radioNOVO News for NWPA 07-10-26

Good morning.A high-profile Crawford County cold case is facing an immediate legal challenge despite a recent confession. Defense attorneys for seventy-seven-year-old Clinton "Bud" Rogers have filed a petition to dismiss the homicide charges against him, arguing prosecutors lack sufficient physical evidence to prove a crime occurred. Rogers confessed last fall to choking his deaf wife, Lonene Rogers, to death during a severe nineteen-eighty-one snowstorm. President Judge John Spataro has given both legal teams until August to submit their final arguments.Meanwhile, former First Lady Michelle Obama will officially headline the Jefferson Educational Society’s annual Global Summit in Erie this October.And the nearly two-hundred-year-old Revere bell has successfully been reinstalled and rung at Meadville's First Baptist Church following an extensive three-year restoration project.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News.