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Spurred by PennLive’s reporting, Commissioner Justin Douglas announced Wednesday he would introduce a policy to further restrict Dauphin County’s association with federal immigration enforcement. Douglas said at Wednesday’s Dauphin County Prison Board meeting he was working with the solicitor’s office to draft a...

Fire crews from Cumberland and Perry counties responded to a barn fire in Jackson Township on Wednesday. The call came in around 5 p.m. along the 1400 block of Fowler Hollow Road. The Landisburg Volunteer Fire Department said crews were working to extinguish the fire, which consumed a 50-foot-by-180-foot building.

UPDATE: This post was updated at 3:00 p.m. Wednesday with some additional comments from Harrisburg University leaders and a correction on the current level of occupancy in the Chestnut Street building. After several years of painful retrenchment and reprioritization, Harrisburg University finished its 2025-2026...

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — A Maryland woman is facing aggravated assault charges stemming from an alleged road rage in October 2025. According to Upper Allen Township police, a man was driving a motorcycle with an 8-year-old girl on the back of it in the 1900 block of South Market Street when they were struck by...

The Attorney General’s Office has agreed to pay $600,000 to the father of a incarcerated man who died 11 days after attempting to hang himself at SCI Camp Hill in 2019. Joseph McQuaid sued the Department of Corrections for wrongful death and negligence on behalf of his son, Dominic Ingle, in 2021.

A high-stakes expansion into Philadelphia is pushing Lancaster County-based Taylor Chip Cookie Co. to reorganize by declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Taylor Chip, which has locations in Lancaster, Dauphin and York counties, closed its Harrisburg stand and closed two Philadelphia stores last week. It has announced...

Two alternative bands are slated to take the stage in Harrisburg this summer. Dauphin County’s Live Concert Series in Riverfront Park will feature alt-pop-soul-jazz fusion group Lake Street Dive on Friday, July 31 and eclectic jam group The String Cheese Incident on Aug. 5, announced Grand Rising Curations on Tuesday.

Ashley Rice and Kevin Crockett were regularly heard fighting inside their Perry County apartment, with Rice telling Crockett on Friday to get off her, a neighbor said. Two days later, both were found dead inside their apartment on the 3100 block of Susquehanna Trail in Watts Township. Their cause and manners of death...

The Harrisburg school board will hold a public hearing this spring around the planned closure of two middle schools. Acting in line with a comprehensive facilities plan that began in 2023, the board voted to formally recommend the closure of Rowland Academy and Marshall Academy (separate from Marshall Math and...

FREDERICKSBURG, Pa. — State Police are offering a $5,000 reward for tips in a 2021 cold-case murder in Lebanon County. Investigators with Troop L in Jonestown are continuing efforts to solve the murder of 35-year-old Zachary Scott Lauderman, who was found dead in his Bethel Township home on the afternoon of Sept. 10,...