After Tioga hired Timothy Loehmann, long-simmering personal grudges and infighting exploded and brought local government to a halt. · Spotlight PA

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After Tioga hired Timothy Loehmann, long-simmering personal grudges and infighting exploded and brought local government to a halt.

Tioga borough, in northern Pennsylvania, seen in the fall from a bird's-eye view.

Grudges, tribalism, and infighting rife in Pennsylvania borough that hired the cop who killed Tamir Rice

by Min Xian of Spotlight PA State College

After Tioga hired Timothy Loehmann, long-simmering personal grudges and infighting exploded and brought local government to a halt.

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