Franklin News Archives

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern Pennsylvania has awarded grants to three York County companies.

A judge has ordered a central Pennsylvania woman to stand trial on charges she fatally struck a police officer with her car and later tried to destroy evidence in the case.

Departmental de Pennsylvania Salon 20 had its fall pouvior in Holiday Inn Convention Center, New Cumberland.

Allentown Police investigate the scene of a shooting at Chew and Franklin Streets.

WAYNESBURG, Pa. - The first energy-producing windmill has been erected in Greene County, located in the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania, The Skystream 3.7 windmill was erected by Tri State Electricity of Waynesburg.

October 22, 2009, 12:56 AM / Harold DiMarco, a 79-year-old retired salesman from Lancaster, said he was under so much stress from losing his life savings and from having introduced friends to invest with Richard S. Piccoli that he suffered a heart attack in January.

Franklin County's three sitting judges have chosen a Pennsylvania Army National Guard criminal law chief and former assistant district attorney -- Matthew Fogal -- as a replacement for the late Jack Nelson.

Van Andrews, aka DJ Chozen, and Trevor "Precise" Grimes are studying southcentral Pennsylvania maps.

Police say an escaped black bull roamed a central Pennsylvania town for two hours before being tranquilized and captured.

In a split decision, a U.S. appeals court upheld the convictions of animal-rights activists charged under a terrorism statute with using their Web site to incite threats and vandalism against a company that tests products on animals.

By the time several hundred Wegmans employees had massed inside the new Collegeville supermarket to perform the traditional opening-day cheer early yesterday morning, lines of shoppers already were snaking along two sides of the building.

Over the last year, Pennsylvania State Police Troop H made more DUI arrests locally than in any other troop, according to a press release sent out last week.

By early 2010 a ramshackle house in East Conemaugh and one in need of a face-lift in Moxham should be renovated and for sale to low-income families.

The Chesapeake Bay remains a Clean Water catastrophe more than 20 years after the states in the watershed began working together to cut pollution.

Ben Franklin TechVentures receives $6 million The Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corp.

Franklin County and surrounding areas led the state in DUI arrests under the Checkpoint Strikeforce Initiative program.

A college yearbook photo of George E. Smith and a more current one. Smith, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955, won a share of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics.

Emphasis will be on robotics. Michael Burns is the director of the youth programs at the Franklin institute: "NASA, the jet propulsion laboratory sent us a replica of the Mars rover.

Nearly half of local lawmakers are depriving themselves of pay until a new state budget is in place.

Overnight party, "My God is So Big!" Registration due today for a $5 discount to Oct.