Lancaster PA

HERSHEY, Pa. — A large police presence reported to Hersheypark for a reported fight. Derry Township Police were dispatched to the park at 6:51 p.m. on Friday. According to Derry Township Police, park security reported multiple fights had broken out between groups of several teenagers. Two juveniles and one adult were...

LANCASTER, PA — Police arrested an 18-year-old man Thursday after he allegedly stole a running vehicle from a shopping center parking lot. At 1:49 p.m. April 2, 2026, police were dispatched to the parking lot of Regency Square Shopping Center at 153 Rohrerstown Rd. for a vehicle theft that had just occurred.

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — Pennsylvania State Police are responding to a reported drowning incident in Lancaster County on Friday. Troopers were dispatched to the first block of Woodcrest Road in Conestoga Township around 1:05 p.m., according to county dispatch. Dispatch said the coroner has not been called to...

KIRKWOOD, Pa.--James C (Jim) Paxson suffered a devastating fire that destroyed his barn and everything in it on Tuesday, March 31. Paxson is Master of Foxhounds of River Hills Foxhounds, and his Funnel Lake Farm is the base for hunt horses and foxhounds. Luckily, no horses or foxhounds were lost...

An anchor with WGAL has bid their audience farewell. McKenna Alexander, previously the weekend evening anchor for WGAL News 8, has stepped down from her position with the station. In a post on Facebook, Alexander wrote that “yesterday was my last day at WGAL and in the television news industry...

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has posted an updated list of recent Retail Food Inspection Reports for restaurants and food handlers in Berks County. Inspections are a “snapshot” of the day and time of the inspection. Violations are recorded but are often corrected on the spot prior to the inspector...

Police in Dauphin County were dispatched to Hersheypark on Friday evening after a group of teenagers was involved in an altercation during the park’s opening day. A Hersheypark spokesperson provided the following statement to PennLive:. “There was an altercation between a group of teenagers in Hersheypark the evening...

HERSHEY, PA — A 49-year-old man was arrested after threatening police officers with a knife outside a grocery store on April 2. Efrain Valentin Jr., of Hummelstown, was taken into custody near the Karns Food Store on Cherry Drive at about 10:46 a.m. Police had been actively searching for...

Fire crews in Dauphin County on Friday morning responded to a house fire in Middle Paxton Township. Around 10:30 a.m., crews with the Middle Paxton Fire Company were dispatched to the 300 block of Mels Drive for a furnace fire. First responders were initially told the fire was out, but...

A jury decided a York County pool maintenance company owner ambushed and shot two men, killing one of them, at a rural intersection in Maryland. Austin Potocki, 31, of West Manheim Township, was found guilty of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder April 2 at the end of a nine-day trial in Maryland’s...