Cumbola NewsLocal news for Cumbola, PA continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.Killer Gets New Trial- January 11, 2008 A convicted killer from Schuylkill County has been granted a new trial. Daniel Saranchak of Pottsville admitted killing his grandmother and his uncle in 1994 at their home near Cumbola. via WNEP-TV Moosichttp://www.topix.net/city/cumbola-pa/2008/01/killer-gets-new-trial?fromrss=1 Schuylkill death sentence reversed- January 10, 2008 A Schuylkill County man's first-degree murder conviction and death sentence for killing his grandmother and uncle as they slept in their home in 1993 has been overturned by a federal judge, who granted him a new trial because his lawyer was ineffective.Daniel M. Saranchak, 39, will stay in prison for 180 days as prosecutors prepare for a new degree-of-guilt trial in the Oct. 15, 1993, slaying of his grandmother, Stella Saranchock, 78, and uncle, Edmund Saranchak, 57, in the grandmother's home..http://www.topix.net/city/cumbola-pa/2008/01/schuylkill-death-sentence-reversed?fromrss=1 |