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Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Philadelphia, PA – Pennsylvania residents may be trading winter coats for lighter layers as unseasonably warm temperatures are forecast to build across the state heading into the final days of 2025 and the...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — For the past five years, families from the St. Margaret Mary School and Parish have been assembling and delivering Thanksgiving and Christmas meals to those in need. Specifically, those who are homebound or homeless. Each year, a group of about 25 volunteers assembles between 120 and 200...

HERSHEY, Pa. – The Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) officially unveiled its newly constructed, state-of-the-art horse stable on Friday at the PSP Academy in Hershey, marking the first completed structure in a comprehensive project to upgrade and modernize the Academy’s 65-year-old training facilities. “The unveiling...

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — Tania Srouji served four years in the U.S. Army with the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. She was the first in her family to join the military. Srouji says her role didn’t involve jumping from planes — but it did mean rappelling...

YORK COUNTY, Pa. — Northern York County School District is investigating an allegation of potential misconduct involving an employee at Northern Middle School, according to a message sent to staff and parents on Thursday. Superintendent Dr. Matthew Meakin said the district initiated an investigation immediately after...

Resilience is often used as a term to describe an organization’s ability to overcome challenges or threats, or an individual’s remarkable ability to overcome adversity to achieve success. But here in York County, resilience is something we don’t talk much about. It’s just part of who we are as a community –...

YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — A home has been damaged after a tree collapsed due to high winds central Pennsylvanians are seeing Friday afternoon. According to dispatch logs, the call for the incident came in around 1:19 p.m. The tree hit a home on the first block of Main...

A Lancaster County man accused last month of attacking a pregnant woman and taking her 6-month-old daughter has been arrested in Ohio, according to local news reports. Pedro Vega-Rivera, 31, of Columbia, has been on the run since Nov. 12, when he took the baby after fleeing a tattoo shop in the first block of...

LEBANON COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — Tens of thousands of dollars were stolen from a Lebanon County resident in a scam, according to State Police. State Police at Jonestown said Friday, the scammer promised to send a man who lives in Bethel Township $300,000, but only if he could send money from Zelle and Bitcoin back […]

CARLISLE - Dickinson College just did the single-biggest thing a college could do to open its doors to more students from middle-class families. It became more affordable. The Carlisle college announced Tuesday that, effective with this fall’s entering freshman class, it will be tuition-free for all students coming...