radioNOVO News for NWPA 08-19-26

Good morning.In Warren County, state police are investigating a tragic house fire that claimed the lives of two young children late Monday night. Emergency crews responded to the fire at the Pleasant Valley Trailer Park in Brokenstraw Township around eleven-thirty p.m., where two adults and an infant were able to escape to safety. However, state police report that two children were trapped inside and later found deceased within the residence. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.A thirty-nine-year-old Volant man was flown to UPMC Presbyterian after suffering serious injuries in a single-vehicle off-road motorcycle crash in Venango County. Pennsylvania State Police report Andrew Fuchs was driving a Husqvarna motorcycle westbound on Squaw Valley Road in Scrubgrass Township when he failed to negotiate a curve. Fuchs laid the bike down on its side and slid approximately forty feet. State police cited Fuchs for operating without a helmet.And fourteen people—including thirteen current or former Penn State University students—are facing criminal charges in connection to a major campus cocaine trafficking ring. Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced the grand jury presentment, revealing the ring operated out of two off-campus fraternity houses. Authorities allege suppliers brought large quantities of cocaine from Philadelphia and New York to be packaged and sold, even forcing fraternity pledges to process the drugs as part of their initiation.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.