Harrisburg PA

Sometimes, you have to leave home to find yourself. That was definitely true for acclaimed international artist Alteronce Gumby, and it’s true for too many Harrisburg natives who feel they can’t fulfill their dreams in central Pennsylvania. We heard it loud and clear from Harrisburg University students who...

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — Two vehicles had to be towed away after a crash in Mechanicsburg Monday, according to police. The Mechanicsburg Police Department said officers responded to the wreck around 11:53 p.m. in the 400 block of West Main Street. Officers found that a vehicle was driving...

For a full listing of this week’s Dauphin County restaurant inspections, click here. The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, 866-366-3723, uses a risk-based inspection reporting process for restaurants and other food handlers. Hoageez, 1152 Mae St. Hummelstown, November 14. Pass. No violations. Panera Bread #833,...

Leechburg Area is among four districts that have filed a lawsuit against the state’s largest cyber charter school asking that tuition be dropped for local students. The suit claims that Commonwealth Charter Academy, as well as the state Department of Education through lack of sufficient oversight, fails to provide...

The Silver Spring Township Police Department arrested 13 men who attempted to pay for sexual activity at a hotel, according to the Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office. The arrests were made as part of Operation Impact Demand, an investigation conducted by the district attorney’s Human Trafficking Task Force....

CARLISLE — A Carlisle father of five learned he will serve in state prison until at least 2034 for his role in a March 2024 drug overdose death here. Barry Monismith Jr., 35, was convicted at an October jury trial of selling fentanyl to a 44-year-old woman who wound up overdosing later that night.

Right before Christmas in 2023, a Harrisburg police detective showed up at Marilyn McFadden’s door with the news her 18-year-old son had been killed in a city alley. Amari McFadden-Sowers was lured to the 1500 block of Ella Alley under pretenses late at night on Dec. 19, 2023. He was ambushed and shot nine times, his...

LEBANON COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — Police announced charges against a Lebanon woman accused of bringing her child to fight another group of kids. The fight happened around 4 p.m. Sept. 29 in the 700 block of Hanover Street, the Lebanon City Police Department wrote in a press release Tuesday.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – Harrisburg’s Group Violence Intervention program, or GVI, is working to combat gang and gun violence in the capital city. “I think it’s important we show the community that we care,” Derrick James, a Harrisburg-area pastor who participates in the initiative, said. The group goes around...

George Chochos has never liked the term “at-risk youth.” He prefers “youth with potential.”. That’s a phrase that could have defined the Albany, N.Y., native’s younger years, though he likely didn’t think so at the time. In many ways, Chochos, the new executive director...