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November marks peak for deer collisions. Some tips on preventing crashesVideo
Fall is mating season for deer, which means they are out and about. Unfortunately for drivers that means they are out and about and can be on roads, making for potential driving hazards. According to AAA, November and December are the most common months for motor vehicle collisions with deer...
Pa. man found guilty of fatally stabbing girlfriend faces life term
MILLCREEK — A man accused of fatally stabbing his girlfriend amid an impending breakup has been convicted of murder. James Gilbert was also convicted Wednesday of aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and possession of an instrument of crime by a jury that deliberated for about 90 minutes. The murder count carries...
Jerry Sandusky’s resentencing on child sex abuse conviction delayed
BELLEFONTE — Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky’s resentencing on a 45-count child sexual abuse conviction is being delayed another two weeks. Judge Maureen Skerda on Thursday pushed the hearing back to 1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22, at the county courthouse in Bellefonte. Skerda acted after Sandusky’s defense...
Over 2 million pounds of chicken recalled in 7 states, including Pa.
More than two million pounds of chicken in seven states was recalled because it might have been contaminated by metal, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service. None of the affected chicken was sold in stores. It was sold directly to institutions like schools, jails...
Democrats sweep through suburban Philadelphia counties
HARRISBURG — Democrats completed an electoral sweep of Philadelphia’s four suburban counties in Pennsylvania, long a bastion of Republican control and a critical bellwether for statewide candidates. Democrats won control in Delaware and Chester counties in the election Tuesday for the first time going back to the Civil War and...
Congress approves Toomey-led bill expanding animal cruelty law
WASHINGTON — Congress has passed a bill making certain types of animal cruelty a federal felony. The bill would expand a 2010 law that made creation or distribution of so-called “animal crushing” videos illegal. The new bill would make the underlying acts of cruelty a federal crime. The Senate unanimously...
Chester County woman charged with faking cancer in fund-raiser scam
PHILADELPHIA — A Chester Springs woman has been charged with netting more than $10,000 in a fund-raising scam in which she falsely claimed she had cancer and needed money. In a criminal complaint, Uwchlan Township Police detectives laid out a months-long investigation of increasingly escalating lies that ended in the...
Marsy’s Law votes won’t be counted, Pa. Supreme Court rules in split opinion
Pennsylvanians still have the right to cast a vote Tuesday on the proposed Marsy’s Law related to victim rights — but officials won’t be counting and sharing the results of votes on that particular measure, the state’s highest court affirmed in a split ruling Monday. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, on...
Video shows water gushing from Philadelphia skyscraperVideo
PHILADELPHIA — Water was seen gushing out from the side of a Philadelphia skyscraper during the weekend for an unknown reason. An onlooker took a video Sunday morning showing the water coming out of the top of One Liberty Place. He says it continued for about five minutes before coming...
5 things to know about Affordable Care Act’s 2020 enrollment period
Western Pennsylvanians shopping for 2020 insurance coverage through the federal health care marketplace can expect to see a small uptick in prices over last year and more plans to choose from. Costs for 2020 individual plans increased statewide by an average of about 4%, state data show. “It’s a slight...
$90M for Pa. voting machines, mail-in ballots signed into law
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania is making the most significant changes to its election laws in 80 years and helping counties buy new voting machines ahead of next year’s presidential election. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf signed the bill Thursday, two days after it passed the Republican-controlled Legislature handily. The legislation was negotiated...
Pennsylvania’s Sunday hunting bill clears last big hurdle
There was a moment of doubt, for sure. But it looks as if expanded Sunday hunting is coming to Pennsylvania in 2020. On Wednesday, members of the House of Representatives approved Senate Bill 147 by a vote of 144-54. That was one day later than expected. Supporters expected things to...
Polling finds Pennsylvania voters break along party lines on Trump impeachment
Pittsburgh retiree Francine Hunter said she worries that President Trump often oversteps the bounds of his office. “I don’t think he sticks to what a president is supposed to do,” said Hunter, 69, a Democrat from Pittsburgh’s West End. That’s one of the major reasons the retired hospital dietary worker...
Judge: Pennsylvania can’t tally Marsy’s Law votes while challenge pending
HARRISBURG — A judge ruled Wednesday that votes in a referendum next week about enshrining victims’ rights in Pennsylvania’s constitution will not be tallied or certified while a legal challenge is pending. Commonwealth Court Judge Ellen Ceisler issued a preliminary injunction that was requested by the voter and the state...
Work zone speed cameras to be deployed in Pennsylvania
Cameras to detect speeding in Pennsylvania’s roadway work zones will begin limited operation next week ahead of their use statewide early next year. Two cameras will be deployed, one in the Pennsylvania Turnpike system and one on another Pennsylvania roadway, but for 60 days violators won’t be issued warnings or...
Son, 50, accused of killing parents in their home
BELVIDERE, N.J. — Authorities say a 50-year-old son killed his parents in their New Jersey home two months before they retired from their salon business. Warren County’s prosecutor announced Tuesday he is filing first-degree murder charges against Todd Warner in the deaths of Frank and Joyanne Warner. He was taken...
USDA unveils new federal hemp regulations
Almost a year after lifting a ban on commercial hemp production, the federal government unveiled rules that will regulate the crop. “We said we would get it done in time for producers to make planning decisions for 2020, and we followed through,” U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said in...
Pa. woman turns front door into giant cookie monsterVideo
A York Township woman’s Halloween decoration consists of a Cookie Monster that swallows her entire front door. Lisa Boll, a former landscape designer, used blue spray paint to turn her vines into the beloved Sesame Street character, reports ABC News 27. Some Styrofoam eyes and a big chocolate chip cookie...
Auditor General announces extra money for municipal pensions across Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania municipalities are getting $328.2 million in state funding to cover pension costs this year — an increase of about $30 million from 2018. Auditor General Eugene DePasquale announced the allocations at a meeting of the Pennsylvania Professional Firefighters Association. “You’re putting lives on the line every single day …...
10 charged in drug gang slayings, including quadruple murder
READING — Authorities have announced charges against 10 people in what they allege was a violent drug trafficking organization responsible for slayings and kidnappings in eastern Pennsylvania, including a quadruple murder last year. U.S. Attorney William McSwain and Berks County District Attorney John Adams said Monday the new indictment comes...
Bill could usher Pennsylvania elections into new era
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania lives in a cave when it comes to modern elections, critics say, but fast-tracked legislation that was quietly negotiated behind closed doors could usher in some advancement. The bill, should it pass, didn’t come easily: Partisan jockeying, 11th-hour blowups and brinksmanship dogged what could be the most...
Pennsylvania won’t give driver’s license records to Census
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s transportation secretary is telling the U.S. Census Bureau that her agency won’t provide driver’s license records as part of a Trump administration effort to gather citizenship information. Secretary Leslie Richards wrote Thursday to a Census Bureau official, saying her department won’t participate in the project. More than...
Pennsylvania to get $53M in opioid treatment drug settlement
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania is in line to receive more than $53 million as part of a nationwide settlement with a British company that once distributed a drug used to treat opioid addiction. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said Thursday that the money is to settle allegations that the company defrauded...
Pa. man who killed 5-year-old girl is resentenced to life term
ERIE — A man who was teenager when he killed a 5-year-old Pennsylvania girl has been resentenced to life in prison by a judge who said he was “permanently incorrigible” and should never leave prison. Scott Schroat had pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the 1992 slaying of Lila Ebright....
Pa. company fined after worker’s fatal fall into meat grinder
PENNSDALE — Federal officials have fined a Pennsylvania company for violations found after a worker was killed when she fell into a meat grinder earlier this year. The Occupational Health and Safety Administration issued $49,062 in civil penalties against the Economy Storage Locker Co. in Pennsdale. Authorities say 11 serious...
