Venango Man Pleads Guilty to Attempted Murder
Meadville – A Crawford County man could spend the remainder of his life in prison after pleading guilty to attempted homicide in Meadville. 62-year-old Martin Chaney of Venango pleaded guilty to attempted homicide in the first degree on Thursday as part of a deal that avoids being charged for multiple other felonies related to the 2023  attack of a Meadville man. Chaney traveled to Meadville on April 30th last year and shot another man five times over what was described as a family dispute; on December 4th he will be sentenced to between 6 and 20 years in prison by Judge Francis Schultz.

Psychic Charged wit Fraud
Mars – In Butler County, a woman is being charged with stealing around $10,000 from a single victim through deception by posing as a psychic reader. Police say Sophia Ashley Williams of Adams Township asked a woman for increasingly large amounts of money as well as jewelry and other valuables over a three-month period since June; claiming they would keep them safe in their sanctuary to protect her from the financial jealousy of their ancestors. Police became involved when Williams failed to return the valuables upon request.