radioNOVO News for NWPA 06-16-26

Good morning.A federal grand jury in Erie has indicted an Ohio woman for allegedly stealing nearly half a million dollars from a local law firm. Authorities say forty-eight-year-old Yelena Andrews of Conneaut, Ohio, used her position as a paralegal to embezzle over four-hundred-sixty-two-thousand dollars over a ten-month span. Andrews faces five counts of wire fraud and theft, carrying a maximum penalty of up to twenty years in prison.In Crawford County, commuter delays are expected this week as PennDOT launches a massive, multi-township road maintenance blitz. Crews are executing widespread spray patching on Route Eighty-Nine in Oil Creek and Rome Townships, Route Twenty-Seven, and Pettis Road in West Mead. Drivers should also brace for edge paving on Hickernell and Miller Station Roads, alongside crack sealing on Interstate Seventy-Nine.And a piece of Mercer County history is officially safe from future commercial development. State officials have approved a one-hundred-seventeen-thousand-dollar easement to permanently preserve the Matthew Stefanak crop farm in Shenango Township, keeping the one-hundred-two-acre property strictly in agricultural production.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.