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PA COVID-19 Summary For March

Harrisburg, PA – Today, the Pennsylvania Department of Health provides a summary of COVID-19 information for March 2022.   “Every week throughout March more than 50,000 Pennsylvanians stepped forward to get a COVID-19 vaccination even as the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths continued to decline across the state,” Acting Secretary of Health Keara Klinepeter said.…MORE

York Co. Woman Convicted Of Abusing Grandmother’s Corpse To Collect SS

A York Haven woman is found guilty of theft for keeping her grandmother’s remains in a freezer for more than a decade in order to continue to collect her Social Security benefits. The York Daily Record reports that a judge also convicted 63-year-old Cynthia Black of receiving stolen property and abuse of a corpse. Officials…MORE

Injured PA Firefighter Returns Home

A regional firefighter who was seriously-injured battling a blaze has returned home. Middletown Volunteer Firefighter Shawn Menear suffered second and third degree burns while trying to save a resident from a burning home in January. Now after weeks of treatment and rehab Menear was released from the hospital yesterday. He was welcomed home by about…MORE

Lancaster City Man Convicted Of Rape Of A Child

A jury has convicted a Lancaster city man of raping a child over the course of a 3-year period. Lancaster Online reports that 36-year-old Alexander Fernandez-Ramos was found guilty of multiple child sex crimes including rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, aggravated indecent assault of a child among other offenses. Police say the…MORE

Adams Co. Traffic Accident Leaves York Co. Man Dead

A York County man has died in a traffic accident on Route-30 in Adams County. The Coroner’s Office says 31-year-old Devon Mansberger of York Haven was a passenger in a car that lost control and went off the road just west of Granite Station Road around 4:15p Tuesday. Meanwhile, a dirt bike rider died in…MORE

Two Dead In Murder-Suicide In New Cumberland

An apparent murder-suicide New Cumberland left two people dead and a third person injured. Police were called to a home along the 12-hundred block of Bridge Street around 6:15am Wednesday for reports of shots fired. Several children were inside the home during the shooting, but none of them were injured. The identifies of the people…MORE

Easter Egg Treasure Hunt Coming To Lancaster Co.

A treasure hunt is coming to Lancaster County. Uncharted Lancaster and the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County will offer clues to help participants find a special Easter Egg that can be redeemed for 15-hundred dollars. The first clue of the 5-week treasure hunt will be released this Saturday. To get your treasure map visit…MORE

Bee Warned

If you see a swarm of honeybees in a tree, bush, or even hanging off your house, don’t grab the insecticide. The Capital Area Beekeepers Association says the honeybees are looking for a new home and even though there may be up to 30-thousand of them, they’re not violent or aggressive. They recommend leaving them…MORE

Jury Convicts Lancaster Uber Driver For Robbing Passenger

A Lancaster Uber driver who threatened a passenger with a gun has been convicted by a jury of felony aggravated assault and two other charges. Prosecutors say 28-year-old Lorenzo Plaugher pulled into an alleyway near East Mifflin Street in August 2020, locked the doors, pulled out a gun, pointed it at the victim’s head, and…MORE

Dementia Friendly Initiative Begins In York/Adams Counties

York County first responders from multiple agencies attended an event Tuesday that taught them how to respond and communicate with residents who live with dementia. The Dementia Friendly Initiative of York/Adams County offered the program which if the first of its kind in the county.MORE