Underage gambling crackdown at Pa. casino

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At least two people are dead after a Pottsville home exploded on Thursday night, according to reports. Calls for the explosion came in from the 400 block of North Washington Street around 8 p.m., CBS Philly reported. Todd Stieritz, Public Affairs Coordinator with the Montgomery County Department of Public Safety...

Last year, General RV Center opened its first facility in Pennsylvania when it opened a new location in the Harrisburg area. At the time the company said it would sell RVs from its location on Hershey Road in West Hanover Township and would open a supercenter in the future. In...

The York County Coroner’s Office said a man who was attacked for possibly trespassing Wednesday night, may have been homeless. 35-year-old Zachary Young died after being attacked by a group of people, York County Coroner Pam Gay said Thursday. Police have said that Young was confronted about trespassing on...

A Baltimore County man was sentenced to six years in prison after being convicted this week on numerous counts of animal cruelty and cockfighting, the longest sentence ever handed down in such a case, according to the Harford County State’s Attorney’s Office. Jose Luis Lopez-Villalba, 42, of Windsor...

WILLIAMSPORT – An Ohio woman has admitted being part of a plot in which electronic devices were stolen in Walmarts in Pennsylvania and Illinois and then sold. Jasmyn Latreece Robinson, 28, of Columbus, pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. Middle District Court to a charge of conspiracy to transport and transfer stolen property.

Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin on Tuesday ruled the killing of a 36-year-old Allentown man was justified under Pennsylvania’s self-defense stand your ground law, according to a news release. On Feb. 10, Vincent Bynum, of the 500 block of West Allen Street, was under the influence of alcohol...

A coalition of free press and civil rights advocates, as well as academic leaders, want the chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to fix a problem that is closing millions of court records from public view. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association...

ALLENWOOD – A man has been accused of seriously injuring an infant he was caring for in Union County while her mother was at work. Owen Wesley Moore, 31, of Cogan Station in Lycoming County, was arraigned Thursday on charges of aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of children. He was committed to the Union County Prison in lieu of $25,000 bail.

What you need to know today, Friday, May 27, 2022. Get this and other free newsletters via email. High: 76; Low: 65. Thunderstorms today; partly sunny this weekend. Texas questions: Public anger and scrutiny are growing over law enforcement’s response to Tuesday’s rampage at a school where 19 children and two adults were killed. The gunman was inside the school, and police outside, for more than an hour.

A technology company has relocated its headquarters to a 21,726-square-foot facility in Lancaster County. Residential Media Systems has relocated to 1001 Millersville Road in Manor Township, which was previously home to the APBA Game Company. RMS relocated from 113 E. Chestnut St. in Lancaster on Feb. 1, where it had been located for nine years.

Two Harrisburg police officers patrolling downtown last year met a distraught woman holding an unresponsive baby. The baby was not breathing and appeared to have something stuck in its throat. The officers dislodged the item and discovered it was packaging typically used for heroin.

Four people are dead and at least two more may be missing after a house exploded in Pottstown Thursday evening, according to officials. ABC News reported that Pottstown Borough Manager Justin Keller confirmed the numbers during a press conference Thursday. Two more people have been hospitalized, but the status of their well-being was not given.

Two organizations have reached a settlement with Harrisburg in a lawsuit that sued the city for what they called excessive conditions for hosting a climate change demonstration in June. The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and the Better Path Coalition, focuses on numerous demands the...

WILLIAMSPORT – Federal marshals didn’t only arrest a Sunbury homicide suspect Monday in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. They also grabbed another fugitive, Daimeer Abdul Clark, 22, who was wanted in a non-fatal shooting in Williamsport incident in April. According to the marshals, they got information that Ajani...

A 33-year-old Monroe County man is charged with stealing an ambulance Tuesday afternoon outside Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono in East Stroudsburg, authorities say. Stroud Area Regional police officers were called at 5:04 p.m. and spoke with Bushkill EMS personnel who said they brought a patient into the emergency room and when they headed back to the ambulance, it was gone, Chief Jennifer Lyon said in a news release.

A sword-wielding man surrendered to police after he smashed windows of a store and charged at an officer in an hour-long ordeal Wednesday that led to a lockdown of several businesses in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, authorities said. The man, whose name was not immediately made public, faces charges including...

WILLIAMSPORT – Four additional charges have been filed against the man charged with killing his then girlfriend in Montoursville in 2003, cutting off her legs and concealing the body for years. Lycoming County Senior Judge Kenneth D. Brown on Tuesday granted over the objection from the defense the prosecution’s...

But come Monday, five Black soldiers from Cumberland County who died in the Civil War while serving with the Union Army’s U.S. Colored Troops will have their names added to the rolls of a longstanding monument on Carlisle’s Public Square that pays perpetual tribute to the county’s Civil War casualties.

Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) Chairman Tim Holden on Thursday assumed the role of chairman of the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association (NABCA), the national association representing jurisdictions that directly control the distribution and sale of beverage alcohol within their borders. Established in 1938, NABCA serves its members by providing...