Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York News (BETA)

A 22-year-old Marine from Delta was killed Monday in Afghanistan, according to the Department of Defense.

County commissioners approved a contract Wednesday with a Gaithersburg, Md., company to manage food and laundry service at Pleasant Acres Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

Spring Garden Township Police are investigating a break-in of a home on the 1300 block of South Queen St.

A gentle breeze and warm sunlight washed over 6-year-old Chloe Miller while she stretched to see over rows of bushes that were weighted down with plump blueberries.

The York City School Board will take another look at a program to put police officers in schools. The district has had school resource officers for years, but the newest proposal would add four more to the district's schools if the board agrees to it and a federal grant comes through.

Forty years later, conspiracy theorists still argue that the Apollo program was a mountain of lies that amounts to the greatest conspiracy of all time.

Chelsea Johnson and her three sons, Alek, Huston and Colbey, said they were visiting family in Lancaster when their dog was stolen.

Employees have returned to the Rachel Carson Building in Harrisburg after an evacuation prompted by a power outage on Tuesday.

Police in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, are searching for two people involved in retail theft on July 4.

A Harrisburg man died in a canoeing accident at Glacier National Park in Montana.

An East Hempfield Township woman is looking for her dog, which she says was stolen Tuesday in Lancaster City.Trixie, a 9-pound Pekinese mix "fluffball," was scooped up by a woman driving a green Kia SUV Tuesday afternoon at Jefferson and East Frederick streets, near Lancaster General Hospital, says ...

Emergency responders were working to extricate two of the four occupants of a van who were injured in a wreck along the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Denver Borough today, a county dispatch supervisor said.The one-vehicle accident occurred at 12:34 p.m. in the westbound lanes near mile marker 2850, she...

Jan Roseboro's sister testified this morning she told Michael Roseboro, "I want justice for my sister.""There was no response," Susan Van Zant testified.In tearful testimony, Van Zant told a Lancaster County jury of several conversations she had with  her brother-in-law, Michael, before he was a...

It was a backpacking trip down Memory Lane. Sixteen years ago, I had made this same taxing rock scramble to the top of Tibbet Knob with my first daughter for one of her first backpacking experiences. Now, I had returned with 8-year-old daughter Hannah, to hook her, I hoped, on one of my everlasting...

At last summer's crime summit, law-enforcement officials from across Lancaster County said they wanted a central booking facility for processing and holding suspected lawbreakers.Such a facility would allow local and state police to drop off at a single central location defendants they've ju...

They came wearing floor-length robes, sporting maroon and gold scarves, and bearing wands. But most of all, the crowds gathered in movie theaters late Tuesday night to catch the first showings of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."

Police chief said about 18 percent of all calls were related to annual event. This year's Gettysburg Bike Week saw at least 10 borough officers on patrol, but very little criminal activity, Gettysburg's police chief said.

Longtime councilman said he also expects borough manager will retire soon. A 13-year veteran of the Gettysburg Borough Council and former president of the nine-member board said Tuesday he will likely resign as a councilman before the calendar reads 2010.

Gardners man is in prison after threatening his parents and leading police on a chase. A Gardners man is in prison after police said he threatened to shoot his parents with a rifle and led police on a vehicle pursuit.

Group collects verse by and for the soldiers who battled in Gettysburg. Like lines of verse set in the earth, the low-slung grave markers of Soldiers National Cemetery run parallel and unbroken across the hills atop Gettysburg.

Downtown Inc has announced the lineup and performance dates for its second annual Spash! Concert Series, and officials are hoping a more consistent agenda will draw even more people to Foundry Park in York City this summer.

The York City school board wants to hold a series of town hall meetings to discuss upcoming renovation projects at four of its buildings before going any further in project plans.

Officials are considering a smoking ban at all five of Spring Garden Township's parks, but any vote on the proposal is at least several months away.

The Keystone State Summer Games will offer York County its fifth annual influx of athletes and tourism dollars next week, but the games could look markedly different this time next year.

Thieves stole GPS units from three vehicles parked Monday at the corner of South Beaver Street and West Philadelphia Street, police reported.

Union head Walter Hockley says his laid-off former employees of Frog, Switch & Manufacturing Co. need a helping hand.

Coda Z. Romo, 15, who was reported missing Tuesday morning returned home voluntarily that evening, police announced Wednesday.

Despite anti-idling legislation that has been in place for five months to impose idling limits statewide on large trucks, members of the Clean Air Board of Central Pennsylvania say it’s still too early to measure how our area has benefited.

Dawn Fentress says she has always strived to maintain good credit.

It’s too soon to say how Shippensburg’s JLG plant will be affected by a $1.1 billion contract awarded to Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Corp. to build MATVs for the U.S. Army.

Neighbors in the 2000 block of Princeton Avenue headed into a second day without water service after two more pipes burst beneath the street today. The first break, which occurred at about 10:30 a.m., was less than 100 feet from Tuesday afternoon's water main break.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- As Sen. Arlen Specter sees it, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has an "exemplary" record on the bench. He made clear, though, that he didn't think much about her answers to questions during her confirmation hearing.

A Brooklyn, N.Y. man was stabbed Tuesday during a fight with his brother on the side porch of a home on Chestnut Street, according to police. Police said James Moss, 18, originally told police he was standing on Second Street about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday when a man ran by and stabbed him.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- A climate change study from Penn State University says more precipitation and warmer temperatures are in the forecast for the commonwealth over the next century.

Murata Business Center in Carlisle has been named a Soft Landings International Incubator, giving it recognition as an organization that can help companies from other countries enter the U.S. market.

Police in Harrisburg arrested the man they believe is responsible for a massive fire Monday morning.

Wanting to spare her family any more heartache, a Cumberland County woman accused of killing her father waived her hearing Tuesday morning.

Almost a week after a massive fire swept through 15 homes leaving more than 60 people homeless the City of York is deciding what the future holds.

Fire crews in Dauphin County battled a blaze at a Penbrook dry cleaner for the second time in less than a month.

Hundreds of state workers filled the steps to the state capitol today calling on lawmakers to get a budget deal done before they lose pay.

Workers at Harley-Davidson Inc.’s factory in York County face more job cuts and tough negotiations about the future of the facility, their union president said today.

Stock analysts say weak motorcycle sales will likely force Harley-Davidson Inc. to cut production even deeper this year.

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A business-class bus service between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg will make its last run July 16, less than two years after it was launched.

The banks that owned the mortgages of the Harrisburg Mall and the Colonial Country Club took ownership of the properties today during a Dauphin County sheriff’s sale.

A year after a fire destroyed a Lebanon apartment building, the man in whose apartment the blaze started could face criminal charges, city police Chief Daniel Wright said yesterday.

Sporting a tall, white hat, red neckerchief and curled mustache, Tony Velasquez-Corona was the portrait of an Italian chef as he strolled among the residents of Spang Crest Manor to pass out cookies

When Lebanon Area Fair organizers review their funding each year, they approach it from a worst-case-scenario standpoint.

CAMPBELLTOWN — South Londonderry Township supervisors refused to approve the 2006 Property Maintenance Code last night because of concerns about having a code that is too strict and violates

JONESTOWN — The Lebanon County Planning Department is poised to approve the plans for a proposed housing development in Swatara Township — without the backing of the peeved township