LEWISTOWN — An 18-year-old man is being held in the Mifflin County Correctional Facility on $100,000 bail after police charged him with two felony sexual offenses involving a 13-year-old girl. Achillies Hockenberry, of Lewistown, is charged with felony counts of statutory sexual assault ...
A 22-year-old college student killed by Pennsylvania police responding to a possible burglary had just realized he was at the wrong home and was waiting for friends to come get him when he was shot, his father said Wednesday. Police in Upper Pottsgrove Township, northwest of Philadelphia, responded around 12:30 a.m. Sunday to a 911 call about a possible break-in attempt, according to the Montgomery County district attorney's office. The office said in a statement that police found Glenwood Pysher IV at the rear of the home and ultimately shot and killed him. Pysher's father, Glen ...
Republicans at the county and state levels on Wednesday pressed for more details after an announcement from the Democratic administration of Gov. Josh Shapiro of two "measles-associated" deaths of Lancaster County residents. Meanwhile, Republicans also blasted newly proposed state regulations from the administration pertaining to disease handling, which they said seemed to ignore what one called "dangerous government overreach." On Tuesday, Shapiro and Health Secretary Debra Bogen appeared in the county at a press conference to announce the two deaths. They urged the public to receive ...
HARRISBURG — In an effort to better monitor the supply of affordable housing, Pennsylvania will create a searchable database of properties that are required to offer discounted rents and track when those requirements expire. The database, which was included in the state budget deal that lawmakers passed in July, is intended to bring more transparency to an issue that could affect thousands of Pennsylvanians who live in properties that are subsidized by state and federal programs. The programs typically require at least some of the units to remain affordable for a certain period of ...
Packages stolen in Port Royal PORT ROYAL — Pennsylvania State Police at Lewistown are investigating the theft of packages from a residence on Market Street in Port Royal. Police said a 24-year-old Port Royal man reported that he ordered three packages from Temu that were delivered outside ...
