Harrisburg PA

Lebanon County, P.A. (WHP) — Fifteen days after his 18th birthday, Tyler Corty was talking about graduation. He was excited about the future, finishing high school, and the life waiting for him beyond it. The next day, his mother came home from work and saw the coroner at her...

Amid a pending bankruptcy, the owners of Taylor Chip Cookie Co. say their one Dauphin County location is still open. Doug Taylor, who runs the Lancaster County-based business with his wife Sara, announced this week that the company is reorganizing under Chapter 11 bankruptcy after closing two locations last week in...

Georgia Bare, 41, a Lebanon, was taken into custody on Wednesday, Feb. 11, following an investigation by Lebanon City Police into a report of a found child, according to authorities. Officers responded to the 900 block of Chestnut Street at approximately 5:40 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 7, where the child...

The Perry County couple who was found dead inside their apartment on Sunday died of gunshot wounds, according to the coroner’s office. Ashley Rice’s death was ruled a homicide, while Kevin Crockett’s death was ruled a suicide, the Perry County coroner’s office said. Rice’s daughter found...

The state Department of Agriculture conducts annual inspections of food-serving businesses to ensure public safety and safe food-handling practices. Schools are inspected twice per year, according to the Bureau of Food Safety and Laboratories. Whether an establishment is considered compliant or noncompliant is at the...

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — Middlesex Township police were called to a Carlisle business where a man was reportedly threatening to light people on fire. On Feb. 12, the police arrived at the 1000 block of Harrisburg Pike and made contact with the man, identified as 58-year-old Ronald Hockenberry, according to a...

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — A SCI Camp Hill corrections officer was suspended after she was charged this week with allegedly bringing drugs into the prison for an inmate. During a random search of SCI Camp Hill staff members in January, a K-9 gave an alert about Alicya Kent, 35, of Red Lion, possibly having […]

ENOLA, Pa. (WHP) — The Pennsylvania man sentenced to six years in federal prison in connection with buying and selling stolen human remains is requesting authorities return bones and body parts that he legally obtained. An attorney for Jeremy Pauley filed the request with a federal judge at the...

In January 1877, a massive mine fire erupted at the Short Mountain Colliery in Bear Gap, between Lykens and Wiconisco in northern Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. What began on New Year’s Day quickly became one of the most destructive industrial disasters in Coal Region history – earning front-page coverage in The New...

Zachary Christopher Yohn, 20, of New Cumberland, was charged after West Shore Regional Police said he was captured on surveillance video kissing and touching the child in a sexual manner along North Second Street in Wormleysburg Borough on Thursday, Jan. 30, according to the affidavit of probable cause. Police wrote...