radioNovo News for State College: April 22, 2026

RNN STATE COLLEGE 04/22/26          A FORMER PENN STATE STUDENT WILL SPEND AT LEAST SIX YEARS IN STATE PRISON FOR THE SEXUAL ASSAULT OF THREE WOMEN. 26-YEAR-OLD MONCEF GUEN WAS SENTENCED TUESDAY AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO FELONY COUNTS INCLUDING SEXUAL ASSAULT AND STRANGULATION. PROSECUTORS SAY GUEN’S VIOLENCE WAS ESCALATING; HE WAS ACCUSED OF STRANGLING ONE VICTIM TWICE AND THREATENING TO LEAK EXPLICIT PHOTOS OF ANOTHER TO HER FAMILY. HE MUST NOW REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER FOR LIFE.          BELLEFONTE BOROUGH HAS ITS NEW PERMANENT LEADER. BOROUGH COUNCIL VOTED UNANIMOUSLY MONDAY TO NAME DAVID PRIBULKA AS THEIR PERMANENT BOROUGH MANAGER. THE FORMER MANAGER OF FERGUSON TOWNSHIP, PRIBULKA HAS BEEN SERVING IN AN INTERIM ROLE SINCE SEPTEMBER. HE WILL TRANSITION TO FULL-TIME STATUS ON JULY 1ST WITH AN ANNUAL SALARY OF 130-THOUSAND DOLLARS.  HE REPLACES RALPH STEWART, WHO RETIRED IN MARCH OF LAST YEAR.          THOUSANDS OF TOURISTS ARRIVING FOR SATURDAY’S BLUE-WHITE GAME CAN ALSO GET AN EARLY LOOK AT THE NEW HAPPY VALLEY CASINO. THE TWO-DAY PUBLIC PREVIEW BEGINS FRIDAY AT 2 P.M., FEATURING 600 SLOT MACHINES, LIVE MUSIC AND OTHER AMENITIES.  ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE TRIAL RUN BENEFIT THE STATE COLLEGE FOOD BANK AND THE LOCAL Y-M-C-A.