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YORK, Pa. — A woman is facing arson charges after she allegedly started a fire at a York County home that displaced five people on New Year's Day, according to court documents. Kathryn Frankel, 43, of York allegedly started a fire in the basement of a duplex on North...

Police have filed new charges against a Harrisburg man awaiting trial on murder charges, this time accusing him of trying to smuggle contraband into Dauphin County Prison. Adrian Jaden Norris, 22, coordinated with two people not in jail to smuggle nine bags of marijuana and legal paperwork sprayed with PCP, also...

YORK, Pa. — A York man was arrested after he reportedly fired a gun into a neighboring home by mistake. According to West Manchester Township Police, Brian Michael Norwood, 19, was charged with discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure, recklessly endangering another person and disorderly conduct. Police...

State police have charged a Shippensburg couple with aggravated animal cruelty after they refused to give their desperately ill, pregnant micro American Bulldog appropriate medical care. On July 15 Dashondi Moorer and Niquey Jones drove the dog, Tiny, to CaRe Veterinary Center in Frederick, Maryland to be examined...

NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — A Mississippi woman has been accused of cashing a forged check at a York County federal credit union last month, police state in charging documents. Hanna Marie Morrison, 32, of Ellsville, MS, was arrested after attempting to cash a second forged check at the same credit union, one day after...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — These days, John DeSanto’s voice is weak, which is notable for someone who — even if you don’t remember his name, which you certainly wouldn’t, because he was known as “Moose Maxwell,” to whatever extent he was known — once had a booming voice. DeSanto once briefly lived his childhood dream […]

Susquehanna Township-based Mid Penn Bancorp, the parent company of Mid Penn Bank, has completed the acquisition of a Florida-based investment advisory firm. Mid Penn announced on Monday morning that it acquired Cumberland Advisors on Thursday. The 53-year-old fee-for-service investment management company had...

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM)– Local police are once again warning the public about a “dangerous social media challenge.” A local police department warned the public about a social media challenge called the “door-kicking challenge” back in November, which has drawn law enforcement attention after a nationwide...

WILLIAMSPORT — The former Cumberland County resident described as a “critical middleman” in a national scheme to funnel stolen body parts to “oddity collectors” is appealing his conviction. Notice of an appeal to the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals was filed Monday in the...

Two inmates died at separate Central Pennsylvania county prisons within days of each other, officials announced on Monday, Jan. 5. A 53-year-old woman died after she was found unresponsive in her cell at Cumberland County Prison in Carlisle on Friday, Jan. 2, officials said. Melissa Marie Trayer was discovered...