Punxsutawney, PA (WJAC) — As thousands gathered at Gobbler's Knob Friday morning, Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his burrow to perform his annual Groundhog Day duties where he predicted an early spring. Members of Punxsutawney Phil's “inner circle” summoned him from his tree stump at dawn to learn if he had seen his shadow or not, a message they say Phil communicated in “Groundhogese.” According to legend, if Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter weather.

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein will remain locked up in New York as a court works out whether he should stay in a city jail while awaiting retrial, or be sent to California to serve his prison sentence for rape there. The fallen movie mogul denied his consent for California's extradition request during a brief court hearing Thursday, and will remain behind bars in New York for now. Weinstein, 72, was returned to the city's Riker's Island jail just days ago from a city hospital.

CENTRE CO, Pa (WJAC) — Former Penn State president Graham Spanier is now speaking out against what he terms elements of a false narrative in the Jerry Sandusky scandal that cost him his job. In the period of the past decade, Graham Spanier, Penn State’s 16th president, went from Old Main to the Centre County Jail but says he’s doing well. “I’ve had a tremendous amount of support, and thousands of emails and letters.

DuBOIS -- Police are calling a drug sweep that took place early Thursday morning "Operation Ice Storm." Police and the district attorney said they want drug dealers off the street. "We like to do it typically in the morning when probably these birds are home in bed and asleep so we have a high probability of obtaining custody of them," Clearfield County District Attorney Bill Shaw said. Warrants were released for 33 people and 27 of them were charged Thursday morning.

SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) — People in Somerset County will have to find an alternative way to recycle. This comes after the county commissioners made the choice to suspend their recycling program, effective March 13. The Somerset County recycling program began in the 1990s. The current model which consists of nine drop off sites throughout the county began in 2008. The recyclables would then be picked up and sorted through by inmates from the county jail.