Lancaster PA

YORK, Pa. — York County Regional Police have charged a 51-year-old Dauphin County man with raping a woman multiple times in 1998, when she was 15 years old. Ronald Howard Wettstein, of Middletown, was charged on March 31 after an investigation launched on Jan. 10, when the victim came forward and contacted authorities, according to charging documents.

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — Police are searching for a Lebanon County man accused of creating a disturbance at his former workplace. Jose Roque, 41, of Palmyra, is accused of confronting a former girlfriend and co-worker in the parking lot of Schneider Electric in Middletown on the morning of April 1.

An independent pizza shop with an Italian restaurant and winery near Elizabethtown has closed to make way for a Sheetz store. Pizzatown and Ferrarelli House of Wine at 50 Veterans Drive in Mount Joy Township served its final guests on April 4. In a Facebook post on April 3, the...

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SINKING SPRING, PA — A Tennessee man is facing multiple felony charges following a two-month investigation into an alleged sexual assault involving a minor, police said. According to South Heidelberg Township Police, Dorian T. Willhite, 36, of Vanleer, Tennessee, was taken into custody after Detective Sgt. Heiden...

PENNSYLVANIA — Authorities are searching for a suspect following a shooting and arson incident in Dauphin County, according to police. Officers with local law enforcement responded just after 5 p.m. Saturday to Hoke Lane in Lower Swatara Township for reports of gunfire and a fire at a home. Investigators said when...

Two firefighters were killed in a crash in Pennsylvania on Saturday.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Brandan Mehaffie had been doing triathlons for about five years when he suddenly found himself struggling to finish a race. “I felt like I was dragging the whole left side of my body, which, as it turns out, I was,” Mehaffie said. Over time,...

Derry Township Police were called to the Dauphin County park around 6:50 p.m. on Friday, April 3, after security reported several fights breaking out among teens, according to a release. The altercations disrupted park operations and raised safety concerns for other guests, police said. Officers and Hersheypark...

PALMYRA, PA — Police arrested a man following a domestic dispute on North Railroad Street on April 2, 2026. Officers were called to the first block of North Railroad Street at 2:02 p.m. for a report of a domestic dispute. Police identified Jesse Jordan Thomas, 33, of Pennsylvania, as...