New trial ordered, fatal crash, upcoming road closures: Top Centre County stories
Top stories in Centre County on May 27 ranged from a scathing appeals court ruling to infrastructure and health care news. We’ve rounded up the day’s top stories in the recaps below.
Here are key takeaways:
- A Pennsylvania Superior Court panel ordered a new trial for Randall D. Brooks, 53, of Howard, citing undisclosed text messages between former Centre County Judge Bradley Lunsford and former District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller during his 2012 attempted homicide trial as a structural constitutional violation.
- State police at Rockview released details about a fatal crash that happened Friday afternoon in Snow Shoe. Ronald Folmar, 69, of Karthaus, died in a two-vehicle crash after running a stop sign on Fountain Road and being T-boned on Route 144, police said. The road was closed Friday afternoon for more than two hours.
- Mount Nittany Health is opening a new dermatology facility this fall at 2188 Sandy Drive in Ferguson Township after purchasing the former State College Family Medicine property for $2.3 million, with at least four providers and a dedicated Mohs surgeon planned.
- Penn State football’s first three non-conference games have kick times and networks: Marshall at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 5 on FS1, Temple at noon Sept. 12 on ESPN2 and Buffalo at noon Sept. 19 on Big Ten Network, with the Marshall game serving as Matt Campbell’s debut as head coach.
- A bridge reconstruction project begins in June along College Avenue at Houserville Road and Pike Street in College Township, closing portions of the corridor and rerouting traffic until early November on the Route 26 bridge that carries roughly 15,000 vehicles daily.
The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists. The source reporting referenced above was written and edited entirely by journalists.