For 40 years now, the world has wondered what became of Cherrie Mahan, the 8-year-old girl who went missing from her home on Cornplanter Road in Winfield Township on Feb. 22, 1985.

For four decades, Janice McKinney, Cherrie’s mother, has returned to the site where her daughter was last seen — the bottom of her old home’s driveway where Cherrie would have been dropped off after school on that Friday afternoon — for a vigil. She has said the vigil is her way of keeping Cherrie’s memory alive and the search for her active.

On Tuesday, Oct. 21, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Pennsylvania State Police joined forces to conduct a digging operation near a residence in South Buffalo Township, Armstrong County. A state police sergeant confirmed digging was the result of an ongoing inv

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