East Berlin News

Dog killed during mugging While Jesse B. Cabassa, 30, of East Berlin was walking his dog in front of his home on Abbottstown Street near Locust Street at 1:40 a.m. on Friday an unknown male demanded his wallet and shot his dog, state police at Gettysburg said.

Pennsylvania State Police are looking for the person who accosted a man and killed his dog early Friday morning in East Berlin.

The students in Chuck Strasbaugh's Central Catholic High School German class weren't yet born when the forces of history finally toppled the Berlin Wall, the notorious divider that separated East Berlin from West Berlin for much of the Cold War and served as a symbol of Communist repression.

Police: Four cars broken into Four residents on Fox Meadow Drive and Deer Trail in Hamilton Township reported their cars were broken into sometime overnight Monday.

The Chicks with Sticks knitting and crocheting group needs help to piece together rectangles for afghans as part of the nationwide service project, Warm Up America.

Three calendar dates. Three anniversaries. Three eras in the history of the United States and the world.

Share + Nov 9, 2009 7:08 am US/Eastern BERLIN 1 of 3 A woman places flowers in the back wall of a preserved segment of the Berlin wall during a commemorative event to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall in Berlin Nov.

With prayers, music and pomp, Germany on Monday remembered the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall fell, sending East Germans flooding west and setting in motion events that soon led to the country's reunification.

I am sitting in my glass-walled office in Berlin, overlooking Friedrichstrasse. My office is in one of the many building that line the street, all built with the clean, sharp aesthetic that defines modern German architecture, each building's form following the building's function.

I remember watching the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, following the events on a small television in our Milford, Conn.

Cheryl Zertuche, who was stationed in Germany with the U.S. Army, sent pieces of the Berlin Wall back to her family in York County.

Nicole Drago and Matthew Wilson, Abbottstown, a son, Oct. 19, 2009, at Hanover Hospital.

THIS MONTH, Berlin will mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the city's infamous wall.

The Brandenburg Gate in the background the common sight of a construction worker walking through the area that was once "no man's land" in Berlin.

Get BarnArt submissions ready for spring show Even though Historic Gettysburg Adams County Preservation Society's annual BarnArt show won't be held until spring, now is a good time to start planning your entry.

OCT. 29 4:16 a.m. Suspicious circumstances reported on Pheasant Run Road checked out OK.

An East Berlin man faces charges after police say he turned himself for having sex with a York Springs girl in his church youth group and having a problem with pornography.

When Professor Jamie Trnka visited the Checkpoint Charlie Museum in Berlin, she saw some of the contraptions people devised in desperate attempts to escape from Communist East Germany.

After three hours of debate, East Berlin's zoning hearing board determined Tuesday night that the borough did properly serve two notices of zoning violation to controversial businessman Bernie Tucker earlier this summer.

An elderly East Berlin man initially charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl during a fishing trip in Washington Township has avoided prison.