Bigfoot Legends Radio | radioNOVO News PA News Roundup for April 16, 2026

 Investigators are ruling a deadly officer-involved shooting in Northampton County last month was justified.  The County District Attorney's Office said a SERT team member fatally shot a man armed with an AR-15 rifle after the man refused numerous commands to surrender.  They said the man fired shots in the direction of law enforcement on multiple occasions during the two-hour standoff at a home in Lower Saucon Township.  No officers were injured. A man is dead after a crash involving an 18-wheeler in Snyder County earlier this week.  Authorities said a vehicle driven by 64-year-old Brian Shea collided with a tractor-trailer on Route 522 in Franklin Township Monday morning.  Shea was pronounced dead at the scene.  No other injuries were reported. Monroe County authorities are filing homicide charges in the death of a woman more than two years ago.  Police said the December 2023 death of Brittany Burgin was initially ruled a suicide, but investigators later determined that she died from strangulation and blunt force trauma.  Burgin's boyfriend at the time, 43-year-old Jacob Nauman, has been taken into custody.  He's scheduled to appear in court later this month. The Pennsylvania House is passing the third and final bill proposed in response to the RM Palmer factory explosion.  The bill requires buildings, businesses, and homes that use natural gas to install alarms to detect leaks.  Lawmakers said had there been a natural gas alarm at the factory, workers would have known of the serious risk they were in and could have evacuated.  All three bills are now headed to the State Senate for consideration. Two Bucks County men are pleading not guilty to charges in an alleged ISIS inspired terror plot outside the Gracie Mansion home of New York City's mayor.  Ibrahim Kayumi and Emir Balat entered the pleas during an appearance in federal court on Wednesday.  Prosecutors allege the two set off improvised explosive devices in a crowd of protesters in March.  Police say the devices did not go off as intended.