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DANVILLE — Born and raised in Danville, Larry Smith spent his career as a professional musician and has crossed paths with esteemed performers in various states.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s two living children are urging people to tread lightly with a newly released trove of records related to their father's assassination. Martin Luther King III and Bernice King opposed the Trump administration's decision to release more than 240,000 pages of records concerning the slain civil rights leader. King's children noted that their father was the victim of sometimes illegal surveillance by then-FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, who viewed King as a radical.

A federal judge has sentenced an ex-Kentucky police officer to nearly three years in prison for using excessive force during the 2020 deadly Breonna Taylor raid, declining a U.S. Justice Department recommendation that no prison time be given. Brett Hankison, who fired 10 shots during the raid but didn’t hit anyone, was the only officer on the scene charged in the Black woman's death. He is the first person sentenced to prison in the case that rocked the city of Louisville and spawned weeks of street protests against racial injustice and policing five years ago. U.S.

MIDDLEBURG — A McClure couple is charged with felony child endangerment after their 5-year-old child was found wandering the streets alone.

LEWISBURG — Buffalo Valley Regional Police Chief Dan Embeck said he submitted a report Monday to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after individuals impersonating ICE agents approached a local business seeking employee information.

MILTON — A Milton man accused of burying the body of a 3-day-old baby in the backyard of a Center Street residence will appear in court Wednesday.

LEWISBURG — The Union County Sheriff’s Office is warning of a scam involving people impersonating sheriff deputies.

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SUNBURY — The owners of the Richard H. Stahl and Sons Fur Farm say mink releases in 2023 and 2024 cost the business $164,000 during testimony Monday in Northumberland County Court.

MIFFLINBURG — The Mifflinburg Area School Board rejected a fact-finding report amid stalled contract negotiations with the teachers’ union.