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Dauphin County road reopens after crash
DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. — A Dauphin County road has reopened after a Thursday morning crash. Derry Street was closed just before 3:10 a.m. on Aug. 15 for a "serious" crash in the 5600 block of the roadway, according to the Swatara Township Police Department. Officers say they arrived to...
Half-sisters of Malinda Hoagland, 12-year-old murder victim, file suit against Chester County, local school district
Malinda Hoagland’s half-sisters have filed a lawsuit against a host of agencies that they say failed to protect the child while she was allegedly being tortured by her father and his girlfriend, a convicted child abuser, according to a press release issued by their attorneys. A federal lawsuit was...
$5 million was spent transforming Second Street in Harrisburg. It hasn’t stopped crashes
Harrisburg residents say the revamp of North Second Street into a two-way road for the first time in more than six decades has slowed traffic, but did it make the street safer?. Engineers took a two-mile stretch of North Second Street between Forster and Division streets, and transformed the three-lane...
Penn State Football: Say Goodbye to the Emotional Post-Game Drew Allar
You certainly remember Penn State’s disheartening 20-12 loss to Ohio State in The Horseshoe last year. So does Nittany Lion QB1 Drew Allar, who was 18 of 42 for 191 yards and had seven carries for minus 23 yards. Not pretty. Neither was Allar’s post-game interview where he shed some tears and less than a minute into it, Allar confessed that, “I sucked.” (Watch Mark Brennan’s video replay here.) That interview was not received very well by some of his teammates, as well as lettermen who had been led by the likes of hard-edged, take-no-prisoner quarterbacks like Trace, McGloin, MRob and Collins. Granted, Allar...
Commissioners endorse review of Youth Intervention Center policies
Commissioners Ray D’Agostino and Commissioner Josh Parsons said Wednesday that are on board with the review of the Youth Intervention Center’s protocols that Commissioner Alice Yoder called for on Tuesday; and D’Agostino said that it had been Parsons’ idea in the first place. D’Agostino said he...
Plans to Add Part-time Shoulder Use to Blue Route Moving Forward
Plans to alleviate rush-hour traffic jams on Interstate 476 by adding part-time shoulder use slowly moving forward, with construction scheduled to start in 2026. Plans to alleviate rush-hour traffic jams on Interstate 476 by adding part-time shoulder use are slowly moving forward, writes Pete Bannan for The Times Herald. Traffic...
Free movies offered at Binns Park
Binns Park will host a series of free movies on Wednesday evenings, beginning this month and continuing through December. Showings will begin around sunset. Because sunset times change through the seasons, exact times will be announced closer to each show date. The movies are as follows:. Aug. 21: The Little...
Police: 'No ongoing danger' after Lancaster shooting injures 1
LANCASTER, Pa. — One person was injured in an overnight shooting in Lancaster, according to the City's Bureau of Police. Police say they responded to the 300 block of South Ann Street just before 1:55 a.m. on Aug. 14 for reports of a disturbance and found a man suffering from a gunshot wound to a "lower extremity."
‘Pa. still requires annual safety inspections,’ PennDOT responds to legislation
PENNSYVLANIA (WTAJ) — After conversations of Pennsylvania introducing legislation that could end yearly inspections, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has made a statement. The bill mentioned was introduced by Senator Marty Flynn (Lackawanna and Luzerne) in Aug. 2023. The legislation calls for the modernization of vehicle inspections in Pennsylvania by removing the yearly inspection […]
Pennsylvania protects 247 acres of 3 farms in Berks County from future development
The Shapiro Administration has announced that Pennsylvania is investing more than $9.9 million to purchase development rights for 2,654 acres on 30 farms in 14 counties, protecting them from future residential or commercial development. These conservation easement purchases ensure that Pennsylvania farmers will have the quality land they need to continue supporting families, communities, and jobs in the future.
Invasive pest noticeably absent in parts of Pa. this summer | Today in Pa.
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