing Friday morning in Rome Township, Crawford County.
Mercer state police said a teenage girl went missing at the Grove City Outlet Mall Saturday afternoon.
Sugarcreek Borough police are searching for the identity of a man they're treating as a "person of interest" in a retail theft at the Franklin Giant Eagle Wednesday morning.
A Reno boy was flown to the hospital Sunday afternoon after an incident at the intersection of Walnut and 3rd streets in Reno at 3:16 p.m.
Update: 2 Dead, 1 seriously hurt in separate traffic accidents
One man suffered injuries in a fire that broke out at about 3:45 p.m. today at 603 10th St. in Franklin.
Edward Sharp, Jr., of Oil City, chief of police in Polk Borough and former Oil City mayor, was acquitted on a harassment charge after a 90-minute hearing this morning before District Judge Duane Quinn in Clarion.
A house fire that began around 5 p.m. Sunday at 395 Eagle Rock Road in President Township required more than ten fire departments to assist at the scene that was still active as of 8 p.m. a Venango County 911 dispatcher said.Â
A Clarion man has been found guilty of third-degree murder and other charges for killing his girlfriend in March 2017.
A Franklin man accused of writing threatening letters to public officials was ordered held for court late this afternoon.
The Derrick and News-Herald employs only one staff photographer, me. This was my 20th year as a staff photographer at small community based newspapers. My third year anniversary, at this newspaper, will take place in the middle of March of this year. I took over for the very talented and ded…
Franklin state police said they are investigating a suspected murder-suicide that happened Saturday morning at 23528 Titusville Road in Oil Creek Township.
A Titusville man who has been missing since Oct. 26, was found dead Saturday morning in the area of Miller Farm Road in Cherrytree Township.
The death of a Venango County jail inmate who died Friday night is being investigated as a suicide and there will be no autopsy, according to Venango County Coroner Christina Rugh.
According to Franklin state police, Kaprice Amara West, 21, who had been reported missing since Tuesday, has been found.Â
Brandy Hinojosa hangs Autism Awareness ribbons from Veterans Bridge Friday. Hinojosa organized a group to hang the ribbons last week but the ribbons were taken down and vandalized. She and another group of volunteers hug 64 new ribbons on Friday.
James Proper, of Oil City, the man accused of removing the Autism Awareness ribbons from Veterans Bridge in two separate incidents Sunday and Monday helps to rehang ribbons Friday. Proper also gave a $100 check. Here Brandy Hinojosa, who organized the ribbon hanging, speaks with Proper on Ve…
