radioNOVO News for Clarion 08-28-26

Good morning.Investigators in Clarion County are sharing new details on how advanced genetic genealogy solved the thirty-six-year-old mystery of "Penny Doe." District Attorney Drew Welsh says state police used federal grant funding to extract D-N-A and build a family tree, leading to a match with the sister of nineteen-year-old Windy Buchanan. Buchanan’s nineteen-ninety death in Monroe Township remains an active homicide investigation.Clarion County will celebrate the completion of its historic courthouse renovations with an open house and rededication ceremony Friday afternoon. Commissioners approved a debt ordinance for long-term U-S-D-A financing to cover project costs alongside one million dollars in federal grant funding. The public open house begins at one p.m.And a New Bethlehem man has been sentenced to six months of probation after fleeing police during a high-speed chase last November. Forty-two-year-old Michael Altman pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of fleeing law enforcement after leading officers on a pursuit through South Bethlehem.For more local news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.