Man Stabs Mechanic
Erie – A 55-year-old Erie man is being held for $150,000 bail on charges of attempted homicide after allegedly stabbing a mechanic at a garage. The victim says that on Sunday he was working on a vehicle when Jose Cruz asked him about a pair of gloves and then stabbed him in the neck and continued to attack him. Another employee was able to separate Cruz from the victim and Cruz fled the scene. He was taken into custody on East 26th Street early Sunday evening and arraigned on Sunday night. The victim suffered wounds to the neck and chest and a gash to his face; his identity had been obscured to protect his privacy.

Man Charged After Child Stands in Rain for Hours
Oil City – An Oil City man named Tyson Doutt has been charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of children after police say that last week he left an eight-year-old child locked outside in freezing weather while he was away using drugs. They also say that Doutt took the eight-year-old’s younger sibling with him while using the drugs at another house. Police were called on February 13th when the older child sought shelter from the freezing rain at a neighbor’s home three hours after getting out of school and it still took another hour to contact Doutt.