Lebanon County, PA

Kimberly Maurer will be sentenced June 1 following her March 23 conviction of first-degree murder for the death of her 12-year-old stepson, Maxwell Shollenberger. Maurer has been held since the trial in the Lebanon County Correctional Facility pending sentencing by Judge Bradford Charles. Maurer faces life in prison without parole, the mandatory sentence for first-degree murder in Pennsylvania.

Lebanon Mayor Sherry Capello gave an update on how the city will be awarding $1 million in grants to nonprofit organizations, which is part of the funds received from the American Rescue Plan Act, signed into law by President Biden in March 2021. The money is part of the $8.3 million received by the city in 2021.

While it might sound like a combination out of fantasyland – Elephant Snot and Dinosaur Rock – these are the main ingredients for an upcoming coalition-driven cleanup of one of Lebanon County’s unique geological features. Dinosaur Rock is a diabase formation on State Game Lands 145, an...

As spring rolls toward a close, the advent of summer produce stands is drawing near. LebTown wants to know YOUR favorite place to get everything from corn to cantaloupe, asparagus to sugar snap peas, strawberries to tomatoes, and … well, pretty much anything that grows fresh in south-central Pennsylvania!

At Monday’s first monthly meeting in the new downtown City Hall, Lebanon City Council unanimously approved a three-year collective bargaining agreement with the union representing city police officers. The contract between the city and Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 42 will run through 2024. A focus of the...

KFC will open its second Lebanon County franchise location in the former Hometown Family Restaurant in Palmyra, according to a recent real estate listing. The famous fried chicken company already operates locations locally in Lebanon and Hummelstown. A Bennett Williams Commercial brochure for 1 N. Londonderry Square shows the 8,239-square-foot...

Here are the most recent food safety violations in Lebanon County, as documented by Pennsylvania’s Department of Agriculture. Inspections are taken as a “snapshot” of the day and time, and should not necessarily be taken as overall indicators of an establishment’s cleanliness. Violations are often corrected prior to the inspector leaving the site. Restaurants were found to be in compliance unless otherwise noted.

LEBANON, Pa. — The Pa. Department of State has issued guidance for counties to count undated mail-in ballots and any mail-in ballots with an incorrect date from last week's primary election. The new guidance comes after a federal court appeals decision, that now allows these ballots to count. In...

Lebanon’s city government is back in downtown after a nearly six decade absence. Several hundred guests attended a grand opening and ribbon cutting yesterday at the former headquarters of HACC, 735 Cumberland St. The three-story building was purchased by the city in 2021 and has been fully renovated for city government.

It was the first time Viet Nguyen visited Fort Indiantown Gap since his family were refugees there in the summer of 1975. While Nguyen doesn’t remember much about that time, he remembers it was crowded – and an incredibly difficult time for his family and more than a million other Vietnamese refugees who went through a similar experiencing while fleeing from the North Vietnamese invasion of South Vietnam.

HARRISBURG, PA —The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Luis Rodriguez-Pagan, age 28, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was indicted on May 18 by a federal grand jury on firearms charges. According to United States Attorney John C. Gurganus, the indictment alleges that Rodriguez-Pagan...

Mike Kuhns recently filled the position of the late County Commissioner Bill Ames in Lebanon County, who passed away in late 2021.

On the date marking two years since the death of George Floyd – May 25, 2022 – a rally will be held at the Annville Town Square to remember the 10 victims of the racially motivated mass shooting in Buffalo earlier this month. It will be the 163rd...

The following real estate transfers were recorded recently in Lebanon County: Lebanon Lydia House LLC to Jordan and Kathryn Arnold, property on South Twelfth Street, $202,000.  ...

City officials officially cut the ribbon to their new Cumberland Street location, completing a long-awaited return of city hall and police headquarters to downtown Lebanon. This is something city officials have wanted to do for years, according to Mayor Sherry Capello. City official began moving in April 29. "The last...

A 28-year-old Lebanon man has been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice for the illegal purchase of firearms for unlicensed resale. Luis Rodriguez-Pagan was indicted Wednesday, May 18, by a federal grand jury on firearms charges. U.S. Attorney John C. Gurganus has alleged in the indictment that Rodriguez-Pagan purchased eight handguns in Lebanon and Dauphin counties between July and December 2021 and falsely claimed they were for himself.

The Campbelltown Community Alliance (CCA) is well on its way to raising funds for a playground at the Campbelltown Community Park, but it needs the community’s help to make it a reality. The CCA was one of nearly a dozen organizations to benefit from the most recent round of...

The Pennsylvania Auditor General says Lebanon County’s Bethel Township has an $879,361 police pension fund, even though it hasn’t had a police force since 2003. The state wants the township to figure out how much of that amount comes from township contributions, and whether the fund has any debts. Whatever is left over comes from state aid, says the Auditor General, and must be paid back.