radioNOVO News for NWPA 08-03-26

Good morning.Law enforcement officers across the region are searching for a thirty-seven-year-old convicted felon who was mistakenly released from custody in Erie County. Dylan Anthony Bera of Waterford was accidentally freed from the Erie County Prison shortly after charges in an unrelated case were dismissed—despite recently receiving a three-to-seven-year sentence for a brutal kidnapping and assault in Crawford County. District Attorney Paula DiGiacomo says an emergency warrant has been issued to get Bera back behind bars.In local politics, United States Representative Mike Kelly and Crawford County Veterans Services will host their annual Veteran Resource Fair this Thursday at the Downtown Mall in Meadville. More than fifty organizations will be on hand from eleven a.m. to three p.m. to help veterans and active-duty service members access healthcare and earned benefits.And the Cochranton community gathers tonight for the twenty-twenty-six Junior Miss and Miss Cochranton Pageant. Doors open at six-thirty p.m. at the Cochranton Community Church, with ten local contestants competing for the titles starting at seven.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.