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YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — York Police Captain Daniel Lentz confirmed that 31-year-old Pedro Luis Vega-Rivera, who allegedly kidnapped a 6-month-old girl in November, has been arrested in Columbus, Ohio. Authorities safely located the missing 6-month-old girl a day after she was taken. The child was listed to be...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Harrisburg school was placed on lockdown Thursday morning after a student allegedly threatened to bring a weapon to campus, officials said. The lockdown at Marshall Math Science Academy began around 8:25 a.m. after the threat was reported on a school bus, according to the Harrisburg School...

DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — Police in Lower Paxton Township are asking the public for help identifying someone accused of stealing over $9,000 worth of items from an Ulta Beauty Supply store. The theft happened Dec. 6 at the 511 Jonestown Road location, police wrote in a news release.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Authorities were led on a high-speed chase in Harrisburg this week when Troopers attempted to pull over a vehicle during a drug investigation Wednesday. According to the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office, 33-year-old Quadree Goldsmith-Walker, of Philadelphia, allegedly sold an undercover...

Dauphin County’s top prison official is stepping down just shy of three years in the job. In a Friday email, John Bey, the county’s director of criminal justice, announced he accepted the role with the county as director of juvenile probation. Bey was hired as the director of...

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — A Boiling Springs man has created his own social media website, hoping to gift it to Turning Point USA as a safe place for uncensored dialogue. Web developer Jerry O’Donnell launched www.FreedomToSpeakOut.com, which he describes as an independent platform meant to “unite Turning Point...

CAMP HILL, Pa. (WHTM) — Lots of Midstaters can get a free meal Friday night and Saturday. McAlister’s Deli is just opening in Camp Hill in the former Rite Aid at Market and 32nd streets. The free meals are for active and retired military, police, firefighters, EMS, doctors, nurses and teachers. “We have to give […]

A Cumberland County high school is offering counseling after a student died by suicide Wednesday night. The school sent a notice to its families noting the death occurred late Wednesday night and that the “tragic loss of a student is difficult for our community.” The school did not release the manner of death. The...

The above footage is previous coverage of Pedro Luis Vega-Rivera (WTAJ) — The multi-state search for a man who stole a child and fled after police saw him in Duncansville is over. The US Marshal Service for the Middle District of Pennsylvania confirmed that Pedro Luis Vega-Rivera was arrested in Ohio. Members of the...

High winds are sweeping through central Pa., leaving thousands of residents without power, according to PPL’s outage map. As of 3 p.m. Friday, PPL was reporting about 52,000 outages statewide. Several hundred outages are reported in Dauphin and Cumberland counties. The power outages are related to high winds...