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The two Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) Troopers shot Saturday in Juniata County were identified during a Sunday afternoon press conference in Harrisburg. Tpr. Jacques F. Rougeau Jr. was killed and Lt. James A. Wagner was wounded in separate encounters with the same shooter, according to PSP. Tpr. Rougeau, 29, was assigned to the Troop G, Lewistown Station and enlisted in the PSP in June 2020 as a member of the 160th cadet class. Upon graduation, he was assigned to Troop J, York before transferring to Troop G, Lewistown in March of this year. He becomes the 104th member of the...

A shootout Saturday in Juniata County has left one Pennsylvania State State Police trooper and a suspect dead. Another state police trooper was also badly injured in an earlier related shooting. The shootout which left the trooper and suspect dead took place in Walker Township just before 3 p.m. A second state trooper was shot in an earlier related incident in Mifflintown. Further information has not been released regarding his status. Pennsylvania State Police trooper, suspect killed in Juniata County shootout; one other trooper badly injured Police said the incident began when police “encountered an armed subject in the area...

Friday’s announcement of a new list of counties soon going to the “yellow” phase of Gov. Tom Wolf’s gradual reopening plan for Pennsylvania’s economy came and went and yet again, Mifflin and Juniata counties found themselves left off it. This latest group of counties is concentrated in the southwestern portion of the state — the closest to us going yellow in this group is Blair — and even includes Allegheny County, which is home to Pittsburgh, the state’s second-largest city. How exactly is a major metropolitan area and population center like Pittsburgh more ready to go yellow than rural Mifflin...

Bob Waggoner, who served as the back judge in the game, is a Pittsburgh native and played linebacker at Juniata College from 1969 through 1972.