A woman died after an alleged break-in within Mercer County. According to a press release, a 35-year-old woman from the ...

Matthew Hertgen, 31 — who wore a suicide vest during a virtual court appearance earlier in the day — tried to take his own ...

Renovations now underway at the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department headquarters were boosted Tuesday when the Mercer County Commission unanimously approved $100,000 in opioid settlement money for the ...

Public defender Jason Matey told The Post he has not heard anything about Matthew Hertgen’s family possibly hiring him a ...

On Tuesday night, the Bureau County Board voted against housing some inmates from the Cook County Department of Corrections.

A Sharpsville man is in the Mercer County Jail on aggravated assault charges after allegedly having a firearm outside a ...

A Mercer County woman was found guilty of incest. According to a press release, 36-year-old Virginia Amelia Nester, of Princeton, was found guilty of two felony ...

A Mercer County woman is in jail after being arrested on animal cruelty charges. 36-year-old Jennifer Dawn Shorter of ...

Sitting next to his attorney, Jason Matey, from the Office of the Public Defender, Hertgen consented to remain in the Mercer County jail pending the outcome of his case. Matey did most of the ...

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If you are hitting the roads in Macon on Thursday, the Bibb County Sheriff's Office encourages you to avoid I-75 and parts of ...