radioNOVO News for NWPA 08-27-26

Good morning.Homicide charges have been filed in connection with the June death of an inmate at S-C-I Mercer. State police report thirty-two-year-old Joshua Tisak was found unresponsive in his cell on June twenty-first and was later pronounced dead at A-H-N Grove City Hospital. Following an investigation, the Mercer County Coroner determined Tisak died from blunt force trauma, ruling his death a homicide. The District Attorney has approved charges including Criminal Homicide and Aggravated Assault against fellow inmate Donald Stinedurf the Third.A Meadville man is dead following a two-vehicle crash in Chautauqua County, New York. Authorities report twenty-three-year-old Alexander Morelli was traveling east on Route four-thirty Thursday afternoon when his vehicle crossed the center line, striking an oncoming vehicle driven by fifty-one-year-old Doug Griffith of Massena, New York. Both drivers were pronounced dead at the scene.In local community news, the eighth annual Crawford Gives marathon shattered records this year, raising nearly one-point-four million dollars for over two hundred area nonprofits. Led by top fundraiser the Academy Theatre, the seventy-two-hour event drew over seven thousand individual donations across the county.And today marks National Petroleum Day, honoring Edwin Drake’s eighteen fifty-nine discovery of the world’s first commercially successful oil well in Titusville. Emily Weaver, Executive Director of Friends of Drake Well, Incorporated, says the local site's global legacy still amazes people today.You can hear our full podcast interview exploring the history and heritage of Drake Well here https://www.buzzsprout.com/2619137/episodes/19709565 I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.