Harrisburg News Archives

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Bud the cat is back home safe and sound after spending more than four days stuck in a drain pipe in his family's yard in Harrisburg. via KFMB-TV San Diego

“We have more openness in reporting”

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Pennsylvania public welfare officials are disputing a national report that says the state fails to release adequate information about fatal and life-threatening cases of child abuse and ... via Star-Gazette

Rap Dixon certainly was one of the pillars of the Harrisburg Giants as a player and later as a manager and booster. via Glory of Their Times By Ted Knorr

Students were pulled from a school van by other motorists after the van crashed into the rear of a stalled sport utility vehicle and burst into flames near Harrisburg. via WHP-AM Harrisburg

GeoDecisions, a division of Gannett Fleming, is looking to fill a Sr. Application Developer position in the Harrisburg PA area. via MCADCafe

Two Harrisburg men accused of committing a string of burglaries that includes a Greencastle business have been arrested, the state Attorney General's Office said this afternoon. via Chambersburg Public Opinion

SATURDAY: SUNDAY: We have 949 guests online Written by Martha Raffaele, AP HARRISBURG, Pa. via Indiana Gazette Online

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania : Hershey, the United State's largest candymaker, is reporting a first quarter that missed analyst expectations. via International Herald Tribune

Mechanical issue or editorial comment? The placement of a sticker advertisement on the cover of the Patriot News Tuesday has created some controversy. via WHP-AM Harrisburg

As expected, Hillary Clinton won the Pennsylvania primary. In her victory speech, Clinton said: It's a long road to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and it runs right through the heart of Pennsylvania . via Anderson@Large

“And I think it's going to be very important tomorrow night, and obviously I'm hoping that people watching us will come out to vote tomorrow and I would be honored to have their vote.”

As CBS 21's Ben Russell reports, the former first lady wants your vote. Senator Clinton: "So we're in the final hours of this campaign...and there's so much more to talk about." And that's exactly what Hillary ... via WHP-TV Harrisburg

“It's no wonder my opponent has been so negative these last few days of this campaign”

HARRISBURG, Pa., Apr 21, 2008 -- Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in what observers say is his most negative advertising of the primary season, cast his opponent as a compromised Washington insider. via Hispanic Business

Robin Scaer, marketing director for the Hershey Harrisburg Regional Visitors Bureau, says she doesn't think many people have changed their habits. via Dailyitem.com

Rohm and Haas selected Asha Banks, a sophomore chemical engineering major, as the recipient of the 2008 Rohm and Haas Minority Scholars at Drexel University scholarship. via Earth Times

“On this issue, it's particularly hard.”

Democratic U.S. presidential candidates say they would like to reduce the number of abortions, in a bid to diffuse the issue before November, strategists say. via The Post Chronicle

The state Department of Environmental Protection will hold a meeting at 1 p.m. Tuesday in Harrisburg to help watershed groups, municipal officials and community planners apply for Growing Greener grants ... via The York Daily Record

West Manchester Township, Pa. Police and the U.S. Marshals Service arrested a Harrisburg man suspected in a shooting in the city last week. via WHTM-TV Harrisburg

HARRISBURG, Pa. : The co-owner of a Pennsylvania mine and two employees have been charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with a 2006 methane gas explosion that killed a miner. via International Herald Tribune

“They want to delay anything really specific right now until they get more of a feel of where this (court case) is going to go”

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are gingerly threading their way between two of the most politically charged numbers in Pennsylvania: the state's almost 1 million licensed hunters and ... via KFMB-TV San Diego

About 175 students from Harrisburg's Ben Franklin School will go to class elsewhere while a search goes on for the source of a sewerlike odor in their part of the building. via The York Daily Record

Turnout at a "100 Mayors for Hillary" rally in Harrisburg was a little under 20 percent. via The York Daily Record

Hillary Clinton's campaign will announce what it dubs "a major endorsement" at noon today in the Capitol rotunda in Harrisburg. via The York Daily Record

Harrisburg, Pa. Pennsylvania State Police and the U.S Marshal Service in Harrisburg are looking for a convicted sex offender who failed to register his address as required under Megan's Law. via WHTM-TV Harrisburg

“People associate those checks with that legislator”

The thankless grist of a state legislator's life includes making the long drive to the Capitol for voting sessions and committee hearings and showing up, often on weekends, at a gaggle of events from community ... via Centre Daily Times

She works 12 to 30 hours with no sleep. Often, she skips lunch. But Dr. Karen Morris-Priester doesn't mind. An unwed teenage mother who grew up in a Harrisburg housing project, she has gone through much tougher circumstances to achieve a lifelong goal of becoming a doctor.

Now an intern at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, she is living her dream.

The 45-year-old mother of five graduated from the prestigious Yale School of Medicine in spring 2007 -- the first grandmother to do so. Her story attracted the attention of talk show host Oprah Winfrey , who aired a segment on her. Read more

“In many European societies, many politicians are reluctant to discuss their faith convictions publicly but here we expect them to do so.”

Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will court the "faith vote" at a forum this weekend, seeking support from a sizable constituency with a major influence on U.S. politics. via Reuters

“Not only would it prevent same-sex couples from marrying, it would also potentially prohibit civil unions, domestic partner benefits and more. And that would be for any unmarried couple in the state.”

State lawmakers heard testimony Thursday on a proposed state constitutional amendment that would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman exclusively. via Centre Daily Times

At Wired : Clinton and Obama Talk Religion, Not Science . Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are eager to talk about religion. via The J-Walk Blog

Police have charged a Dauphin County woman with robbing a Springettsbury Township bank in January. via York Dispatch

CNN Election Center anchor Campbell Brownand Newsweek editor and Newsweek.com election anchor Jon Meacham will moderate what is being billed as The Compassion Forum, which will take place nine days before the ... via Digital Producer

Harrisburg Police are searching for a man they believe assaulted and robbed an individual Friday evening at the Polyclinic Hospital located on the 2500 block of North 3rd Street. via WTKT-AM Harrisburg

Landowners looking to enroll in the Pennsylvania Game Commission's Deer Management Assistance Program , which is designed to help landowners manage deer on their properties, have until July 1 to submit an ... via GantDaily.com

Harrisburg, Pa. A former Pennsylvania State Police trooper pleaded guilty Monday to charges stemming from allegations he tipped off pimps and prostitutes in exchange for sexual favors and money. via WHTM

Less than a month after Pennsylvania 's newest slots parlor -- Hollywood Casino at Penn National outside Harrisburg -- opened its doors, four machines have skyrocketed to stardom and become some of the casino's biggest moneymakers.

The machines feature a game many thought wouldn't see the inside of a Pennsylvania casino anytime soon: blackjack. Or, to be more precise, virtual blackjack.

While the traditional card game is banned at Pennsylvania casinos, where table games are forbidden, state gaming regulators have approved its electronic counterpart. Read more

“I still don't really like the fact that Hillary voted for the war”

Bryn Mawr College student Mia Prensky, 21, of Harrisburg, Pa., talks about Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., at a coffee shop on the campus, Thursday, March 20, in Bryn Mawr, Pa. via The Modesto Bee

“As far as an actual request, we have not gotten one. We have no involvement at this point.”

IN THE HEADLINES

Spike in registrations has some worried about disenfranchisement ... Hillary Clinton pokes fun at herself on 'The Tonight Show' ... Secret Service director says his agency is not protecting presumptive GOP nominee John McCain ...

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First-time voters need to know ID rules

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) _ An avalanche of registrations by first-time voters has heightened concern that many of them may not realize they will have to produce identification on primary day. Read more

Should the government cut subsidies to Big Oil companies? Yes, profits are already too high Yes, the money would be better used to find alternate sources of energy No, they need it for exploration and ... via Indiana Gazette Online

Pennsylvania's Crucial Constituency Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama will be spending time in towns like Harrisburg, Pa., trying to connect with the working class audience. via ClipSyndicate

Should the government cut subsidies to Big Oil companies? Yes, profits are already too high Yes, the money would be better used to find alternate sources of energy No, they need it for exploration and ... via Indiana Gazette Online

On April 21, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln's funeral train passed through Harrisburg on a journey back to his hometown in Springfield, Ill. via The Weekly Almanac

“The law is significantly different, and it will take a lot of training and hard work to get an agency to understand the changes”

Law will open more information to public THE TRIBUNE-DEMOCRAT Editorial: Officials must learn new rules Opinion: The Trbune-Democrat, Johnstown, Pa. via The Tribune-Democrat

A newspaper reports that Pennsylvania has awarded more than $1 billion worth of contracts over the past six years without competitive bidding. via Centre Daily Times

Lawmakers in Harrisburg keep blowing smoke in the faces of Pennsylvanians. Leaders of the House and Senate repeatedly have claimed a comprehensive indoor smoking ban is on the front burner for action, but ... via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A House-Senate conference committee is scheduled to meet this morning to seek a compromise on a bill to ban public smoking in Pennsylvania. via Chambersburg Public Opinion

“It started taking on water when they tried to cross the high choppy river to the Dauphin County side and capsized”

Five people, including several Columbia residents, fell out of a boat that capsized late Sunday afternoon in the Susquehanna River near Three Mile Island, Harrisburg state police said. via LancasterOnline